What is your organization's "web team" called?
February 4, 2015 7:17 AM Subscribe
The people who design and maintain your websites, what is their name within your organization? "Web Team"? Something else?
I am asking about in-house group names, not for the specific names of companies who do this work for you.
I am asking about in-house group names, not for the specific names of companies who do this work for you.
In our company that department is called "webdev," short for website development.
posted by jbickers at 7:25 AM on February 4, 2015
posted by jbickers at 7:25 AM on February 4, 2015
My team is "Digital Communications", or "Digicomm"- this is because we manage the websites, but also the mobile apps and some of the email.
posted by jenkinsEar at 7:47 AM on February 4, 2015
posted by jenkinsEar at 7:47 AM on February 4, 2015
WebDev Team is what me and my coworker are called.
posted by Hermione Granger at 7:47 AM on February 4, 2015
posted by Hermione Granger at 7:47 AM on February 4, 2015
Digital Team for those who do not code. (Designers, Writers, UX, Content Strategy, Producers, etc.)
Development Team for those who code.
posted by functionequalsform at 8:10 AM on February 4, 2015 [1 favorite]
Development Team for those who code.
posted by functionequalsform at 8:10 AM on February 4, 2015 [1 favorite]
Ours is lumped in with Ecommerce (Ecom for short) but they are referred to occasionally as Web Developers.
posted by Twain Device at 8:14 AM on February 4, 2015
posted by Twain Device at 8:14 AM on February 4, 2015
I work for an Engineering College w/in a larger University. Here's how it breaks down for us:
Design, UX, Strategy, Social Media, Multimedia: "Media & Marketing"
Content Management: "Web Publishing Team"
Developers/Coders: "Web Development Team"
If you made a Venn diagram of the above three with the overlap being their exclusively webby responsibilities, that would be our College's "Web Services." But at Universities, particularly large ones, things are always (often unnecessarily) complicated.
posted by tempestuoso at 8:30 AM on February 4, 2015
Design, UX, Strategy, Social Media, Multimedia: "Media & Marketing"
Content Management: "Web Publishing Team"
Developers/Coders: "Web Development Team"
If you made a Venn diagram of the above three with the overlap being their exclusively webby responsibilities, that would be our College's "Web Services." But at Universities, particularly large ones, things are always (often unnecessarily) complicated.
posted by tempestuoso at 8:30 AM on February 4, 2015
The Digital Marketing team within the Corporate Marketing department (also responsible for emails, webinars & online ads).
posted by saturngirl at 9:26 AM on February 4, 2015
posted by saturngirl at 9:26 AM on February 4, 2015
Web Services, in the Communications department at a large nonprofit. Mostly content strategy / management and digital / online design. We handle front-end dev and email services, but not back-end development (that's the IT dept.) or social media (they're under public relations).
posted by fifthpocket at 10:34 AM on February 4, 2015
posted by fifthpocket at 10:34 AM on February 4, 2015
Debbie.
posted by Serene Empress Dork at 12:31 PM on February 4, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by Serene Empress Dork at 12:31 PM on February 4, 2015 [5 favorites]
Medium sized non-profit in house team:
Digital Communications.
posted by fontophilic at 1:26 PM on February 4, 2015
Digital Communications.
posted by fontophilic at 1:26 PM on February 4, 2015
In part it's a matter of scale and specialization. My department has about 30 people. We operate many websites, but I'll focus on the one most central to all employees: ours.
We have a Media team responsible for written and visual content. Blog posts, staff profiles, etc.
We have a pool of frontend and backend developers who can design a layout, or write Drupal modules, etc. I just call them "devs."
We also have a number of Operations Teams, some of which I manage. We have a Helpdesk team, who handles access controls to the website, upgrading drupal modules or installing new ones, setting up test environments, etc. We have Site Reliability Engineers, called "SRE"s, who receive pages and are responsible for keeping the site up. We have a Security Team who keeps Drupal patched. We have an Innovation team that is designing a workflow to automate deploying updates from developers and the security team.
Nobody focuses their efforts 100 percent on this one website. Instead we support several dozen. Developers usually focus the bulk of their efforts writing new software for clients or internal needs. And operations usually spends the bulk of its time supporting clients or automating work. Media team members manage the website content, but they also manage our social media accounts, edit videos to upload to Youtube, plan and operate local unconferences, and edit technical blog posts contributed from other teams.
posted by pwnguin at 7:42 PM on February 4, 2015
We have a Media team responsible for written and visual content. Blog posts, staff profiles, etc.
We have a pool of frontend and backend developers who can design a layout, or write Drupal modules, etc. I just call them "devs."
We also have a number of Operations Teams, some of which I manage. We have a Helpdesk team, who handles access controls to the website, upgrading drupal modules or installing new ones, setting up test environments, etc. We have Site Reliability Engineers, called "SRE"s, who receive pages and are responsible for keeping the site up. We have a Security Team who keeps Drupal patched. We have an Innovation team that is designing a workflow to automate deploying updates from developers and the security team.
Nobody focuses their efforts 100 percent on this one website. Instead we support several dozen. Developers usually focus the bulk of their efforts writing new software for clients or internal needs. And operations usually spends the bulk of its time supporting clients or automating work. Media team members manage the website content, but they also manage our social media accounts, edit videos to upload to Youtube, plan and operate local unconferences, and edit technical blog posts contributed from other teams.
posted by pwnguin at 7:42 PM on February 4, 2015
Best answer: I worked at a place where they were called The Howling Commandos. I think it's a nice perk to be able to name your own team.
posted by lumpenprole at 5:06 PM on February 6, 2015
posted by lumpenprole at 5:06 PM on February 6, 2015
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