I am confused. You seem to be discussing "site redesign" and "CMS implementation" as one project. I think they are probably better conceived as separate, concurrent projects. Since we had two separate projects, our experience with an outside designe…
I would suggest two perspectives here.
1) Your Web site is the most important marketing piece that your institution produces. As such, senior leadership (above dean's level) should be on board. As part of the early buy-in stage, such decisions as b…
Take the question a different way. Do you allow public posts on your institutional page? What would you do if someone *else* posts the news there? In a positive way (announcing a candlelight vigil), neutral way (link to external news story), or nega…
I find it difficult to see how #2 could work effectively. But #1 would probably need an outreach plan to be effective --- e.g., the Web office will never know the whole truth of an academic department, but would need to reach out to learn it and ref…
Maria -
Are you familiar with the Higher Education Web Professionals Association? We're in the process of defining membership and chapters, and we've had annual conferences for years. Feel free to send me a ning message with any ideas.
-Steve
I think it would be nice if we could get a wiki engine integrated into this site. It would be a nice place to aggregate the collective wisdom of topics that most of us have to deal with, and can share our experience about.
E.g., there is an ongoing…
I think it ultimately depends on adoption here. If we can get our coworkers into the platform, it can replace a lot of collaboration tools and make business life more effective within our office. The biggest missing piece on this from what I saw was…
Our Ceremonies and events and Advancement folks are using http://www.industrymailout.com/ They are located in Edmonton. Let me know if you want to talk to any of the end users here and I'll set that up for you.
Remember to register for OmniUpdate’s next Training Tuesday class on the Global Find and Replace feature in OU Campus. The class will be held at 11:00 Pacific Time, December 22, 2009. Although this class is open to all OmniUpdate customers, access t…
Hello all,
Wondering how many members host their college web sites in house and how many contract the services of an external host? What factors lead to your decision? If you host your site in house, who does the server maintenance- yourself/someone…
We've been exploring SocialEngine for the last few weeks and just made the purchase this morning. It has "subnetworks" within your installation, which I believe will help you keep folks separate and achieve what you're looking for. We bought one lic…
Hey everyone, just wanted to toss out some shameless self promotion. My .eduGuru blog posting about the #heweb09 Great Keynote Meltdown of 2009 was nominated for the Edublog Most Influential Blog Post of 2009. We'd love it if you'd take a second and…
Couple more- from my alma mater- Keene State College -
This year's card from Providence College -
I'd love to see what else everyone is doing if you care to share...
Happy Holidays!
-Dan
Web Developer
Providence College
ddemmons@providence.edu
Same story at SUNY-ESF -- Ning network for accepteds rolled out 1/08 with a plan to 'retire' it, well, now actually, and then to relaunch for the next class. The network had student ambassador and admissions staff members, and it included dedicated…
Hi Fellow Canadians,
I'm looking for recommendations on email marketing providers that are based (or at least their server is based) in Canada. I've been using MailChimp out of the US, and it's great, but because of BC's privacy law I can only gath…
Hi all,
We are looking into a tool, software or vendor that could help us develop an online student orientation. Which would include video and flash elements. We recently reviewed Comevo and was wondering if anyone knows of other companies/vendors t…
This company (http://www.universityparent.com/edu) was mentioned at a meeting today, and I was wondering if anyone had any insights as to whether this sort of thing is commonplace, practical, useful, etc.
Thanks in advance for any info,
Doug Thomp…
I work in the Marketing & Public Relations department. We started our first college Facebook page. We call it the official college page. Other departments have Facebook pages, such as the Library, eLearning, Student Services, etc. All Facebook pages…
Thank you, everyone for your replies. The powers that be are asking us to test a new program called "Socialtivity" created by a local developing company. I'll let ya'll know how it plays out.
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