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Comment by Carol Clements 1 day ago - If you plan to attend the 2009 Symposium for Marketing of Higher Education being hosted next week by the American Marketing Association in Boston, please stop by and hear Lance Merker, CEO of OmniUpdate, discuss student expectations about the college website. The presentation, co-hosted with Noel-Levitz and James Tower, is scheduled for Tuesday, November 17, 11:30 am-12:15 pm.
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Comment by Carol Clements on November 12, 2009 at 1:27pm
- OmniUpdate is pleased to add East Central College in Union, Mo as new OU Campus CMS users. Welcome to our client family!
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Comment by Carol Clements on November 10, 2009 at 1:13pm
- If you are attending the Stamats SIM Tech 2009 in Boston, make sure you go see Lance Merker, OmniUpdate CEO, speak on “What a CMS Can Do for You: Tools, Tips and Tricks for Enabling Site,” from 2:00 – 3:00 PM on Wed., Nov.11. Lance will also participate in a CMS discussion panel being held that same day from 4:15 to 5:15 PM. He welcomes your questions!
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Comment by Carol Clements on November 9, 2009 at 1:07pm
- OmniUpdate is pleased to add The University of North Dakota to our family of OU Campus web CMS users. Welcome aboard!
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Comment by Carol Clements on November 6, 2009 at 3:39pm
- OmniUpdate is pleased to add the Community College of Rhode Island to our family of OU Campus web CMS users. Welcome aboard! Training has been completed and we look forward to a successful launch.
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Comment by Carol Clements on November 4, 2009 at 12:55pm
- OmniUpdate congratulates Nathan Gerber, Director of Web Development Services, Utah Valley University, for his acceptance to speak on “The Benefits of SaaS Web CMS-Managing the Budget While Improving Agility, Adaptability, and Responsiveness," at the 2010 EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference, Feb. 17-19 in Austin, Texas. His presentation is scheduled for Thurs., Feb. 18, from 10:45-11:30 AM. If you plan to go to this EDUCAUSE event, please stop by and see Nathan.
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Comment by Carol Clements on November 3, 2009 at 12:23pm
- If you’re planning to attend EDUCAUSE 2009 in Denver this week, please stop by the OmniUpdate booth #875 and say “hello” to our staff.
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Comment by Carol Clements on November 2, 2009 at 6:42pm
- Check out the article by Lance Merker, President and CEO of OmniUpdate, published in the October 2009 issue of NCMPR's Counsel, discussing the importance of web content in higher education marketing and admissions efforts.
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Comment by Carol Clements on October 30, 2009 at 12:39pm
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The next OmniUpdate Training Tuesday Class on Writing for the Web is now open for registration. The class will be held at 11:00 Pacific Time, November 24, 2009.
Our guest presenter is Ms. Stephanie Geyer, Associate Vice President, E-communications and Web Strategy, Noel-Levitz. Her session will give practical advice on how to write for the Web. She will look at data on how users read online and outline strategies to ensure that your copy meets user needs and keeps them moving through your site.
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Comment by Carol Clements on October 29, 2009 at 1:03pm
- OmniUpdate is pleased to add Missouri Southern State University to its expanding family of OU Campus web CMS users. Welcome!
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I agree with Nathan - you do not want flash in your HTML email. You can have the HTML email look like the start of a movie.. or whatever graphics you want in there.. but when clicked - the user should be taken to a web site where a full web browse...
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We recently tested Joomla vs. Drupal and arrived at some of the same conclusions as previous posters. In the end, with as large as we need the site to be, we settled on Drupal. It has yet to be seen if we've made the right decision. I'll get back ...
It's not for our school, but it is a pretty decent description of a social media intern position:
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We're planning on sending out a Flash-based Christrmas greeting via email. I'm wondering what maximum file size we should be aiming for. (i.e.
We're working on this with a school right now. I'll share what we end up at!
If you plan to attend the 2009 Symposium for Marketing of Higher Education being hosted next week by the American Marketing Association in Boston, please stop by and hear Lance Merker, CEO of OmniUpdate, discuss student expectations about the coll...
Here was mine (with a hearty assist from Jessica Krywosa of Suffolk University):
This position will allow a student the opportunity to help shape and promote online and social media community experiences for the college. The social media intern s...
I do all 'main university' type postings in FB and Twitter and act as the 'voice' of the accounts adding personal touches here and there, such as personal questions or greetings.
Our strategy includes adding admins from various parts of the unive...
I dont know if its served me well - its only been a few months - but I have only a short descriptive 'graph that I used.
This position allows a student the ability to help promote and shape the university online community experience. By providing...
As I review admissions pages and applications, I've discovered there are few admissions pages that have an easy to find call to action to apply. The norm seems to be scanning a lot of text to find the "to apply" choice.
John,
Not sure if you've seen this already, but check out Common Admissions Application. Looks like a number of higher ed schools across the country use it.
Justin, just got through with an OmniUpdate CMS demo. The application is unbelievable. It is awesome. If we had the money we would right the check right there. What is cool about the company is they are trying to work with us. I think that this sp...
Sam, beside Joomla I have used DotNetNuke also and I have experienced the same type of issues with DNN. Installation. I have had huge issues and a lot of wasted time trying to install DNN and trying to get it up and running. Once I have it install...
I need a new calender of events type software. Right now we were using the open source vtcalender system until it broke. This system has been nothing but problems. The previous web designers were the ones that put this calender system into use. Wh...
I sent them an email looking for a baseline cost but have not heard back from them yet.
We are currently debating whether or not this is an in-house project.
Though I'm more prone to go with the vendor if they offer extensibility we don't have t...
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