Martin's BCIM Website Blog

 
We've been talking about creating Corporate Home Pages for Academic Staff for well over a year. Finally, after a flurry of recent activity, we have them. Here's what mine looks like.

Below is the message I sent out to all staff earlier today about it.
 

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Subject:  BCIM Staff Home Pages: please check and edit yours
Date:     16 March 2005 13:02:20 GMT
From:     Martin Bush

TO MEMBERS OF BCIM MAILING LIST

Thanks to Ariadne Designs we will have standardised home pages - 'CV pages' - 
for all BCIM staff within our new website. (We are planning to launch the new 
website over the Easter break.) Here's an example CV page to show you what they 
look like:
http://www.phonebook.lsbu.ac.uk/php4/curriculumvitae.php?template=bcim&id=2543

To see your CV page, locate your entry within one of the Faculty staff listings 
(the listings are LSBU-access only until we launch) --
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/bcimnew/people/
-- and click on the smiley. Don't use the 'Search For Someone' facility; this 
leads to normal PhoneBook pages at the moment, not the new CV pages. To add or 
edit entries in your CV page you'll need to log on to PhoneBook via this web 
page (LSBU-access only):
http://www.phonebook.lsbu.ac.uk/php4/update.php

This requires you to know your LSBU Unix/Webmail username and password. If you 
don't know this then you'll need to contact the University's Computer Services 
Dept. Notice that you can't edit your name, title, room number etc.; please 
inform Karen Wilson (wilsonkb@lsbu.ac.uk) if any edits are required to these. 
Karen is our PhoneBook administrator, which means that she has access to these 
fields within the database. Another point to note is that the 'Biography' field 
is displayed erroneously as 'More Info:' in PhoneBook pages.

There are two functions still to come:

(1) a photo upload facility for those of you who would like a nicer photo of 
yourself displayed (it should be of you, though!)

(2) a facility to select up to four publications from your entries in LSBU's 
'Staff Expertise' publications database for displaying on your CV page. (I've 
added my four publications in as part of my Research Activities entry, which is 
an alternative way of achieving the same result.)

Please take a look at your CV page when you get a chance, and update as 
necessary. I would be very happy to answer any queries relating to this or any 
other aspect of our new website.

Martin Bush.