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We're in the process of implementing a CMS. A selection committee went through a number of vendors over the last two years. I joined the process in time to try out Cascade. The selection committee was comprised of a bunch of techies and we had a h...
We have one person in our dept (Strategic Communications) who manages content for our "official" university FB and Twitter pages, but there are 2 other people in a different department (Public Affairs) who have access but don't do anything with so...
It's more like each college has someone on payroll who is technically proficient enough to do web stuff, some more so than others. I'm not sure what the hierarchy looks like, but I imagine they are part of each college's administrative staff/dean'...
My department is responsible for the front page as well as all branding/identity aspects of the university. Our structure:
University Advancement (my division) > Strategic Communications (my dept) > web team of 3 people amongst 6-10 print-oriente...
brenden.sparks at gmail dot com / at googlewave dot com.
1) Daily
2) Public Affairs staff
3) An editor in Public Affairs selects previously written stories to be run on the home page and provides myself and my immediate supervisor with a list for the following week's "banner schedule." My supervisor usu...
I reserved a few different handles for my university once I personally started using Twitter, anticipating eventually introducing it sometime later.
There was a lot of nervousness in the beginning about the "wild, untamed nature" of SM and the ri...
Because our campus is decentralized, we were hoping to put up a Connect with CSUF page similar to what you've got there at Emory. It's nice to have an example. Have you been able to measure whether or not it's successful?
We saw a lot of steady growth numerically for FB and Twitter after putting links and icons on our university homepage. Engagement is still in its infancy however.
There will be a 'working group' forming on campus to discuss a unified strategic direction to herd the various cats toward, but there isn't a university set of guidelines for its employees and faculty specifically covering social media.
Hi Rebecca,
I had a chance to try out Hannon Hill's Cascade CMS. As a developer, my response can be summed up as "I really don't want to use this." The user interface wasn't intuitive and the simplest tasks required an inordinate amount of settin...
A group for those interested in usability principles, practices, and testing.
When you say it's not a popular idea around campus, I think that the campus population you're referring to isn't afraid of losing email newsletters specifically, but instead they are afraid of losing a channel to their audience.
Establishing a ne...
A group to discuss coding that impacts page layout and functionality such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.
Each university's web team is often saddled with varying areas of responsibility--so my recommendations are biased towards what my team could benefit from. YMMV...
SXSW (I second that earlier mention!)
Accessibility
Social media
One-to-one mar...
Profile Information
- Employer?
- Cal State Fullerton
- Website:
- http://www.fullerton.edu
- List three areas of expertise or specialization.
- CSS, usability, social media
- What CMS are you using?
- n/a
- What department or office are you in?
- Strategic Communications
- Primary Job Responsibility
- "Maintain and enhance University web design and content management"
- Number of students at your institution
- >35,000
Comment Wall (1 comment)
- At 2:13pm on March 17, 2009,
Brian Cook said… - Thanks Brenden. This helps a lot. Our agency has been trying to pinpoint the issue, but it is looking more like an isolated internal issue. With 26% of our site visitors using Firefox, we want to make sure the pages are displaying correctly.
Best regards,
Brian
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We have not upgraded to the new version yet, but are thinking of using LDAP to verify our users.
Pro's, Con's, Problems, Success Stories?
OmniUpdate wishes all our customers and friends a happy and safe Thanksgiving!
I'm using a version of PHPLive I've been customizing for the past few years. Although I've used the meebome widget before too. The nice thing about it is that if no one is online to answer the chat it prompts them to leave a message.
Our library staff initiated adding live chat and have had a good success with it. Now the admissions folks are interested in doing something similar. The real challenge is, of course, people managing the responses. The technology is fairly straigh...
I just wanted to let everyone know if you have not seen them already the results of the state of the university Web department survey are now posted on @eduguru.
Results: http://j.mp/6HtdFR
Sent you a wave invite =).
I'm sure your friend added you. It takes an indeterminate amount of time for google to process the invite.
Mark you stated that you added me to your Google Wave but I have not received an invite yet. You can send it to dladner@nctc.edu or my gmail account at dxladner@gmail.com.
Please let me know if there is anything else I can do. I contacted Google ...
traeliz@googlewave.com
it's pretty self-explanatory :-)
sfgould @ googlewave.com
If anyone needs an invite, let me know. I have several I won't need.
A group for those interested in usability principles, practices, and testing.
How are you using it? Where are you using it? How are you making it degrade gracefully? What are you doing to make sure applications remain accessible?
A group to discuss coding that impacts page layout and functionality such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.
Share and discuss issues that focus on user-centered design.
I also have to agree with Michal here. The purpose of Facebook is one thing but I do not think it should be used for other purposes. And I back that with Chris, by saying there is a place for that and possible the homepage could be used for that p...
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