Executive Office of Health and Human Services
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Intranet Compatibility Issue…
So we recently our whole intranet from one server to a few weeks ago and we came across an interesting issue where folks weren’t able to view a drop down menu. Now, it was working on chrome properly, but because most people use IE as their default, we had to figure out a way to make this happen and turns out, it was a compatibility issue. The way the intranet was set up seems like it was using old meta tags (IE7). So within compatibility mode, the browser is using IE 7 version when in actuality, the users have updated browsers which would be IE 11….so an interesting fix to…
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Template Harm Reduction Final Report/Presentation
Back to working with who I call my “commission folks” on a template for a report presentation coming out at the end of March. Below were a few options that I presented to the team: These were some of the color options we were considering:
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Administration Highlight Plan to End Youth Homelessness
During an event at Framingham State University, Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito highlighted a comprehensive plan to end youth homelessness in the Commonwealth, announced funding to local providers and a new housing pilot to support homeless youth. I was on hand to take some photos use by both HHS offices and also the Governor’s media outlets. You can read more about it here: https://www.mass.gov/news/baker-polito-administration-highlight-plan-to-end-youth-homelessness And you can also view a few more photos here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mass_hhs/sets/72157706371411234
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Intranet Migration
So, I’m here on a Friday night, past the regular 9 to 5 time frame awaiting my turn to do my testing of the intranet sites that I manage here at the Secretariat. I handle the EOHHS pages along with making changes for Tewksbury Hospital, the Department of Health, and also work along side MassHealth and the Department of Developmental Services, and the Department of Mental Health! I service all these agencies when requests come in to either change and create content. So the reason why we’re even moving these files over is because of a security issue with the way the current site is set up on the server…
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Health and Human Services Home Page Discussion
I manage the content for Health and Human Services and from time to time, I hear from my colleagues from the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security on ways to improve our site. Today, I got a chance to sit down with Fiona who works on website improvement, content, best practices, etc. It’s always nice to speak with her because we get chat about new technology that is either happening in the Commonwealth but also outside of the Commonwealth. I also like speaking with her because it gives me time to give my feedback on the system, how the pages are set up, and also what I’ve been hearing…
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Deadlinks
At the end of the year, saw the successful completion of migrating over 22,000 pages from all the various agencies, but now deadlinks linger, so working with the health and human services web services team, I’ve been working with them to handle these deadlinks. Not the funnest job, but has to be done!
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Community Behavioral Health Promotion and Prevention Commission
Took some photos for the Community Behavioral Health Promotion and Prevention Commission when they got sworn in today!
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Headshots
I got asked the other day to do a head shot and was asked for some examples of my work. When I when back to the folder where I have all head shots stored, I began to reflect on how many folks I’ve met while I’ve been here and worked with to have head shots done where they would be put on display on websites, presentations, publications, etc. I’ve done shots for Commissioners and Executive team members here at the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, but I’ve also been asked to take head shots for other Secretariats. Just thought I’d share!
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Federal Shutdown – 2018 – Notice from the Executive Office of Health and Human Services – Update
Made a simple update to the website. This time when I get sent the task, I looked at the alert banner, and found that I could shorten it and have the whole message simply appear on the page it goes to. The first time we had to post the message, I had put the whole message in the banner, but this time around, a lot different and cleaner.
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Recovery Coach Commission – Listening Session – Marketing Collateral
Working with the Recovery Coach Commission internal team, I was given the task to complete marketing material that would be used on and offline. To start this process, a meeting was called by the team to speak to us on the Communications team as to the best practices and possibilities. We sat down and explained the different ways that the message could be sent out. We spoke about media advisories, social media letting them know that timing was key in all of this to gain as much attention as possible. We went over best practices when working with reporters, key words to use on the pieces, etc. A whole host…
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EOHHS Commission Websites
In the past few months, I’ve been busy working on commission websites. Had to sit down with my colleagues and let them know what was possible within the system and since I was told a few were on the horizon, I wanted to have a structure in place so that I could just apply it to all the commissions that would be coming up. I was told of all the content that they would like to have on there. It was short, simple, and to the point where they would have information about the statute, commission members, and also needed to have a section where they could add the materials…
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Federal Shutdown – 2018 – Notice from the Executive Office of Health and Human Services
It’s after normal hours, but just wanted to document this day. Today, in the mist of waiting on information that has to do with the federal shutdown, I had to be on call to post some updates to our website. This information was crucial for those that would be affected by SNAP, WIC, and TAFDC (cash assistance) programs. We here in the Executive Office worked with the Department of Transitional Assistance to create the message. and what you selected the banner, it takes you to this message…
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A moment…
Just like going through some of my photos every now and then and think I might showcase a few here that are some favorites. The best ones are the candids of course. Here’s one with Governor Charlie Baker and Secretary Sudders the day of announcing a set of educational core principles for social workers. Nice to be able to witness such moments…
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2018 Performance Recognition Program Awards at the Massachusetts State House – Gardner Auditorium
Secretary Marylou Sudders joins the Governor, Lt. Governor and other Secretariat members along with Commissioners to honor the work of those working for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Here at the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, MassHealth’s Camille Katsdever was honored for all the customer service she’s provided to the constituents of the Commonwealth who have had issues with MassHealth. MassHealth does have a customer service line, but sometimes, some questions and issues require extra assistance. I can speak on this so much because here at the Executive Office, we oversee all the social media accounts working closely with the other agencies, but for some time, MassHealth would have…
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It happened…
So it finally happened! We successfully moved over all the Executive Office of Health and Human Services web pages. Yesterday marked the day where all legacy pages, those that were on a content management system called “Percussion” have now been moved over to the new content management system we are currently operating on, Drupal! It surely wasn’t an easy task, so much communication and planning went into this task. I was actually responsible for making sure everyone stayed the course to get their pages mulled over correctly and on top of that, I had to determine even for our own Secretariat what information would be useful to migrate over. It…
