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Dean Chen

Managing Dir. Online Operations

CHRONICLE ONLINE STATUS UPDATE

GOALS

• Ensure the sustainability of online

• Development

• Design

• Marketing

• Establish technical infrastructure

• Development environment

• Bug Tracking

• Wiki

• Migrate to more advanced platform

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DEVELOPMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

MOBILE DEVELOPMENT


• iPhone/iPad app

• Blackberry

• Android

INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT


• Create systems that encourage collaboration between online operations and editorial

• Wiki

• Bug tracking

• Create systems critical to the sustainability of online operations

• Manage/maintain our production and devservers

PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT


• Ensure the smooth operation of the Drupal system

• Implement larger over-arching figures that effect the entire site

• Fix deep system bugs

USER EXPERIENCE/INTERFACE DEV


• Work with design and editorial to improve presentation of content

• Handle day to day issues with the site


MARKETING RESPONSIBILITIES

MARKETING RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conduct audience/market research

• Determine target clients

• Brainstorm new advertising models

• Brand The Chronicle



DESIGN RESPONSIBILITIES

DESIGN GOALS – LONG TERM

• Train a sustainable team capable of working together under a single design philosophy

• Establish a recruitment, training, and development cycle


DESIGN GOALS – SHORT TERM

• Finalize redesign by end of semester.

• Stay involved in development process

• Continue training to get staff up to speed

• Establish defined roles for team. Find leaders


CURRENT WEBSITE


DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

• Better Media Integration

• Differentiate from print

• Common theme across all pages

• Progressive additions

• User experience is key


CURRENT REDESIGN EXAMPLE

ONLINE OP. ORGANIZATION

Dean Chen

Managing Director of Online Operations

Alex Beutel

Dir. of Online Development

Project Managers

8

Developers &

Administrators20-25

Cheney Tsai

Dir. of Online Design

Designers

7-15

Emily Shiau

Dir. of Online Advertising

Online Ad. Assoc.

6-8


DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION

Alex Beutel

Director of Online Development

Alex Galonsky

Co-Head of Mobile Development

Mobile Developers

Medium

Joe Levy

Head of Infrastructure

Infrastructure Administrators

Medium

DJ Sharkey

Trevor ReidCo-Head of Platform

Development

Platform Developers

Small

Andrew Abraham

Trevor Terris

Co-Head of UI/UX

UI/UX Developers

Large


SIDE PROJECTS

• Establish development environment/workflow

• LDAP (Universal login)

• Bug tracking system

• Wiki/Documentation

• Establish specifications/requirements for new platform


WINTER BREAK

• Develop new platform

• Encourage participation from all three departments


PLATFORM OVERVIEW


NEW PLATFORM/DESIGN

• Automatic Tagging

• Topic hubs

• Integrated Blog

• Support for images, video and audio

• More comprehensive profiles

• Better organized administrative interface


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