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Started this discussion. Last reply by E. James Ford Nov 9.

Calling All UWEBD members using Google Wave

Replied Oct 28

Facebook, Twitter, etc. icons on home page?

Replied Sep 15

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Missy DeYoung joined Aaron Rester's group
Using Social Networks in Higher Ed
on Thursday
E. James Ford replied to Aaron Rester's discussion 'RSS snapshot to email service'
I was toying with this service a while back... Seems like its exactly what you're looking for. http://nouri.sh/ This is the sort of thing that I'd really like to write myself and release for free, actually. Seems totally useful. Cheers!
on Monday
Aaron Rester added a discussion
RSS snapshot to email service
Hi folks, I'm looking for an app that will take a daily snapshot of an RSS feed (like this one http://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/briefs.rss) and send out an email to subscribers. I thought FeedBlitz would do this, but it will only send out *new*...
on Monday
Lynn McFarlane, Debbra Malcangi and Charlie Triplett joined Aaron Rester's group
Using Social Networks in Higher Ed
November 5

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At 2:01pm on December 4, 2008, Mark Greenfield said…
I'll bring the discussion back to the top of the forums to see if we can find some help.
At 12:38pm on December 4, 2008, Mark Greenfield said…
Aaron, How's it going with the aggregating the Twitter feed. It would be a great addition to the site. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. I'm thinking of adding a profile question for members to list their Twitter account to make it easier to manage.

Thanks
At 3:08pm on October 25, 2008, Lindsay Clark said…
I'm speedy ;-) I've been trying to resist Twittering myself as long as possible, but it seems like an ill-fated battle. Thanks for all the tips!
At 1:31pm on September 19, 2008, Mark Greenfield said…
Aaron, any progress on this? I'e had a couple of other members say this would be a great feature for this site.
At 4:59pm on September 8, 2008, Mark Greenfield said…
Definitely. Adding an aggregate twitter feed would be great and I'll give it a prominent location on the main page. Thanks

Profile Information

Employer?
University of Chicago Law School
Website:
http://www.law.uchicago.edu
Personal Website:
http://aaronrester.net
List three areas of expertise or specialization.
design, information architecture, podcast management
What CMS are you using?
Currently a custom CMS; near future, Drupal.
What department or office are you in?
Communications
Primary Job Responsibility
Manager of Electronic Communications, including website, blogs, podcasts, Blackboard, etc.
Number of students at your institution
about 600

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Presentation: Twitter in Higher Ed Communications

This week I presented at the 2009 eduWeb conference in Chicago. My talk, entitled "A Bird in the Hand: Twitter as a Higher Ed Communications Tool," presented some of the reasons why institutions of higher education might want to use Twitter and provide some tips and techniques for getting such a project off the ground. The powerpoint of my presentation is

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Posted on July 22, 2009 at 11:44am —

Aaron Rester

An Event Apart Chicago, Day 2: The Two-Weeks-Later Wrap-up

Forgot to add this when I first posted it; anyway, full post available here.

Posted on November 25, 2008 at 10:14am —

Aaron Rester

TweetChicago: Behind the Scenes

Last month the Law School announced its TweetChicago page, which collects together an ever-increasing number of our faculty and students' 140-character-or-less musings on the micro-blogging service known as Twitter. Since then we've had several inquiries as to how we put this little experiment together, so here's… Continue

Posted on November 25, 2008 at 10:00am —

Aaron Rester

An Event Apart Chicago, Day 1: The Ten-Minute Wrap-up

Just got back from Day One of An Event Apart Chicago. I've got a bunch of client and personal work to do tonight, so before I settle in with a cold one and Dreamweaver, I'll try to sum up quickly what I took away from some of the sessions I attended.

Read the whole post here.

Posted on October 14, 2008 at 1:01pm — 1 Comment

Aaron Rester

The Law School's New Recording Rig

In a previous post, I mentioned that the Law School had ordered some new equipment to improve our audio recording capability. Right now, that equipment is undergoing its first field test, recording a conference here at the Law School. I thought it might be useful to colleagues elsewhere to know what equipment we had chosen (with, I should mention, the invaluable assistance of mobile recording guru Eric Butkus).

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Posted on September 26, 2008 at 3:05pm —

 
 

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David Marshall replied to Heather Jackson's discussion 'File Size for Flash Email Greetings'
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...
11 hours ago
Rachel Reuben replied to Rachel Reuben's discussion 'Social Media Interns - job descriptions'
Todd Sanders from the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, provides this job description.
13 hours ago
Rick Hill joined DNI's group
Cascade Server
For folks who use (or are interested in) Hannon Hill's Cascade Server CMS product
21 hours ago
Nathan Ronchetti replied to Heather Jackson's discussion 'File Size for Flash Email Greetings'
How are you looking to point users to the Flash file? I don't know the most recent stats on Flash visibility through email clients but I remember in the past the argument was against sending a pure Flash file through email. Instead the suggestion ...
yesterday
Patrick Powers replied to Darren Ladner's discussion 'CMS. What are colleges using?'
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 ...
yesterday
Patrick Powers replied to Rachel Reuben's discussion 'Social Media Interns - job descriptions'
It's not for our school, but it is a pretty decent description of a social media intern position: https://jobs.scottrade.com/viewjob.html?optlink-view=view-12523&ERFormID=newjoblist&ERFormCode=any
yesterday
Heather Jackson added a discussion
File Size for Flash Email Greetings
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.
yesterday
Bradjward replied to Rachel Reuben's discussion 'Social Media Interns - job descriptions'
We're working on this with a school right now. I'll share what we end up at!
yesterday
Carol Clements commented on Lynn Zawie's group 'OmniUpdate'
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...
yesterday
Tim Nekritz replied to Rachel Reuben's discussion 'Social Media Interns - job descriptions'
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...
yesterday
Jessica replied to Julie Grundy Marsello's discussion 'Social Networking admins - one or many?'
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...
yesterday
Jessica is beat from the Stamats conference!
yesterday
Jessica replied to Rachel Reuben's discussion 'Social Media Interns - job descriptions'
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...
yesterday
Tish, Eloine and Maggie Corbin joined University Web Developers
yesterday
Deborah replied to Deborah's discussion 'Good examples of online admissions applications'
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.
yesterday
Deborah replied to John Wilson's discussion 'Admissions - Using a Common Application'
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.
yesterday
Darren Ladner replied to Darren Ladner's discussion 'CMS. What are colleges using?'
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...
on Friday
Darren Ladner replied to Darren Ladner's discussion 'CMS. What are colleges using?'
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...
on Friday
Darren Ladner added a discussion
Calender Systems
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...
on Friday
Matt Casteel replied to Matt Casteel's discussion 'iPhone Apps and Higher Ed'
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...
on Thursday

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