by Jo | Aug 9, 2014 | Digital
I’m a massive data nerd. I love spreadsheets. I love experimenting. MASSIVE GEEK. One of the aspects of digital that I enjoy is being able to see what is working (or not) and tweak things. These are some of my quick and dirty ways to measure how things are...
by Jo | May 21, 2014 | Website redesign
I’m determined that our digital projects, starting with our new website, are user-focused. One new tool I’ve been learning about is the user story. For us at Sussex Students’ Union our users primarily fall into two broad categories: students and our...
by Jo | May 1, 2014 | Website redesign
When starting any project I like to make sure everyone agrees what its purpose is. That might sound a bit obvious but very often I find we’re charging off towards a solution without actually all agreeing what the problem is. This is particularly tempting with...
by Jo | Feb 27, 2014 | Website redesign
I’m looking forward to overhauling the Sussex Students’ Union website so I’ve been gathering some useful links and resources to help prepare for this exciting project. I thought I’d collate them here and ask the good people of the internet...
by Jo | Jan 26, 2014 | Digital
On Thursday 30th January I’ll be coordinating a 24 hour tweeting project for students’ unions across the UK to showcase what they do. The project, using the #ourSUday hashtag, aims to highlight the variety of things we do. Students’ unions,...
by Jo | Jul 3, 2013 | Digital
Ashamed of having to write ‘blogs sporadically at joannwalters.co.uk’ in a few profiles recently I am determined to blog more regularly about the thoughts floating around my head. This is a somewhat cop-out blog post however as it is just pointing to a...