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Susan
- 32, Female
- Fort Worth, TX
- United States
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Google Analytics Users
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Q & A for HighEdWeb Session
Started Sep 9
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Profile Information
- Employer?
- Tarrant County College District
- Website:
- http://www.tccd.edu
- Personal Website:
- http://susanragland.blogspot.com
- List three areas of expertise or specialization.
- Writing for Web, editing, IA
- What CMS are you using?
- Ingeniux
- What department or office are you in?
- Public Relations and Marketing
- Primary Job Responsibility
- Web Content Editor
We're (the webmaster and I as well as a committee) currently working on a complete web redesign, new content, etc. A large project, but for the benefit of the college to be sure. :-)
If you happen to check out our pages as they currently stand (oh dear!) be sure to check back next March to see the new one.
- Number of students at your institution
- 45,000
Susan's Blog
Apology
I am sorry if I offended anyone by posting about the Hurricane on this blog. This week my mind has NOT been on web or development or Chrome...the only technology I've been thinking about was the lack thereof in Louisiana right now.
I only shared that here, on this blog, b/c while we may not know each other irl, I do communicate with many of you via your blogs and comments.
I have deleted all blog posts.
I only shared that here, on this blog, b/c while we may not know each other irl, I do communicate with many of you via your blogs and comments.
I have deleted all blog posts.
Posted on September 5, 2008 at 10:16am —
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I agree with Ann and Charlie. Context here is key. And I do think that under the correct supervision, student workers or student ambassadors can effectively admin social media pages.
Our college district has five campuses, but two full-time Web employees: the webmaster (David) and the Web content editor (me). During our recent redesign, we took the approach of doing our IA and content writing with the different audiences in mi...
My coworker and I are presenting at this year's HighEdWeb on increasing Web site usability with or without a redesign. While there are some points we want to hit for sure but wanted to get a feel for the types of questions you all might want to ha...
Josh, thanks for responding. I've come across so much research in the past year since I first posed this question, and would be happy to share if needed. I'm also presenting at this year's HighEdWeb conference in Milwaukee on the subject of increa...
One I'm reading right now is called Hot Text Web Writing that Works and it is written by Jonathan and Lisa Price http://www.amazon.com/Hot-Text-Writing-that-Works/dp/0735711518/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252501198&sr=8-1. I just started it so...
I'd be curious to hear what Brad Ward did at Butler (when he was there) b/c they had students out with cameras often. I wonder if they have one of those statements in the app materials that Karlyn mentioned.
Colin,
I'm not sure if I am misunderstanding your question, but when thinking about usability, the majority of users expect that the hierarchy, which usually drives the breadcrumb navigation, IS how they "get" to pages. If site visitors cannot pre...
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Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 11:49am on October 7, 2009,
Rebecca Bernstein said…
- Since you are in the CMS group, I was hoping you could advise me. UB is setting up a university-wide content management system and we are exploring what best practices other universities are doing. In particular, we are trying to identify universities that are:
* Using a CMS enterprise wide, or with several departments
* Have governance or policies in place
* Have a form of centralized staffing
* And hopefully are encouraging best practices in content and user experience.
If you can take the brief survey at https://vovici.com/wsb.dll/s/8727g3fd23 (no longer than 2-5 minutes) it would help us gather preliminary information that will assist us in our initial phase of research. If you know of someone in your organization better suited to fill this out, please feel free to pass this along.
We are looking for initial responses by Thursday, October 15th.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me or my assistant Kyriakos Zannikos (716-645-4652 or zannikos@buffalo.edu)
Thanks in advance,
Rebecca Bernstein
Web Strategist | UB Web Team Leader
University Communications, University at Buffalo
rebecca@buffalo.edu
Tel: 716-645-4583
- At 12:01am on October 6, 2008,
Brian said… - Hey Susan, I wasn't able to make it this year :( - which is a real bummer. Unfortunately I'm stuck working on a new project that came up.
- At 12:02pm on August 19, 2008,
Allen Lin said… - I work for Edgecast and attend Cal State Northridge as a grad student/researcher in the evenings. Where do you work?
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OmniUpdate wishes all our customers and friends a happy and safe Thanksgiving!
I'm using a version of PHPLive I've been customizing for the past few years. Although I've used the meebome widget before too. The nice thing about it is that if no one is online to answer the chat it prompts them to leave a message.
Our library staff initiated adding live chat and have had a good success with it. Now the admissions folks are interested in doing something similar. The real challenge is, of course, people managing the responses. The technology is fairly straigh...
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
Sent you a wave invite =).
I'm sure your friend added you. It takes an indeterminate amount of time for google to process the invite.
Mark you stated that you added me to your Google Wave but I have not received an invite yet. You can send it to dladner@nctc.edu or my gmail account at dxladner@gmail.com.
Please let me know if there is anything else I can do. I contacted Google ...
traeliz@googlewave.com
it's pretty self-explanatory :-)
sfgould @ googlewave.com
If anyone needs an invite, let me know. I have several I won't need.
A group for those interested in usability principles, practices, and testing.
How are you using it? Where are you using it? How are you making it degrade gracefully? What are you doing to make sure applications remain accessible?
A group to discuss coding that impacts page layout and functionality such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.
Share and discuss issues that focus on user-centered design.
I also have to agree with Michal here. The purpose of Facebook is one thing but I do not think it should be used for other purposes. And I back that with Chris, by saying there is a place for that and possible the homepage could be used for that p...
Unfortunately here at UT we have had to deal with this issue more than we would like to in the last three months. We had a student murdered walking home late from a party in August, a student killed in a hit and run on Friday, and another 3 studen...
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