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Content Governance. A good digital user experience | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional. Charities need to provide a good digital experience to increase donations and user engagement. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images In a recent survey from Civil Society IT 40% of charity staff rated the effectiveness of their own sites as "average" or "poor". This statistic becomes even more worrying when you consider the millions of potential supporters, campaigners and donators who are being put off by poor site experiences. Commercial companies are reaping the benefits of investing in user experience (UX) to improve their digital services.

During a UX review, Expedia found that a confusing form field in their buying process was causing users to drop out before completing their purchase. In fixing that one element they increased sales by around £7.5m. Here are a few things your charity can do to improve your users' experience: Find out what your audience really wants Start with your analytics – you'll learn loads about what users are looking for. Clean up your navigation. Home | The Content Group | Achieving better business outcomes through content.

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Home « Deque Systems | Software, Training, and Consulting for Web Accessibility and Section 508 Compliance. Bowen Craggs & Co. - Best Practice » BC Tips. Web Governance. Does your web governance have teeth? I made a game time decision at J.Boye to attend Christine Pierpoint’s web governance talk over the Future of Web Content Management by Tony Byrne. Hopefully someone is taking notes on Tony’s session.

Most of you probably know of WelchmanPierpoint by now. Christine and company have been on the front lines advocating for web strategy and governance for years. Fighting the good fight on how the web actually works inside organizations. Let’s face it, web governance is tough. It runs counter to existing silos and forces an organization to put the web closer to the center of the business. Christine argues “the notion of governance isn’t new, it just hasn’t been applied to the web in most cases.” So how are organizations approaching web governance today?

I’m guessing some of these will hit close to home. Scenario 1: The Junior Staff ModelThis includes organizations with lots of technical expertise but no authority to create and enforce policy. Then, work on having clear rules of engagement. Web Governance. That's where a web governance model can help.

A good web governance model establishes how resources, staff, and money should be allocated to benefit all project stakeholders. The web governance plan is your key communications reference guide. 10 web governance considerations Generally, the need for web governance has a direct relationship with the size of the investment and its intended impact: the greater the investment, the greater the need. Objectives – The website objectives should support the achievement of your business objectives; therefore both need to be well defined.

Flexible & focused While a governance model is important to have, the reality is that you won’t know all of the answers to these 10 areas until you live with your new site for a while. Web Governance. Website governance. Areas of responsibility[edit] Governance of a website may include a wide variety of responsibilities, including online strategy, budgeting, systems & software administration, hosting, online marketing & communications, e-commerce, customer service, business development, online community & social media, web content development & workflows, content strategy, translation, website graphic design, user experience (analysis/design), information/data architecture, website analytics, security, archiving, outsourcing, accessibility, legal issues (for example, copyright, DRM, trademark, and privacy), information ethics, and training, among others.

Website management team[edit] A Website Management Team (WMT) can be defined as an authorizing body of a website responsible for setting and achieving high-level goals for a site. This body includes content owner stakeholders and site production staff.[10] In some organizations, a Chief Web Officer leads the WMT. Governance models[edit] See also[edit]