:听Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
Storytelling:听UMAC Creative Director听Murphy Gilson thinks the听secret to our species鈥� success may have something to do with our ability to tell great knock-knock jokes. Discover how storytelling is crucial to our survival and how听you听can stop being boring at parties.
Security Shorts:听Hot off the press – Software supply chain attack hits web development community.听 Peter Giles, senior developer & data analyst will take a look at the recent UA-Parser-JS NPM package compromise.
:听Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes as Autumn Quarter gets underway.
:听Teri Shelton, Front-End Developer in UMAC, will give us an overview of the new 91爆料 WordPress theme, including a live demo showing how easy it is to create a rich, engaging web page using the new theme components. Q&A session to follow.
:听Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes as we prepare for the upcoming academic year.
WordPress Theme Update:听Lauren Caple, associate director of web development, will be joined by听Teri Shelton, front end developer, to provide a status update on the new WordPress template in development.
Back-to-School Communications:听We will get an overview of messaging and toolkits from:
听Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, shares听 the latest news and notes from around the 91爆料 web as we close out the academic year. (10 minutes)
听Mari Tamiyasu, associate director of operational communications in UMAC, will give us an update on strategic messaging for our Stay Healthy Huskies campaign and the associated toolkit for communicators. (10 minutes)
Web Security Shorts:听Keep an eye on your own supply chain — Tightening up web development processes in light of the SolarWinds hack. Presented by Peter Giles from the Office of the CISO. (25 minutes)
Showcase Your Website:听Have a new site for the community to check out? Share with the group during this open forum. (15 minutes)
:听Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes from around the 91爆料 web. (10 minutes)
:听Terrill Thompson of 91爆料-IT Accessible Technology Services will describe the “Zero Errors” campaign, a university-wide effort in May 2021 to use accessibility checkers to reduce – or eliminate! – 听accessibility errors from 91爆料 websites and other digital resources.听 Terrill will explain the campaign, unveil data that shows why accessibility checkers are a critical part of our risk management strategy, and provide an overview of several web accessibility checkers, including WAVE, Lighthouse, Axe, and Siteimprove. (30 minutes)
:听Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes from around the 91爆料 web, including Husky Giving Day. (15 minutes)
WordPress Theme Update:听Lauren Caple, associate director for web development, will be joined by front end developer Teri Shelton to share a progress update on the new 91爆料 WordPress theme. (5 minutes)
:听Livestreaming is more important than ever. Frost Keaton, live stream pro, will talk about the planning, logistics, promotions and of course the technical side of producing online events. (25 minutes)
:听Thom Thorpe, director of Web Strategy in UMAC, will give us an update on more than the weather as we head into spring. BTW, he reports it will be “mildly nice” this week.
:听Learn about two key components鈥搒tudy design and artifact development鈥搕hat are critical to preparing a usability study. Presented by UX designers William Washington, Hyunju Lee and Lauren Manes from 91爆料-IT Academic Services.
:听Pete Graff from the Office of the CISO will explore the details of browser encryption.
:听Russell Yost, senior director of marketing and communication for the College of Arts & Sciences, and Corinne Thrash, marketing production specialist, will showcase the virtual campus tour that the team recently created and offer tips on creating your own.
:听Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us an update on the latest news, notes and events happening around the 91爆料 web.
:听Jeane Marty, software engineer with the Office of the CISO, will present on the topic of browser fingerprinting. We will get an introduction to the topic along with a look at its privacy and security implications.
91爆料 in Your Community Website Redesign:听Over a decade ago, the Office of State Relations created the website 鈥�91爆料 in Your Community鈥� to demonstrate the 91爆料鈥檚 statewide impact to legislators. While functional, the site lacked visual interest and needed an upgrade. Last year, State Relations Associate, Maggie Yuse, partnered with External Affairs Director of Communications and Events, Natalie White, to completely overhaul and redesign the site. During their presentation, they will briefly recap the redesign process and share how they were able to leverage the new Storytelling modules to bring this 51 page website to life.
:听Thom Thorpe will bring us the latest news and notes from around the 91爆料 web world as we kick off the new year.
Security Shorts:听Pete Graff will explore the mechanics of DOM-based cross-site scripting attacks, and what you can do to lessen the chances of getting burned by one.
:听Thom Thorpe will bring holiday cheer and the latest news from around the 91爆料 web world. Prepare yourself for a festive lightshow.
:听Jacob Kelly and Nick Bolton walk through how they create engaging content on social media, why it resonates with our audiences and the strategic importance of creating content specifically for social from the ground up.
:听A new episode of Web Security Shorts: News Bytes, with a handful of quick-hitting items including –
听– Not even the cold November Rain will keep Thom Thorpe, Director of Web Strategy, from delivering the latest news around the 91爆料 web.
l听– UMAC’s Tiffany Sevareid and Cris Barajas will discuss how to remedy common problems with emails and make the most of Marketo templates.
听– Pete Graff from the Office of the CISO will be taking a look at some recent 91爆料-related cybersecurity news with an eye to how you, as a 91爆料 web professional, can continually up your security awareness.
October 1, 2020
:听Thom “Brokaw” Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the Word on the Street as classes get underway. He might even have some fancy new presentation techniques to demonstrate.
:听Peter Giles from the Office of the CISO will give us a roundup of newsworthy items in the world of web security.
:听Dan Druliner, 91爆料 Finance web developer in UMAC, will share what he鈥檚 been learning about听Atomic Design听鈥� a methodology for creating an interface design system and听Pattern Lab听鈥� a static site generating tool for implementing an Atomic Design system.
:听In addition to the usual words on the street, this month Thom Thorpe will walk us through the monthly themes for the coming academic year highlighting the types of stories we will be looking to highlight on the homepage. This is guaranteed to the be the highlight of your academic year. (Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy, UMAC)
听Bookmarklets can be helpful for professional work and productivity. However, they can also come with security vulnerabilities. In this security short, we鈥檒l walk through how bookmarklets work and how to evaluate them before adding to your browser. (Jeane Marty, software engineer, 91爆料IT CISO)
Back-to-School Messaging:听We will get a preview of back-to-school communications from:
– Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy, will give us a roundup of web activities as we close out the school year.
听– Sasha Im, web content strategist, discusses how to select,听edit and compose photos to enhance听your听digital communications.
:听Thom Thorpe, director of Web Strategy in University Marketing & Communications, will give us a roundup of all the virtual happenings around campus.
:听CISO Information Security Analyst Melissa Albin-Wurzer will talk about the materials CISO has available on our website for guidance on secure teleworking.
:听Huiai Chan, Senior QA/SDET, 91爆料 Information Technology, will discuss how 91爆料-IT Enterprise Document Management (EDM) added accessibility checks into their automated tests and how automation enforces a minimal level of accessibility on every code merge.
April 2020
:听Tune in as Thom virtually delivers this month’s Word on the Street. Chocked full of canceled and postponed events, you won’t want to miss this socially distant presentation.
:听Browser extensions, also known as add-ons, extend the browser’s functionality and provide tools for our professional work and productivity. However, they can also come with security vulnerabilities. In this security short, we鈥檒l show you how to evaluate extensions before adding them, as well as review the ones you鈥檙e already using.
Remote work open discussion:听Share your experiences and best practices for staying productive in a time of social distancing. Are there challenges you have had to overcome? What communication tools are you leveraging? What aspects of in-person work do you miss the most?
An entire meeting dedicated to Storytelling Modules:听Thom will enchant us with this month’s Word on the Street and then introduce us to the Web Strategy team’s newest offering Storytelling Modules – a new WordPress plugin that gives you the ability to quickly create media-rich stories like the ones we publish on the Boundless site. Teri will then give us a deep-dive into the new offering with a live demo, followed by a Q&A.
:听Thom Thorpe will give us an update on the latest web-related happenings around the 91爆料.
:听In 2019, DEOHS (Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences) upgraded all of their web properties from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. In this presentation, we’ll talk about our strategies and some of the challenges we encountered along the way.
:听You may have heard of it but don’t quite know what it means, or perhaps you are not yet aware of this type of attack that has unfortunately become so commonplace. In a few short minutes you’ll know exactly what it is, and how to be invulnerable to it.
Word on the Street:听Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC,听will give us an overview of the new format for Web Council in 2020.
:听Terrill Thompson of 91爆料-IT Accessible Technology Services will provide an update on recent revisions to Washington state Policy 188, a status report on changes to W3C accessibility guidelines, and a report on various upcoming 91爆料 activities, events, and services related to web accessibility.
:听Pete Giles,听听senior developer & data analyst with听CISO, will deliver another presentation in the Security Shorts series.
:听Derek Fulwiler, director of strategy and communications for the 91爆料鈥檚 Population Health Initiative, will share how this is the 鈥測ear of Population Health鈥� for the 91爆料, what that means and how you can get involved.
:听Pete Graff, senior developer and UX designer for the Office of the CISO, will look at some of the risks of using 3rd party code and what you can do to mitigate them.
:听Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC,听will give us his final word on 2019 and provide a preview of what’s on the horizon for 2020.
E-Commerce at the 91爆料:听Melissa Hall will talk about the current state of web-based e-commerce at the 91爆料, why it needs to change and what Merchant Services is doing to help. TouchNet Marketplace is one of those initiatives, and she will talk more about what that platform is and will be.
:听Teri Shelton is a front-end developer on the Web Strategy team in UMAC. Her main focus is on developing the i听and creating new WordPress themes and plugins. She鈥檒l be talking about how you can put CSS Grid to work in your web projects right now.
听–听If you attended our last web security short, you probably heard the term “root certificate”. So, what does that even mean? Have you ever added a root certificate to a host? Why might you do that, and then again why might you not want to?
:听As always, Thom will regale us with information from the campus community and beyond. 听And, this month’s Word will be extra special as Thom will detail some important changes coming to Web Council in 2020. You won’t want to miss this!
听Courtney Coster and Elise Perachio from UMAC will share some ideas for how to welcome this year鈥檚 new and returning students. Let鈥檚 make it a great #HuskyExperience!
:听Meg Matthews will update us on what it is, why it鈥檚 a big priority for the University and how we need your help.
:听How three schools and UMAC came together to tell a story of hydropower and food security in Cambodia. Joe Eastham and colleagues from the College of the Environment will present.
:听You鈥檝e seen the little green padlock on your browser鈥檚 address bar, but do you know what it really means? Pete Graff will take you on a quick tour of browser encryption, certificates, and how they make browsing safer (most of the time).
Thom Thorpe will tantalize us with promises of a summer happy hour. Don’t get too excited, folks. There won’t be听free beverages, but Thom does promise to buy us all fries.
Three members of the 91爆料 Drupal users group will summarize the top trends and takeaways from the annual conference held in Seattle last April.
Lauren Caple and Morgen Nilsson will give a brief update on the CMS upgrade project. The project will bring the 91爆料’s main website CMS up to date running on current technologies.
This presentation melds content from a series of workshops Cara delivered for EDUCAUSE, a national Higher Ed IT organization, on 鈥淪torytelling with Data鈥� and insights from her recent publication on how to 鈥淪tart Smart with Data.鈥� This presentation focuses on ensuring that the data you provide offer insights to enable organizational change. It will offer practical tips and candid lessons on how to align what you are measuring to a strategic plan, utilize storytelling elements to connect with your audience and build momentum to move forward.
Prototyping websites in听
Dan Druliner, web developer for UMAC, will demonstrate how you can build prototype websites and evaluate web technologies such as markdown, emmet, SCSS, Bootstrap, Boundless, Javascript and jQuery using the prototyping website听.
Peter Giles,听senior developer and data analyst in the office of CISO,听will provide tips to help keep your portable devices sparkling clean on the road and in the neighborhood.
Thom Thorpe will give us a rundown of the latest and potentially greatest in the 91爆料 web world.
Chelsea Yates, assistant director of publications in the College of Engineering, will cover digital storytelling from a unit鈥檚 perspective: where they find stories, how they include photography to make them visually interesting, how they consider听strategic positioning, and how they successfully pitch them to the UMAC Editorial Board and other teams.听She will be joined by Jamie Swenson, assistant director of content in UMAC, who will talk about the Editorial Board鈥檚 process for considering pitches for the many central channels it represents.
Pete Graff from the Office of the CISO will provide a brief overview of password managers鈥攚hat they do, why you should consider using them, and some features to consider when choosing one among the many currently available.
Thom is back with another jam-packed presentation filled with all of the information you could ever want. Well, that’s a bit much – let’s just say some of the information you might want. (Yes, he wrote that for last month.)
The web team from 91爆料 Facilities will show off their new Transportation site, including what worked, what didn’t and why you can never go wrong with icons.
TechConnect sneak peek
TechConnect is right around the corner!听 Our colleagues from 91爆料IT will give us a little insight into the day’s events and how you can participate.
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Jacob Kelly and Priscilla McGraw will present听about听the upcoming Giving Day and how you and your teams can help promote and participate in this event.
Lauren Caple and Morgen Nilsson will announce some work they are doing to update听‘s WordPress themes, plug-ins, and infrastructure.
Thom is back with another jam-packed presentation filled with all of the information you could ever want.听 Well, that’s a bit much – let’s just say some of the information you might want.
Collaboration is an integral part to every immersive story we’ve produced over the past few years, but we wouldn’t have been able to tell this particular story without building a relationship with members of the Tulalip Tribes. Each step of the process was a lesson in developing our equity lens. Lauren Lee, associate creative director in University Marketing and Communications, will take us through the steps we took to ensure we were telling this story equitably and with the support of our partners in Tulalip and around campus.
Teri Shelton, front-end web developer in UMAC, will briefly recap the WPCampus online conference from January 31, including lessons learned and takeaways from two Gutenberg case studies, an update on the Gutenberg accessibility audit, and a really cool accessibility style guide.
Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, has persevered through endless meetings, listserv emails and other forms of information gathering to bring you a comprehensive roundup of current happenings, noteworthy endeavors and even a few job openings at the University.
Take a minute to get to know each other
In honor of Valentine’s Day, we will spend some time getting to know each other a bit better. In this speed networking session, we will pair off for two-minute sessions. Take a literal minute to introduce yourself and share the most challenging or fun project you’re engaged in at the 91爆料.
Developing An Equity Lens鈥擳he Images We Choose
Leilani Lewis from OMAD and Meg Matthews from UMAC on how visual messages can convey inclusion or exclusion to marginalized groups.
Zephyr McLaughlin from CISO presents the next installment in the series.
Including a recap of the 2018 Internet Trends Report
Victor Balta, senior director of media relations, will give us an update on 91爆料 Alert and crisis communications at the 91爆料.
Jacob Kelly, UMAC鈥檚 social media digital strategist听and听community manager, and Rebecca Gourley, editorial assistant in 91爆料 News, will share best practices for creating scroll-stopping videos for social media.
Caitlin Grady, UMAC’s internal communications specialist, will share insights from the launch of 91爆料 Insider — the 91爆料鈥檚 flagship weekly newsletter to all faculty and staff. Learn how the newsletter was developed, how they鈥檙e using Marketo鈥檚 advanced features and what鈥檚 next for the publication.