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2017 Conference Applications and Standards

#AIM4 – Mobile First: Writing and Designing Page Content in the Age of Mobile

Catherine Harwood, manager of web & social media at Eastern Florida State College prefaced her presentation with a note, that participants don’t need to be web developers to master designing content for mobile. It’s important because, as Harwood notes, more and more of our users are getting to our site via mobile sources. They arrive […]

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2016 Conference Applications and Standards

Self-Updating Social Media-Driven Digital Signage

Adam Gould is a Web Technologist at Jamestown Community College who presented today on social media-driven digital signage/billboards. Adam created digital signage that was able to be displayed and customized on all of Jamestown Community College’s four campuses as well as the different departments within these campuses. This allows the system to run on one […]

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2016 Conference Applications and Standards Content Creation Marketing Technological Developments

Easy, Affordable Digital Signs with WordPress

How to get relevant campus-related news out to students? Greg Marshall, Web Services Manager at Truman State University argues that the majority of scholars doesn’t read their emails, doesn’t read college print materials and due to different target audiences, is hard to reach on social media. “The best way to reach them is to reach students […]

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2012 Conference Applications and Standards

WordPress to the nth Power: Multisite and Beyond

WordPress to the nth Power: Multisite and Beyond Curtiss Grymala, University Webmaster, University of Mary Washington Last year about this time, University of Mary Washington launched its new website using WordPress (WP) for its CMS. In the intro to his presentation, Curtiss Grymala, webmaster at UMC, explained that the overarching university site comprises 250 sites […]

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2012 Conference Applications and Standards

Cloud Computing: Planning for Success

Cloud Computing: Planning for Success Jason Fish, Manager of Application Programming, Purdue University This session appeared to be for adults only with a focus on how we can satisfy our users (give them more for them to choose); perform better (meet technology needs); last longer (meet user demands) and pick people up (use other platforms […]

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Applications and Standards Content Creation Marketing

My Week with Google Street View

What’s it like to to be part of the Google Street View Partner Program? Corie Martin takes us inside.

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Applications and Standards Marketing Mobile Regional Conference Technological Developments Usability

#hewebSYR 2012

HighEdWeb Syracuse brought Web professionals from across five states and three countries for a packed day of sessions covering everything from crisis communications and student social media ambassadors to Wordpress plug-ins and mobile learning.

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Applications and Standards

Form Vs. Function: Is that a WP Theme or Plugin Function?

FInd out the best methods for adding new functionality to your WordPress site.

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Applications and Standards

Flick of the Switch: Turning on the LAMP in Just 30 Minutes

You can get a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server up and running in just 30 minutes.

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Applications and Standards

Pragmatic Emergency Preparedness

A solution allowing for rapid, broad changes by an individual web professional, so institutions can get out urgent messages quickly.

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Applications and Standards Mobile

MWF: The UC Mobile Solution

Universities have to consider quite a bit in developing a mobile strategy. What devices do you support? Do you go the app or mobile web browser? How do you display disparate information in a cohesive way?

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2011 Conference Applications and Standards

Using WordPress to Power Your Institution’s Entire News Presence #heweb11

View Session Description and Presenter’s Bio Feel like your school’s news sites are out of control? Vanderbilt University did. They got the chaos under control by using WordPress, Lacy Tite told an audience at HighEdWeb 11. VU found itself posting a single story to multiple sites, controlled by multiple people. If a change had to […]