Project Evolve: Be a Part of the Team
The SAMHSA team supporting Project Evolve has been working hard over the past few months to make improvements to our website. Many of these improvements are still "behind the scenes." Enhancements are underway to the technical infrastructure underpinning the site, and also to the way information is organized and presented.
New SAMHSA.gov Navigation Is Taking Shape
SAMHSA is inviting everyone who seeks/uses information about substance abuse and/or mental health issues to participate in an online card-sorting exercise—placing specific pieces of information into predefined categories. This exercise is intuitive, so expertise in web design or technology is NOT needed. This activity should take you less than 20 minutes to complete.
The card sort will be available online from August 13–19, 2012, and your participation is completely anonymous. To start, please select the most applicable card sort below:
- General Public Card Sort (if you use SAMHSA.gov primarily for personal purposes)
- Behavioral Health Professionals Card Sort (if you use SAMHSA.gov primarily for professional purposes)
- SAMHSA Card Sort (if you are a SAMHSA employee or contractor supporting SAMHSA programs)
Thanks in advance for your participation. If you happen to know other people who might be interested in participating, please share this information with them.
Stay Tuned
Over the following months, you will have many more opportunities to provide input and feedback about the direction of SAMHSA.gov. These opportunities will help establish a meaningful relationship between the team working to improve the site and the people that are actually using it. Together, we will make the website better.
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Written By: Andrew Wilson, Office of Communications, SAMHSAThe SAMHSA team supporting Project Evolve has been working hard over the past few months to make improvements to the website. Many of these improvements are still “behind-the-scenes,” but enhancements are underway to both the technical infrastructure underpinning the site and to how the information is organized and presented.
Last fall, the inaugural Project Evolve blog post invited readers to help us evaluate a new way to organize information on the website. Instead of structuring the site around SAMHSA’s organizational layout, we began moving …
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by Andrew Wilson – SAMHSA’s Office of CommunicationsSeveral weeks ago, we posted a draft version of what the new SAMHSA.gov homepage might look like and asked for your feedback. The new page is still very much a work in progress, however posting the page at such an early stage gives your voice and your input an even greater role as this project moves forward.
As expected, the response that we received was tremendous. Seventy five unique ideas were submitted and nearly one hundred people participated in the discussion. Many useful observations …
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Written by Andrew Wilson – SAMHSA’s Office of CommunicationsToday, we are posting a first draft of what the new SAMHSA.gov home page might look like. Obviously, this is very much a work in progress. There is no functionality, significant design changes are still pending and the test is largely a placeholder. However, important changes are included in the prototype and these reflect SAMHSA’s commitment to including our stakeholders as an integral part of the web development process.
Changes and How You Helped Shaped Them
Based on numerous feedback sessions with visitors to …
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Written By: Andrew Wilson , SAMHSA’s Office of CommunicationsSeveral years ago, I listened to a keynote speech at the annual SXSW Interactive Festival where the presenter talked about how their corporate org chart had their customers located at the center of the diagram. This implied that customers were not only important to the organization but that customers had a role and a voice in shaping the organization and the way it conducted business.
Change is Coming – Catch the Wave
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