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Drupal 7 Hosting
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Greetings,We are working on a web redesign project and have outgrown our current host. Our new site is being built in Drupal 7 and we are looking for the best managed Drupal hosting plan. Thanks for…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Daniel Bashaw Dec 7, 2012.
Personal faculty pages
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Good afternoon everyone,I was curious to see how personal faculty pages are handled at your respective institutions. In the past the Communications Office updated most of these pages for faculty…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Matt Herzberger Nov 14, 2012.
Down to three.
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Hello everyone,We are looking into three content management systems. The three are OmniUpdate, Terminal Four, and Drupal. I would appreciate any input from users that have had experiences with these…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Ben McCombs Aug 2, 2012.
Youtube linking to different Gmail account....
I'm sure lots of people are having this same problem. I can't access the Youtube account because after I enter the youtube username and password (same as my gmail) it tells me the youtube account…Continue
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Ben McCombs posted a discussionDrupal 7 Hosting
Greetings,We are working on a web redesign project and have outgrown our current host. Our new site is being built in Drupal 7 and we are looking for the best managed Drupal hosting plan. Thanks for your input!Ben See More
Matt Herzberger replied to Ben McCombs's discussion Personal faculty pages"I'm a fan of the William & Mary approach. I hate the give a faculty a folder and wish them luck approach. I think am easy CMS such as wordpress with branded templates that have branding and cover 90% use case. Here is another interesting…"
Kathy Larrieu replied to Ben McCombs's discussion Personal faculty pages"Many of our faculty opt to have two pages: a directory page and a personal web site.
Directory pages are maintained by academic departments' web editors within the CMS. They mostly contain limited, bare-bones information. Our CMS requires…"
Ben McCombs replied to Ben McCombs's discussion Personal faculty pages"Excellent, thank you Justin and Catherine!"
Catherine Cherry replied to Ben McCombs's discussion Personal faculty pages"We pretty much do it the same way. You can only login to your own directory page (which in a way is good, because you are responsible for learning how to maintain it) and you get a version of our CMS which allows you to put text in different…"
Justin replied to Ben McCombs's discussion Personal faculty pages"When I first came to my institution, all of the faculty pages were maintained by means of Microsoft Word -> Save for Web to a drive on their computers that was mapped to their personal folder on the web server...which was a terrible idea and a…"
Ben McCombs posted a discussionPersonal faculty pages
Good afternoon everyone,I was curious to see how personal faculty pages are handled at your respective institutions. In the past the Communications Office updated most of these pages for faculty members. We are in the process of a full redesign and are trying to decide our level of support for faculty. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. ThanksBenSee More
Ben McCombs replied to Patrick Yursik's discussion Digital Magazines / Publishing Platform"Hi Patrick,
I have implemented ISSUU on two campuses and have had great success. I believe the paid version now supports tablets and smart phones. Best of luck!
Ben"
Kathie Kentfield replied to Ben McCombs's discussion Down to three."I echo Justin's comments about OUCampus. I can't say enough about their customer service - I never feel like I'm bothering them or have a "stupid" question to ask and their response time is great. Easy to train…"
Michael Fienen replied to Ben McCombs's discussion Down to three."OU and T4 are both good platforms. Between the two, I'd say OU is the better deal though, given their focus on higher ed and the sheer quality of work they do for their clients. I'm not at all saying the T4 crew is bad either. They're…"
Justin Gatewood replied to Ben McCombs's discussion Down to three."Hello Ben,
I am the Webmaster for Victor Valley College in Southern California. I've used Drupal and OmniUpdate (plus many others), but I've not used or seen Terminal Four. We've been OmniUpdate customers since…"
Ben McCombs posted a discussionDown to three.
Hello everyone,We are looking into three content management systems. The three are OmniUpdate, Terminal Four, and Drupal. I would appreciate any input from users that have had experiences with these three. We are a small division three school with roughly 1700 students. Thanks so much for any feedback!BenSee More
Ben McCombs posted a discussionYoutube linking to different Gmail account....
I'm sure lots of people are having this same problem. I can't access the Youtube account because after I enter the youtube username and password (same as my gmail) it tells me the youtube account is already linked to another google username. I've reset the password gone through the google support forums and found no solutions. Google has no technical support over the phone so now I'm back where I started. I would appreciate any kind of assistance, maybe a contact within google, or any…See More
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Daniel Bashaw replied to Kimbel Jeffers's discussion Office Reservation software"Hi Kimbel -- Does you manual process include a checklist and workflow documentation?
If not, it sounds to me like checklists and schedulers are your best next steps. You can structure and document what you do now, and then look at it to see if there…"
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We're conducting our annual survey on Facebook and Admissions. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey at:http://www.varsityoutreach.com/FacebookSurvey/Our GoalOur goal is to explore trends related to how schools are using Facebook to reach out to prospective and admitted students.How Is the Data Used?All data will be shown in the aggregate. Answers from individual schools will not be released and will remain…See More
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Lynn Zawie posted a discussionFreelance Web Developer Needed
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Norma J Dowell replied to Derek Tonn's discussion Freelance web design recommendations (small projects)"Hi Derek!
First of all, apologies for taking so long to respond! Secondly, I am not your web developer for such an issue, but if you can find someone to pick their brain and use as a sounding board, it may be all you need. In the past, when I…"
Daniel Bashaw replied to Kimbel Jeffers's discussion Office Reservation software"Hi Kimbel.
I know you've been tasked with finding a software solution, though I'm wondering if you may need an interim step first: Does your institution have checklists covering all of the steps needed in on-boarding, relocating, and…"
Kimbel Jeffers posted a discussionOffice Reservation software
I've been tasked with finding a software tool that helps manage the onboarding and exit process of new and departing faculty. Ultimately i would like this software to management faculty office interms of when resources can be removed from a particular office and when a new faculty member can be moved in with the necessary resources. This tool should have notifications and alerts so there are no conflicts with someone being removed from a office and someone being placed in a office. Does anyone…See More
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Sarah McMaster replied to Katra Farah's discussion Online chat interfaces"Thanks, Daniel. We don't currently have any livechat solution so this is new fact-finding territory for us! I will keep the forum posted as/if we are able to move forward."
Daniel Bashaw replied to Katra Farah's discussion Online chat interfaces"In our case the impact of our current proprietary chat tool seems to be minimal, as it is little-used. It requires log-in with contact details and is slow to load. I don't have any metrics on its impact to back up my perception though.
I expect…"
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