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The USC Web Services, led by Candace Borland, focuses on transforming how USC units utilize the Internet to reach their objectives, emphasizing content management and publication. Key accomplishments include the development of website templates that significantly reduce time and costs for creating sites, optimizing all web assets for mobile access, and transitioning legacy sites to WordPress. Core projects for the upcoming year will build a nimble content infrastructure for aggregation and create gateway sites, while exploring high-performance web technologies and reducing development costs through template creation.
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ORGANIZATIONAL SUMMARY Web Services Candace Borland
Core Goals • Help USC units leverage the power of the Internet to achieve their goals • With a focus on content management, sharing and publication via the web
Critical Services & Customers • Website design and development • Small web application development with a focus on content publishing • Web content management, sharing and publishing systems including Wordpress and MYUSC portal • Key Customers: USC Communications, ITS, billable clients across USC
Key Accomplishments for FY13 • Reduced the time and cost required to develop many USC websites by creating a set of website templates • Optimize all websites for mobile access • Completing conversion of all websites from the old, old CMS into Wordpress
Core Projects for FY14 • Create nimble content infrastructure to enable aggregation and recombination of web content from across USC • Create multiple gateway sites on key USC expertise areas that leverage nimble content infrastructure
Additional Core Projects • Implement emerging high performance web infrastructure for key USC public sites • Test use of cloud hosting • Reduce the cost of website development by creating additional website templates • Advance USC’s mobile presence • Build hybrid smartphone apps