WCMS: Cascade Server

1. WCMS: Cascade Server to Empower People Greg Polit Amber Harmon

2. Cascade Server Implementation • Guided by IU’s Strategic Plan for IT <AI 13> • common tools, best practices, useful nav/search • avoid a command and control-like structure • Cascade Server is a push CMS • leverage all of IU’s existing infrastructures • Content authoring separate from serving • scalability • Intelligent Infrastructure • tuning < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

3. Cascade Server Implementation • Maximum system access and flexibility for site managers • add / edit users, groups, group membership • create site structures • add / edit administrative assets • custom templates • dynamic menu, navigation, breadcrumb generation • asset factories • direct output to multiple content types / locations • workflows • IT Training and Education • Site Managers training series including XML/XSLT < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

4. Web Content Management • A good CMS should create benefits: • “allows non-technical authors and editors to easily and quickly publish their content.” • “makes it easier for you to manage who creates, edits and publishes content.” • “allows for the design of a common and consistent information architecture (metadata, classification, navigation, search, layout and design).” from http://www.gerrymcgovern.com < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

5. Web Content Management • How you get there is an investment: • Trust, Training, Learning, Adapting • Organizational Commitment • necessary input • direction • audience, goals, relevancy, timely, appropriate • web managers, content providers / approvers • Migration vs. Redesign • http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2008/nt-2008-11-24-content-migration.htm < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

6. IU Bloomington Gateway • Launched May 18, 2009 • URL: www.iub.edu • Home page includes flash media player featuring: • Slideshow • “Hot Spot” Graphics • Video player • Non Flash alternative • Link suggest • News and event feeds < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

7. Video Assets • All video assets loaded once into WCMS • Flash video (low/hi res) • Thumbnail image • Headline • Teaser • Aspect ratio (4:3 vs. widescreen • Closed captioning • Scheduled publishing/exp • Assets placed in folder and assigned an “order property”, which determines featured video < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

8. Video Assets • Video assets are displayed in multiple formats • Flash video with captions • Flash video index • Non-Flash video index • Video Page with Transcript < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

9. Slideshows • Flash slideshow • Featured stories non-flash alternative • All feature archive • URL: www.iub.edu/slideshows/ < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

10. Campus Tour • Campus tour uses commercial Slideshow Pro module to display assets loaded into the WCMS • Content available in flash and non-flash version • URL: www.iub.edu/about/tour/ < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

11. Link Suggest • Links are entered in the WCMS • Links are published as JSON objects • Links are displayed as a word is typed < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

12. IU Bloomington Admissions • Launched August 20, 2009 • Uses IU Bloomington WCMS slideshow module with a different flash presentation • Shares majors list with IU Bloomington gateway • Uses link suggest module • “On the road” events allowing display of events by region. < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

13. IU Bloomington Majors • Majors entered as external links on IU Bloomington site • Majors associated with a school & predefined set of degree options • All majors displayed on Bloomington site • All undergraduate majors displayed on admissions Web site • Majors displayed in various views including “By School” < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

14. IU Bloomington Majors by School http://www.iub.edu/academic/majors/by-school.shtml http://admit.indiana.edu/academics/majors/schools.shtml < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

15. Federal Economic Stimulus • Launched September 14, 2009 • URL: http://stimulus.iu.edu/ • Project module allowing projects to be tagged and displayed by project theme, funding agency and campus < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

16. Indiana Memorial Union • Launched September 6, 2009 • URL: http://imu.indiana.edu/ • Reuses IU Bloomington Slideshow player • Uses custom side boxes for featured content < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

17. University Ceremonies • A series of web sites sharing common elements • Ceremonies Gateway • Commencement • Teaching awards and Faculty Honors • Founders Day • Freshman Induction • Honors Convocation < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

18. University Bulletins • Bulletin content entered and edited in the WCMS • Workflow and approval process • Web and PDF versions • Ability to display bulletin data on multiple Web sites • More information:https://uisapp2.iu.edu/confluence-prd/display/WCMSP/OCS+Pilot+Effort < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

19. Direction • Continue to provide effective content creation, editing, and publishing • Minimize or break down the barriers to site management • Work with OCS to identify the best way assets can be shared in Cascade Server while maintaining identification, ownership, and functionality < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People

20. Direction • Provide IU Bloomington, IU Gateway, and other campus templates for quick content driven web site deployments • Document and share the developed WCMS modules across the university • Provide access to institutional data within the WCMS < PAGR > — Cascade Server to Empower People