Martin's BCIM Website Blog

I began following the Launch Procedure yesterday afternoon. Everything went reasonably smoothly, and according to plan, which was a relief!

Below is the email that I sent to all staff this morning. I had some very complimentary emails from individual members of staff in return, which was nice!
 

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Subject:  BCIM Staff Home Pages: please check and edit yours
Date:     4 April 2005 09:36:43 GMT
From:     Martin Bush

TO MEMBERS OF BCIM MAILING LIST

Our new website - www.lsbu.ac.uk/bcim - went live today! The launch seems 
to have gone smoothly, but please let me know if you spot 
any problems. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mike 
C. and James P-K. for their help in getting the website up 
and running.

The remainder of this message concerns our new staff home pages ('CV 
pages'). This is partly a repeat of my 16th March mailshot, but 
I've added some further information.

Our CV pages are extended and re-formatted PhoneBook pages. These are for 
all of us, not just the academic staff. If you look yourself 
up via PhoneBook --
www.phonebook.lsbu.ac.uk
-- this will lead to your PhoneBook page, as will the 'Search 
For Someone' facility within our new website. To see your CV page, 
locate your entry within one of the Faculty staff listings --
www.lsbu.ac.uk/bcim/people
-- and click on the smiley. To add or edit entries in 
your CV/PhoneBook page you'll need to log on to PhoneBook in the 
normal way via this web page (LSBU-access only):
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. Note that the 'Biography' field is 
displayed erroneously as 'More Info:' in PhoneBook pages.

Here are some further points to note about the new CV pages:

1) Each of us now has a short, neat www address for 
our own CV page that is suitable for quoting on business cards 
or within email signatures etc. Mine is at the bottom of this 
email message; if you click on it your browser will be redirected 
to my CV page. Substitute your own forename and surname for your 
CV page:
        www.lsbu.ac.uk/bcim/staff/forename.surname

2) Personal fax numbers aren't displayed within CV pages at present, but 
this will be fixed soon.

3) Soon you will be able to upload your own photo for 
display in your CV page, although for security reasons your PhoneBook page 
will still show the photo that has been taken of you within 
LSBU. (You will still be able to choose whether or not you 
want your photo to be displayed, as you can now.)

4) Soon you will be able to select up to four publications 
from your entries in LSBU's 'Staff Expertise' publications database (if you have 
any) for displaying on your CV page. There will also be a 
link to the full list, as there is already within PhoneBook pages.

If you haven't already updated your CV page then may I encourage 
you to do so.

I would be very happy to answer any queries or to receive 
any feedback relating to the CV pages or any other aspect of 
our new website.

Martin Bush.
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Dr Martin Bush
BCIM Faculty, London South Bank University
[ www.lsbu.ac.uk/bcim/staff/martin.bush ]