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Susan
- 32, Female
- Fort Worth, TX
- United States
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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?
Elsewhere
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I agree with Nathan - you do not want flash in your HTML email. You can have the HTML email look like the start of a movie.. or whatever graphics you want in there.. but when clicked - the user should be taken to a web site where a full web browse...
Todd Sanders from the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, provides this job description.
For folks who use (or are interested in) Hannon Hill's Cascade Server CMS product
How are you looking to point users to the Flash file? I don't know the most recent stats on Flash visibility through email clients but I remember in the past the argument was against sending a pure Flash file through email. Instead the suggestion ...
We recently tested Joomla vs. Drupal and arrived at some of the same conclusions as previous posters. In the end, with as large as we need the site to be, we settled on Drupal. It has yet to be seen if we've made the right decision. I'll get back ...
It's not for our school, but it is a pretty decent description of a social media intern position:
https://jobs.scottrade.com/viewjob.html?optlink-view=view-12523&ERFormID=newjoblist&ERFormCode=any
We're planning on sending out a Flash-based Christrmas greeting via email. I'm wondering what maximum file size we should be aiming for. (i.e.
We're working on this with a school right now. I'll share what we end up at!
If you plan to attend the 2009 Symposium for Marketing of Higher Education being hosted next week by the American Marketing Association in Boston, please stop by and hear Lance Merker, CEO of OmniUpdate, discuss student expectations about the coll...
Here was mine (with a hearty assist from Jessica Krywosa of Suffolk University):
This position will allow a student the opportunity to help shape and promote online and social media community experiences for the college. The social media intern s...
I do all 'main university' type postings in FB and Twitter and act as the 'voice' of the accounts adding personal touches here and there, such as personal questions or greetings.
Our strategy includes adding admins from various parts of the unive...
I dont know if its served me well - its only been a few months - but I have only a short descriptive 'graph that I used.
This position allows a student the ability to help promote and shape the university online community experience. By providing...
As I review admissions pages and applications, I've discovered there are few admissions pages that have an easy to find call to action to apply. The norm seems to be scanning a lot of text to find the "to apply" choice.
John,
Not sure if you've seen this already, but check out Common Admissions Application. Looks like a number of higher ed schools across the country use it.
Justin, just got through with an OmniUpdate CMS demo. The application is unbelievable. It is awesome. If we had the money we would right the check right there. What is cool about the company is they are trying to work with us. I think that this sp...
Sam, beside Joomla I have used DotNetNuke also and I have experienced the same type of issues with DNN. Installation. I have had huge issues and a lot of wasted time trying to install DNN and trying to get it up and running. Once I have it install...
I need a new calender of events type software. Right now we were using the open source vtcalender system until it broke. This system has been nothing but problems. The previous web designers were the ones that put this calender system into use. Wh...
I sent them an email looking for a baseline cost but have not heard back from them yet.
We are currently debating whether or not this is an in-house project.
Though I'm more prone to go with the vendor if they offer extensibility we don't have t...
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