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 —
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"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 —
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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 —
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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
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
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
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
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 —
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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 —
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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
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.
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 —
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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 —
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Many of us have heard of the concept of Perpetual Beta which basically means that a system never leaves beta and is constantly having new features added. I would like to talk about the concept of Perpetual Feedback.
I’ve done some searching and haven’t found any resources citing the term Perpetual Feedback. The concept itself isn’t really new, but I would like to put a new spin or face to idea of website feedback.
I remember years ago implementing a feedback form on some websites I was working… Continue
Added by Michael McCready on March 19, 2009 at 1:52am —
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OmniUpdate is pleased to add the Community College of Rhode Island to our family of OU Campus web CMS users. Welcome aboard! Training has been completed and we look forward to a successful launch.
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For the most part, each of our Facebook pages has only one person posting to them. However, we also indicated that I should be an admin user for any Facebook fan page officially created by the College. I'm not an admin to actually post anything, b...
I currently manage the Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter pages for Sinclair Community College (www.sinclair.edu), located in Dayton, OH. I have been working on an idea in which we would ask students to submit pictures to us for our Picture of the Day...
You are reading my mind Liberti. That was going to be one of my next questions. This is something that I need to get done now even before our new website redesign. It looks like from all of the responses that there is a scattershot of different op...
Yes, I agree that some people do not know PHP at all that use Joomla. But as a web programmer first, I learned PHP to be able to create and alter the Joomla templates, create or alter the plugins, the modules etc. . Also, just to be able to unders...
We have two people who administer the main campus page. Any side pages in FaceBook by other departments must still run though this office for approval and to have one administrator assigned to be responsible for what content is put on that page. W...
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