Getting the powers that be intersted

[Paul May]

Hi,

> I would be intersested in the
> circumstances other Web masters work. Is it mainly done in our own time or
> do some people get time allocated when they can officially work on their
> pages?

I'm also a postdoc (a Royal Society Reseacrh Fellow) and
I do most of the Bristol Web pages in my spare time.  However, being the
Webmaster is recognised as an official School of Chemistry admin 'duty',
with similar status to being on a teaching-type committee.  But no actual
resources are given for the main web page (that's left to our computer
centre to organise...).  They did cover the costs of attending the London 
meeting, though, (but since it only cost 8.75 on the coach so it was a
bargain, really :-) ).
But I, too, have to scrounge around to find useful things to put on the
web.  We now advertise any job (postgrad, postdoc, etc) vacancies on the
web page, and I've had a hard job persuading non-web colleagues to use
even this *free* service...  I recently put up our safety handbook, and all
the Risk Assessment forms and COSHH forms that researchers have to fill
in before they do any risky expts.  That way they can download the appropriate
forms when they need them, print them out, sign them and then send them to our 
safety officer with the minimum of hassle.


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