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Chris Wiegman
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Chris Wiegman's Discussions
Web Hosting: In house or External?
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Bad news on Facebook?
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Drupal CMS Users
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We host ourselves including server configuration/maintenance/etc. I'm a one-man-show.
I'm pretty much with Mr. Fienen on this one in that on Facebook we try to stick with the positive in order to foster marketing, admissions, etc. However in such a circumstances our official homepage usually has a message of condolence.
1.) This is fairly straightforward when you begin to grasp the permissions system. Although coming from Joomla it might take a little more time to make sense out of how Drupal uses permissions.
2.) Yep, although with a little work you can limit edi…
I've been looking at this from a department level as our department's course fees exceed the tuition for most semesters. At this point however we haven't made much headway and I'm interested to see if anyone has.
We're also going over to Google Calendar. Our campus has been on Google Apps for a while now so using Google calendar on the web provides a familiar and easy solution for our audience.
We're so decentralized that moving in the opposite direction would be a major hurdle as many units, including my own department, employ a web person or staff of their own. As such there are a number of us that run our own CMS systems and other syste…
We've used VBulletin in the past. Excellent software, excellent support, you OWN all your data, and it wasn't too expensive.
Joomla had three major issues and one minor issue that turned us to Joomla. First was content organization you cannot arrange content as intricately with Joomla as you can with Drupal. The second was the lack of ACL (I do know this is supposed to be…
For us a multiple CMS system has proven to be effective.
For our main site we have been using a home-built CMS for 11 years. However with the growth of the OSS products we are in the process of changing. Our choices were Joomla, Drupal, and DotCMS.…
I've looked into dotcms as well, however I've found the community to be rather lacking. Hopefully however that will change as the product continues to develop.
We've gone with a combination of a couple systems. For our main web presence we are switching to Drupal after an exhaustive comparison of both it and Joomla. In the end Drupal simply had less limitations and, from a developer point of view, a better…
Assuming it can always be turned back off I say go for it.
Thanks for pointing it out. I hadn't seen it previously however I think it might work wonders for some of our faculty.
As our campus has such a decentralized web presence there is a little of both. The vast majority is hosted internally but there are a few departments and other groups who choose to host off-campus for various reasons.
As to thoughts on the matter,…
Although we haven't had much success with Twitter as a recruitment tool, we have had far more success in it's use as a support tool for existing students and for alumni communications. In both cases the cost and ease of use of Twitter by both the de…
Looks like at least Twitter got hit again today according to CNN. Wow, repeated attacks on these types of sites sure could make many of our lives interesting.....
Profile Information
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- Southern Illinois University Carbondale
- Website:
- http://www.aviation.siu.edu
- Personal Website:
- http://www.chriswiegman.com
- List three areas of expertise or specialization.
- php, apache, wordpress mu
- What CMS are you using?
- homebuilt
- What department or office are you in?
- Aviation Management and Flight
- Primary Job Responsibility
- Webmaster and IT director for the aviation programs at SIUC
- Number of students at your institution
- 350
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We host ourselves including server configuration/maintenance/etc. I'm a one-man-show.
Internal. Our CIS group hosts the web servers, CMS and database servers, as well the development servers.
Our Ceremonies and events and Advancement folks are using http://www.industrymailout.com/ They are located in Edmonton. Let me know if you want to talk to any of the end users here and I'll set that up for you.
Happy Holidaze to all youze guyze at OU! ;)
Remember to register for OmniUpdate’s next Training Tuesday class on the Global Find and Replace feature in OU Campus. The class will be held at 11:00 Pacific Time, December 22, 2009. Although this class is open to all OmniUpdate customers, access t…
Our Website is hosted internally. We have an IT person who maintains it, but I help occasionally with troubleshooting etc.
Hello all,
Wondering how many members host their college web sites in house and how many contract the services of an external host? What factors lead to your decision? If you host your site in house, who does the server maintenance- yourself/someone…
We've been exploring SocialEngine for the last few weeks and just made the purchase this morning. It has "subnetworks" within your installation, which I believe will help you keep folks separate and achieve what you're looking for. We bought one lic…
Hey everyone, just wanted to toss out some shameless self promotion. My .eduGuru blog posting about the #heweb09 Great Keynote Meltdown of 2009 was nominated for the Edublog Most Influential Blog Post of 2009. We'd love it if you'd take a second and…
Couple more- from my alma mater- Keene State College -
This year's card from Providence College -
I'd love to see what else everyone is doing if you care to share...
Happy Holidays!
-Dan
Web Developer
Providence College
ddemmons@providence.edu
Same story at SUNY-ESF -- Ning network for accepteds rolled out 1/08 with a plan to 'retire' it, well, now actually, and then to relaunch for the next class. The network had student ambassador and admissions staff members, and it included dedicated…
Groundswell is great
Hi Fellow Canadians,
I'm looking for recommendations on email marketing providers that are based (or at least their server is based) in Canada. I've been using MailChimp out of the US, and it's great, but because of BC's privacy law I can only gath…
Hi all,
We are looking into a tool, software or vendor that could help us develop an online student orientation. Which would include video and flash elements. We recently reviewed Comevo and was wondering if anyone knows of other companies/vendors t…
This company (http://www.universityparent.com/edu) was mentioned at a meeting today, and I was wondering if anyone had any insights as to whether this sort of thing is commonplace, practical, useful, etc.
Thanks in advance for any info,
Doug Thomp…
This group is for anyone interested in how to use Ning
I work in the Marketing & Public Relations department. We started our first college Facebook page. We call it the official college page. Other departments have Facebook pages, such as the Library, eLearning, Student Services, etc. All Facebook pages…
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