Committee Charge

The GUide Committee is a standing University-wide committee responsible for developing, maintaining and promoting policies and standards for web and other online communications at Georgetown University. Members of the committee include faculty representatives and web communications professionals from a variety of departments, schools and units throughout the university.

The committee works to ensure that the university’s online communications tools and guidelines are coherent, consistent and accessible to the university community. The committee’s work is also in concert with the overall Positioning Alignment Committee, which advises on a range of overall strategic university communications strategies.

Among its activities, the committee develops style and design guidelines and templates for web sites with in the georgetown.edu domain, advises University Information Services on the development of content management systems and other online communications tools for university-wide use. The committee also develops social media, online privacy and other guidelines needed relevant to online publishing and content. and seeks to encourage university use of best practices related to these areas.

The committee is not responsible for the content on the university’s top-tier web sites or the web sites of schools, departments, centers and other units within the university but advises the Office of Communications in relation to institutional content featured on the top-tier of the site and facilitates collaboration in regards to shared content between units. The Committee seeks to encourage use of best practices related to online tools and content.

 

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