Work: Part 2

Work. Work. Work. Busy. Busy. Busy. The second part of my work is to create and maintain web sites. (Regular readers may remember Part 1. Click here.) These are not only regular information web sites (Research Center - http://arc.engin.umich.edu, Group - http://me.engin.umich.edu/autolab, Individual - http://www-personal.umich.edu/~filipi, etc), but also web portals (http://iarc2.engin.umich.edu, etc) that allow researchers from partner organizations all over the U.S. to share and transfer large amounts of data. Chasing after people to give you updated information to put on the web sites is the second hardest part of this job. Editing that information to make it suitable for the web is the hardest. Try condensing a 100-page document describing 40 projects, averaging 600 words per project, into single page descriptions of each project with no more than 200 words. English skills, graphics skills, and of course, HTML and other web-related skills. Add a bit of human psychology and stir.