Website Development
The non-profit network need to design wen site for it community.
- Launch an innovative, creative and user-friendly website by October 2011
- Establish a clear web presence for the organization
Ultimately the website will help to build brand-identity, brand-loyalty, and public interest in the organization.
The organization will launch a user-friendly website which will identify and provide links to credible information on the multiple factors and co-morbidities of obesity, along with existing evidence-based treatment strategies. It will also host a number of Internet and mobile applications and tools for screening, self-evaluation, disease management and peer support. The COACH website will serve 3 main functions:
1) To educate Canadians on the complexity and chronicity of obesity.
The COACH website should be informative and educational for the regular user. The COACH website will link to many different obesity resources. Online education modules will be developed and offered to COACH members and volunteers.
2) To guide Canadians to credible, evidence-based weight management resources in their communities;
The Weight Control Navigator will use a combination of automated information retrieval and extraction with the construction of a spatial database and a “mashup” with Google maps. The Weight Control Navigator is being developed by the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning (AICML). The successful RFP candidate will work closely with AICML to ensure the COACH website will support the Weight Control Navigator.
3) To act as a social networking portal to promote peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and enhance self-management capacity and efficacy among COACH members.
The COACH website will have other interactive and supportive end-user resources including: blogs, e-forums, and online bulletin boards.To connect and act as a forum for COACH Ambassadors – individuals who will work at the regional and local level to guide Canadians to COACH resources.The COACH Ambassador Forum should have document sharing capabilities, online discussions fora, calendar of COACH community events, member database, etc.
The user-centred COACH website must be:
- Informative and visually pleasing
- Easy and intuitive to navigate
- Quick to load and operate
- Safe and secure
- Easy to maintain and update content
The desired features for the COACH website include:
- Social media links
- COACH social network (user profiles; profile sharing)
- Video
- Event calendar
- Blogging
- List server
- Mailing list for newsletters
- Member/user management
- Online chat
- Rating-system
- Password protected pages
- Polls for user-voting
- Mobile browsing
- E-learning (online courses)
- Image gallery
- File sharing
- Online forum
