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Introduction and references

Established in 1997, AT Bt. has been working in the Hungarian educational and organisational development (OD) field. This is why there has been no need to publish our references in English or any other language so far. This short introduction should bridge this gap.
 
Our partners include small and big businesses alike, e.g. the Hungarian Telecom, Praktiker (a large DIY store), Volánbusz (coach lines in the countryside) and local governments. However, being owned and led by an organisational psychologist, the firm has been shifting its emphasis slightly to building and maintaining community websites, as well as managing the organisational processes that go with the creation of a new facade (the website) where the given community or firm appears and with the new information management system that a website provides. This goes together with a number of minor or major shifts within the organisation, which may or may not require some development or coaching or training or all of these.
 
Our work in Hungary usually runs with my name (Turóczi Attila), sometimes with AT Bt, which you can see at the footers of the following websites. The references in the website branch include

  • www.ponifamilia.hu is  a good example from among the websites we have been working on as advisers or constructors. We have worked on a number of websites for individual artists, horse-riders or cart drivers, but this one is totally our creation, under active maintenance.
  • www.nevtan.ujbuda.hu is a classic example for a website that serves both external and internal purposes. Being the website of and for a Child Guidance Clinic in Budapest, it is for the parents and the interested public on the one hand, but on the other it serves the intranet needs of the staff. The external features include a FAQ for the parents, an event calendar with a reminding function, as well as lots of static and dynamic information (the former being documents, the latter being news from the educational field), whereas the internal features include sharing recipes and photos between the staff members, as well as lots of internal confidential documents and information that should not be accessed by the public. It is 100 percent created and maintained by AT Bt., but there is an editorial board within the staff members dedicated to establishing the lines of direction and selecting the materials to be published.
  • www.jungmagyarul.hu is another project that we have been involved in as advisers on the professional side, but the creation of the website is again our task. It is supposed to be a multilingual website hosting all the works of the psychologist genius Carl Gustav Jung. It should be an open collection of resources for his works, including a dictionary of his technical terms in three languages (Hungarian, English and German).
    Please note: this website is still being developed (as of December 2011), so there's is no content in languages other than Hungarian (only the interface language changes when you click on the flags).

 
Developing philosophy and practice
Whether it's teaching, coaching, mentoring, OD or website development, we believe in the process. A website is an instrument, not a goal in itself. It is to serve some functions, so the first step is digging out what it is going to be used for, in order to find out the best way to make it happen and work. Another part of the process is the development itself, which is a continous flow of interaction, the website development team joins its forces with the decision maker(s) and strategist(s) of the organisation that wants to set up a website. When the website is already working, the process goes on with the editors/administrators of the website, with feedback loops helping to make it really work smoothly, while creating the content to be published is up to the company wanting the website. This whole process is assisted by an information management framework that contains all the various topics and projects that we are working on, as well as all the interactions about them, which provides smooth work and easy reference.
 
A website can be a very powerful tool to manage information. To really make it work so is our mutual responsibility.
 
 
Attila Turóczi