MATEC Tech Report
Nathan Petts – Technologist
Executive Committee Meeting
6/12/15
The Plan for the Next Hour
www.matec.info
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Virtual Forum Upcoming Plans
Regional Website Upcoming Plans
New Guidance & Technology
How can MATEC use technology to more
effectively do its job?
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Virtual Forum
ITS COMING!
July 1st
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Virtual Forum
Virtual Forum will replace the Data Portal
(www.matec.us/erdata) & the registration portion of the regional
website. (www.matec.info)
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Virtual Forum
Training
Training Coming Up
• Illinois
• Iowa
• Wisconsin
• Minnesota
• Michigan
After 7/1
• Ohio
• Kansas
• Nebraska
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Virtual Forum
Training
Trained
Impressions
• Indiana
• Missouri
• It works well
• Time savings come at the end
of the process.
• It takes time to get used to the
layout
Do you want the documentation?
Email Nathan! [email protected]
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Virtual Forum
HRSA’s Changes and Virtual Forum
HRSA will be changing the PIF and ER
(but not yet)
Virtual Forum will be working with HRSA to update their
system with HRSA’s new data tools.
(but not yet)
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Virtual Forum
Next Year we will use Virtual Forum to
collect our data, but will be using the
ERs and PIFs you all know and love!
(but we will change along
with HRSA and VF)
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Virtual Forum
Next Steps
• MORE Training
• Switch Over (7/1)
• I will decommission the Data Portal and
archive the data
• Continue to debug and familiarize
ourselves with the new system and
policies
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Regional Website
ITS COMING!
July 1st
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Regional Website
The new Regional Website will replace the old site. But the
URL will remain the same – www.matec.info
The administrative site content will be moved into this new
regional site as well, but not by 7/1. Probably later in the
summer.
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Regional Website
LPSs will still be able to use their own websites. We are using
the regional site to tell the story of what we do as a region.
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Regional Website
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Regional Website
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Regional Website
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Regional Website
Next Year we will use the new regional
website to display programs we are
putting on and tell the story of how our
program is transforming.
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The new guidance means that selfdirected webinars can now be counted
as programs in our data.
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We will use our existing Adobe Connect
account to create these self directed
courses and collect PIF data.
Central Office’s expectation is that all
LPSs learn to use Adobe Connect
They can then be hosted on the
regional website
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Slack
A real-time chat client we have been
using at CO for a few months
Designed for distributed teams like our
Conversations persist so are available
to others with the same questions
Our Slack - https://matec.slack.com/
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So we face new challenges
How do we deal with them?
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How do we change the attitude at MATEC from one
where we are suspicious of technology to one where we
embrace it?
This isn’t unique to us
https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2015/6/why-overhauling-it-was-ultimate-life-saver-american-cancer-society
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But we do have to find our own
unique solution
I don’t think this has ever been
sufficiently and holistically addressed
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Technology is not a magic bullet.
Nor is it something that someone else can use for you.
Technology is a tool that we all must learn to wield.
So how do begin the culture shift?
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Lets talk about it.
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