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Sr. Web Developer - UCLA

Started Apr 2

How college students use social media

Tags: facebook, media, social

Started Nov 9, 2011

Creating a more social campus events calendar with Facebook
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Hi Everyone, We recently launched a new feature that extends Facebook’s “Like” button (we renamed ours “Recommend”) on…Continue

Tags: calendar, events, facebook

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Employer?: UCLA

Website:: http://ucla.edu

Personal Website:: http://www.takadesigns.com/blog

Find me on Twitter at:: http://twitter.com/takadesigns

What CMS are you using?: Plone

What department or office are you in?: Communications & Public Outreach

Primary Job Responsibility: Associate Director, Digital

Mike Takahashi's Blog

Get more out of Google Analytics with Site Search and Event Tracking

Google Analytics comes with two very useful tools that aren’t enabled by default: Site Search and Event Tracking. When used, these tools can help give more meaningful statistics about users on your site.

Site Search

Site Search uses internal search data to track and analyze what…

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Posted on November 2, 2010 at 7:22pm

Is it time to start thinking about Microsoft’s Bing?

There’s been a lot of buzz recently about Microsoft’s Bing search engine. A year ago Microsoft and Yahoo signed a deal that would make Bing power Yahoo’s searches. With the integration now complete, Bing and Yahoo…

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Posted on October 12, 2010 at 2:00pm

Keeping users engaged with Facebook social plugins

At UCLA Happenings (UCLA's Campus Events Calendar), we are constantly trying to improve our site and keep our users engaged. A while back we integrated comments for every event via Facebook’s social plugins.

Facebook also makes it very easy to integrate these plugins with little work. In most cases, only a few lines of HTML code need to be added and you’re ready to go. We’ve seen…

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Posted on October 1, 2010 at 12:00pm

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Mike Takahashi posted a discussion

Sr. Web Developer - UCLA

The Sr. Web Developer within Marketing & Special Events digital team will be responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of high-impact, high-visibility websites at UCLA such as http://ucla.edu, all with the goal of keeping UCLA in the forefront among university and consumer web sites. The lead web developer will also research, analyze, and formulate recommendations on industry best practices and new ways to leverage technologies, and possess a…See More

Apr 2

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Mike Takahashi replied to Juliana Perry's discussion CMS choice and ease of use?

"Idealware also has a very in-depth and informative white paper that reviews and compares the following CMS platforms: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone. It's a little outdated now, but will give you a good grasp of these…"

Nov 9, 2011

Mike Takahashi posted a discussion

How college students use social media

At UCLA, we recently held an in-depth panel discussion with undergraduate and graduate students on how they used social media in their personal and academic lives. Our topics ranged from usage and behavior, privacy, advertising and the value of interaction with brands, companies, campus departments and student services. It turned out to be a great discussion with a lot of insight.A video of the panel is up on UCLA's YouTube channel, and you can read some highlights at:…See More

Nov 9, 2011

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Mike Takahashi replied to Janet Jaffke's discussion Plone Pros & Cons today in the group Plone

"Hi Janet, At UCLA we have a large group of departments/organizations using Plone. Here are two important things to consider: For the end-user, Plone is an amazing tool. Its in-context editing and management is so intuitive and allows users…"

Oct 31, 2011

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