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Web Council Meetings

September 2023 Web Council agenda

Meeting date: Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023 at 9 a.m.

  • :ÌýThom 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:ÌýWe will get an overview of messaging, events and social media plans from Courtney Coster, director of brand marketing strategy, and Jacob Kelly, assistant director of social media strategy.
  • Security Short:ÌýFake login pages that steal credentials are a used in many phishing attacks. Habit and human nature conspire against us carefully checking the location bar every time we’re presented with a login page, but what if there were other cues to help us distinguish real login pages from fake ones? Peter Giles from the Office of the CISO will give a preview of a browser extension he’s working on that could help.

June 2023 Web Council agenda

Meeting date: Thursday, June 1, 2023, 9 a.m.

UMAC’s very own Thom Thorpe will give us the latest from around the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Web as we close out the academic year.

: Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµIT’s Huy Nguyen will brief us on an upcoming PHP upgrade.

: Recently, Web Strategy’s Shelby Schumacher was able to attend the ConveyUX conference and is here to share her experience and some of the ways you can drive user-focused change and garner support.

: Jeane Marty from the Office of the CISO will give us a short primer on generating secure passwords and passphrases.

May 2023 Web Council agenda

Meeting date: Thursday, May 4, 2023, 9 a.m.

Agenda

  • : Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes from around the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ web.
  • For Washington: Jackson Holtz (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ News public information officer) and Kiyomi Taguchi (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ News video producer) will us about For Washington, a storytelling website that aims to capture the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s presence in and impact on our state. We’ll hear from them about project goals and how they go from strategy to story selection to finished product. They’re hoping to inspire each of you to consider what For Washington stories you might know about as they collect ideas for the next year.

April 2023 meeting agenda

Meeting date: Thursday, April 6, 9 a.m.

: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes from around the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ web.

Creating Video Stories: Teri Shelton and Tiffany Sevareid, front end developers with UMAC, will present the process of creating a Video Story using the Storytelling Modules plugin. Learn best practices, technical considerations and accessibility guidelines during this live demo.

: Pete Graff from the Office of the CISO will be taking a look at credential stuffing – what it is and how you can protect yourself from it.

March 2023 meeting agenda

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

: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes from around the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ web.

: Dependency vulnerability management is an essential part of keeping our applications secure from software supply-chain attacks. For this month’s security short we’ll learn how to do this via dependency management tools in GitHub.

: Husky Giving Day is right around the corner on April 6th. Thom will get us ready for the big day with everything we need to know including timelines, communications, branding, and tons of resources.

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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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 /Ìý
  • Diversity Style GuideÌý/Ìý
  • Associated Press Stylebook sections onÌý“â€�Ìýand “â€�

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

  • Asian American JournalistsÌý´¡²õ²õ´Ç³¦¾±²¹³Ù¾±´Ç²ÔÌý/Ìý
  • Association ofÌýLGBTQ JournalistsÌý(NLGJA) /Ìý
  • Council onÌýAmerican-Islamic RelationsÌý(°ä´¡±õ¸é)Ìý/ÌýÌý(not .org)
  • GLAAD’sÌýLGBTQ+ MediaÌýReference Guide /Ìý
  • International Association ofÌýReligion JournalistsÌý/Ìý
  • National Association ofÌýBlack JournalistsÌý/Ìý
  • National Association ofÌýHispanic JournalistsÌý/Ìý
  • National Center onÌýDisability and JournalismÌý/Ìý
  • Native American JournalistsÌýAssociation /ÌýÌý (not .org)
  • Trans JournalistsÌýAssociation /Ìý
  • UBC’sÌý (Canadian perspective on First Nations peoples and cultures)

A few others to follow

  • Radical CopyeditorÌý(AlexÌýKapitan)Ìý/Ìý@ZrAlexKapitan
  • Crystal Shelley /Ìý@RedPenRabbit
  • ACES (The Society for Editing)Ìý/Ìý@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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ web content and development community.

January 2023 meeting agenda

Join us for a special, extended, Web Council meeting in January. We’ll 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.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ WordPress Theme Showcase and Documentation: Tiffany Sevareid and Shelby Schumacher from the UMAC web strategy team will be presenting updates to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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.

  • :ÌýThom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes for the coming month.
  • : Terrill Thompson of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ-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!ÌýHave you been thinking about running a usability study and don’t 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.
  • ÌýDo 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.