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Lance Merker
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I'll be there presenting a session that summarizes a recent nationwide survey on what college-bound high school seniors really think about your websites! Tuesday 2pm.
This is a great topic and one that we see a lot of folks struggle with. Obviously, there needs to be checks and balances to any automation process, but a good CMS can truly enhance the process. I just participated in a webcast today with one of ou...
Profile Information
- Employer?
- OmniUpdate, Inc.
- Website:
- http://www.omniupdate.com
- List three areas of expertise or specialization.
- CMS design, XML/XSL, Social Networking
- What CMS are you using?
- OmniUpdate - OU Campus
- What department or office are you in?
- Management
Comment Wall (7 comments)
- At 4:30pm on June 18, 2009,
Hariet Waffenschmidt said…
- Hi Lance, I'll be going to the eduweb in Chicago. Will you be there again?
- At 3:54pm on April 14, 2009,
Andrew Soderberg said…
- Steve, I answered the form question to your wall directly.
- At 2:37pm on April 14, 2009,
Steve Geggie said…
- Does OmniUpdate have the ability for non-technical staff to create their own online forms?
- At 6:49pm on April 7, 2009,
Brett Michaelis said… - It sounds like the user conference was a big success. I will have to talk to Nathan about allowing me to attend the next one.
- At 6:29pm on March 16, 2009,
larry kennedy said… - It is a pleasure to be able to send comments directly to the President of OmniUpdate. It works great: learning HTML was killing me!
- At 5:00pm on February 24, 2009,
eBarinvon said… - Lance ... water in Key West is nice! ;)
- At 4:16pm on October 8, 2008,
Rachel Reuben said… - Thank you so much for the add'l mug with goodies and personal note! I greatly appreciate it! Looking forward to doing a webinar with you guys in December, and maybe coming to California for the users conference?
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I agree with Nathan - you do not want flash in your HTML email. You can have the HTML email look like the start of a movie.. or whatever graphics you want in there.. but when clicked - the user should be taken to a web site where a full web browse...
Todd Sanders from the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, provides this job description.
For folks who use (or are interested in) Hannon Hill's Cascade Server CMS product
How are you looking to point users to the Flash file? I don't know the most recent stats on Flash visibility through email clients but I remember in the past the argument was against sending a pure Flash file through email. Instead the suggestion ...
We recently tested Joomla vs. Drupal and arrived at some of the same conclusions as previous posters. In the end, with as large as we need the site to be, we settled on Drupal. It has yet to be seen if we've made the right decision. I'll get back ...
It's not for our school, but it is a pretty decent description of a social media intern position:
https://jobs.scottrade.com/viewjob.html?optlink-view=view-12523&ERFormID=newjoblist&ERFormCode=any
We're planning on sending out a Flash-based Christrmas greeting via email. I'm wondering what maximum file size we should be aiming for. (i.e.
We're working on this with a school right now. I'll share what we end up at!
If you plan to attend the 2009 Symposium for Marketing of Higher Education being hosted next week by the American Marketing Association in Boston, please stop by and hear Lance Merker, CEO of OmniUpdate, discuss student expectations about the coll...
Here was mine (with a hearty assist from Jessica Krywosa of Suffolk University):
This position will allow a student the opportunity to help shape and promote online and social media community experiences for the college. The social media intern s...
I do all 'main university' type postings in FB and Twitter and act as the 'voice' of the accounts adding personal touches here and there, such as personal questions or greetings.
Our strategy includes adding admins from various parts of the unive...
I dont know if its served me well - its only been a few months - but I have only a short descriptive 'graph that I used.
This position allows a student the ability to help promote and shape the university online community experience. By providing...
As I review admissions pages and applications, I've discovered there are few admissions pages that have an easy to find call to action to apply. The norm seems to be scanning a lot of text to find the "to apply" choice.
John,
Not sure if you've seen this already, but check out Common Admissions Application. Looks like a number of higher ed schools across the country use it.
Justin, just got through with an OmniUpdate CMS demo. The application is unbelievable. It is awesome. If we had the money we would right the check right there. What is cool about the company is they are trying to work with us. I think that this sp...
Sam, beside Joomla I have used DotNetNuke also and I have experienced the same type of issues with DNN. Installation. I have had huge issues and a lot of wasted time trying to install DNN and trying to get it up and running. Once I have it install...
I need a new calender of events type software. Right now we were using the open source vtcalender system until it broke. This system has been nothing but problems. The previous web designers were the ones that put this calender system into use. Wh...
I sent them an email looking for a baseline cost but have not heard back from them yet.
We are currently debating whether or not this is an in-house project.
Though I'm more prone to go with the vendor if they offer extensibility we don't have t...
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