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Note from Karine: This year, I’ve asked all the eduWeb speakers working in universities/colleges to share in 140 words or less the biggest take-away from their presentation or table talk. If you’ve attended this session, feel free to weigh in by posting a comment, a question or a suggestion.
Setting expectations are crucial for a successful [...]

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Note from Karine: This year, I’ve asked all the eduWeb speakers working in universities/colleges to share in 140 words or less the biggest take-away from their presentation or table talk. If you’ve attended this session, feel free to weigh in by posting a comment, a question or a suggestion.
Universities struggle to find all the right [...]

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A couple of months ago, Elliot Lopez, Project Manager for University Communications at the University of California, Davis created a survey about CMS (as in Content Management System) in higher education.
Elliot just emailed me to let me know that the results including answers from 129 institutions have just been published on his team blog:
Initial highlights [...]

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The conference is now over, but Dimitri, one of this year’s guest bloggers has sent a few more posts about interesting sessions including this presentation about WordPress.
Drew Geraets and Thomas Knoll wanted something lightweight, flexible, and easy to implement when they ventured on building their new site. Their CMS was bulky and not friendly enough [...]

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Yes, that’s right.
BSU hasn’t just redesigned its website: the university is relaunching it tomorrow (October 1st) as Nancy Prater, University Web Coordinator, told me in an email a couple of weeks ago.
The project including the redesign, a revamped information architecture and a CMS implementation took 18 months as explained in “Extreme Makeover: Web Site Edition:”

“If [...]

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Reader and HEE member Elliot Lopez, Project Manager for University Communications at UC Davis, has beaten me to the punch with his online survey about Web CMS in higher ed. This was indeed on my to-do list for September ;-)
Anybody contemplating a CMS selection and implementation in higher education will kill for some fresh data [...]

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Lorraine Spencer, IT Manager at Johns Hopkins University in the Office of Continuing Medical Education presented today a session titled “A Web Re-Design: Lessons Learned.”
This is Amy Stevens’ second and last scheduled post.
What happens when you simultaneously launch a redesign of both your front end and back end of your institutions’s website?
Ms.Lorraine [...]

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J. Todd Bennett and Will Ezell from Dotmarketing presented this morning a session at HighEdWebDev in Rochester titled “Open-Source: In Search of a New Business Model for College Web Site Development.”
Karine’s disclaimer: I usually shy away from blogging about vendor presentations. This morning, Dimitri Glazkov, CTO at Estrada, another CMS vendor, offered to cover [...]

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Last July, I conducted several email interviews to prepare my column on how to survive a Content Management System (CMS) implementation for the October 2006 issue of University Business: “10 Tips for Surviving a CMS Switch”
Rose Pruyne, Web Administrator for the Department of Dairy and Animal Sciences at Penn State University, shared 5 [...]

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Last July, I conducted several email interviews to prepare my column on how to survive a Content Management System (CMS) implementation for the October 2006 issue of University Business: “10 Tips for Surviving a CMS Switch”
Mark Greenfield, Director of Web Services at the State University of New York at Buffalo, shared 5 tips [...]

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