Mountain Region Director - National
Association of Government Webmasters
Joel
has been with the City and County of Broomfield since 1998, first as Web
administrator bringing the first version of the city's website online
that year, then as Manager of Web Operations managing the website
content as well as setting up and managing the hardware for the
Internet, Intranet, Firewall and FTP. In 2004 the position was moved to
its current location in the City and County Manager's Office. As Manager
of Web-based Communication, Joel manages Internet, Intranet, subscriber
email, Web domains, RSS feeds, online videos, city and county social
networking sites; as well as the graphic identity and branding for city
and county print and Web publications, and is the city and county's
official photographer - managing the city and county photo archiving
system. He also manages the websites for the Greater Metro
Telecommunications Consortium, Healthy
Broomfield and the Brunner Farmhouse. Joel supervises the Web work of
approximately 65 Web Representatives (Web page authors) from city and
county departments and divisions who do updates to their Web pages as a
part of their regular positions.
Prior to coming to Broomfield, Joel created
and maintained websites for two newspapers, a trade journal and the
city of Loveland website.
Claudia Korn assists with the
day-to-day operations of the website updating process. You may
recognize Claudia Korn from her full-time duties at the Community
Assistance Center. She is a great asset to the Web team with her assistance
to Web Representatives in training and consultations, updating Web pages, trouble shooting errant
code and working as a backup for other Web positions.
Web Representatives -
There are more than 60 Web
Representatives (Web page authors) from the city and county departments and
divisions who do updates to their Web pages as a part of their regular
positions. The Web Representatives are a very important piece of the website infrastructure especially with a site that has more than 12,500
pages, documents, images and videos. The Web Rep team works with Dreamweaver and Microsoft
Expression Web authoring software, and goes through numerous Web training sessions as
part of their responsibilities.