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Like everyone, we're struggling with this. We've been experimenting with things and have a couple of things on the drawing board.
First, for critical communications, we've been trying a new approach where we intercept logins to campus systems and...
My office, Web services, is comprised of 5 folks including myself: 1 project manager/dept head, 1 sysadmin/programmer, and 3 programmers. We report up through IT. The college's website is managed via a couple of committees, chiefly an internet str...
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We had a similar problem - 100's of independent word files, often multiple copies of the same course in different files, and a complex workflow.
We re-engineered this over the winter and for the most part have removed MS Word from the equation. A...
In our case, we're supporting it ourselves - we understand the product extremely well. We could contract with firms like Acquia for support but haven't felt the need.
Sure thing on the links to our drupal stuff. As to Hastings...that's odd, I bought one from there within the last year as a gift. There's no on-campus store, Hastings is the official unofficial campus store so to speak - perhaps they were just out...
Hi Rebecca,
We've been using Drupal for about 3 years now and by and large are happy with it. We've written up a case study (somewhat out of date now but still informative) on what we built and how we use it here:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/1...
Hi Nate,
I guess it depends on your definition of success. Amherst has ~20k active alumni, of which ~8000 have logged in to www.amherst.edu at least once in the last year, and we average 3-500 alumni logins/week. This is almost 3 years into a pla...
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- Employer?
- Amherst College
- Website:
- http://www.amherst.edu
- What CMS are you using?
- drupal
- What department or office are you in?
- Information Technology
- Primary Job Responsibility
- Development and maintenance of the college's web presence; strategic planning and over site for college web initiatives; project management for web application development.
- Number of students at your institution
- 1600
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- At 4:18pm on December 14, 2007,
Tony Kowalick said… - Update your damn picture from 2003! :-)
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Employment Opportunities is one of the 12 main navigation links in the header of our Web site template. Therefore, it appears not only on the home page, but on almost every page of our site.
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Off topic, but the hide/show social media icon bar on your site is very well done.
Global footer that says "We're Hiring". It is one of our top visited pages.
Thanks for the feedback - the backstory here is that our HR office has requested to be on the homepage, but the college's Web Advisory committee has been refusing the request. I thought a link in the global footer would be a nice solution, so I'm ...
"Employment at SJC" is a link in our footer that is on every page, including the homepage. We also have a prominent link in the navigation one level down under our "About Us" section.
It's one of our top hits also.
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Yes, we list it on the homepage. Our HR person requested this as part of our redesign about a year ago and I thought it made sense.
We have a "Jobs" link in our global footer.
We do have a link at the bottom of the home page in the footer. We have gone one step further however, because the footer is a common include used across everyone of our pages that is in our new template. We have about 75% of our pages using it. I...
hello uwebd!
we're hiring a developer here @ Rensselaer's Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center in Troy, NY. www.empac.rpi.edu. We started this search last year but then went into a hiring freeze, and now have a window where we're quickly tr...
I can tell you how we do it-
I work in marketing on the web team. We control the front page. I'm the content person, so I make a lot of those judgment calls.
For our specific design (www.oc.edu), there are a few guiding principles.
For the top ...
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What is the editorial process for your university homepage? Specifically, I'm curious about:
- what type of content gets featured (news, events, blogs, social media, contests, etc.)
- number of people making decisions about what content gets feat...
It is a link on our homepage and is one of our top hits as well.
We don't, but it is one of the first menu items from the top drop down menu. I would say it is worth it, especially if you are a large school. We're a small school (for example at this time we have 5 only openings on campus), but that page is one ...
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