A web portal just makes good business sense!

My ruminations on the need for a Portal in SEE

The Extended Education portal should be a web site that provides a starting point, a gateway, or “portal”, to all programs and services offered through/by the School of Extended Education at SSU. The portal also provides a programmed system for offering a broad array of dynamic resources, information, tools, search engines, calendars, announcements, schedules, notifications, Wikis, Twitter sites, and many more new tools for extending SEE communication and marketing. The site will also plan and organize the new SEE business operations and services.

The portal is an organized, efficient, and effective starting point for all Web activities of all Extended Education’s program and service units and SEE students and clients (potential and current).

The SEE portal should provide differentiated and personalized capabilities to visitors, students, clients, and SEE personnel. The portal should use distributed applications, different numbers and types of middleware and hardware to provide services from a number of different sources (current and future).

In addition, the SEE portal should be integrated and collaborative in design and in alignment with the SEE operations and business models. A business-driven requirement of the SEE portal is that the content will be able to work on multiple platforms such as various personal computers, cell phones, smart phones and more.

The SEE portal should be the “front” virtual gateway to the SSU campus” for all students and clients SEE serves. The portal must be built on contemporary technology and toolsets that include but are not limited to WCMS, dynamic survey tools; contemporary social networking tools, streaming and other media tools, and dynamic business systems integrated with the SSU database systems.

Mark