Present: Dr. John Olson, Bonnie O'Connor, Jesse Gomez, Kat Myers, Brian Cartee, Alan Miller, Brian Neuenschwander, Georgina Perez, Anna Maloy, Jim Barrett
Dr. John Olson, the chair, opened the meeting, and received approval of the minutes from Jan. 18. Jim Barrett presented the webmaster's report. He distributed copies of the UT System business procedure memorandum "Guidelines for Web Site Solicitations." The memo defines acceptable uses of advertising and sponsorship acknowledgements on UT web sites. He said a decision on whether to accept ads would be made at the Executive Committee level. In a second item, Barrett asked Bonnie O'Connor to describe the progress of the web effectiveness study being done in conjunction with the library. O'Connor said interviews with university leaders would begin next week and about 20 persons had been selected for interviews. Barrett distributed lists of questions the subjects would be asked. O'Connor said some results from the interviews would be available at the committee's next meeting. In new business, Olson introduced Brian Cartee of the CACTUS/PeopleSoft project, who discussed timelines that have bearing on implementing a web portal. Cartee said there would be meetings with the webmaster and Computing Resources starting next week to examine steps toward adding the portal. He said the committee can help in many ways, such as identifying content for the portal page, helping form policies and procedures for posting information to the portal, and prioritizing initiatives in the project. Barrett said he thought a mock-up of the portal could be ready for the committee to review in April. There being no more business, the committee adjourned and agreed to set its next meeting for Friday, March 15, 9:30-10:30 a.m. -- Minutes prepared by Jim Barrett-- Approved April 16, 2002