One other thing -- by breaking down the content into smaller pieces we can use the content in other websites. Each department and program site can have the major requirements and courses listed -- we're just including the content from the catalogu...
Up until this year our process is quite similar to yours. The change we made this year was to put all those Word documents into the CMS (Cascade) broken down into one page per section and one page per course. The catalogue website then uses PHP to...
BeeTagg worked well on my Blackberry, but I'll need to test it more on other phones.
http://get.beetagg.com/
Worked great with tags created by:
http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/
Which I love, because I can dynamically create the codes -- notice...
I checked out the reader at http://www.i-nigma.com and it's extremely easy to download. Unfortunately my Blackberry (8300 curve) is protesting. Will troubleshoot later.
content management, information architecture, accessibility
What CMS are you using?
Cascade Server by Hannon Hill
What department or office are you in?
College Relations
Primary Job Responsibility
As assistant director of web development at Vassar College I have developed procedures for maintaining over 150 official sites. I am currently implementing an enterprise content management system while managing the manual maintenance of legacy content from over 500 content providers.
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...
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.
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...
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
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