Blogging functionality for newsworthy HRA posts?

[LibbyUX]

Blogging functionality for newsworthy HRA posts?

Today I submitted #445 for new pages for Kaggle competitions. Now I am reflecting on this process:

The workflow for publishing this content looks like this:

1. Colleagues ask UX designer for new Google docs for K3 & K4 content
2. UX designer creates template for K3 & K4 based on live K2 page
3. UX designer sends back Google doc links to colleagues
4. Colleagues write/edit content in Google docs
5. Google docs are passed back to UX designer
6. UX designer observes unresolved comments in Google docs and reaches out to additional colleagues to confirm if resolved or not
7. Colleagues edit Google docs
8. Colleagues pass Google docs back to UX designer
9. UX designer submits issue #445, requesting that development modify HRA website infrastructure and add two new pages
10. Development builds infrastructure and two new pages
11. Development sends preview to UX designer
12. UX designer inspects preview and communicates if changes are needed
13. UX designer approves development's preview
14. Development merges PR
15. Content is available on the website

Questions I will remain curious about:

• How might we best utilize and maximize our time at work?
• How do bioinformatics companies share exciting updates about their work?
• Is there a blogging functionality web component that could be added to future versions of the HRA?

Observations about this process:

• HRA release week is always busy. I was the blocker in steps 1 and 8: I lived in Figma and GitHub this week while working on 7th release UX-related tasks. I am not a fan of being the blocker!
• I am not approving content of this nature, so I often feel like an extra cook in the kitchen.
• I want people to feel empowered that they have the tools they need to provide content for the HRA.

Questions for the future:

• The redesigned HRA website will not have pages of this nature. How will we capture this information?
• Would it be appropriate to have a blogging component for this type of HRA content?
• This component could need the following for our colleagues:
  • Simple UI
  • Credentials such as login info, author tracking
  • Rich text editing
  • Reviewing functionality
  • Publish to website functionality
  • Edit functionality
• Is this a 3rd party web component?
  • How much does it cost?
• Do we build this ourselves?
  • Is it worth it?
• What else could be done to improve this workflow for our colleagues?
• How else might we improve website content publishing processes for the HRA?

[LibbyUX]

Note to self: https://developers.google.com/blogger

Blogger may be sufficient, but is this an appropriate solution and will the team like it?