Dec
17
Wordpress MU, Muah!!
December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Wordpress MU has become an indispensable tool for building out vanity and other stand alone sites outside of the established .NET/ASP Content Management System (CMS) used for our main site.
I have been able to implement a variety of sites, from simple to complex, thanks, in part, to the availablity of free plug-ins that allow [...]
Feb
10
New G.I. Bill Promises But Can Higher Ed Deliver?
February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
What is old is new again: in this case, the “G.I. Bill 2.0″ is really just catching up to what our service people SHOULD have been receiving long ago. “This goes a long way toward making today’s GI Bill a kind of equalizer that the original GI Bill was,” said Suzanne Mettler, a professor of [...]
Jul
18
Girls Under Trees
July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Jared Spool’s excellent keynote address this past week at the 2008 Higher Ed Web Symposium @ UPenn was the perfect mix of humor and invaluable information. First, He really dug at us (Higher Eds) hard when he noted the overuse of the ‘girls under trees’ photocliche on many University homepages. As a female myself, [...]
Jul
17
Drop it Like it’s Drupal!
July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Ok, Drupal is Sexy and it’s Hot! I just spent two days at the Higher Education Web Symposium 2008 hosted by UPenn Medicine. First, the UPenn staff did an amazing job. Kudos to UPenn and in particular Ben Adams, the choreographer of the event!
I was lucky enough to meet Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg, a Drupal Evangelist - [...]
Apr
24
Ning or Drupal?
April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Originally, I had planned to build out the accepted applicants portal/community site in Ning. Drupal offers way more control and can be hosted internally. More on this later.
Apr
24
Theming in Drupal
April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Just started theming in Drupal. Everytime I’ve got my hands inside the Drupal engine I get giggly. Drupal is a beauty — I’ve begun building out the community site for a local Philadelphia bike racing team. I will follow that up with a build-out of a community site for accepted applicants at the Law School. [...]
Feb
8
The Buzz: Create Your OWN Social Network
February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I recently joined the University Webmasters Social Network (http://cuwebd.ning.com/) on NING. The flexibility that Ning, and similar (what I call) “SockNet” sites has big and positive implications for smaller Universities in particular. One-stop centralized do-it-yourself solutions like these can be leveraged in a variety of ways to bring University communities closer together: [...]
Dec
11
“Dot Net”, here I come!
December 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I’m still in disbelief: I was in the office 21 days straight. That is NOT an exaggeration, and I am sometimes prone to exaggerating ( I think that is part of my Latina DNA). Seriously: 21 days in a row, 10 to 11 hour days. I look back and I had no idea I had [...]
Jul
25
EDU Web Conference: Lindsay and Britney Out of Rehab, Seen Partying in Baltimore!
July 25, 2007 | 1 Comment
Okay, not really Lindsay and Britney…. Microformats actually. But, now that I have your attention: I want to take the opportunity to mention some very cool and unique people I met and conversations I had of note while at the eduWeb Conference.
First, i got to meet an ellusive uwebd-list guru: Jay Collier, web comm. [...]
Jul
25
EDU Web Conference: Plan to attend in 2008!
July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Just returned from a really good few days in Baltimore, Maryland, site of the edu Web Conference. Kudos to the organizer, Shelley Wentzel, for a job well done. Needless to say, I was inspired by the dedication and enthusiasm of the presenters and the attendees. There is something very special about my colleagues who work [...]