Call for contributions: Interactive UPress use-case idea boards

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Christina Drummond

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Jul 14, 2020, 1:21:56 PM7/14/20
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Greetings All,

Based on Charles' email, I went ahead and created three separate interactive, virtual use-cases for this group to workshop asynchronously. Using your email introductions, I took a first pass at dropping in virtual stickies on the boards. 

Now, it's your turn to add additional ideas and/or comment on existing ones. 
Our objective is to get a general picture of common needs and challenges around OA eBook Usage (OAeBU) data in University Presses, while flagging items that may be unique to specific roles or organizations.  

Please contribute to the University Press use cases below through their related links: 

How to contribute: 
  1. Add your ideas by typing in the relevant column at the top next to the + icon, hitting "Enter" on your device's keyboard to submit the idea.  Note: Clicking elsewhere on the screen will not submit your idea, and it will have to be reentered.
  2. If your idea is already on the board, click on it to "Like" it. You can also "Dislike" it if you disagree, and/or add comments as to why you disagree. 
  3. Add comments to existing ideas by clicking on the idea and making a comment.  
Note: these idea board contributions are set up to be anonymous and up to 50 participants can interact with each board. Given the size of this group, that shouldn't be an issue, but if you anticipate sharing a board with more than one colleague, please let me know. 

While we would have loved to hold in-person design sessions, we're instead trying to replicate these activities virtually. You are helping us to test out GroupMap as a platform for virtual ideation and prioritization. I'd love any direct replies if you love/hate this app, as that will inform the rollout, usage, and customization of it with our other communities of practice in this project. 

I look forward to watching these boards evolve over the coming week. 
Also, if you feel we should flush out an additional persona, reply to the full list and I can easily create a new board, or clone an existing one to start from. 

Christina
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Christina Drummond, CIPP/US, M.A. International Science and Technology Policy
Data Trust Program Officer
Working from Columbus, OH USA | EDT Timezone (GMT-4)

Sherer, John

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Jul 16, 2020, 3:22:45 PM7/16/20
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Hello Christina and all,

 

Just started poking around this and I quite like it. But I do see that there is understandably a significant amount of duplication in the various boards as well as the necessity to check to see if something that perhaps I believe should be in one board, isn’t already more accurately placed in another. Is it conceivable to have one master-board and then some sort of icon placement or badging system where a concept is deemed relevant to multiple constituencies by tagging it with icons for each? For example, “Support a case for OA on equity and justice grounds (Activity) and “Data compilation is too labor intensive” (Challenge) are ideas that I suspect would be relevant to directors, marketing directors, and acquisitions editors.

 

John

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Christina Drummond

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Jul 16, 2020, 3:51:50 PM7/16/20
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Hi John,

The press director board was the original "master-board" from which I ventured off to derive the other persona boards as most of the pain points, but not all of the activities, seemed to span positions. 

These boards can evolve to a level of specificity so that it's clear whether the same data/graph/visualization would be needed for the different personas. For example, does a marketing director seek different equity metrics/reports than their press director? Do they use the data in different workflows, or would a marketing director typically pull the same report/visualizations/data as the press director, for the same purpose?  When this is unclear, it'd be wonderful if collectively we could add ideas with better wording for each persona, or comment on existing ideas to add this clarity.  In person, someone might write additional details on an additional post-it and just add it to the board. That activity is welcome here as well, as I can group idea stickies as a facilitator when we complete this first pass.

That said, we can easily use icon tags to denote a shared activity, challenge, or data element and I can add the key to the instructions at the top of the board.  We just need to choose icons for each persona. Recommendations are welcome. 

Might anyone find it useful to talk through the boards virtually? If so, I'm happy to host two zoom meeting work sessions to accommodate different time-zones. 

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Christina Drummond, CIPP/US, M.A. International Science and Technology Policy
Data Trust Program Officer
Working from Columbus, OH USA | EDT Timezone (GMT-4)

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Sherer, John

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Jul 16, 2020, 4:03:34 PM7/16/20
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tTanks Christina. I’m sure it’s in no small way frustrating to be designing-by-committee and I’m certainly open to the idea that as a director, I may be seeking the more holistic, single visualization that could be as equally distracting to someone whose efforts are more circumscribed.

 

I’d be happy to participate in a conversation about the benefits of various approaches to a visualization. But I’m also happy to step back if others are more comfortable with the multiple person boards.

Charles Watkinson

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Jul 16, 2020, 5:48:08 PM7/16/20
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John's point is very good, but I'm pretty comfortable with the multiple boards approach and indeed curious to see what my colleagues in Sales/Marketing and Editorial say -- and how much it overlaps with what I am interested in. I've shared the links with them with a request to engage. This is also, I hope, a way to get them thinking about the opportunities of OA and usage data from their perspectives -- a not-so-subtle encouragement to think about some of the value they could extract if there was a dashboard. I'm happy to engage in a virtual convo as well, but I'm pretty happy with the multiple board approach and curious to compare and contrast later. Charles
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