2013Q3 Reports: Information Officer
The Information Officer (IO) portfolio includes integration of the different ACL-wide activities that are related to information dissemination; including the Anthology, website, wiki, portal and archive. Plans include short-term goals to update our software installations (DONE); provide integration of logins (through OpenID and OAuth; IN PROGRESS); update our information services to be responsive (i.e., accessible on mobile devices; IN PROGRESS) and professionally-designed (PLANNED). Long-term goals for the costs of the information services to be sponsored, accessibility and long-term maintenance of the aclweb.org and other sites, and absorbed by corporate interests.
Budget. A key part of the work done in the IO is to oversee part-time manpower allocated to help improve our association's websites, which includes maintenance, upgrading, migrating and backup. These are not small jobs and require budget. We proposed to the ACL Exec a budget 10,000 USD that was approved to hire a professional webmaster who could do part of the regular work with help from the IO and Secretary positions in ACL.