The following action plan covers the period August-October 2010. NoWAL activities have been extensively reviewed over the last few months. One of the outcomes of this review is that staffing base of the office will be significantly reduced and the current proposal is to reduce this to a 0.6 Grade 7. The current staff will remain in post until October 2010 and this action plan covers the transition period.

Digitisation Project: Final Report Recommendations
Action/Target	Timescale	Contact	Progress/Outcome
Survey NoWAL members to determine how project Knowledge Base is being used.	Summer 2010	Peter Wynne 0161 247 6673	In progress
Evaluate the project against how digitisation services have been developed and increased knowledge of staff.	Summer 2010	Peter Wynne 0161 247 6673	In progress
Each institution to nominate a key member of staff to contribute to the Digitisation Blog.	Summer 2010	Peter Wynne 0161 247 6673	In progress
Knowledge Base to be maintained, areas for improvement to be identified, obsolete material withdrawn, URLs to be verified	Ongoing	Sophie Williamson 0161 247 6678	In progress
Exchange of Experience event on mobile technologies to be delivered.	Summer 2010	Gil Young 0161 247 6021	In progress
Raise awareness of learning object repositories such as Jorum Open.	Summer 2010	Peter Wynne 0161 247 6673	In progress

Website
Action/Target	Timescale	Contact	Progress/Outcome
Produce instructions for updating the site and collecting the access stats	October 2010	Gil Young 0161 247 6021	In progress
Review and update all sections of the website.	October 2010	Gil Young 0161 247 6021	In progress

Staff Development
Action/Target	Timescale	Contact	Progress/Outcome
Plan a programme of development events for September to December.	Summer 2010	Gil Young 0161 247 6021	No courses will run between September-December 2010. The programme will be officially relaunched in spring 2011. If any NoWAL members have suggestions for events, they are asked to pass them on to their Staff Development Group representative or post a comment on the NoWAL Staff Development Blog.
Revise the pricing structure of all events with the emphasis on cutting administration to the minimum.	October 2010	Gil Young 0161 247 6021	GY met with two members of the Staff Development Group in late August to discuss this. a report is currently in preparation for the October Board meeting.
Set up a Blog to facilitate communication amongst SDG and NoWAL members.	August 2010	Gil Young 0161 247 6021	Blog set up August 2010 - See http://nowalsdg.wordpress.com/
Put together a summer exchange of experience programme to include events on  Web 2.0 and measuring impact.	Summer 2010	Gil Young 0161 247 6021	Completed
Produce brief summary for the staff development group on the events of 2009-10 and include the action plan for 2010-11 as agreed at the last Board meeting.	October 2010	Gil Young 0161 247 6021	In progress
Clear the backlog of attendance certificates	August 2010	Sophie Williamson 0161 247 6678	Completed

Benchmarking
Action/Target	Timescale	Contact	Progress/Outcome
Contact group members to suggest forming a community of good practice in this area and to discuss how the information on the intranet will be updated in future.		Gil Young 0161 247 6021

Diversity Group
Action/Target	Timescale	Contact	Progress/Outcome
Liaise with Jeremy Andrews re the future of this Group	Summer 2010	Gil Young 0161 247 6021	This group has been disbanded.

Promotion and Communications Group
Action/Target	Timescale	Contact	Progress/Outcome
Produce a revised promotions and communications strategy reflecting the remodelled priorities of the consortium.	October 2010	Gil Young 0161 247 6021	On the agenda for the Board meeting in October

Office and Administration
Action/Target	Timescale	Contact	Progress/Outcome
Finalise the accounts for 2009-10	August 2010	Sophie Williamson 0161 247 6678	Completed
Produce a NoWAL database/spreadsheet containing contacts for NoWAL mebers, catering, room bookings, trainers etc.	September 2010	Sophie Williamson 0161 247 6678	In progress
Sort through all papers etc in the office and begin to pack all relevant material ready for move.	October 2010	Gil Young 0161 247 6021	In progress
Archive as much material as possible from the shared drive.	October 2010	Gil Young 0161 247 6021	In progress

See also Completed Actions 2009-2010