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Web Council Meetings

February 2023 meeting agenda

Meeting date: Thursday, Feb. 2, 9 a.m.

On the agenda

: Thom Thorpe, UMAC director of web strategy, will regale us with web-related happenings from winter quarter and enchant us with thoughts of what’s to come in spring. I believe there are a few professional development opportunities in there.

: Meredith Jacobson, UMAC assistant director of content for editorial, will show the current version of the 91爆料 Equitable Language Guide (webpage) and discuss upcoming major updates and revisions to the guide, as well as some other useful resources for staying current on equitable language.

(A very few of the many existing) online resources for equitable language

General/wide-ranging guides (some examples)

  • Conscious Style Guide /听
  • Diversity Style Guide听/听
  • Associated Press Stylebook sections on听鈥溾澨齛nd 鈥溾

Identity-based journalism and advocacy organizations (a small sampling)

  • Asian American Journalists听础蝉蝉辞肠颈补迟颈辞苍听/听
  • Association of听LGBTQ Journalists听(NLGJA) /听
  • Council on听American-Islamic Relations听(颁础滨搁)听/听听(not .org)
  • GLAAD鈥檚听LGBTQ+ Media听Reference Guide /听
  • International Association of听Religion Journalists听/听
  • National Association of听Black Journalists听/听
  • National Association of听Hispanic Journalists听/听
  • National Center on听Disability and Journalism听/听
  • Native American Journalists听Association /听听 (not .org)
  • Trans Journalists听Association /听
  • UBC鈥檚听 (Canadian perspective on First Nations peoples and cultures)

A few others to follow

  • Radical Copyeditor听(Alex听Kapitan)听/听@ZrAlexKapitan
  • Crystal Shelley /听@RedPenRabbit
  • ACES (The Society for Editing)听/听@ACESEditors
  • #consciouslanguage
  • #inclusivelanguage

: Peter Giles, senior developer and data analyst in the Office of the CISO, will give us an installment of News Bytes – a selection of recent web security news most relevant to the 91爆料 web content and development community.

January 2023 meeting agenda

Join us for a special, extended, Web Council meeting in January. We鈥檒l meet on Thursday, January 5th at 9 a.m. for 90 minutes.

Our guest will be , Principle and Head of Analytics at and leader in the analytics space. Nico will talk to us about the upcoming transition to Google Analytics 4 and give us a lot of great tips and advice for getting started with GA4. There will be plenty of time for questions at the end of his presentation.

December 2022 meeting agenda

Meeting date: Thursday, Dec. 1, 9 a.m.

: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes for the coming month.

91爆料 WordPress Theme Showcase and Documentation: Tiffany Sevareid and Shelby Schumacher from the UMAC web strategy team will be presenting updates to the 91爆料 WordPress Theme. They will discuss new features and shortcodes available in the new theme and showcase updated sites. They will also introduce the new Web Strategy Cookbook website which provides a detailed breakdown of how to use our shortcodes to build the layout you want.

: Pete Graff from the Office of the CISO will be presenting tips for better Wi-Fi hygiene.

November 2022 meeting agenda

Meeting date: Nov. 3, 9 a.m.

  • :听Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes for the coming month.
  • : Terrill Thompson of 91爆料-IT Accessible Technology Services will share “What’s New in Accessible Technology”, including an update on the new W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (version 2.2), the recent redesign and reorg of the Accessible Technology website, a new version of the “Accessible University” web accessibility demo site, preliminary findings from our research project on “predictors of web accessibility”, and an update on captioning efforts for 91爆料-affiliated YouTube channels.
  • : Peter Giles from the Office of the CISO will share info on OWASP ZAP proxy, a tool for turning a security lens on your web application or site.

October 2022 meeting agenda

Meeting date: Oct. 6, 9 a.m.

  • : Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes for the coming month.
  • Getting the most out of your usability study: Five mistakes to learn from and avoid to live your best usability life!听Have you been thinking about running a usability study and don鈥檛 know where to start? Looking for ways to include a little more UX in your web life? Listen to some lessons learned along the way from the College of Engineering web team and how usability studies, surveys and data insights have helped them better understand their first-year student audience.
  • 听Do you find that you are responsible for a website that runs on a content management system, but don’t have a technical team to maintain it? In this talk we’ll cover the security implications of this scenario and walk through steps to find help.

Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, we will not be hosting Web Strategy Office Hours this month.

September 2022 meeting agenda

Meeting date: Sept. 1, 9 a.m.

  • :听Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes as we gear up for the start of the academic year.
  • Back-to-School Communications:听We will get an overview of messaging and toolkits from:
    • Courtney Coster, director of brand marketing strategy
    • Jacob Kelly, social media digital strategist & community manager
    • Genevieve Haas, director of executive communications
  • :听Pete Graff from the Office of the CISO will take a closer look at subdomain takeovers: what they are and how you can make sure they don’t happen to your site.

June 2022 meeting agenda

  • :听Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
  • Centralizing News on Drupal:听Wil Samson and Alex Bonilla from the Department of Medicine will provide a walk-through of their centralized news system designed to empower the department and its divisions through timely and broad publication of articles.
  • :听Securing your GitHub code repository is an important step in preventing software supply-chain security attacks. In the first of an occasional series on this topic, we鈥檒l start with a basic primer on git and GitHub, explore the 91爆料 GitHub service, examine how to manage access in GitHub.

May 2022 meeting agenda

May 5

  • : Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
  • Updates from the Privacy Office: Ann Nagel, Associate Vice Provost and Institutional Privacy Official, will give an overview of new initiatives at the Privacy Office.
  • : For our next Web Security Short, Peter Giles will present a 鈥淣ews Bytes鈥 episode covering a handful of fresh security stories of interest to web developers and content creators.

April 2022 meeting agenda

April 7

  • :听Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
  • :听Teri Shelton, Front End Developer on the Web Strategy team in UMAC, will introduce and demo 91爆料 Events, a new WordPress plugin for event marketing. After the presentation, we will have a short interactive feedback session.

March 2022 meeting agenda

March 3

  • :听Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
  • :听Courtney Coster, director of brand strategy in UMAC, will share an update on the brand calibration project and provide some milestones of note for this year.
  • :听Pete Graff from the Office of the CISO will provide some tips and guidance to help you increase your security (and privacy) when browsing the web.