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Calling All UWEBD members using Google Wave
Mark can I also jump on the wave. dladner@nctc.edu Thanks
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Professional Organization or Conferences
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As I am new to the higher ed community, I was wondering, as a professional group, do we have a professional type organization? Secondly, is there some type of annual conference for higher ed web d...
Started this discussion. Last reply by Michael Fienen 10 hours ago.
CUWEBD Has A New Owner
Excellent! I too look forward to watching the site continue to grow and evolve.. I personally have this site listed as my main contact site over the others. I post and read on the site almost daily...
Tagged: Ning, ownership, CUWEBD, UWEBD, Terry Calhoun
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OmniUpdate Versus Cascade
Ken, actually just got through looking at both CMS. I demoed Cascade Server and then Omni Update all in the same day. I do not think that you could go wrong with either of the systems. I loved both...
Tagged: Cascade, CMS, OmniUpdate
Replied 11 hours ago
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We recently decided on Drupal and purchased support from Acquia Drupal. We've been pretty happy with them so far. Great response times and access to free webinars that have been pretty helpful.
There's no real "professional organization" per se yet. The HighEdWeb group had been working on something like that though, but I'm not sure where they are at in that process.
As for conferences, I'd generally recommend HighEdWeb and EDUWeb.
Mark can I also jump on the wave. dladner@nctc.edu
Thanks
As I am new to the higher ed community, I was wondering if as a professional group do we have a professional type organization?
Secondly, is there some type of annual conference for higher ed web developers/designers, where we can get together an...
Excellent! I too look forward to watching the site continue to grow and evolve.. I personally have this site listed as my main contact site than the others. I post and read on almost daily. When compared to the other sites that I look at once a we...
Ken, actually just got through looking at both CMS. I demoed Cascade Server and then Omni Update all in the same day. I do not think that you could go wrong with either of the systems. I loved both of them. Both are excellent CMS. But after the da...
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 e...
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.
At ESSEC Business School, we are using Google Calendar:
http://www.essec.edu/sites/ESSEC/WMBA-Tour-US.html
It's great tool : any ESSEC staff can add events on this calendar and it's free tool
We use it to promote our fairs, forums and corporate ...
I use the $149...you can customize everything that you want on the front-end with this. The $699 license is if you want to customize the admin interface and resell their product as a developer.
I'm more of a .NET/SQL person. It was extremely easy...
We are currently considering moving to Bedework. Per their website, "Bedework is an open-source, enterprise calendar system designed to conform to current calendaring standards. Made for higher education and built in Java, Bedework has a centraliz...
Bradley, thank you so much for letting me pick your brain. I believe that I will be promoting Drupal over Joomla at this point.
1. Yes you can set things up that way. You can create different content types and assign who gets access to what. For example I create a job listing content type and only certain people can post job listings. When they create a job listing all the...
Michael thanks for the info on helios. Do you use the $149 version or the developer version for $699? Is the $149 version pretty easy to customize with the schools Logo and colors? Is it easy to install? Have you had any major issues or problems w...
Thanks for all the responses. Greatly appreciated!
We're using Helios Calendar (http://www.helioscalendar.com). It's a PHP/mySQL system, easy to deploy, reasonably priced and easy to customize.
Profile Information
- Employer?
- North Central Texas College
- Website:
- http://www.nctc.edu
- Personal Website:
- http://www.hyperdrive-designs.com
- List three areas of expertise or specialization.
- CSS, ASP.NET, PHP/MySQL, Joomla
- What CMS are you using?
- None at this time.
- What department or office are you in?
- Marketing and Public Relations
- Primary Job Responsibility
- maintain web site, create forms, PHP programming, MySQL database administration, redesign website pages, maintain social media.
- Number of students at your institution
- 9000 +
Darren Ladner's Blog
First Week on the job..
As I begin the college lifestyle again, I will be actually in the offices of the school and not in the classrooms. I have started my new job here at NCTC as the Webmaster. I prefer a different name as I am no master of the web at all. I prefer the title "the new web-guy" or just "web-guy". I have the responsiblity of a total redesign of the school's website. This will be a major undertaking. So stay tuned.......
Posted on November 4, 2009 at 1:43pm —
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Take a look at what we're doing over at nuCloud for folks. Got Belmont, USC Upstate, and soon Anderson launched on our interactive map platform. It's basically designed to be cheap and easy with very fast turnaround. Fire off an email to info (at)...
Wondering if anyone can share anything about using external parties to produce a virtual campus tour? I'm looking for costs and issues -- what're the benefits of going external vs trying to produce inhouse? What are the drawbacks?
Many thanks for ...
Share your experiences using OmniUpdate CMS
Thanks for the news! And thanks to both Terry and Mark for making this possible.
Hello,
I'm the webmaster for a community college who is responsible for managing, maintaining and developing our institutional website. We currently have 65+ staff who update content on sections of our website using Adobe Contribute.
I've been t...
We've been running the ActiveCampus portal for just over a year now. Please let me know if you have any specific questions and I'll try to answer them for you.
Thanks, Michael.
Ah, well that makes a pretty big difference. Then I'd say probably about a 15% increase in salary or $7500, whichever is more, unless they're making a pretty big jump up the ladder for it.
We recently decided on Drupal and purchased support from Acquia Drupal. We've been pretty happy with them so far. Great response times and access to free webinars that have been pretty helpful.
There's no real "professional organization" per se yet. The HighEdWeb group had been working on something like that though, but I'm not sure where they are at in that process.
As for conferences, I'd generally recommend HighEdWeb and EDUWeb.
Mark can I also jump on the wave. dladner@nctc.edu
Thanks
As I am new to the higher ed community, I was wondering if as a professional group do we have a professional type organization?
Secondly, is there some type of annual conference for higher ed web developers/designers, where we can get together an...
Excellent! I too look forward to watching the site continue to grow and evolve.. I personally have this site listed as my main contact site than the others. I post and read on almost daily. When compared to the other sites that I look at once a we...
Thank you so much, Michael. That's great information. We already have an internal candidate in mind, so relocating, etc. aren't issues. This person has the required education and experience. With that in mind, what would you say would be fair? Tha...
Ken, actually just got through looking at both CMS. I demoed Cascade Server and then Omni Update all in the same day. I do not think that you could go wrong with either of the systems. I loved both of them. Both are excellent CMS. But after the da...
Without looking in to the cost of living up the Rhode Island way, if I were looking at it I wouldn't even apply for less than $70K (but I figure in a cost of living increase, plus moving costs, etc. I'm greedy, but I also wouldn't move across the ...
Hi!
Thanks. This is Providence College, a liberal arts college with an undergraduate enrollment of approx. 3,8000. The education is bachelor's degree and 7+ years' experience are required. I'm not sure about the budget. This person will manage on...
One, where is this at?
Two, define appropriate. There's "higher ed" appropriate and "competitive" appropriate.
Three, how many people is the position in charge of?
Hello, everyone!
I'd greatly appreciate your input. I work in Web Communications and have been tasked with researching an appropriate salary for a Director of Web Communications Services.
This is the position profile:
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The D...
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