HUD's Web Management Operating Procedures

Section 3: Management Controls

B: Posting Rights

The Departmental Web Team is responsible for granting and managing posting rights for HUD's web pages in a manner that protects the security of the websites.

Posting Rights in Headquarters

For the Internet website, each of the program offices and major support offices may request one posting right per major organizational unit (Deputy Assistant Secretary level). Thus, the allocation for Headquarters organizations are as follows:

• Housing: 6
• PIH: 5
• CPD: 4
• FHEO, Administration, CIO, CPO, CFO, CIR, EEO, OGC, OIG, Lead Hazard Control, ODOC: 2 each
• ALJ, Board of Contract Appeals, Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, OSDBU, FPM, and PDR will get support from the Departmental Web Team technical support contractor.

For hud@work, organizations may have twice the number of posting rights that they have on www.hud.gov.

Posting Rights in the Field

Regional Web Managers use contract support for most posting. Regional Web Managers do have a limited content management system that they can use to create and post features on the front pages of their Internet state pages and to add and update links on their topic level pages.

Each Regional Web Manager has an official back-up among the other Regional Web Managers. That back-up has rights to post content on behalf of the primary Web Manager. No one except the Regional Web Managers, the Departmental Web Managers, and the technical support contractor may have rights to or post content on the State pages.

Official back-ups for posting purposes are:

For espanol.hud.gov and for hud@work, Regional Web Managers are supported by the Departmental Web Team's technical support contractor. In that case, Regional Web Managers submit requests through the Fieldtrak system.

General Rules about Posting Rights

• Posting rights are issued to individuals and may not be shared for any purpose.
• Any posting activity that results in losing files, making changes in directories other than those authorized, security violations, legal violations, rendering the websites or part of the websites unworkable, or any other result that has a negative impact on the operation of HUD's websites will be dealt with promptly by the Departmental Web Managers and, as appropriate, the CIO, in consultation with the organization manager. Remedies may include required training, temporary suspension of posting rights, or permanent suspension of posting rights.
• All Web Managers are expected to know and abide by the policies and procedures for HUD's websites.