Website update

Alison Bogle

After sending out a plea on lis-shine for SHINE members interested in helping with the website, I was pleasantly surprised to have six volunteers.

And so the SHINE Website Editorial Group was formed. Some members of the group met at the end of May to decide on roles and allocate work to those unable to attend! But we had our first real meeting in August when we were all able to meet each other in person and begin to look at the development of the website and how everyone could contribute. We met on an extremely wet day at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and special thanks go to those who had travelled from Inverness and Dundee to attend.

We found that there was a range of web skills and experience within the group. Some people are using web-authoring software on a regular basis and are quite experienced, others have a little theoretical knowledge but no practical experience, and others have no experience at all.

So after the meeting in the morning, we had arranged for Michael McConnell (www.blackcatwebsites.co.uk) to lead a training session to ensure that everyone has some basic skills. It was an intensive three-hour session which covered building web pages using html, using html editors, downloading webpages from the server, making changes, and uploading them again. There was then some time for hands-on exercises to practise some of the skills taught. Michael provided some good supporting materials that we could take away and refer to later and has also given the group access to an online tutorial that can be worked through again if necessary.

Comments after the session included:

“I think the day was worthwhile with Michael taking some of the fear out of HTML. It was good to put faces to names of others on the group. Overall it was a good day in spite of the rain!”

“A mentally stretching afternoon for those with no HTML experience, but an interesting, if somewhat fast paced, introduction to creating a web page from scratch”

So, now that we have a website group, and members have had some training, we need all you SHINE members to be involved in giving us suggestions for the site. Whether this be news for the Noticeboard, useful websites that you want us to have links to on the site or suggestions for new features on the site, please let us know.

Who to contact

Sally Bell (sally.bell@gartnavel.glacomen.scot.nhs.uk)  
Sally will be adding information to the site that comes out from the short life working groups. If you are the leader of one of these groups or involved in any of them, please think if you could use the website to publicise your work and keep SHINE members involved.

Alison Bogle (alison.bogle@shsc.csa.scot.nhs.uk)  
I keep the Committee pages up to date on the website so the agendas and minutes from the Committee Meetings are available for you to read.

Julia Green (julia.green@hebs.scot.nhs.uk)  
Please send any news items for the Noticeboard to Julia.

Elspeth Henry (elspeth.henry@thb.scot.nhs.uk)  
Elspeth will be maintaining the section of the site that lists any publications by SHINE members.

Kathleen Irvine (k.y.Irvine@stir.ac.uk)  
Kathleen will be updating the pages on continuing professional development and training resources. Please let her have any suggestions for these.

Cathy Smith (catherinesmith@nhs.net) is the online editor of Interim.

Chloe Stewart (chloe.stewart@northglasgow.scot.nhs.uk)  
Chloe is gathering together useful websites relating to professional and legal issues. You can see these by clicking on the Useful Links button on the home page. She will welcome any suggestions you have for this section.

Joanne Thomson (joanne.thomson@mariecurie.org.uk)  
Joanne will be adding information to the site about any study days or training organised by SHINE, and will be uploading any reports or presentations from speakers.

Finally, there is now a search facility on the website and, of course, the new Union List is available on the site – thanks to Richard German and Michael McConnell for this.

Alison Bogle
SHINE Website Editorial Group  
 
Health Management Library  
SHSC, Crewe Road South  
Edinburgh EH4 2LF  

Tel: 0131 623 2546  
Email: alison.bogle@shsc.csa.scot.nhs.uk