Sunday, January 8, 2012

Our proposed list of deliverables!

After about three months of research and discussions with the OR&R team, we've come up with a proposed list of deliverables.  Time permitting, we will provide the team at NOAA with the following tools and strategies, as well as a collection of the research that informed our decisions.


·         Compendium of information including: 
o   ‘lessons learned’ from research of past events
o    ‘expert information’ from external research
o    ‘trend setters’ for inspiration

·         Recommend analytics and feedback plan
o   Measuring content 
o   Tools for measuring content readability
o   Tracking content consumers 
o   Encouraging and monitoring feedback

·         Recommend social media strategy
o   ‘Emergency only’ OR&R twitter feed 
o   Twitter town halls 
o   YouTube information videos

·         Recommend strategy for using social media as a means for crowd-sourcing volunteer engagement
o   Identify role for volunteers

·         Recommend framework for volunteer focused mobile application 

·         Increase identification and categorization of information on blog and website 

·         Identify ideal information paths 
o   Increase information for press and access to information on website during events
o   Adapt publications to be better understood by press and public
o   Recommend protocol for proactive media outreach

·         Increase in ‘regionalization’ of information and tools
o   Add “region” tag to each incident report for RSS categorization, separate RSS feeds out by region and then roll them up for national IncidentNews RSS feed

·         Increase search engine rankings through search engine optimization 

·         Develop tools and relationships to maintain available resources
o   Talent pool
§  Identify key individual at the University of Washington whose expertise NOAA can draw from.
o   Data visualization

Monday, November 21, 2011

Introduction

Welcome to our website! Please follow the 'About Us' and 'Our Project' tabs to learn more.