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Page 1: Chris Strebel: What the Ebola outbreak taught us about our website

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Ebola’s Impact on our Website

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Agenda

•  Ebola content approaches

•  What worked, what didn’t and why

•  Challenges of managing web content at WHO

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Strategy without evidence Guesswork

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!  12 Aug 2014

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Heisenberg- uncertainty principle

Werner Heisenberg- 1933

German Federal Archive

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Hamlet

Circa 1884 poster:

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

United States Library of Congress

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!  12 Dec 2014

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•  8 Mar 2015

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Large images

!  Jeffrey Zeldman All Websites Look the Same

! Don’t conform - find the best medium for your content

!  Large photos need to look good

! Update big images

! Remember written content

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Get the audience to experience it!

!  Two-thirds of the population under 50 have herpes simplex virus 1

Public Health Image Library

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Which design worked best?

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Rating Questions Results Portal 37 Respondents / Website 27 Respondents

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Products

!  Fact sheets

!  Fact files

! Q & As

!  Feature Stories

! Media releases

•  Fact sheets

•  Fact files

•  Q & As

•  Situation Reports

•  Situation Assessments

•  Feature Stories

•  Features map

•  Ebola diaries

•  Then and now

•  Quizes

•  Social media blocks

•  Media releases

•  E-Newsletters

•  Infographics

•  Dashboard

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Which products worked best?

15. 7 million

-

2.5 million

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•  What about all that old content?

•  The old content is not my responsibility

•  If I can’t see it is not there

•  Just how much can you manage?

•  WHO 80,000 pages

Legacy content

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•  Content life cycle

•  Update, archive, delete

•  Focusing on SEO, usability and accessibility

Legacy content

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Stakeholder analysis

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TANSTAAFL theorum

There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch T A N S T A A F L TANSTAAFL

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•  Work can be done in seconds

•  Fast is not fast enough

•  There is no tagging and linking and consistency

•  Getting content online is fast

Everything is an emergency

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Even faster

•  You won’t be let out of here until you deliver

•  Content posting is the end of the line

•  If things are posted quickly that will make everything alright

•  We can go fast because errors only matter on paper

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!  Use the tools at your disposal –  writing team –  editors –  web producers –  web working group

Use all resources

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•  A multifaceted approach to managing and improving web content

•  Value added content management production

•  Editorial calendar

•  Content strategy meeting

•  Futures meeting

•  Content life cycle

•  Hold on to best content

Flexibility

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Next steps

•  Improved content presentation

•  Emergencies

•  SOPs

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Questions?

[email protected]

@c_strebel

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Credits

!  All photos are from WHO unless otherwise indicated. They are free for reuse but must be credit to WHO

!  Slide 5: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Bundesarchiv_Bild183-R57262%2C_Werner_Heisenberg.jpg

!  Slide 6: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thos._W._Keene_in_Hamlet.png