One of the specific areas that I’ve been working on is how our new website can better present information & inspire engagement within departmental and individual faculty webpages. I’ve sent the following questions to all department chairs, but invite anyone with a stake in academic pages – whether you’re a faculty member, coordinator, student, alum, [...]
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We are at a point in the project where it is time to start thinking about the conversion process. To get that conversation started, here are a bunch of questions that we’ll need to answer (and no doubt there are many more.)
How many pages are there on our present website?
Will they all be converted, or [...]
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I’ve posted the slides we’ve been using to explain our process for those who might find them useful when they are explaining the process to others. They are at http://tinyurl.com/webmakeoverslides .
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We’ve tried to assemble a range of examples from college websites that exemplify some options that Middlebury might emulate. Please provide additional examples in the comments if you see any that speak to you, or have comments on these sites that we used to present to staff on Dec. 16:
- Oberlin has recently redesigned its [...]
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I’m in the process of a brand mapping exercise. Your input would be helpful. There are many sub-brands that are producing a little fragmentation of Middlebury College’s core offering. How do sub-brands leverage and support “Knowledge without Boundaries.” The goal of brand mapping is to help identify missed opportunities in our communication with our Audience. [...]
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The Chronicle covered MIT’s efforts to provide web services to smart phones. This seems a worthy and perhaps even necessary goal.
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