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Michael Fienen
  • 30, Male
  • Pittsburg, KS
  • United States
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It's Time to Give Your Online Catalog a Facelift
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Michael Fienen Nov 2, 2011.

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Michael Fienen replied to Emily Schu's discussion How are you offering courses on Android?
"Is it safe to assume that your LMS can't help facilitate this?"
Tuesday
Michael Fienen replied to Riley Wills's discussion Have content management systems started to integrate real-time collaboration technologies?
"In short, no. Off the top of my head, I don't know of any CMS that's doing this as part of the implementation. Generally, workflows within a CMS don't tolerate asynchronous development well, usually out of a need for data integrity…"
May 16
Michael Fienen replied to Donna Dralus's discussion Freelance Writing Rates
"I'd also recommend not looking into hiring folks for one off, per/word or per/page type writers. I'd look into what you could do with a creative staffing firm to help out, for instance what they do at VitaminTalent.…"
May 3
Michael Fienen replied to Courtney Smolen's discussion Suggestions on Sites to Follow
"I'm probably a bit biased, but http://doteduguru.com/."
Apr 30
Michael Fienen replied to Todd Pousley's discussion Mobile Website Vendors in the group Mobile
"Following up late on this discussion as well. Frankly, I'm not sure I'd recommend working with a vendor on a mobile site. Doing even a basic mobile site isn't actually that big of an undertaking, especially if your normal site is…"
Apr 25
Michael Fienen replied to Colleen Brennan-Barry's discussion wCMS Questions: Joomla, TYPO3, WebGUI
"My favorite was how a page's template could change based on what menu you used to get to it - a behavior far more maddening than it was novel and useful. I also have recollections of murdering puppies while trying to build templates for it."
Apr 23
Michael Fienen replied to Colleen Brennan-Barry's discussion wCMS Questions: Joomla, TYPO3, WebGUI
"When last I evaluated Typo3 (admittedly not real recently), I found it to be EXTREMELY powerful. However, it was a CMS built by programmers, for programmers, with no consideration whatsoever for unskilled users. There wasn't a user on campus I…"
Apr 23
Michael Fienen replied to Colleen Brennan-Barry's discussion wCMS Questions: Joomla, TYPO3, WebGUI
"I don't know much anything about WebGUI. Typo3 is the perfect solution if you hate your users with the fire of 1,000 suns. Joomla if you just need the fire of a single sun."
Apr 23

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Employer?
Aquent
Website:
http://www.aquent.com
Personal Website:
http://www.fienen.com/
Find me on Twitter at:
http://twitter.com/fienen
Find me on LinkedIn at:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/fienen
List three areas of expertise or specialization.
XHTML/CSS, Accessibility (508), dotCMS
What CMS are you using?
dotCMS day to day, and WordPress for other smaller projects
What department or office are you in?
Marketing Operations
Primary Job Responsibility
I am formerly the Director of Web Marketing at Pittsburg State University. I am currently a writer for .eduGuru, CTO for nuCloud, and Senior Interactive Developer for Aquent.

At PSU I oversaw the general development and maintenance of our primary .edu site, along with several ancillary sites. I was in charge of all aspects of our CMS (a role I currently fill for Aquent now), as well as managing our social media, layout, SEO, accessibility compliance, and other assorted roles. The web shop was a one man show, which forced me to become a master of many trades.

My book, dotCMS From the Ground Up, is available now at http://learndotcms.com/.

I also cause a lot of trouble.
Number of students at your institution
n/a

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At 2:18pm on August 12, 2011, Joe Tannian said…
Hello Michael,
I am new to uwebd and our university is in the process of evaluating several CMSs, OmniUpdate, Cascade and dotCMS seem like the strongest contenders. What do you like most and least about dotCMS?

We are use to extending our current in house developed CMS. Does dotCMS have an API for accessing content. Does it plugin architecture or support for JSP enable you to easily extend its functionality?

Are you aware of pros or cons vs Cascade or OmniUpdate?

Thanks, for any potential guidance you can give,
Joe
At 9:16am on November 30, 2010, Nancy Kroes said…
Michael, I want to share your latest post - Compliant Against Penn State but is it supposed to be Complaint and not Compliant?
At 6:08pm on June 4, 2010, Suzanne Klaus said…
Michael, Ektron CMS400.NET has many good features. The only thing I don't like about it is that it only runs on a Windows machine. Previously, we used the LAMP environment for our Web site. So I am having difficulty getting applications built now. But the CMS package itself is working pretty well. We have found some problems in editing text, etc., and do most things in the code to get around them. However, for my users who do not know code, some things can be difficult. Version 8 is out and we are installing it in August, so I am hoping some of those issues have been resolved. Do you use a CMS?
At 11:38am on March 5, 2008, Mike ... said…
Mike ... I cleared out the old post and made a new one since I spelled athletics wrong ... do have any info for me on the dotCMS and athletics (I you want to repost it or tell me directly that be great)... I see you use it now ... any help would be great ... thanks!!
 
 
 

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Justin replied to Susanne Starck's discussion Google Indoor Maps
"Do any of you know if the indoor maps are only available on Android devices, or are they available via the web too?  The website seems to communicate that you can only utilize them on Android devices."
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Susanne Starck replied to Susanne Starck's discussion Google Indoor Maps
"Ask them about the version for first-responders. It would give fire/police access to areas that you don't want the public to see! Our admins have not approved the project yet, I'm still trying... "
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"OmniUpdate welcomes Bluffton University as a new OU Campus client! We look forward to working together!"
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Susanne Starck replied to Susanne Starck's discussion Google Indoor Maps
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Justin replied to Susanne Starck's discussion Google Indoor Maps
"I was recently contacted by Google as well and am hoping to be able to move forward with them as well, but I'm currently in the process of running that by administration.  Sounds like the service could be really useful. Justin Mississippi…"
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Emily Schu replied to Emily Schu's discussion How are you offering courses on Android?
"Yes and no. We have been supplying RSS Feeds with mp4/mp3 files using the LMS as a platform for delivery with the thought that students can access the LMS through their native browser on their mobile device and download the files from there. The…"
Tuesday
Michael Fienen replied to Emily Schu's discussion How are you offering courses on Android?
"Is it safe to assume that your LMS can't help facilitate this?"
Tuesday
Carol Clements commented on Lynn Zawie's group OmniUpdate
"It’s great to have Ferrum College as a new OmniUpdate OU Campus customer! We look forward to working together!"
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