Latest Updates

The Q4 Continuum – Continued

09 Jan 2019

Back in November we reported on an upcoming set of website improvements. The majority of these have now been implemented.

First Principles

22 Nov 2018

In our continuing efforts to keep people up to date on the progress of the developing web content strategy, today I want to talk a little bit about the emerging first principles.

We're ready to announce the latest raft of changes that will be winging their way to the UCC website by the end of Q4 (that's the fourth quarter of the year for those who have no truck with buzzwordy abbreviations). Some big, some small, all of them will have an impact on our website on our continuous improvement path.

High Stakes

24 Oct 2018

Developing a web content strategy for an organisation like UCC has it's challenges. One of the biggest of those is making sure we've done our best to "engage with our stakeholders". Now, this might sound like a bunch of business waffle, but stakeholder engagement is very important.

Falling into place

17 Oct 2018

An update in which we use the season to make a pun about what we've been up to.

Ooh! New DEWG?

12 Sep 2018

The cobbler's children are reputed never to have new shoes. But this cobbler is determined to do different. We're going to eat our own dog food, get a taste of our own medicine and all the other various aphorisms. And so, a new DEWG site is in the offing.

Don't Click Here!

29 Aug 2018

Click here. Find out more here. Abstract, non-contextual instructions for end users to perform a leap of faith need to stop!

Internal Affairs

29 Aug 2018

Current students account for a significant portion of the traffic to our websites. Today we will look at the challenges in using the website to communicate with this important internal constituency.

Future Imperfect

22 Aug 2018

This week, we'll take a look at some of the upcoming initiatives on the docket and we also bid a fond farewell to the legendary Peter Flynn.

Web Content Strategising - Let's get this blogging started

15 Aug 2018

We want to keep people up to date on the web content strategy initiatives, but we know we can't have webshots every week. So we're gonna start a blog here on the DEWG. Welcome to the first of many.

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