Web Council Meetings

The meeting scheduled for Dec. 7, 2023 has been canceled. Our next meeting will be on Jan. 4, 2024. More details on the January meeting will be posted soon.

Meeting date: Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 at 9 a.m.

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around the UW web as we enter the second half of fall quarter.

Options for hosting your website at the UW: Thom Thorpe – you may remember him from such presentations as “Word on the Street” – will give us an overview of many of the ways in which a unit can host a website here at the UW.

Major WordPress theme updates: Lauren Caple, associate director of web development in UMAC, will give us an update on upcoming upgrades to our WordPress theme.

Security Short: Jeane Marty, software engineer in the Office of Information Security, will wrap up the “Securing your GitHub code repository” series by focusing on tools like code scanning and secret scanning, as well as various remaining security features. If you’d like to catch up on previous topics in this series, see the Part 1 and Part 2 slides.

Meeting date: Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023 at 9 a.m.

• Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around the UW web as we enter the Big Dark.
• Cyber Security Month: Melissa Albin, information security analyst in the Office of Information Security, will give us info on how we can engage and learn more.
• Accessibility Short: Terrill Thompson from UW-IT Accessible Technology Services will debut a recurring short series dedicated to accessibility.

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

• Word on the Street: 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: We 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: Fake 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.

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

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Word on the Street: UMAC’s very own Thom Thorpe will give us the latest from around the UW Web as we close out the academic year.

PHP upgrade: UWIT’s Huy Nguyen will brief us on an upcoming PHP upgrade.

ConveyUX: 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.

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

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

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Agenda

• Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes from around the UW web.
• For Washington: Jackson Holtz (UW News public information officer) and Kiyomi Taguchi (UW News video producer) will us about For Washington, a storytelling website that aims to capture the UW’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.

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

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Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes from around the UW 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.

Web Security Short: 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.

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

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Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes from around the UW web.

Security Shorts: 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 2023: 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.

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

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On the agenda

Word on the Street: 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.

Equitable Language Guide (presentation slides): Meredith Jacobson, UMAC assistant director of content for editorial, will show the current version of the UW 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.

News Bytes: 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 UW web content and development community.

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 Nico Brooks ( https://twooctobers.com/nico-brooks/ ), Principle and Head of Analytics at Two Octobers ( https://twooctobers.com/ ) 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.