"What about some joke/message hidden in the source code of the home page? Perhaps a little ASCII art? That way the prank that won't screw with your conversions or freak out the administration, but you can still get a little viral mileage…"
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E. James Ford
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- United States
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E. James Ford's Discussions
Embark Admissions and Prospect Management
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Started this discussion. Last reply by E. James Ford Mar 2, 2009.
Online Payment Gateway Recommendations
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Started this discussion. Last reply by jgasm Sep 9, 2008.
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- Employer?
- NYU Steinhardt
- Website:
- http://steinhardt.nyu.edu
- Personal Website:
- http://ejimford.com
- Find me on Twitter at:
- http://twitter.com/JimSix
- Find me on LinkedIn at:
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/ejimford
- List three areas of expertise or specialization.
- Project Management, Information Architecture
- What CMS are you using?
- Custom Built
- What department or office are you in?
- Dean / Communication
- Primary Job Responsibility
- Manage, maintain, and update more than 50 academic and non-academic websites at NYU Steinhardt. Develop and deploy custom web-applications for various units. Project lead on new social-media initiatives including blogging, podcasting, and integrating with external networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc). Plan and execute integrated communication strategies. Coordinate cross-department collaboration in online environments. Provide training and technical support for faculty, students, and staff.
- Number of students at your institution
- 7000 (School) / 50000+ (University)
Latest Activity
E. James Ford replied to Nicholas Triscritti's discussion Commercial Web Marketing on an EDU site?"Ahem... Missed the edit window. That should be "Next thing you know...""
E. James Ford replied to Nicholas Triscritti's discussion Commercial Web Marketing on an EDU site?"Yeah... I mean, taking a step back I can actually see how advertisements could even be USEFUL on certain kinds of internal websites - As long as they are intelligent adwords-style text ads, as opposed to "punch-the-monkey" flashing…"
E. James Ford replied to Nicholas Triscritti's discussion Commercial Web Marketing on an EDU site?"You should definitely consult your University legal team on this matter, since I don't think any of us here are lawyers. BUT, I think the short answer is "it depends." I don't believe there is any blanket law against an…"
E. James Ford replied to Cliff Jenkins's discussion Ning for incoming students..."Rachel Reuben did a great job of blogging about her experience using Ning on the "Café New Paltz" for incoming students.
http://doteduguru.com/id1793-cafe-new-paltz-5-days-in.html"
E. James Ford replied to Luke Wertz's discussion Mobile Website Features"Was just checking out this website and saw that you use iWebKit... How was your experience working with this framework?"
E. James Ford replied to Luke Wertz's discussion Mobile Website Features"Agreed... And the nice thing was that Android and iPhoneOS were both using the same rendering engine for their browsers (WebKit), so you could reliably code a mobile website across two of the more dominant mobile platforms - the obvious exception…"
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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…"
Kimbel Jeffers replied to Kimbel Jeffers's discussion Office Reservation software"The problem is we use a manual process right now and things keep falling through the cracks."
Annette Spearman replied to Derek Tonn's discussion Freelance web design recommendations (small projects)"Hi Derek,
We can help you! I'll in box you all my info so we can connect and set up some time to talk.
Annette
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Mark Rothbaum posted a discussion5-Minute Survey on Use of Facebook in Admissions
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
Colleen Brennan-Barry posted a discussionHighEdWeb Welcomes Steve Wozniak & Scott Stratten
HighEdWeb is very pleased to announce HighEdWeb 2013 Annual Conference opening keynote speaker Steve Wozniak and closing keynote speaker…See More
faris ahmed commented on social networking web design's blog post Megastar Media Webby Award Honorees"wow thats amazing article .
your stuff never fails to amaze me
honestly . great work as always :D
something i would like to add in is that
the entries each year are rapidly increasing .
but i think thats cause they take the…"
Lynn Zawie posted a discussionFreelance Web Developer Needed
Stony Brook University web team is looking for some help coding a new design. HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Responsive Design expertise needed. If you are interested in bidding on this project, I am happy to share more details. Work would need to begin early summer. ..LynnSee More
Sara Michel commented on Lynn Zawie's group OmniUpdate"Great blog post by Higher Education Marketing on leveraging Google pay-per-click ad extensions for higher ed."
Sara Michel commented on Lynn Zawie's group OmniUpdate"Check out Naropa University's new online magazine. Looks awesome! Great job team."
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
Sara Michel commented on Lynn Zawie's group OmniUpdate"Congrats to Harper College on going live with their new online course catalog! Looks great!"
Helen Mosher posted a status"After 8 years being away from higher-ed communications work, I'm very interested in returning."
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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