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 […]
Archive for the ‘CMS’ Category
Interested in Web CMS adoption in higher ed? Take UC Davis online survey!
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 […]
Live from EduWeb 2007 in Baltimore: Lessons Learned from a website redesign
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 […]
Live from HighEdWebDev06: Open-Source, In Search of a New Business Model for College Web Site Development
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 […]
Special UB column on how to survive a CMS implementation: 5 tips from Rose Pruyne, Web Administrator at Penn State
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 tips […]
Special UB column on how to survive a CMS implementation: 5 tips from Mark Greenfield, Director of Web Services at the State University of New York at Buffalo
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 of […]
Special UB column on how to survive a CMS implementation: 4 tips from Nancy Jeanne Mustachio, Application Development Director at Seton Hall University
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†Nancy Jeanne Mustachio, Application Development Director at Seton Hall University shared 4 tips of her own at this time. […]
Special UB column on how to survive a CMS implementation: 6 tips from Brian Phelps, Web Manager at the University of the Pacific
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†Brian Phelps, Web Manager at the University of the Pacific, shared 6 tips of his own at this time. […]
10 Tips for Surviving a CMS Switch
My fifth column for University Business is now available in the October issue as well as online: “10 Tips for Surviving a CMS Switch†If you are a University Business reader who has just discovered collegewebeditor.com, welcome! Don’t forget to subscribe to this blog via RSS (use one of the buttons available at the top […]
Ball State University is blogging its website redesign and CMS selection
Following in the footsteps of Ohio State University, Cornell University and Duke University among others, Ball State University has launched a blog dedicated to the relaunch of its website: Relaunching bsu.edu. Maintained by Nancy Prater, BSU University Web Coordinator, this blog will be used as the main communication channel to announce changes and collect feedback […]
Your university website needs more than a Content Management System
In “Content management systems only part of solution,” Georgina Hibberd from the University of Sydney reminds us that a CMS will only help manage content: A fully automated system that makes the entering of content easier does not make it easier to produce interesting, well-written and timely content. Someone has to take responsibility for the […]
Content Management System 101: how to evaluate a web CMS?
Whether you have already crossed that bridge or not, you know that the selection of a web content management system (CMS) is a very big decision to make (or sell to your website stakeholders). Selecting a CMS can be a difficult and long process. Most of the time, you will have to ponder about the […]
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