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HigherEd BlogCon 2006 … April 3-28, 2006

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2006 eduWeb Conference

07/31/2006 - 11:00am
08/01/2006 - 11:00am

http://www.eduwebconference.com/

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2006 eduWeb Conference Call for Papers Announced: February 24 - March 27

Based on the 2006 eduWeb Conference Survey, the following have been listed as topics attendees would like covered at this year’s conference. If you don’t see a “hot topic” listed below, please still send in your proposal idea.

  • XML and Ajax
  • Podcasting
  • RSS
  • Web Standards
  • CMS
  • Getting Campus Buy-In
  • Usability
  • Video-casting
  • Intranets/Internal Portals
  • Other “hot topics”

Also, sign up for your Conference Updates at www.eduwebconference.com

Campus Calendar Version 1.1 Released

We’ve released a slightly newer version of the DOCC (Campus Calendar), with instructions as promised. Also, I made some tweaks to Xinha so it shouldn’t require any additional setup to work on your site. You can get both versions of the doc from the DOCC download page. Instructions are included with the files in a folder named “instructions.”

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CASE District II Accolades Awards 2006 Winners

Here are the award winners for Web sites in our region:

Web Site: Institutional Home Page

* Gold – The Chapin School
* Silver – Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
* Bronze – Buffalo State College

Web Site: Student Recruitment

* Gold – University of Pittsburgh
* Silver – None awarded
* Bronze – University at Albany
* Bronze – Lehigh University

Web Site: Alumni Relations

* Gold – Lehigh University
* Silver – University of Pittsburgh

Web Site: Fund Raising/Development

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WebAlerts: News & RSS Syndication for the College of New Jersey

Overview

The College of New Jersey first used a web-based news application to display inclement weather alerts on its home page. The ease of use and convenience of publishing news from any web browser quickly led to institution-wide adoption of this technology solution. Our Web Alerts application currently hosts over 65 news feeds including: TCNJ Top Stories, TCNJ Press Releases, This Week at TCNJ, and feeds for most academic and administrative departments. The latest upgrade now offers RSS feeds, display of archived items organized by month and year, and routing of news items to the Media and Public Relations staff for consideration as a press release or campus calendar entry.

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Milliseconds: A Blog for Web Usability Professionals in Higher Education

Web usability professionals are dedicated to improving every web user experience. We strive to build better navigation systems, logins, shopping carts, database queries, interactive product demos, and more. This blog is about how I interact with users and other web professionals to try to make the web a little bit better … one page at a time. And hopefully a little faster and more efficient in a world where milliseconds count. Please visit my blog and comment on the entries that interest you.

URL: http://milliseconds.joeblob.com

Matthew Winkel
Web Usability Analyst
The College of New Jersey

HigherEd BlogCon 2006

HigherEd BlogCon 2006 aims to bring together in a single Web space many of the people who are transforming academe with their use of the new tools of the Social Web. Higher Ed BlogCon will focus on the use of blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, vblogs and other digital tools in a range of areas in academe, including (thus far):

  • Teaching
  • Admissions, Alumni Relations, and Communications & Marketing
  • Web sites and Web Development
  • Library & Information Resources

HigherEd BlogCon will occur between April 3 and 28 at http://www.higheredblogcon.com

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Web Forms for The College of New Jersey’s Campus Community

Overview
TCNJ’s Campus Community uses “The Form Genie” for most of its web-based forms including: applications, event registration, feedback and customer satisfaction surveys, social research surveys, weekly reports, and more. The Form Genie is available to every member of TCNJ’s campus community that has a TCNJ email account. Users are guided through the form creation process with intuitive navigation. Since the Form Genie is a custom made application, form fields and options match the business processes of the institution. Powerful web-based reports present form results that are easy to access and understand, and all form data can be exported into other database systems. The usage of Form Genie continues to grow as the institution’s web-based services expand.

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Sample Photo Release Form for Web Use

I grant permission to [Board of Trustees], on behalf of [Institution], to use photographs taken by me for use on [Institution] web sites or other electronic form or media, and to offer the photographs for use or distribution to other departments, without notifying me.

I hereby waive any right to inspect or approve the photographs or electronic matter that may be used in conjunction with them now or in the future, whether that use is known to me or unknown, and I waive any right to royalties or other compensation arising from or related to the use of the photographs.

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