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Ratio of time for website development vs. maintenance
Replied Dec. 29, 2008
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CMS
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Departments often want to do their own thing, but if you are responsible for maintaining a consistent brand identity for the university I'd advice against it. If they feel a need to incorporate certain features in the site, then I'd work with them...
You can now put longer videos on YouTube. I'm not sure if that is true for everyone or if certain accounts get a special exception, but Case Western Reserve has many long lectures on the Case YouTube channel. I've since left the university, but wh...
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- At 11:52am 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 1:54am on December 31, 2008,
Mark Cruthers said… - Hi Sarah,
With your work in Web tools, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.
- At 9:28am on March 5, 2008,
Heidi Cool said…
- True, but at least I have his books! I used to spend a lot of time burying my nose in his Programmer's Reference Guide to CSS. (I still keep it within arms reach, I just don't need to look at it as often.) Eric's a good guy. He was still running the site when I started at Case in Alumni and Development.
My job now is a bit different than Eric's was. He was in ITS when he ran the site and was responsible for both the site and the server. After he left they split the responsibilities between ITS and Marketing and Communications.
The ITS group (which includes some of the people he worked with) does mostly back-end work--managing the server and running the portal--while my group does front end work focused on design and content, branding, HTML, marketing, usability, etc. Naturally we work together as well.
- At 8:15am on March 5, 2008,
Ken Colwell said… - Hi,
Wow... no pressure in your job... Since Eric Meyer was once the web guy at Case. :-)
ken c.
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- Self-employed, formerly Webmaster at Case Western Reserve University
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- http://www.heidicool.com/blog
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- http://www.heidicool.com
- List three areas of expertise or specialization.
- Content Development, Navigation, Marketing
- What CMS are you using?
- We use Movable Type for our blogs but generally use plain HTML for the rest
- What department or office are you in?
- Marketing and Communications
- Primary Job Responsibility
- Maintaining the home page, building and maintaining secondary pages and high profile sites, creation and distribution of Web development tools and advising and assisting campus Web maintainers with their Web development projects ranging from site planning and organization to content development, navigation, HTML and CSS support, marketing and SEO, etc.
- Number of students at your institution
- 9,844
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Hi Shauna,
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Here at ISU, we have one person doing the posting to/from/about our social media sites (Facebook, Twittier, Ning, Orkut, YouTube, Bloggers, MySpace) and we have created a system of linking the site(s) to each other and integrating our Admissions i...
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I was toying with this service a while back... Seems like its exactly what you're looking for.
http://nouri.sh/
This is the sort of thing that I'd really like to write myself and release for free, actually. Seems totally useful.
Cheers!
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