Learn how two Universities used Open Source to deliver affordable, collaborative web sites

[Richard Dumas]

Universities and colleges need solutions to cost-effectively build and manage web sites. Learn from two University web experts how they used DotNetNuke to build cost effective, secure, and flexible sites.  Do you need to build sites that enable students, teachers, administrators and alumni to communicate and collaborate? Do you face tight budget constraints and lack of staff? These experts will provide practical advice that will help you to deliver powerful web sites for your university, college or institution.

 

REGISTER TO VIEW THE RECORDING (RECORDED FEB. 23rd 2011: http://bit.ly/iiF6Xk

 

You will learn:      

• To build, deploy and manage a University or College web site with limited resources
• How to integrate social networking features into your site.
• How university web site developers implement content workflows to ensure content is accurate and approved before being published
• To provide secure access to sensitive areas of your web site and ensure only authorized content contributors are able to change key site content
• To deploy a web site for hundreds of non-technical content contributors
• How two developers used third party application modules to control development costs while extending the functionality of their site
• How University web manages leveraged 3^rd party DotNetNuke design and development services to rapidly deploy their sites.

Panelists:

Robin Parker, Web and Database Programming Manager, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University (www.johnson.cornell.edu)

Robin successfully deployed a rebranded CMS-based web site that created a larger applicant pool, attracted top faculty and improved employment prospects for graduates of the Johnson School. Robin also recently launched a new Alumni Portal which uses ActiveSocial modules to enable over 13,000 alumni to communicate and network.

 

Walt Brannon, Manager Messaging and Media Systems, University of New Orleans (uno.edu.com)

Walt recently released a suite of new web properties for the University of New Orleans (one of LSU’s campuses) in record time. Walt created multiple web portals with unique URLs for the colleges (i.e. College of Science, College of Liberal Arts) and deployed document sharing and collaboration across colleges and departments.

Cuong Dang, Social Media Technology Manager, r2integrated

Cuong leads the marketing effort for the open source technology platform, DotNetNuke (DNN), and decision making in front-end engineering implementation of projects. Dang came on board with DotNetNuke as a Core Team member focusing on the user experience for DotNetNuke product development. He is currently a team lead of the DotNetNuke User Experience Team and a DNN skinning expert. He is a Wrox author on DotNetNuke and Web Standards, and has conducted extensive training throughout the country on the DNN platform.

 

 

REGISTER: http://bit.ly/iiF6Xk