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A little about me

A little about me: I'm a middle-aged white-hat hacker who's been on "the net" since 1981 (on Arpanet, USEnet, Bitnet, CSNET, and USENET). I'm fascinated by the history of "the net" and "the web" for many years, and am passionate about the use of these technologies in education, both formal (university/vocational) and informal (DIY and self-education on a wide range of topics).

I'm a believer in interdisciplinary approaches to the web, as demonstrated by my having taught for 3.5 years… Continue

Added by Charlie Lindahl on January 26, 2011 at 1:14am — No Comments

Develop an emergency action plan

Unfortunately, Pima Community College will always be associated with mass shooter Jared Lee Loughner. While the horrific incident didn't take place on their campus, it does remind us that any public space can be violated and that every organization needs an emergency action plan.

An Emergency Action Plan isn't just a nice-to-have. It's required by OSHA standards…

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Added by Susanne Starck on January 16, 2011 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Make decisions based on quality data

An organization that practices accountability will be able to measure the success of their students and use that information to improve. Being accountable means tracking the money and efforts spent, then using statistical measurements to determine outcomes and finally, making those outcomes public.

Good resources for learning more about accountability systems:

NAICU, the National Association of Independent Colleges and…

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Added by Susanne Starck on January 12, 2011 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Get more out of Google Analytics with Site Search and Event Tracking

Google Analytics comes with two very useful tools that aren’t enabled by default: Site Search and Event Tracking. When used, these tools can help give more meaningful statistics about users on your site.

Site Search

Site Search uses internal search data to track and analyze what…

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Added by Mike Takahashi on November 2, 2010 at 7:22pm — No Comments

Is it time to start thinking about Microsoft’s Bing?

There’s been a lot of buzz recently about Microsoft’s Bing search engine. A year ago Microsoft and Yahoo signed a deal that would make Bing power Yahoo’s searches. With the integration now complete, Bing and Yahoo…

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Added by Mike Takahashi on October 12, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Keeping users engaged with Facebook social plugins

At UCLA Happenings (UCLA's Campus Events Calendar), we are constantly trying to improve our site and keep our users engaged. A while back we integrated comments for every event via Facebook’s social plugins.

Facebook also makes it very easy to integrate these plugins with little work. In most cases, only a few lines of HTML code need to be added and you’re ready to go. We’ve seen…

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Added by Mike Takahashi on October 1, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

We’re 1 Year Old! (1 week ago)

It was 1 year ago when…

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Added by Ilya Stechkin on September 27, 2010 at 5:52am — No Comments

Twitter Sites for other Universities

So I am working on building a twitter page similar to what NC State, Vanderbilt, and Boston University have and I noticed that today that Boston and Vanderbilt has lost their timeline area as well as I have on the one that I am working with it. It seems that NCSU is the only one that is still up and running. If anyone from Vanderbilt or Boston has any input on this let me know. I'm not sure what is going on unless something has become outdated in the source code that we all use.

Added by Christopher Butler on August 31, 2010 at 4:19pm — 3 Comments

HTML5 Now I'm Excited

HTML5 will rock your web:http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/… Continue

Added by Mark A. Jarvis on August 31, 2010 at 1:30am — 2 Comments

Sorta New to WebDev.

I have just recently moved into the web side of IT. My previous 10 years have been primarily focused on email systems. Several years ago a project came about that required integrating email account / active directory maintenance into a web interface. I wrote much of then interface using php, a MySQL back-end, and a bunch of late nights. I have been hooked on web dev every since. I love to pickup odd projects and run with them, the more bizarre the better. This has ultimately brought to my… Continue

Added by Mark A. Jarvis on August 27, 2010 at 4:16pm — No Comments

FSU Mobile - app now live

We've implemented a Mobile app about a month ago... FSU Mobile is availabe at the iTunes store.

While it is only available for the iPhone, you can also go to m.fsu.edu for other smart phones with browser capabilities and use the app there.

It is a fun project and we hope to update some of the functionality on the www.fsu.edu pages to use the new data repositories.

For more information about Florida State's new…

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Added by Debbie on July 19, 2010 at 3:15pm — No Comments

Plone Symposium East - Presentations, Training and Sprints

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Added by Christian Johansen on May 7, 2010 at 4:48am — No Comments

Announcing John Slatin Access U 2010 - Accessibility Conference

I would like folks to know about a fantastic group out of Austin - Knowbility. Knowbility's mission is to ensure barrier-free I.T. - supporting the independence of people with disabilities by promoting the use and improving the availability of accessible information technology.

You can read more about them at their website: www.knowbility.org

They host an accessibility conference each year. This is some of the best training I've seen… Continue

Added by Sarah Gonzales on April 1, 2010 at 11:43am — No Comments

Starting the Inegniux CSAPI with Custom Tabs (Quick Starter Guide)

There are few steps to begin making the CSAPI (Content Store Application Programming Interface) to do your bidding under the custom tabs.

Set up /Custom/ folder base

First, there are two to be aware of. The first is the /your-site-root/xml/Custom/ Folder. Most of your server code will go here. At Gallaudet, the base of our code is all… Continue

Added by Richard on February 26, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

“Of CMS, Sleepless Nights, Nightingales & Avatars”

Before anybody dreamed up the term “Web-too-point Oh,” when having a fax machine of my own and three buttons on my desk phone made me a state-of-the-science communications executive, I carried myself with such great confidence and a kind of light-footed romantic sense of the world that all problems, great and small, were manageable. I slept every night straight through, certain that the next day’s challenges would be easily conquered.

Yes, my days as an Olympic-class sleeper (able to… Continue

Added by Mark Van Tilburg on February 1, 2010 at 2:51pm — No Comments

Brand spankin' new

Hello all UwebD's out there.

I'm a new member here, though I've been utilizing the site for quite some time. I have been working in admissions for a year now, and only responsible for a small portion of our school's website. However, I am thinker and always looking for what is out there and what is great to take to the next level.

I'll invite you to check out www.warnerpacific.edu to see how dated and un-impressive our website is… Continue

Added by Kraig Etzel on January 29, 2010 at 1:10pm — 3 Comments

Hello My Old Friend - Polls Are BACK - did they ever go away?

Recently Customer Relations and Communication (a department in OIT) was tasked to develop a way for enrolled students to answer a poll question about technology. The parameters of the poll were/are that only enrolled students could submit, that we needed at least 500 votes in 30 days, we couldn't use commercially available (free or otherwise) polling tools, and here is the crazy part we had no incentives to get students to participate (short of me handing them 5 bucks each from my own million… Continue

Added by Chippy on January 27, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

#csun2010

I'm scheduled to do a presentation with the developer of accessibletwitter.com, Dennis Lembree, at the 25th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference. This year for the first time it is in San Diego. Hope to see you all there!

Registration info:

http://tinyurl.com/ydk5jv8

My General Session Workshop is scheduled as follows:

• Session ID: WEB-2014

• Title:… Continue

Added by Joseph Karr O'Connor on January 26, 2010 at 4:25pm — No Comments

Web Server roles

Anyone have any feedback on this map of Web Server Roles?
Are there more roles?

Web_Server_Roles.pdf

Added by Jonathan Woolson on January 26, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Best Admission Uses of Twitter

"For 2010, it is safe to expect that Twitter will not see a diminished roll in university marketing and admissions strategy plans. However, it’s hard to avoid that some people will be coming to the web guys to have them set up their admissions office with Twitter (or will do it themselves), but then will do very little with it, feeling like they ‘just need to have it to be current.’ Should that happen to you, I wanted to share some of the best uses of Twitter that universities are doing… Continue

Added by Michael Fienen on January 11, 2010 at 11:02pm — 1 Comment

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I've been tasked with finding a software tool that helps manage the onboarding and exit process of new and departing faculty. Ultimately i would like this software to management faculty office interms of when resources can be removed from a particular office and when a new faculty member can be moved in with the necessary resources. This tool should have notifications and alerts so there are no conflicts with someone being removed from a office and someone being placed in a office. Does anyone…See More

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