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Susan
- 32, Female
- Fort Worth, TX
- United States
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Q & A for HighEdWeb Session
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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 mind…
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 have…
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 increasi…
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…
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 predi…
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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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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…
Groundswell is great
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…
This group is for anyone interested in how to use Ning
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.
Group for users of ActiveAdmissions CMS
OmniUpdate has completed end-user OU Campus CMS training for Sullivan County Community College – State University of New York. We anticipate great results from this great group of people, and look forward to working with them in 2010!
Have you looked at http://www.thindata.com/ and http://www.campaignmonitor.com? Not sure if they offer everything that you are looking for but their emails are well designed in my opinion.
Anyone have any recommendations for books/papers on Social Media and/or "Web 2.0"
Thanks very much,
Annalisa
The new State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota, website looks great and was quickly launched using OmniUpdate’s OU Campus web CMS.
Does anyone use or know of a good web newsletter package? Looking for a web-based newsletter (css) template that has (1) rss feeds; (2) converts to printable pdf; (3) converts to HTML for email blasts. Have found lots of html / email subscription se…
I usually argue that when used appropriately, it's better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it. If they aren't abused, having them on your page isn't going to hurt you, and just because Google doesn't use them doesn't mean others…
The holiday season is a great time to appreciate the remarkable talent and energy on our campus and the support of our broader Maryland family. Thank you f...
Hi folks,
We've been looking at whether we should continue to enter keywords in the keyword metadata field of our CMS. Apparently, Google is pretty much ignoring that field in search ranking. Below is a quote from Google, and a link to the blog the…
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