Post on 23-Dec-2015
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MATEC Tech Report
Nathan Petts – Technologist
Executive Committee Meeting 6/12/15
www.matec.info
The Plan for the Next Hour
• Virtual Forum Upcoming Plans• Regional Website Upcoming Plans• New Guidance & Technology• How can MATEC use technology to more
effectively do its job?
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Virtual ForumVirtual Forum will replace the Data Portal (www.matec.us/erdata) & the registration portion of the regional website. (www.matec.info)
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Virtual ForumTraining
Training Coming Up• Illinois• Iowa• Wisconsin• Minnesota• Michigan
After 7/1• Ohio• Kansas• Nebraska
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Virtual Forum
Training
Trained• Indiana• Missouri
Do you want the documentation? Email Nathan! npetts@uic.edu
Impressions
• It works well• Time savings come at the end
of the process. • It takes time to get used to the
layout
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Virtual Forum
HRSA’s Changes and Virtual Forum
HRSA will be changing the PIF and ER
(but not yet)
Virtual Forum will be working with HRSA to update their system with HRSA’s new data tools.
(but not yet)
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Virtual Forum
Next Year we will use Virtual Forum to collect our data, but will be using the ERs and PIFs you all know and love!
(but we will change along with HRSA and VF)
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Next Steps
• MORE Training• Switch Over (7/1)• I will decommission the Data Portal and
archive the data• Continue to debug and familiarize
ourselves with the new system and policies
Virtual Forum
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Regional Website
The administrative site content will be moved into this new regional site as well, but not by 7/1. Probably later in the summer.
The new Regional Website will replace the old site. But the URL will remain the same – www.matec.info
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Regional Website
LPSs will still be able to use their own websites. We are using the regional site to tell the story of what we do as a region.
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Regional Website
Next Year we will use the new regional website to display programs we are putting on and tell the story of how our program is transforming.
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Technology @ MATEC
The new guidance means that self-directed webinars can now be counted as programs in our data.
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Technology @ MATEC
We will use our existing Adobe Connect account to create these self directed courses and collect PIF data.
They can then be hosted on the regional website
Central Office’s expectation is that all LPSs learn to use Adobe Connect
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Technology @ MATECSlack
Designed for distributed teams like our
A real-time chat client we have been using at CO for a few months
Conversations persist so are available to others with the same questions
Our Slack - https://matec.slack.com/
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Technology @ MATEC
So we face new challenges
How do we deal with them?
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How do we change the attitude at MATEC from one where we are suspicious of technology to one where we embrace it?
This isn’t unique to us
https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2015/6/why-overhauling-it-was-ultimate-life-saver-american-cancer-society
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But we do have to find our own unique solution
I don’t think this has ever been sufficiently and holistically addressed
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Technology is not a magic bullet.
Nor is it something that someone else can use for you.
Technology is a tool that we all must learn to wield.
So how do begin the culture shift?