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March 11, 2013 | John Krane

Hey all,

 

We are wondering how other universities handle processing news stories generated over the weekend. For example, if something “important” happened for your school on a Saturday, how does that news get written up and pushed to a web delivery?

 

Are you staffed in a special way for 7-day news coverage? Are most weekend stories really just “Monday stories” that get processed on the next workday? Do you have a news-centric chain of command for approving and releasing news on a weekend? Are there specific tools you use to help procure weekend content (for writing and or submitting news? Processing feeds automatically to swap out emerging news stories on your websites? Etc)

 

I appreciate any and all feedback you can offer J Thanks!

...
January 16, 2013 | Aren Cambre
This isn't the first listserv I've seen where digest mode has problems with non-plain text emails. Outlook and gmail can group emails by conversation, plus you can use their rules to send this listserv's emails to a special folder or label. This gives the batched advantage of digest mode, plus gives you a superior and more efficient experience of having the emails groups by subject. Aren
January 15, 2013 | Aren Cambre

My team is the Web Technologies Team, and we call ourselves web developers.

 

We’re purposefully getting “web” out of our name for two reasons:

1.       Strategic: “web” is everywhere. It’s passé. Hence, no reason to call it out as a specialty.

2.       Internal: “web” in our names encourages coworkers to knee-jerk any request over to us just because they see the word “web” in it. That results in a lot of misdirected requests and pressure to accept work we shouldn’t be doing.

 

We may go with Software Development Team and assume new titles of Software Developers.

 

What do...

October 16, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User
Message from tkaufman@umaryland.edu

The University of Maryland Baltimore has a Google Search Appliance and we’d like to improve search results by adding more detailed metadata and developing a standard campus-wide naming taxonomy. 

 

Our campus is looking for ways to improve and refine search results based on keywords and metadata attributes such as File Type, Site, Author, and Modified Date along with managed metadata that has been tagged to content returned in results. 

 

We were wondering if anyone else has established naming standards or taxonomy for their campus to use for searching web pages that they’d be willing to share, or any suggestions on how we could develop one for our campus to use.

 

Thanks in advance,

...

October 15, 2012 | Aren Cambre

Vendors,

 

Please do not cold call people on this list, especially when they haven’t asked for help.

 

I just got a scripted cold call that was not appreciated. That’s wasting the vendor’s time and mine.

 

This has been a problem on other Educause email lists, and there has been off and on discussion of banning vendors from these lists.

 

Aren Cambre, '99, '03
Team Lead, Web Technologies Team
Office of Information Technology
Southern Methodist University

 

 

...
October 8, 2012 | Neil Allison

We're in the process of reviewing our Content Management System and website provision.

One aspect of this is can or should we go Open Source?

 

Over and above the technology though, I'm interested in the people managing the website:

-          What they're allowed to do editorially and design-wise

-          Who gets access to what and why

-          How they can share content and cross reference

-          How they're supported from the centre

 

I've created a suite of user scenarios to help express to...

September 5, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User
Message from info@eduiconf.org

Just a reminder that Web4Lib subscribers can save $100 on edUi 2012 by using the discount code "library" when you register.

http://edui2012.eventbrite.com/?discount=library

What is edUi?

edUi is a conference for web professionals serving colleges, universities, libraries and museums. This year it takes place in Richmond, VA Sept. 24-26th.

Some sessions Web4Lib folks might be interested in:

Speed Is a Feature: Performance on the Mobile Web - Eric Petteplace
Leveraging Student Data to Create Website Personalization - Ian...
July 30, 2012 | Joseph Karam

Dear Educause Member,

As part of my Master’s Degree research at Rochester Institute of Technology, a knowledge sharing wiki was implemented at Educause, where IT professionals in Higher Education could share best practices (www.educause.edu/wiki/sharing).  The wiki was open for contributions from different constituencies in higher education between January and March 2012.  To date, participation and interest in the wiki has been very low.  As part of the growing body of knowledge in collaborative computing, we are interested to know “why?” 

Your answers to this eight question survey are instrumental to understanding the barriers and enablers to wiki participation.  The survey will take no more than five minutes to complete.  Please be assured all responses are anonymous, you will not be personally identified, and all findings will...

July 28, 2012 | Rosemary A. Rocchio



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"JOIN US" AT THE 2012 MWF CONFERENCE TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE YOUR WEBSITE
RESPONSIVE!


Learn more and register at: Http://mwf.ucla.edu/conference

The Mobile Web Framework (MWF) Conference brings together developers,
innovators, researchers, faculty and students who are all working to
mobile enable their web presences! This year, the program includes two
concurrent presentation tracks on a number of topics ranging from
high-level mobile strategy and governance to research pilots and
examples to technical...

July 17, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User
Message from info@eduiconf.org

I thought the eduCause community might be interested in this announcement about the edUi schedule. If you're not familiar, edUi is a conference on user interface and user experience for colleges, universities, libraries and museums.

-Trey

View the edUi 2012 Schedule [http://eduiconf.org/schedule/]

Yep, at long last the edUi 2012 schedule is available. We've got
40 sessions for you organized into four tracks including some
sweet half-day workshops (one is included with your
registration [http://edui2012.eventbrite.com/]).

*************** Some of our speakers *********************************

You've been hearing a lot about our featured speakers
[http...
June 13, 2012 | Jameson Watkins
Hi -
 
Is anyone using an open source or vendor system to do training, compliance, and/or certifications? We have a homegrown solution that we need to replace soon by either rewriting or purchasing and I'm trying to get a feel for the market.
 
Essentially we need to do authentication via CAS or LDAP, provide some static HTML content for someone to step through, then a quiz  to grade. After successful completion of the module, a printable certificate may be presented and a report could be run on the backend breaking down the users by department and school. Ideally we could identify all the modules a certain person based on an LDAP attribute or role would be required to take and manage all their certifications from a single place.
 
Our LMS doesn't seem like a good fit to me, though I'd be curious to know about ways you've bent your LMS to fit these needs if you have.
...
June 7, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User
Message from ahockett@warnerpacific.edu

Hello All,

 

I’m doing an in depth comparison to Nginx vs. Apache2 as a case study for moving towards using Nginx for our web servers and in doing so, I’ve hit the part where I believe some input from the group would be appreciated. 

 

Security.

 

I’m fairly well versed in locking down vHosts, .htaccess files, redirects, rewrites, etc. on Apache2 and I’m just learning some of the techniques found in Nginx to do the configuration in their “VCL” files.  What I’m curious about is what the “buzz” is around if Nginx  and if it sacrifices any security for the speed?  The context of this is obviously important  so let me flesh that out.  This would be...

May 21, 2012 | Joseph Karam

Hello,

If our main web site www.princeton.edu goes down at Princeton we have a failover web site with a simple "Technical difficulties" page on a virtual server at another university that will answer requests. We use a service from UltraDNS to handle the DNS failover for the www.princeton.edu IP addresses to shift from our Princeton network to the emergency site.

 

We are looking to re-architect this setup and are curious as to what other configurations people have in place in case their primary web site has a failure. For example, we are looking at the F5 global load balancing options and other hosted solutions. Any insights would be much appreciated!

 

Thank you,

 

Joe Karam

Manager, Collaboration Services Group

...
April 17, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User
Message from tlopez@pacific.edu

WEB Digest - 4 Apr 2012 to 5 Apr 2012 (#2012-15)

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to thank all the input from everyone who shared on this thread!

J

 

Thanks,

Tanya

 

April 3, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User
Message from tlopez@pacific.edu

We are currently using the Google Mini Appliance to provide on-site search for Pacific.edu and we’ve talked about moving to the Google Appliance but I would like to evaluate what others are using and what they like/don’t like about their solution.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

______________________
Tanya Y. Lopez
Web Marketing Manager
University of the Pacific
Office:    (209) 946-3273
Mobile:   (209) 487-4246
tlopez@pacific.edu
www.Pacific.edu

 

********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE...
April 2, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User
Message from info@eduiconf.org

I thought I'd pass along this announcement to the EDUCAUSE community about registration opening for edUi 2012 (http://eduiconf.org). The call for proposals is currently open as well.

What is edUi?
edUi is a conference for web professionals serving colleges, universities, libraries, museums, and other institutions of learning. Our focus is primarily on user interface and user experience design/development.

The 2012 conference is happening Sept. 24-26 in Richmond, VA.

-Trey

====================================================

Registration is Open!

Register Now [http://edui2012.eventbrite.com/] and be a part of
this rare opportunity for kindred web professionals serving
institutions of learning to come together as one...
March 27, 2012 | Aren Cambre

Why marketing software will never be like ERP is an excellent article by Scott Brinker, expert in marketing technology.

 

It’s been hard for me to explain, coherently, to my management why marketing technology is unique in IT. Scott hits the nail on the head.

 

He points out that in other parts of IT, there’s a lot of standardization, as evidenced by the major players, but that marketing technology, there is little standardization:

 

Only one marketing...

March 27, 2012 | Aren Cambre

An excerpt from Making Content Strategy Work: Author Interview with Margot Bloomstein, an article from The CMS Myth, one of the better WCM blogs:

 

Is there one industry that gets [web content management] better than another?

Smart companies are thriving as publishers in every industry, though I’ve been seeing a lot of energy around content strategy in higher ed....

March 21, 2012 | Aren Cambre

What’s the main difference between this list and uwebd?

 

Complaints about uwebd are increasing, partly because of their ancient or poorly configured listserv software, and I wonder if we should encourage them to come over here, if the lists are complementary?

 

Aren Cambre, '99, '03
Team Lead, Web Technologies Team
Office of Information Technology
Southern Methodist University

 

 

********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at...
March 20, 2012 | Scott Ciliberti
You may recall I asked a couple of weeks ago if any of you were using Alfresco as your CMS.  Well, there's been a massive revolt against Alfresco on campus and I'm suddenly in the market to replace it.   At this stage I'm looking for vendors in the higher ed market that you have a positive working relationship with in terms of implementation and ongoing support.  I'd like to start with those vendors in our RFP process.  Thanks for you help.
 
 
 
Scott Ciliberti, Chief Information Officer
Enterprise Technology Services
536 Mission Street, Room P-49
San Francisco, CA 94105
v: 415.369.5365
 
I'm participating in the AIDS Lifecycle; a 7-day 545 mile cycling fundraising event between SF and LA. ...
March 20, 2012 | Scott Ciliberti
You may recall I asked a couple of weeks ago if any of you were using Alfresco as your CMS.  Well, there's been a massive revolt against Alfresco on campus and I'm suddenly in the market to replace it.   At this stage I'm looking for vendors in the higher ed market that you have a positive working relationship with in terms of implementation and ongoing support.  I'd like to start with those vendors in our RFP process.  Thanks for you help.
 
 
 
Scott Ciliberti, Chief Information Officer
Enterprise Technology Services
536 Mission Street, Room P-49
San Francisco, CA 94105
v: 415.369.5365
 
I'm participating in the AIDS Lifecycle; a 7-day 545 mile cycling fundraising event between SF and LA. ...
October 8, 2012 | Neil Allison

We're in the process of reviewing our Content Management System and website provision.

One aspect of this is can or should we go Open Source?

 

Over and above the technology though, I'm interested in the people managing the website:

-          What they're allowed to do editorially and design-wise

-          Who gets access to what and why

-          How they can share content and cross reference

-          How they're supported from the centre

 

I've created a suite of user scenarios to help express to...

April 3, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User
Message from tlopez@pacific.edu

We are currently using the Google Mini Appliance to provide on-site search for Pacific.edu and we’ve talked about moving to the Google Appliance but I would like to evaluate what others are using and what they like/don’t like about their solution.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

______________________
Tanya Y. Lopez
Web Marketing Manager
University of the Pacific
Office:    (209) 946-3273
Mobile:   (209) 487-4246
tlopez@pacific.edu
www.Pacific.edu

 

********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE...
October 16, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User
Message from tkaufman@umaryland.edu

The University of Maryland Baltimore has a Google Search Appliance and we’d like to improve search results by adding more detailed metadata and developing a standard campus-wide naming taxonomy. 

 

Our campus is looking for ways to improve and refine search results based on keywords and metadata attributes such as File Type, Site, Author, and Modified Date along with managed metadata that has been tagged to content returned in results. 

 

We were wondering if anyone else has established naming standards or taxonomy for their campus to use for searching web pages that they’d be willing to share, or any suggestions on how we could develop one for our campus to use.

 

Thanks in advance,

...

January 15, 2013 | Aren Cambre

My team is the Web Technologies Team, and we call ourselves web developers.

 

We’re purposefully getting “web” out of our name for two reasons:

1.       Strategic: “web” is everywhere. It’s passé. Hence, no reason to call it out as a specialty.

2.       Internal: “web” in our names encourages coworkers to knee-jerk any request over to us just because they see the word “web” in it. That results in a lot of misdirected requests and pressure to accept work we shouldn’t be doing.

 

We may go with Software Development Team and assume new titles of Software Developers.

 

What do...

June 7, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User
Message from ahockett@warnerpacific.edu

Hello All,

 

I’m doing an in depth comparison to Nginx vs. Apache2 as a case study for moving towards using Nginx for our web servers and in doing so, I’ve hit the part where I believe some input from the group would be appreciated. 

 

Security.

 

I’m fairly well versed in locking down vHosts, .htaccess files, redirects, rewrites, etc. on Apache2 and I’m just learning some of the techniques found in Nginx to do the configuration in their “VCL” files.  What I’m curious about is what the “buzz” is around if Nginx  and if it sacrifices any security for the speed?  The context of this is obviously important  so let me flesh that out.  This would be...

February 27, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User
Message from jpthoma2@samford.edu

Hello all

 

I was wondering if any of you had any experience with of recommendations of digital media transcription services (ie podcasts) for students with disabilities.  Additionally, I am also interested to know how you have handled this at your institution.

 

Thanks!
JT

 

 

 

 

Josh Thomas

Director of Web Services

Ektron Certified Developer

Samford University – University Advancement

205-726-4144

 

 

...
March 11, 2013 | John Krane

Hey all,

 

We are wondering how other universities handle processing news stories generated over the weekend. For example, if something “important” happened for your school on a Saturday, how does that news get written up and pushed to a web delivery?

 

Are you staffed in a special way for 7-day news coverage? Are most weekend stories really just “Monday stories” that get processed on the next workday? Do you have a news-centric chain of command for approving and releasing news on a weekend? Are there specific tools you use to help procure weekend content (for writing and or submitting news? Processing feeds automatically to swap out emerging news stories on your websites? Etc)

 

I appreciate any and all feedback you can offer J Thanks!

...
July 30, 2012 | Joseph Karam

Dear Educause Member,

As part of my Master’s Degree research at Rochester Institute of Technology, a knowledge sharing wiki was implemented at Educause, where IT professionals in Higher Education could share best practices (www.educause.edu/wiki/sharing).  The wiki was open for contributions from different constituencies in higher education between January and March 2012.  To date, participation and interest in the wiki has been very low.  As part of the growing body of knowledge in collaborative computing, we are interested to know “why?” 

Your answers to this eight question survey are instrumental to understanding the barriers and enablers to wiki participation.  The survey will take no more than five minutes to complete.  Please be assured all responses are anonymous, you will not be personally identified, and all findings will...

May 21, 2012 | Joseph Karam

Hello,

If our main web site www.princeton.edu goes down at Princeton we have a failover web site with a simple "Technical difficulties" page on a virtual server at another university that will answer requests. We use a service from UltraDNS to handle the DNS failover for the www.princeton.edu IP addresses to shift from our Princeton network to the emergency site.

 

We are looking to re-architect this setup and are curious as to what other configurations people have in place in case their primary web site has a failure. For example, we are looking at the F5 global load balancing options and other hosted solutions. Any insights would be much appreciated!

 

Thank you,

 

Joe Karam

Manager, Collaboration Services Group

...
January 16, 2013 | Aren Cambre
This isn't the first listserv I've seen where digest mode has problems with non-plain text emails. Outlook and gmail can group emails by conversation, plus you can use their rules to send this listserv's emails to a special folder or label. This gives the batched advantage of digest mode, plus gives you a superior and more efficient experience of having the emails groups by subject. Aren
October 15, 2012 | Aren Cambre

Vendors,

 

Please do not cold call people on this list, especially when they haven’t asked for help.

 

I just got a scripted cold call that was not appreciated. That’s wasting the vendor’s time and mine.

 

This has been a problem on other Educause email lists, and there has been off and on discussion of banning vendors from these lists.

 

Aren Cambre, '99, '03
Team Lead, Web Technologies Team
Office of Information Technology
Southern Methodist University

 

 

...
September 5, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User
Message from info@eduiconf.org

Just a reminder that Web4Lib subscribers can save $100 on edUi 2012 by using the discount code "library" when you register.

http://edui2012.eventbrite.com/?discount=library

What is edUi?

edUi is a conference for web professionals serving colleges, universities, libraries and museums. This year it takes place in Richmond, VA Sept. 24-26th.

Some sessions Web4Lib folks might be interested in:

Speed Is a Feature: Performance on the Mobile Web - Eric Petteplace
Leveraging Student Data to Create Website Personalization - Ian...
July 28, 2012 | Rosemary A. Rocchio



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"JOIN US" AT THE 2012 MWF CONFERENCE TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE YOUR WEBSITE
RESPONSIVE!


Learn more and register at: Http://mwf.ucla.edu/conference

The Mobile Web Framework (MWF) Conference brings together developers,
innovators, researchers, faculty and students who are all working to
mobile enable their web presences! This year, the program includes two
concurrent presentation tracks on a number of topics ranging from
high-level mobile strategy and governance to research pilots and
examples to technical...

July 17, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User
Message from info@eduiconf.org

I thought the eduCause community might be interested in this announcement about the edUi schedule. If you're not familiar, edUi is a conference on user interface and user experience for colleges, universities, libraries and museums.

-Trey

View the edUi 2012 Schedule [http://eduiconf.org/schedule/]

Yep, at long last the edUi 2012 schedule is available. We've got
40 sessions for you organized into four tracks including some
sweet half-day workshops (one is included with your
registration [http://edui2012.eventbrite.com/]).

*************** Some of our speakers *********************************

You've been hearing a lot about our featured speakers
[http...
June 13, 2012 | Jameson Watkins
Hi -
 
Is anyone using an open source or vendor system to do training, compliance, and/or certifications? We have a homegrown solution that we need to replace soon by either rewriting or purchasing and I'm trying to get a feel for the market.
 
Essentially we need to do authentication via CAS or LDAP, provide some static HTML content for someone to step through, then a quiz  to grade. After successful completion of the module, a printable certificate may be presented and a report could be run on the backend breaking down the users by department and school. Ideally we could identify all the modules a certain person based on an LDAP attribute or role would be required to take and manage all their certifications from a single place.
 
Our LMS doesn't seem like a good fit to me, though I'd be curious to know about ways you've bent your LMS to fit these needs if you have.
...
April 17, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User
Message from tlopez@pacific.edu

WEB Digest - 4 Apr 2012 to 5 Apr 2012 (#2012-15)

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to thank all the input from everyone who shared on this thread!

J

 

Thanks,

Tanya

 

April 2, 2012 | Listserv Anonymous User
Message from info@eduiconf.org

I thought I'd pass along this announcement to the EDUCAUSE community about registration opening for edUi 2012 (http://eduiconf.org). The call for proposals is currently open as well.

What is edUi?
edUi is a conference for web professionals serving colleges, universities, libraries, museums, and other institutions of learning. Our focus is primarily on user interface and user experience design/development.

The 2012 conference is happening Sept. 24-26 in Richmond, VA.

-Trey

====================================================

Registration is Open!

Register Now [http://edui2012.eventbrite.com/] and be a part of
this rare opportunity for kindred web professionals serving
institutions of learning to come together as one...
March 27, 2012 | Aren Cambre

Why marketing software will never be like ERP is an excellent article by Scott Brinker, expert in marketing technology.

 

It’s been hard for me to explain, coherently, to my management why marketing technology is unique in IT. Scott hits the nail on the head.

 

He points out that in other parts of IT, there’s a lot of standardization, as evidenced by the major players, but that marketing technology, there is little standardization:

 

Only one marketing...

March 27, 2012 | Aren Cambre

An excerpt from Making Content Strategy Work: Author Interview with Margot Bloomstein, an article from The CMS Myth, one of the better WCM blogs:

 

Is there one industry that gets [web content management] better than another?

Smart companies are thriving as publishers in every industry, though I’ve been seeing a lot of energy around content strategy in higher ed....

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