Talk:Website IA Initiation
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Website IA initiation (office hour 06-08-2023) Script
- Website IA initiation (office hour 06-08-2023) is the office hour event on June, 8th about Initiating Website IA
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Introduction
- We are in the office hour with Kevin.
Project: CNMCyber IA
- Yesterday Kevin and Erastus were assigned to a project which is CNMCyber IA. It is new, we've never done it before so I will try to do what I feel it can be. I'm not sure whether it's a right or wrong way but at least we will we will do it.
The Idea for CNMCyber.com
- I will start with CNMCyber.com which is important because technically the idea of the website should be expressed in the first paragraph. Right now, if we look at CNMCyber.com it says “CNMCyber.com is the primary hostname of CNMCyber and its signature CNMCyber website”, which is correct but at the same time what we see, the idea is like a signature. Basically, CNMCyber should be the place where everyone who is looking for CNMCyber can type in any search engine it will show this CNMCyber.com.
Prototype for CNMCyber.com
- CNMCyber, we will advertise as the pre-entry level jobs incubator so maybe we can use the Prototype which I created before. However, before the prototype was made mostly for comprehensive career services so the challenge is to keep the prototype as it is or to concentrate on CNMCyber as a pre in entry-level jobs only so it can be “Welcome to the home of pre-entry level jobs” is the question.
- We will use the Prototype that was developed before for Career Services: Learn, Network, Partner, Work it might work better there I'm not sure. it is your Sprint therefore your decision. I will add a link here to the IA page. The DNS records should be on a separate page, and they are also outdated.
- For now, I will just put a link to IA but we will need to put a more comprehensive solution, some sort of section which will lead to different pages.
Creating CNMCyber.com IA
- Here we will say that CNMCyber.com is the primary description of information architecture ( IA) for CNMCyber.com website. Instead of saying CNM website every time because CNMCyber.com also can be the host, we can add (hereinafter the site). So now we will use the site meaning CNMCyber.com.
- if I were you, I would go to information architecture and put some information here about what information architecture is, I see that there is a lecture I created but this really brief. In the information architecture page, there should be some explanation, what information architecture is. Some refer to the information architecture of their corporation as Big IA and Small IA to refer to a website or some like web resource. In our case, information architecture will be the small IA.
- Information architecture is generally how to align the content in the website, so the person who will go there can find the information that they need and should be usable.
- For now, I will just put the sections, we need to work on them and arrange them better. Based on our work right now we can get back and redefine the table on the project page.
Creating CNMCyber.com IA: Idea
- The site shall… There are several purposes, you have some business degree in a sales funnel or marketing funnel, and there are several types of customers. We have unaware customers, for instance, if we want to capture someone who is looking for a job but has no specialty, they are looking for their first ever job and they live in Eldoret. We want this person to type in the search like “no specialty job’, for instance, and we will show up on the results.
- The idea is;
- Respond on requests for no specialty jobs via web search engines.- That is someone who is unaware.
- Educate Prospect leads about job offering.- This is for someone who knows that to get no specialty job go to CNMCyber.com. Our goal is to bring them as leads to our website, so we need to work with web search engines. For prospective leads who want to be educated, we educate them about job offerings.
- Accommodate those customers who decided to start by leading them to the registration and further to CNM Cert if we use it for the first course- This is for those who decided that they want to start we need we need to help them to get started.
- Inform about news including announcements for CNMCyber events.
- Redirect to Careerprise- Kevin: Will we keep records for potential employees so that someone looking for employees will be able to scroll and see the qualifications of these people looking for a job?
- Gary: I didn't get this idea clearly but right now, we're drafting, I'm showing you what the process is but you will get there. If I didn't get precisely you…
- Kevin: Will it inform potential employers or potential employees who are actively looking for jobs or will we offer this service on Careerprise?
- Gary: Yeah, it will have to be on a different service. If you want to give that kind of service to employers for money, it should not be on CNMCyber.com, but we can lead those people to say Careerprise. It will redirect those consumers who are looking for career services, employees, Workforce preparation services or any other employment service to Careerprise. We will need to define which one.
- So this is the idea, I'm more of showing the process but I want you to think about those who are already in the program like you or Erastus or Rita or someone else whether CNMCyber.com will be useful, maybe yes.
- This is like really raw, it must be developed and must be noted there.
Creating CNMCyber.com IA: Personas
- In terms of personas, we can create some;
- Layla -- 18-year-old… any younger we will need parents’ consent probably it will be complicated. Let's move with a legal age like …18-year-old female leaving in Eldoret, who recently graduated from High School and thinking about her future career.
- Zayn -- Counselor of Employment Agency.
- Nadia -- 25-year-old female working on a low-paying job because she doesn't have qualifications to get more paying ones.
- Yusuf – 30-year-old male has some tech skills but lacks experience.
- Lila – a 35-year-old female who has some education but lacks recommendations to get interviews.
- We could go on and on.
- Kevin: Yeah, the main points I have seen like how it will be developed so we can develop it further.
- Gary: You need to think of who really can go and then why we need this persona. You will try to think how this person will feel when they get to this website, whether they will find something which they are looking for.
Creating CNMCyber.com IA: Hierarchy
- I would say CNMCyber.com was initially imagined as for career services like a full spectrum. Eventually, I will make at least five different websites. One will be just like a shell, it will be like the landing page (registration), and then for those looking for a job it will send them to a worker-oriented site, For those looking just to learn skills, we send them to our partner. I don't want to be kind of a training company as I said so we will work with our partners, we will send them to their sites. Those working in the industry looking for partnerships should accommodate them and so on and so forth.
- For CNMCyber.com, I feel like it should be a comprehensive website, and should have many pages. I will probably put the whole orientation on the web so you need to figure out hierarchy of how it will be. Research on the internet about hierarchy of a website for information architecture. Makeup something because I don't want you to do what I know. I know what needs to be done but I might be lacking something.
Creating CNMCyber.com IA: Roadmaps
- For every Persona, you will create roadmaps. For instance;
- As Layla, I go to bing.com, type “first job remote Eldoret”, get cnmcyber.com suggestion on the second screen, click there get to the landing page.
- So what she needs to see will be like a roadmap like noted this page okay read about this decided to try click. Based on this, you will be able to create the roadmap.
- Technically, labels are based on hierarchy. That is how you will label your pages, and what people will see on the top.
- Menu and labels are kind of similar. Instead of menu, I used navigations. How many menus should it have?
- Maybe only on mobile, otherwise I don't like drop-downs like JavaScript based which appears on the side. It can be like a static drop-down which you click and then go like on mobile. It can be sandwich style which will be better.
Creating CNMCyber.com IA: Search
- What will be on the search page? How people will search the website? Put something there.
Conclusion
- There should be some category for this page but we have just started so you can think further about it. Based on your work, we will refine and polish it. We may rearrange the topics, put in different personas, and chunk the idea a little. We can do many different things but at least we have started.
- We can continue on Tuesday, I wanted to change the time but now I'm not sure because it looks like it's working for you and you are one of the most active people.
- Kevin: We will continue on Tuesday and I'm sure by then I have done something and I'll also have more questions.
- Gary: I see Erastus and Grace are here too, I recorded this session and will post it as soon as it is available but if you need a separate session you can always email I'm available all the time for our initiative.
- Thank you and bye-bye
