uva interactive media initiative

The Interactive Media team has evaluated the list of poential projects requested by clients throught the University community based on their impact, replicability and ease of implementation. The Interactive Media Project Roadmap below is a summary of that priority-setting exercise.

Significant work on the highest priority projects will occur during April, May and June. Subsequent phases will commence in series thereafter. To have a project added to the roadmap, please contact Zach Wheat, assistant director of client services, at 32096 or zjw6b@virginia.edu.

Highest Priority – Significant work taking place during April, May and June

- Enable payment processing through Kintera Sphere.
- Rebuild and migrate U.Va. Clubs HQ Site (uvaclubs.com) to Sphere.
- Construct Microcommunity template sites that include automated updating of U.Va. content for:

Geographic clubs (ex.: U.Va. Club of Richmond)
Classes (ex.: Class of 2001)
Affinity Interest Groups (ex.: Cavalier Daily Alumni Association)

- Build new and update existing constituent-oriented sites:

Endowed Professorships (to replace print version)
Society of University Families (site for parents and friends groups)
Capital Campaign and Support U.Va.

Medium-High Priority – Next Phase

- Launch participant fundraising management through Sphere. (Health System Development)
- Move ongoing email projects that have non-BSR email lists into primary Sphere account, including Virginia Athletic Foundation, Arts & Sciences, Music Dept., Center for Politics, and McIntire School e-newsletter.
- Create basic Alumni Career Services website that includes new design, content and bulletin board.
- Redesign HoosOnline with updated user interface, enhanced personalization, and visual relationship to microcommunity templates and unified alumni site.

Medium Priority – Following Phase

- McIntire magazine site
- Alumni travel page (U.Va. Travel)
- Blind e-mail capability for alumni
- UCAN for faculty and staff
- Communication and subscription preference opt-in/opt-out (content taxonomy)
- Internal project management site
- Unified class notes (Virginia magazine, HoosOnline, other sources)

Initiatives waiting for fixes, enhancements, or new capabilities in Sphere

- Career Services enhanced features such as chat rooms, instant messaging and streaming audio
- Complex reunion registrations
- Social networking – Friendster capabilities
- Email display/forwarding enhancements
- Sphere data table redesign – degree, address tables, front end functionality
- Volunteer management for reunions solicitation and attendance

Initiatives waiting for more specificity from U.Va.

- Batch data load for gift processing
- Event data loading capability
- Successful mail data and additional class note loading

Maintenance and ongoing projects

- Daily HoosOnline news updates
- Virginia magazine enhancements, archiving, consultation
- RSVP forms for no-fee events
- Broadcast email training, query-builds and episodic projects for existing and new email clients
- Consultation with Kintera on issues, enhancements
- Numerous smaller projects involving forms, landing pages and data analysis

Ongoing policy development projects

- University-wide advancement email policies
- Unified alumni web site
- Marketing of HoosOnline to increase activity, collect and update contact and profile data