Web Contents Advice

Kidlink addresses many audiences, including kids and youth, teachers, and sponsors. Each audience has different needs and wishes.
Kidlink wants to give each audience personalized information with a high degree of relevancy. To do this, it tailors a series of key navigation pages (portals), and related information pages.

The web publishing organization

Kidlink's Executive Director is directly responsible for the total web publishing effort.
The following key organizational units supports the work:

• Web Contents Advice - advice on contents that meets the various audiences' needs. Reports to the Executive Director.

• Web Design Advice - advice on visual presentation of the web pages (illustrations, fonts, design, etc.). Owner of the webdesign list at kidlink.org. Reports to the Executive Director.
• Technical Web Support - advice on programming, databases, etc. Creates databases, interactive pages, technical solutions, new search tools, metadata, editor tools, mirror administration, statistics, logfile analyses, interfaces to Listserv, c2d. Handling emergency web upload problems for contents producers. Reports to the Technical Director.
• Special Web Projects - special focus on major programs, KI/E pages. Reports to the Executive Director.
• Language Area Managers - responsible for the information provided to their users in accordance with Kidlink's web publishing strategy. This includes translations of general information pages, and development of language specific information pages. Reports to the Language Area Directors.
• Translation Team - support language area managers' translation efforts. Reports to the Technical Director.

Each organizational unit builds suited work teams. We plan an upgrade of how our current project information is being presented (database approach).

Delete the webteam list.

Web Contents Advice Functions

Our information pages must be inviting, relevant, clear, use approporate terminology, and use good, instructive examples.
WCA renders advice to the owners of source content:

• To the Executive Director regarding pages belonging to Kidlink's official self-presentation; and Kidlink's web strategy. The alias going to webmaster will now go to the Executive Director.
• To language area management and their teams regarding their areas' language specific pages. This may include the areas' translations of Kidlink's official self-presentation, and use of the languages' special characters.
• To Kidlink and KI/E development staff, regarding pages relating to educational programs.
• To Kidlink's various staff units regarding their pages.

Ownership of the online advertisement page for web helpers is planned to be transferred to WCA, and may be used to support recruiting. Owner of the pages at http://www.kidlink.org/www/
WCA builds various teams with good inside knowledge of the various audiences to provide good advice regarding contents for the various audiences. For example, the team providing advice on our pages for kids and youth must have members of Kidlink's eligible ages.

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The WCA team

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