[862] in IS Home Pages
Re: Case 158417: New Year's Weekend and the IS Main Web Page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rocklyn E. Clarke)
Thu Dec 2 18:13:20 1999
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 99 18:10:19 EST
From: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <RCLARKE@mitvma.mit.edu>
To: Robyn Fizz <fizz@MIT.EDU>
Cc: is-home@MIT.EDU, MIT Y2K Tasks CaseTracker Log <Y2KTASK@MIT.EDU>,
Suzana T Lisanti <lisanti@MIT.EDU>,
MIT Year 2000 Project Team <Y2KPROJ@mitvma.mit.edu>
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Hi Robyn,
At today's Y2K Team meeting we agreed to suggest the following changes to
the IS Main Page during the period Thursday December 30 - Tuesday January 4:
1. Highlight the BCMT Page (http://www.mit.edu/bcmt/) at the top of the page.
2. Highlight the 3-DOWN page next.
3. Highlight any other links which the IS Home Team believes would be helpful
to users during this period.
4. Retain (of course) the standard links which currently appear on the IS
Home page.
Our suggestion is that the temporary y2k-related links appear in a different
color. If your team chooses the color, we will make use of it in our web
page as well. I like your idea about having the IS Home Page spotlight mimic
the MIT main page spotlight. Hopefully the recommendations we have made above
are suitable for the MIT main page as well. Hopefully Suzana will weight in
on this.
Rocklyn
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On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 16:04:43 -0500 you said:
>Hi Rocklyn,
>
>The BCMT already has a page at http://web.mit.edu/bcmt/, though it is not
>yet complete. I'm wondering whether it might not make sense to have the IS
>Home Page highlight the Y2K page, the BCMT page, 3-Down, and any other
>relevant pages through a special Y2K Weekend link.
>
>Coming at it from another angle, I assume you've already booked the
>spotlight for the MIT Home Page for the Y2K weekend. Maybe we could mimic
>that spotlight on the IS site.
>
>At a minimum, this will take some coordination among assorted players. I
>would be happy to discuss this further -- perhaps at an IS Home meeting. We
>usually meet on Fridays at 9:30am in N42-286.
>
>Let me know how you would like to proceed.
>
>Regards,
>Robyn
>
>
>
>>Hello IS-HOME Team,
>>
>>Amazingly, despite the fact that I am on the is-home list, I sent the email
>>below (which I am now reforwarding) to Suzana and not to you all. After
>>Suzana gently reminded me that Robyn oversees the IS home page (thanks Suzana)
>>everything clicked (I feel so silly). Please let me know what you think of
>>our request for a Y2K oriented IS Home Page during the New Year's Weekend.
>>As you can see, I have opened a CaseTracker log for this to which replies
>>will be directed by default.
>>
>>
>>Rocklyn
>>
>>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>>Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 08:39:06 -0500
>>To: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <RCLARKE@mitvma.mit.edu>
>>From: Suzana Lisanti <lisanti@MIT.EDU>
>>Subject: Re: New Year's Weekend and the IS Main Web Page
>>
>>Hi Rocklyn,
>>
>>The IS page is managed by Robyn Fizz -
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>Suzana
>>
>>At 03:48 PM 11/3/99 EST, you wrote:
>>>Hi Suzana,
>>>
>>>During a recent conversation I had with Theresa Regan, she mentioned to me
>>>that it might be useful for the IS main web page to have a different "look
>>>and feel" during the New Year's weekend (12/31/1999 at 12n - 1/04/2000 at
>>>8am).
>>>The idea would be to make compliance, systems status, and other relevant
>>>information more prominent during this period. If this is agreeable to you,
>>>we could work with the BCMT Y2K Transition Team to develop some suggestions
>>>for appropriate weekend web links for the page. What do you think?
>>>
>>>Rocklyn
>>>
>>
>>Suzana Lisanti
>>Facilitator, Campus Wide Information Systems
>>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>>617-253-0100
>
>
>
>Robyn Fizz
>News Coordinator
>MIT Information Systems
>N42-290B
>Phone: (617) 253-0540
>Fax: (617) 258-6875
>
>For up-to-date computing news, see
>http://web.mit.edu/is/newslink/
