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Thanks! Looking forward to it even more now. :)
Mark, will you kindly resolve an ambiguity? On this Ning page, it says that login will not be required during the summit, but in the email to uwebd, it says the opposite ("Please note the login will be required during the summit."). Which is it? A...
We've linked to the news sites for this.
And then I still get e-mails asking why we're showing a Capella or Pheonix ad before our piece...when "we're" not showing anything, it's just the news site doing a good job of targetting their ads really a...
Good word, thanks. We're working on getting the original video, but the process is slow and uncertain (so far), and we lose the timeliness of the piece.
Think of it in legal terms of what "any reasonable person" would think. I'm blessed to have very reasonable people immediately around me in administration, but others may not.
Here's the funny thing about something like this:
For someone not nat...
I (generally speaking) rarely hesitate to post them. I wouldn't put them in some place as a permanent piece of content, but I am happy to post them as news stories.
Several reasons. The first is that if it's really a great piece of content, you w...
True, but the same problem occurs in the case of any external link, where content is beyond control — the link can go dead or content be altered at any time. Perhaps it would be less desirable to have a non-functioning viewer than a dead link, but...
Not even considering the adverts, you have no control over when that content will be pulled or would be unavailable. Your page would be stuck with a "broken rectangle."
We'd say no to embedding and link to the external site. We don't allow ads on our site, and many visitors would not be sophisticated to understand that these ads were not being posted by our institution.
I'd love to know how various institutions have handled (or might handle) a situation like this: A local network TV news team shoots and airs a very positive 2.5-minute segment about one of our university's students. As many TV outlets do, they eve...
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- North Park University
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- http://www.northpark.edu/
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- http://boydsnest.org/news/
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- Editorial, admissions, history
- What CMS are you using?
- Sitecore
- What department or office are you in?
- Admissions
- Primary Job Responsibility
- Contribute to the achievement of admissions and institutional objectives by managing the effective use of web-based communication, online strategies, and emerging technologies.
- Number of students at your institution
- 3300
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For the main University calendar, we're using a fairly simple in house PHP/MySQL system developed about 5 years ago that still seems to be holding up pretty well. http://www.callutheran.edu/calendar/
For departmental sites or niche uses, I've bee...
For staff members and web professionals whose main focus is research and graduate student recruitment and retention.
Share and discuss issues that focus on user-centered design.
Support group for those dealing with Apple-unfriendly IT staff at colleges and universities. :)
This group is for all those using WordPress as both a blogging platform and as a CMS
We're using Olark for our Admissions and Giving pages. There are several different plans available.
Olark provides several integrations (iPhone App, iChat, AOL, etc... basically anything with Jabber support).
We piloted LivePerson for our site la...
Personal policy we have in our division: It depends.
Ideally, I think facebook pages should go down to the division level— in our case College of Engineering, but not down to the department level (like Electrical Engineering). The reason being th...
Just an epilogue: We use Google Calendar then pull the RSS feed into our site with php.
Has worked perfectly for almost three years now and allows me to share the calendar access with others.
I'm at garethjmsaunders AT googlewave DOT com
We've been looking at Columba Systems' events software. They are based in London, UK.
It's not the cheapest, but it's really pretty good.
Coordinate and discuss with other users of the dotCMS content management system.
Would you say a Helios implementation requires a "developer" or someone who's comfortable with PHP and MySQL code? Our institution lost it's developer with no expectation to replace the role and Helios is being considered for implementation. Our g...
OmniUpdate congratulates Nathan Gerber, Director of Web Development Services, Utah Valley University, for his acceptance to speak on “The Benefits of SaaS Web CMS-Managing the Budget While Improving Agility, Adaptability, and Responsiveness," at t...
traeliz@gmail.com thanks!!!
Casey, can you send me an invite to your Google Wave. I have yet to receieve one. I have emailed Mark but have not heard from him about his invite. Can you help me get on the wave.
Thanks, Darren
Finally got my invite: mjpowers67 @ googlewave.com
Google Wave ID: hknox14
I'm testing wave. eosullivan@bridgew.edu
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