This is a sample project paper and the associated presentation from Fall 2009 for your reference.

Your project this semester will be with St. Louis' Girls Inc. They are a local chapter of the national Girls Inc.

Your client already has a wish list of things to change on the website:

Easy website page updates

Easy blog management tool

Easy interfacing and updates between the website with Facebook and Twitter

Website linked to pay pal for various Girls Inc events

Current headlines and Save the date events and continues to search previous online articles

Link to the National Website, Facebook Page

Easy ability to upload pictures

Calendar with Special Schedule and events and Snow schedule

Volunteer Registration Page

Alumnae Registration Page

A new look that more closely mirrors the national girlsinc.org website

Contact us page

Questions posed to the client by your class:

1. Who uses your website ?

2. What do you think is the problem/deficiencies with your website ?

3. What does your website suppose to do ?

4. Is your website not doing what it suppose to do ? If yes what is down(revenue, number of students etc.),

5. What are your possible goals for your organization and how does your website fit in that goal ?

6. What do we need to change to attain those goals ?

7. What is not going well for you ?

8. How to drive traffic to your website ?

9. What kind of traffic should you be receiving ?

10. What are other ways you can receive payment other than PayPal ?

11. How do you feel about the current level of activity of donors and volunteers ?

12. How easy is it for donors and volunteers to make contributions or volunteer via the website ?

13. How do you feel about the type of activity occurring on the website ?

14. Do you feel the website is aligned with the purpose of Girls Inc.?

15. How are you using social networking sites and how can we contribute the current level of activity of media sources and outlets ?

16. Have you performed any recent name recognition sampling you receive daily or monthly local area ? What were the results ?

17. Why are you wanting to have more access to making changes to the website?

18. Do you have somebody that can update the website without assistance?

19. What is your top area of concern with the website?

20. Who are you trying to attract to the website?

21. Are you using the website as a meeting and scheduling guide for mentors? Is it for the girls to find out about events? Is it for those who donates and how would you prioritize these stakeholders?

22. Who is the decision maker who will give goahead to any changes that need to be made to the site?

23. What is the regional scope of this specific Girl’s Inc website and is it focused on the tastes and preferences of this geographic region? Would a change to the layout to make it more like the national site make sense for this geographic region?

24. What's the budget you're considering for your wish list to be completed ?

25. For existing members, how do most of them know your site in the first place?

26. For your blog area, what would you like them to blog about?

27. What do you like your picture upload to go into and what kind of pictures are they ?

28. Where does the registration page submit to? The database or an auto email to your box ?

29. Is there anything else that we didn't ask but you would like to complete for the site and facilitate the on going operations ?

Questions posed to the client by the undergraduate class:

Why did they choose N St. Louis County as their location? Is it because there is the highest number of girls in need for their services they offer?

What cultural programs do they offer? Are the girls in need of their services all of the same culture or do they accommodate other cultures.

What programs and events are in place to help girls out from different cultures?

Why is the site not as donor friendly as a non for profit organizations site should be? Girls Inc. donation link is very small and hidden on the far right where you would have to go in and specifically look for a donation link to find it.

Why isn’t the site more media friendly to get the attention of journalists and bloggers.

What other things can be put up on the site to make it more volunteer friendly, instead of only one link that’s on Girls, Inc web site?

Why isn’t the purpose and goal of the organization immediately apparent on the website so people know what the organization is all about?

Why doesn’t the website include a news section with frequent updates and news or a blog?

Are there any religious influences?

Imagine we are at the end of the project, and you are ecstatic about the results. Why, what is right about the results? Please be specific.

Imagine we are at the end of the project, and you hate the results, really disappointed. Why, what is wrong or missing from the results? Please be specific.

What is the goal of new website, and who are you trying to reach? e.g. girls, parents, investors? Please rate from first to last.

Which websites do you like (such as national Girls, Inc., Girls, Inc. other cities, other organizations) and why?

What is the purpose of your website in the context of the goals and purpose of the organization? How should the website help the organization meet its goals? give information, get contributions, attract girls, schools, volunteers, parents, contributors?

Is there anything specific about the current website you really like/really dislike?

What leads you to believe that the website isn’t adequately fulfilling its purpose?

What tools besides the website does Girls Inc. use for outreach to the public and storage of information?

What is the target audience for the website? Why do you aim to focus on this group of people?

Of the wish list items for website makeover which 3 would be your top priority to have done and why?

Do you have an outlined budget that this project need to adhere to?

Does the firm plan on implementing any knew types of programs different from the list above or would they rather better promote the existing ones with a richer web experience?

Does the firm know exactly how mush web traffic there site actually attracts and is that the best place to make adjustments in order to fix their problem?

What are yearly goals for the current year and how close is the firm to reaching that mark, do the goals correspond to the parent organization and if not why?

What would you like to see as a result of the made changes in the form of feedback from your targeted audience?

Budget willing, have they entertained the idea of localized cable programming advertisement to help promote their organizations efforts and reach more of a specialized targeted audience. This technique could be televised at certain times and certain locations to reach the specific audience.

Would the firm like to have their site more resemble the parent organizations site?

Presently, what has your business done to try to solve or alleviate the problem?

Are there finical problems that need to be taken into account?

What is your budget for maintaining your site?

What is the equipment you are running on? Aka, what is the hardware and software you use it maintain your website?

What experience does your current web administrator have?

What do you want out of your website, as a whole, or as individual pages?

Why do you want to individualize the St. Louis Girls Inc. Chapter?

What is it that you need to solve this problem, in your option?

Why do you think the areas that you/Vicki listed need worked on?

Is there a certain problem that is causing the issues?

Are there any particular other organizations that you would like us to look at as an example?

Are there any new ideas or themes that your organization would like to start working on?

What state or federal regulations do you have to adhere by for your organization?

Who are the main targets for your website in terms of visitors? Is the site for volunteer, participant, alumni, or donor acquisition?

What are your current processes for updating and maintaining the website? Is the same person responsible for Social Media activities responsible upkeep of the website?

What is the main method of recruitment currently (especially for website and Social Media)? Other than Normandy district, where else are your efforts?

If your website was “perfect” in your sense, what would be the best qualities? What are things you like the most and least?

If your website was “horrible” in your sense, why would it be this way? What are the main things that stick out to you?

What technology are you using currently? Planning on using?

What are the organization purposes for their new web site?

Freely list about things you would like to provide in the website! And the company's activities.

Do you have plans to further expand? Is international expansion a consideration? Have you considered reaching out to boys or other demographics?

What are your goals to improve your organization? (is it consisted with organization’s goal?)

What are the categories which must be wanted in home page?

What are the likes and dislikes about the current web site?

Is the company satisfied with the current functionality of the web site?

Do you like to blog?

Who will the website be showed to? (Who is the main customer?)

Is there any suppliers?

Girls average age?

Their favorite explorer? (Firefox, IE, Opera, Safari…?)

What are the additional services that you want them to be in the website?

Do you want your service to be purchased online or in store?

What type of teaching method do you currently use in your programs? What technology would you like to use? How do you think this technology can help you?

What is your main source of income (contributions, program service revenue, etc.)?

Do you see similar organizations as competition or would/do you work together?

Which of the 5 challenges do you struggle with the most and are there other challenges you think you also face?

What is your advantage comparing with other Not for profit group?

Is a single person currently responsible for maintaining website and related technolgy feeds, and how frequently is the website updated?

Why is the Paypal Donate function on the website currently limited to fixed donation amounts of $25, $50, $75 and $100?

What technologies / vehicles are you using, other than Facebook and Twitter, to reach out to the community?

Are there any specific things about the Girls Inc.national website that you would find especially attractive or useful on the local website?

Are the Facebook and website calendars only being used for certain types of actiivites, and is it currently a duplication of effort to maintain the two calendars?

What are the most significant inhibitors to the current desires to expand the after-school program to include other districts?

Regarding the ability to easily upload photographs, could you elaborate on where these pictures would be uploaded, and for what purpose?

What is the goal of updating the website or why you want to change the website?

Do you want to create the website in special disdained?

Do you have to keep develop of the website or we can change it?

Can we change the programming language to different language or we should keep PHP?

Should we change the database or we can keep it?

Do you want to make the website similar to face book and twitter or why do you want to make it?

Do you want to create Facebook page? How?

Should we create data picture or how do you want we create it?

If you create form for volunteer and alumnae registration page. Where to submit it?

Do you want to create management website?

When we make the contact us page. Where to submit it or to make to send to email?