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5 min survey: State of the university Web department
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I just wanted to let everyone know if you have not seen them already the results of the state of the university Web department survey are now posted on @eduguru.
Results: http://j.mp/6HtdFR
nick.denardis (at) googlewave (dot) com
I am trying to get an understanding of the landscape of higher education web environments to see what works, what doesn’t and how we can all improve. I created a survey for anyone who’s primary job is working on any part of an institution’s Web si...
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2. The stories come from various sources. Central PR, a school, college or department.
3. Numerous people are involved with writing the stories but we have one central Web Content Administrator for the homepage and they make the ultimate ...
1. At Wayne State University we created an in house solution so our short URL's could be identified as "wayne.edu" URL's instead of a third party (bit.ly.. etc). It does do a 301 redirect in the end. The URL's are primarily used for Twitter and so...
We tried it on an event once as a test before a bigger event that we wanted parents to watch live. People reported getting ads from Jackass World and the US Navy (we're pacifists). Needless to say, we didn't use Ustream for the big event. :-)
Int...
We have used Ustream and also our own streaming for different events. Ustream was a good tool, but IT prefers for us to use their streaming, which is fine by me.
The chat feature is something we have had interesting results with lately. A live sh...
I just wanted to see if anyone else has use Ustream for campus wide events with success or failure?
We recently had our presidential inauguration and we used Ustream (http://wcs.wayne.edu/blog/2009/04/08/presidential-inauguration-and-ustreamtv-le...
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- Wayne State University
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- http://wayne.edu/
- Personal Website:
- http://nickdenardis.com/
- List three areas of expertise or specialization.
- development, accessibility, information architecture
- What CMS are you using?
- We built it custom
- What department or office are you in?
- Web Communications, Marketing and Communications
- Primary Job Responsibility
- Oversee a team of specialized web professionals to take on full redesign of web sites from the identity, user interactions, content, design, development to promotion. Integrating sites into a niche environment and keeping their data as open and accessible as possible.
- Number of students at your institution
- 33,000+
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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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