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May 19 2009

NewsU Next: Building our bold future

Posted by hfinberg

The crew at Poynter’s News University is about to embark on our most important project since we launched four years ago: redesign of the site. However, this isn’t just about a new look – although we really need a face-lift. This is about re-imagining how best to serve our audience. How can we make NewsU more useful to our more than 100,000 registered users in more than 200 countries?

That’s why we are launching this blog. We want you to know what we are doing and why. Our hope is that you’ll add your thoughts, comments and ideas. We’ll keep you posted on our progress and, at certain points, ask for feedback and suggestions.

To get started, here are some of the specifics. We are working with a Denver-based company called Aten Design Group. The new site will be based on Drupal, an open-source content management system.

Why Drupal? Many of the functionalities we need are part of the collection of modules already created by the Drupal community. That saves us time and money.

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Jun 1 2009

Early results sorting training modules

Posted by hfinberg

We have some early results in how NewsU users rank the various ways to find courses in our upcoming new design.

We asked folks, via a three-question survey, to rank these methods of finding training:

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Oct 26 2009

It's been quiet, too quiet

Posted by hfinberg

Yes, we are STILL very quiet about the new NewsU site. It isn't that we haven't had much to say. We have. However, taken out of context, our posts wouldn't made much sense to folks outside the project.

So, what have we been doing since the item I wrote about "Now the fun begins"? [See below.]

Beyond the conference calls -- lots of them -- and the lists of things to do, our developers [http://www.atendesign.com] and the NewsU Crew have been working on three major aspects of the project:

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Jan 4 2010

Countdown Starts to a New NewsU

Posted by hfinberg

It will happen this month. A new e-learning site will be born.

We just aren't sure as to which day will mark this milestone. We are that close with the launch of the new News University site.

Here's what we know right now: The basic structure of the site is finished. We are tweaking some of the courses. [OK, we are tweak a few courses and doing some major remodeling for others.] We testing various new features, including the improved Course Report functionality.

We are also getting ready to launch several new courses. More on that later.

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Jan 22 2010

One Step Closer

Posted by hfinberg

We made a big step yesterday. At 5:30 p.m., Eastern Time, we made the first of two technology changes to the new site and technology platform for Poynter's News University project: We turned off the registration system on the old site and are now signing up folks only on the new platform.

After 133,804 users, our final sign-up on the platform was a student from the journalism school at the University of Minnesota. Go Gophers.

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