Keep Your Website Relevant - Webinar Recap

We strive to keep our website updated and relevant to the needs of our constituents. The site stays current because we create new content, update our existing content, and archive the older stuff that no longer serves our highest priority goals. To help you learn from our experiences, we created a web-based training seminar (webinar) and a half-day course to teach best practices and a simple process for maintaining your website. The focus of these trainings is to help you improve the relevance of your site without having to undertake a redesign and overhaul the code. However, if you would like to redesign your site and hire some really friendly experts to write some code, then we provide that service, too!

You can learn how to keep your site relevant from the experts at NPower Northwest in a couple of ways:

• Watch a free recording of the Keep Your Website Relevant webinar and download the Content Planning and Maintenance spreadsheet template in our Knowledge Center, or

• Sign up for a half-day training course on Web Content Maintenance in our Seattle office

In the Keep Your Website Relevant webinar recording, we talk about visualizing the structure of your web content using site mapping or mind mapping techniques. It's fairly easy to draw a site map or mind map on a whiteboard or butcher paper. One collaborative method of mind mapping is to get everyone together to write ideas on very small sticky notes. Then move the sticky ideas around on a whiteboard, and draw lines with labels connecting the clusters of sticky notes. Prioritize the ideas with big numbers in a bright color of ink and cut the low priority items. When you're done moving things around, then you can try drawing the map using a software application. In the webinar recording we show a site map that was drawn in PowerPoint and mind map that was drawn in MindMeister.  You can learn more about mind mapping techniques from Wikipedia, and review a list of  software packages for drawing and sharing mind maps.

Let us know if these techniques work for you! Share your stories and feedback about this training in the comments below. If you have any questions about our training offerings, email us.

- Christin Boyd