[WEB4LIB] Webmaster responsibilities

[Joy Schwarz]

Hi Katherine -

I heartily endorse having one contact person from your team work with the 
design company, especially when it comes to submitting content and materials.

As someone who has developed Web sites for a number of nonprofit agencies, I 
find that the only system that works for me is to work with only one contact 
person from the agency.  Once (before I knew better) when this wasn't the 
case, one person from an agency sent me the text needed for the navigational 
buttons, and the next day I received an e-mail message from another person at 
the agency suggesting different text.  This situation led to confusion over 
which person's suggestions I should follow, and I asked the agency to instead
"duke it out" among themselves and then have one contact person let me 
know what they decided.

Having one contact person is especially important if your contract with 
the design company limits the number of changes and additions to the Web site,
or charges by the hour.

Best wishes,

Joy Schwarz                           |  Any sufficiently
Web Coordinator/I.L.L. Librarian      |  advanced technology
Winnefox Library System               |  is indistinguishable
Oshkosh, WI  USA                      |  from magic. 
http://axp.winnefox.org               |      Clarke's Third Law  	
http://oshkoshonthewater.com                 Arthur C. Clarke

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> team members would like to be able to contact the design company directly
> with content, questions, materials, etc.  They feel the project leader
> should not micromanage and have sole responsibility as liaison with the
> company but that all  members should be able to do so.  I thought that a
> webmasters responsibility entailed  not only leadership, managing the
> project budget, but for obvious reasons to me, also  acting as the point of
> contact person with the design company for changes and additions to the
> site as determined by the team.   Comments would be very much appreciated
> from those who are webmasters or on teams.