Web Support for the Speakers Bureau
DRAFT: September 5, 2001
DRAFT: September 5, 2001
The basic structure for the Speakers Bureau is up on the Web for review. However, it is not "apparently" accessible to the public. That linking and needed promotion will wait for any necessary approvals.
The intranet piece of the Bureau has faculty members self-registering, giving details about themselves and the topic(s) they wish to offer. Registration populates a members database and sends e-mail messages to the coordinator for the Bureau and the database administrator. The e-mail messages alert these people--perhaps one and the same person--of some activity. Database monitoring ensures that the public user on the Internet will read properly formatted entries.
The public user accesses the Speakers Bureau on the college Web site. From this location, s/he can evaluate a speaker's performance. Evaluate may be a strong word. Give feedback? The details of the form need to be worked out, but once submitted, the results are monitored by the coordinator and a copy sent to the speaker. The public user can also view the Bureau's speakers and what they are offer from this start page. From the results page, the user can request that speaker.
If the user makes a request, it goes via e-mail to the speaker, who is then to follow up as necessary. E-mail messages also go to the coordinator and database administrator, who monitor that the technology is working and what levels of activity the Bureau experiences via the Web. Requests are also dropped into a requests database which can be copied whenever anyone--the committee?--wishes to see a summary of requests and perform any analyses.
