The NGWC is essentially a steering committee. The NGRG is where we do the implementation. The NGWC decides things like what the sitemap will look like (at least recommends to the CWIS Advisory Board), and generally sets expectations for the UNL website in the years ahead. If I were to distill to a single word the difference, it would be ideas=NGWC and implementation=NGRG. Now that doesn't mean that we can't relay our ideas to the NGWC, and we can certainly implement ideas on our own if they support the general effort toward a better website, guided by goals set forth by the NGWC. There was a layer missing in the cake; a sort of liaison committee between upper administration and UNL web developers; NGWC is that group. There are a lot of compromises in this model, as in any model, but what the NGWC provides us boots-on-the-ground types is support and direction and some protection from the human tendency to second-guess.
Robert J Crisler
Manager, Internet and Interactive Media
321 Canfield Administration Building
University of Nebraska-Lincoln