The two people are the webmaster from ACIS who handles many of the day to day chores of the web and a designer from Publication and Design who is responsible for the look and feel of the main Vanderbilt web pages. In addition to these two people others from ACIS are involved in the technical management of the web site including server maintenance, hardware and software upgrades, account management, etc. Additional personnel are available from Publication and Design and the Office of News and Public Affairs for editorial content. This group of people is under the oversight of a pair of University committees that look at the web site from one and policy point of view and two a more technological point of view. The web team meets the challenge of maintaining a web site by having the following characteristics.
Members are from different parts of campus therefore responsive to different needs.
Members possess the variety of skills needed to develop and maintain the web site. Members are focused on the day to day problems associated with the web site. The team is small enough and empowered enough to be able to make decisions and implement them in a timely fashion, often within a matter of hours or less. The team in this fashion meets many of challenges suggested by both the garbage can model and the work of Weick. The Vabderbukt web team creates and maintains only the top levels of the web site.