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  • Saint Paul, MN
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Hey there! We went through the same things at our college, here's what we did: 1. We don't have an admissions blog, we do have an open blog for our student interns though. They are allowed to post anything and everything, at least 1 post a week i...
October 20
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My boss recently sent me a link for FinalSite (http://www.finalsite.com) and wants me to look into it for designing our new website, as well as other content management duties. Just wondering if anyone has used it yet, or if there is something els...
October 20
1) This isn't very consistent, we could have nothing for a couple weeks, and then get hit with 3-4 stories in a week. We typically try to update at least once a week. 2) We have a Marketing/Communications Department that is in charge of writing a...
September 30
I gotta repeat what someone said further up: Twitter for universities is not about putting stuff out there and expecting prospective students to subscribe to you. That's a whole different choice. They'll do that when they've already made the decis...
September 18
You have to not let it get personal. And then you agree to put it up and test it. If it's shown to have a negative impact on that departments goal (web sign ups) then it will come down. If it increases the departments goal then it can stay. And ...
September 11
My response to the question at http://cuwebd.ning.com/forum/topics/web-team-management might be of some help to you.
September 9
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...
September 9
I'm at a bigger school, but only in a tiny department. So our approach might be helpful to you. Keep in mind that while you seem to be on the content side, I tend to be more of the developer side of the coin. We setup a committee which controls t...
September 9
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We are a small college and I'm the only person that is in charge of the content (excluding news stories) that go online. I sometimes get videos given to me that a Faculty member wants on their department's page, but in my opinion it's not a good v...
September 8
Right now I'm making an online training class for Moodle, in Moodle. I'm incorporating the different types of media you can use in Moodle, as well as creating videos that walk the faculty through how to do things in Moodle, using my screen and my ...
August 21
We are experimenting with Twitter. We have developed a competition to try to encourage them to tweet, but so far, not too much traction. csu.edu.au/2010
August 18
Re: Teens Don't Tweet, some food for thought: http://twitter.com/bradjward/status/3328410709
August 15
It seems most Twitter accounts go 1 of 2 ways: 1) simply index your RSS feed from another source 2) interact with other Twitter users Most teens and celebrities choose #2 but I think for companies and universities it makes more sense to publish ...
August 14
We have a Twitter account for our university. We use it more as a tool to keep current students and alumni up on what's going on on and around campus. It took off slow, but is starting to gain some momentum. The important thing is "listen" just as...
August 12
Although we haven't had much success with Twitter as a recruitment tool, we have had far more success in it's use as a support tool for existing students and for alumni communications. In both cases the cost and ease of use of Twitter by both the ...
August 12
We have gone back and forth many times about how to launch a twitter account, what kind of account it should be and on. Currently, we have an account parked, locked in private, without any updates so we are ready should we need it immediately. I'...
August 12

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Employer?
McNally Smith College of Music
Website:
http://www.mcnallysmith.edu
Personal Website:
http://www.viralmuse.wordpress.com
List three areas of expertise or specialization.
social media, higher education, entertainment business
What department or office are you in?
IT
Primary Job Responsibility
I manage our online identity, website, and social media, as well as create much of our digital content.
Number of students at your institution
500

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At 1:41pm on July 29, 2009, Jason Rollins said…
I'd love to! We're finishing it up and I'll be able to send it out here real soon. What e-mail should I forward it to?
 
 

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Adam Green, David Cantwell, Mollee Sheehan and 2 more joined University Web Developers
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OmniUpdate’s CMS business is booming and we are looking for a strong software developer with Java experience. Help us grow our team.
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Please add me too: naveenatwal @ googlewave.com Thanks.
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Morehouse College invites applications for Multimedia Developer in the Office of Communications. Job Duties: The multimedia developer reports to the Director of Public Relations and works with the web content manager and the web developer. The mu...
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Our Public Affairs department is responsible for the rotating content on our university front page (Cal State Fullerton). Outside of the basic architectural links, news and events are the only things highlighted. Whenever someone wants something, ...
19 hours ago
Thanks! Our senior web designer, Stephen Bell, made it. He's in this ning community somewhere. :)
22 hours ago
We also have Employment Opportunites listed as one of our main links on our home page and on every page. We even have our Employment links broken down into two different areas. One of students "Employment-Students" and one for regular full-time jo...
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Hi all, I've just started a project to implement Harris Connect as an alumni portal/crm system and I'm looking for any success/horror stories that may be out there. Of most interest are any strategies that people have used for integration of Harri...
23 hours ago
Employment Opportunities is one of the 12 main navigation links in the header of our Web site template. Therefore, it appears not only on the home page, but on almost every page of our site.
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I just opened my account jfduguid (at) googlewave
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Off topic, but the hide/show social media icon bar on your site is very well done.
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Global footer that says "We're Hiring". It is one of our top visited pages.
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Thanks for the feedback - the backstory here is that our HR office has requested to be on the homepage, but the college's Web Advisory committee has been refusing the request. I thought a link in the global footer would be a nice solution, so I'm ...
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"Employment at SJC" is a link in our footer that is on every page, including the homepage. We also have a prominent link in the navigation one level down under our "About Us" section. It's one of our top hits also.
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We have an Employment link in the footer of every page, including our home page.
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OmniUpdate’s CMS business is booming and we are looking for several Web Services Technicians. Help us grow our team.
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Yes, we list it on the homepage. Our HR person requested this as part of our redesign about a year ago and I thought it made sense.
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We have a "Jobs" link in our global footer.
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