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NEW Toolbox structure

The changes to the new website should be self-evident. We are responding to requests for a ‘beginners’ section on the site, leaving the Toolbox for those who wish to delve deeper and begin building or maintaining their WARP. We have also taken the opportunity to update the style a little. We hope you like it, and we welcome comments.

The WARP Toolbox has been restructured taking on board feedback from users, with the following major changes:

• The previous Toolbox structure was based on how to create a complete WARP, which meant that collating information for each service was difficult as it was spread throughout the Toolbox under the different headings. Now, all the information associated with each WRegistartionARP service has been brought together and can be found under the ‘WARP Services’ menu in the left hand navigation bar;

• For further clarity, the product elements, which are generic and occur before creating the WARP services, are located in the section 'Setting up a WARP', e.g. Business case.

• Equally, the generic elements, which affect all stages of a WARP, including running the WARP, are located in the section 'Operations', e.g. Marketing;

• Anyone wishing to walk through the Toolbox can still do this by starting at the top of the left hand navigation menu ' Introduction' and reading each section sequentially until they get to 'Governance', by which time they will have read all the stages needed to create an operational WARP;

• The navigation bar on the left now exposes all the sections regarding WARP services, so there is now no need to go over the words with the mouse to find out what and where the sections are;

• To reduce the size of the navigation bar on the left, the more general links of the site have been re-positioned horizontally in the top right hand corner of the page;

• To avoid confusion, the link to 'Home' takes you back to the home page of the general WARP website www.warp.gov.uk whereas the 'Toolbox home' just takes you back to the Toolbox entry page;

• The ‘Downloads’ section has now been divided into three titles reflecting the three main areas of the Toolbox - 'Setting up a WARP', 'WARP Services' and 'Operations';

• The ‘News’ section has been restructured to allow easy access to current news on ‘Toolbox updates’, the ‘WARP newsletter’ and ‘Archived news items’;

• All the pages have been reviewed and updated where necessary;

• Some of the website’s software has been replaced to improve performance;

• The colour and branding has also been updated to reflect a more contemporary style.

Feedback on the new WARP Toolbox structure would be welcomed by emailing:

Whats new in the Toolbox

The following documents and pages are new in this release of the Toolbox:

The Registration section:

• now includes a completed, but anonymised, example of the new WARP Registration application form. The new application form was introduced in August 2006.

The Filtered Warnings, Service Development section:

• now has an updated release of the document 'Typical information sources for a WARP Filtered Warnings Service';

• contains a revised html table, where the user can select a source directly, is also include in this section;

• includes a new document describing Filtered Warnings service example categories (subscription trees for FWA users).

The Advice Brokering page:

• includes a case study on how the London Connects WARP member forums, together with MS Sharepoint, have created an effective Advice Brokering service;

• now has a document which describes the key features of three bulletin board packages that have been used by current WARPs. Most WARPs have found that an on-line bulletin board is a very useful tool to support the Advice Brokering service and

The Trusted Sharing page:

• includes a new workbook gives you an opportunity to raise your self-awareness in relation to sharing sensitive information. By sensitive, we mean information which carries an element of risk to you as a person but could benefit another. It is based on a model for sharing which came from some recent research conducted among a number of sharing forums in the UK.

• a new case study on telecommunications fraud showing how MYSWARP operate their Trusted Sharing service has been added. This also appears in the Articles section.

The Marketing section:

• now contains pdf files with the new logo, used in the latest veersion of the website, in four different forms. These can be adapted to meet the needs of individual WARPs using suitable editing software.

• WARPs are front page news in the December 2006 edition of Government Computing (GC) magazine. Written by Steve Mathieson, it gives a good update on WARPs. This also appears in the Articles section.

Whats new in FWA Software

The following documents and pages are new in this release of the FWA Software site.

The FWA general information section

• now includes a document which describes the format used to represent notifications within FWA, and may be useful to those that wish to interface data feeds with the application.  A full API that allows integration with the FWA peer-to-peer interface is available on request.

The FWA v4.1 section

• now has an updated installation guide for FWA v4.1.

The FWA v5.0 section

• has two new documents providing a features overview and software/system requirements for FWA v5.0 (Beta).

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