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Theresa Admitted Students Social Networking Survey Results

I recently put out a call for help on Twitter (#heweb09) to get some data on Admitted Students Social Networking sites. I didn't get a huge response but I got enough to help me move forward. As promised, I said I'd post the info on this site. THANK YOU to all who helped! I'll leave the poll open and if I get any more responses, I'll post an update in a few weeks. http://surveys.polldaddy.com/s/93594C1F5055B809/ Admitted Students So… Continue

Added by Theresa on November 9, 2009 at 12:27pm — No Comments

Darren Ladner First Week on the job..

As I begin the college lifestyle again, I will be actually in the offices of the school and not in the classrooms. I have started my new job here at NCTC as the Webmaster. I prefer a different name as I am no master of the web at all. I prefer the title "the new web-guy" or just "web-guy". I have the responsiblity of a total redesign of the school's website. This will be a major undertaking. So stay tuned....... Continue

Added by Darren Ladner on November 4, 2009 at 1:43pm — No Comments

Michael Fienen Book Review: Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig

"If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you might have caught on that I recently got into the book Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Lawrence Lessig, one of many that I’ve been meaning to check off my least of to-reads. Let me spoil the review by telling you not to bother reading the review, ju… Continue

Added by Michael Fienen on September 25, 2009 at 8:02am — No Comments

Claudia Snell New Video For Incoming Students

We just posted a new video to our YouTube channel: 'Move-In Day for Thunder' Thunder is our mascot here at Nichols. In the video, he goes through the process of check-in and moving in. Continue

Added by Claudia Snell on August 19, 2009 at 9:10am — No Comments

Shere Hicks McClamb Email Marketing

Our PR department is currently searching for a more comprehensive user-friendly email marketing campaign software. They are currently using Constant Contact and unfortunately it is not meeting their needs. We would like to send Happy Birthday notes, major holdiays, pur campus newsletter, etc. Are there any suggestions out there? Continue

Added by Shere Hicks McClamb on August 10, 2009 at 3:30pm — 5 Comments

Shere Hicks McClamb ExpressionEngine

I am looking for a low cost solution for blogs, forums, simple pages, and displaying press releases. Does anyone have any experience or opinions on ExpressionEngine. Continue

Added by Shere Hicks McClamb on August 4, 2009 at 8:45pm — No Comments

Aaron Rester Presentation: Twitter in Higher Ed Communications

This week I presented at the 2009 eduWeb conference in Chicago. My talk, entitled "A Bird in the Hand: Twitter as a Higher Ed Communications Tool," presented some of the reasons why institutions of higher education might want to use Twitter and provide some tips and techniques for getting such a project off the ground. The powerpoint of my presentation is

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Added by Aaron Rester on July 22, 2009 at 11:44am — No Comments

Claudia Snell WordPress as Course Catalog

We've just launched our newest feature - The 2009-2010 Catalog - Department of Graduate and Professional Studies. It's all built in WordPress. Check it out: http://content.nichols.edu/course_catalogs/gps/ The new site uses a plugin to manage the sidebar navigations - Page Lists Plus - see that here: http://www.technokinetics.com/plugins/page-lists-plus/. Other than that, it's a standard WordPress install with custom built theme. Continue

Added by Claudia Snell on July 1, 2009 at 9:47am — 4 Comments

Claudia Snell An Event Apart, Boston - anyone else go?

Last week I attended An Event Apart, Boston (http://aneventapart.com/). It was excellent. For any that weren't able to attend this year, you can read A Feed Apart (http://afeedapart.com/). It's an unofficial feed aggregator of the twitter posts of attendees while the event was in progress. There are also photos posted on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/groups/aeaboston09/). If you haven't heard of An Event Apart, I would highly recommend it. It's the best conference I've been to. You can also ch… Continue

Added by Claudia Snell on June 29, 2009 at 4:09pm — No Comments

Edward Terry Fooling Contribute CS3 With PHP Include Based Templates

Via Fooling Contribute CS3 With PHP Include Based Templates Continue

Added by Edward Terry on June 18, 2009 at 6:03pm — No Comments

Claudia Snell Just posted a new video..

Video for the START Youth Leadership Conference held on the Nichols College Campus. Also launched a mini-site with the video, program information and slideshows: http://www.nichols.edu/interactive/start2009/ Continue

Added by Claudia Snell on June 17, 2009 at 5:01pm — No Comments

Tina Insert Giggles

UC Ballroom

Recreation Center Pool

Laurel Village Housing… Continue

Added by Tina on June 11, 2009 at 4:21pm — 1 Comment

Michael Render My first blog post

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Added by Michael Render on May 26, 2009 at 11:29am — No Comments

Shere Hicks McClamb My First Post EVER

I am indeed not from another planet but this is indeed my first post. Don't get me wrong I have read my share of blogs, but I guess I never thought I had anything important to say. I'm quite sure I still don't but I'll never know if I don't try. Continue

Added by Shere Hicks McClamb on May 14, 2009 at 10:01pm — No Comments

Julie Strothman What Kinds of Communities Do We Want to Create?

In his opening keynote at the Information Architecture Summit 2009, cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch, of Kansas State University, asked the room of user experience designers: "How can we create an environment that creates the kind of community and the kind of people we want?" It’s arguably self-aggrandizing to think we are engineering types of people, however Wesch, and later Jesse James Garrett, reminded us of McLuhan’s observation: "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

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Added by Julie Strothman on April 24, 2009 at 9:19am — No Comments

Alfajri Alwis Integrating Technology for Education

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Added by Alfajri Alwis on April 13, 2009 at 2:09am — No Comments

Karla Arosemena Updating survey about how prospective students use university websites...

Hello friends, I'm doing a research about how prospective students (grads/undergrads) search on university websites. I've posted a initial survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2bV8YLs5KEB1yQoD21OzvHw_3d_3d. Basically, I need help to gather more information from prospective students point of view. Please feel free to forward the link to any prospective student you might know. Thanks a lot.. The survey will be up till mid-May 09.. Continue

Added by Karla Arosemena on April 12, 2009 at 5:39pm — No Comments

Alfajri Alwis Integrating Technology with Google, Videos, and Social Bookmarking

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Added by Alfajri Alwis on March 31, 2009 at 4:49am — No Comments

Tina You Got Mail

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Added by Tina on March 30, 2009 at 12:15pm — No Comments

Chippy I'm not a social network kinda guy - BUT THE MUG ROCKS

Seriously the mug from OmniUpdate that you can get as perk for signing up for this site ROCKS! Mine just got here today, and I'm broadcasting my 'Website Hero' status to anyone who will see me drink something...which is basically everyone in the… Continue

Added by Chippy on March 30, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

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Michael Fienen replied to Darren Ladner's discussion 'Professional Organization or Conferences'
There's no real "professional organization" per se yet. The HighEdWeb group had been working on something like that though, but I'm not sure where they are at in that process. As for conferences, I'd generally recommend HighEdWeb and EDUWeb.
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Mark can I also jump on the wave. dladner@nctc.edu Thanks
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Professional Organization or Conferences
As I am new to the higher ed community, I was wondering if as a professional group do we have a professional type organization? Secondly, is there some type of annual conference for higher ed web developers/designers, where we can get together an...
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Excellent! I too look forward to watching the site continue to grow and evolve.. I personally have this site listed as my main contact site than the others. I post and read on almost daily. When compared to the other sites that I look at once a we...
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Trish replied to Trish's discussion 'Salaries?'
Thank you so much, Michael. That's great information. We already have an internal candidate in mind, so relocating, etc. aren't issues. This person has the required education and experience. With that in mind, what would you say would be fair? Tha...
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Ken, actually just got through looking at both CMS. I demoed Cascade Server and then Omni Update all in the same day. I do not think that you could go wrong with either of the systems. I loved both of them. Both are excellent CMS. But after the da...
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Michael Fienen replied to Trish's discussion 'Salaries?'
Without looking in to the cost of living up the Rhode Island way, if I were looking at it I wouldn't even apply for less than $70K (but I figure in a cost of living increase, plus moving costs, etc. I'm greedy, but I also wouldn't move across the ...
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Hi! Thanks. This is Providence College, a liberal arts college with an undergraduate enrollment of approx. 3,8000. The education is bachelor's degree and 7+ years' experience are required. I'm not sure about the budget. This person will manage on...
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Michael Fienen replied to Trish's discussion 'Salaries?'
One, where is this at? Two, define appropriate. There's "higher ed" appropriate and "competitive" appropriate. Three, how many people is the position in charge of?
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