Know what I love about meetings!?
Nothing.
We had staff meeting, and then afterwards I got sucked into a vortex of inconsequence regarding what our little corner of the building would like to have on its webpage. All sorts of grandiose visions were filling the air, and I had to be the one to throw them all under the bus and explain that our main portal has NO information remotely useful in either explaining what we do or the process involved, or even contact information, meaning we could sit around and make all sorts of big plans, but it would be yet another exercise in futility if no one could ever find a way to access the information.
The way I see it, there are two different audiences, and two different sets of information they need--one group is actually trying to get something built, and needs an overview of the process and the necessary hard information about development guidelines and all the various other regulatory things that must be done. The other are people looking for background information about our programs--students, other municipalities, casual browsers--who want pretty pictures and stuff. In either event, right now there's nothing on the main site, and we could have the bested most coolest thing in the world and no one would be able to access it.
So I screamed at everyone to go away and leave me alone. Not really.
But until I took the bold step of suggesting we actually go LOOK at the main website before we got too excited about what we COULD do, I had the idea that the meeting would have lasted another two hours.
Throwing silly ignorant ideas under the bus tends to cut meetings down to about fifteen minutes.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at June 19, 2006 11:38 AM