‘google’
2015 Higher Education Web Professionals National Conference
Nov. 16, 2015—Beth and I recently attended the 2015 Higher Education Web Professionals annual national conference in Milwaukee. I presented two 45-minute sessions and one 3-hour workshop at the conference; slidedecks for the two sessions can be found below. One of my presentations on the collaborative communication tool SLACK, won Best in Track. Woot! (And at this...
Human Resources moves into omni, adds functionality
Jan. 25, 2011—The Human Resources website has a new look and improved functionality to better serve employees seeking information they need to do their jobs and manage their benefits. “This is a great first step in making information about working at Vanderbilt more accessible for Vanderbilt employees and job seekers,” Traci Nordberg, associate vice chancellor and chief...
New Web presence for Vandy in Hollywood program
Nov. 1, 2010—What a fun project! We had the privilege of working two Vanderbilt alumni, Chad Gervich and Rich Hull (founders of ViH), on a brand new Web presence for the Vandy in Hollywood organization. “Vandy-In-Hollywood is a professional, alumni-supported organization which provides the valuable guidance and resources that enable Vanderbilt students and alumni to navigate the...
SustainVU completely overhauls their web presence
Oct. 27, 2010—The Vanderbilt Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) unveiled a new look for the SustainVU website on Friday, October 22. “Interest in and the variety of Vanderbilt’s sustainability initiatives has increased exponentially since the creation of the original SustainVU website in 2007,” said Andrea George, SEMO director. “To better accommodate the breadth of these efforts and...
Parents and Family Programs redesigns their website
Sep. 30, 2010—Before: Dreamweaver, manually maintained pages After: WordPress. Online editing of pages, no software required; menus automatically updated when new pages added; A previously hard to maintain map that listed all of the Parents and Family Board members is now powered by a google spreadsheet. We added a news and announcements blog, fun polls for the...
Submit KeyMatches for the google search appliance
Jun. 30, 2010—A KeyMatch associates a specific term with a particular result, enabling you to direct users to a result that is especially relevant but that might not appear at the top of the results page. For example, if someone were to search for “event”, we can make sure that the top result for that search will...
April digitalVU meeting
Apr. 30, 2010—Anna Belle Leiserson from the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center talks about what’s new in Web technologies, with topics including HTML5, changes in browsers / OS, Apple vs. Adobe and what it means for us, the mobile Web and Google adding speed to their algorithm. John Brassil from ITS talks about their new streaming delivery platform....
@Vandy – Student Organization Calendar Hub
Nov. 10, 2009—We developed this calendar hub for the Vanderbilt Student Government using a Google spreadsheet as the backend. We’ve got an xsl stylesheet in place to transform the google spreadsheet data into a usable format. The students can enter all required information into the spreadsheet – and the @Vandy page parses the spreadsheet data out and...
Social Media – why it matters and how to use it in your job
Oct. 16, 2008—Listen Now: Presentation from Lacy Tite on Oct. 16: Social Media: why it matters, how it can enrich your life, and ways it might even help you do your job better. We discussed facebook, del.icio.us, twitter, flickr, google apps, netvibes, etc. – what they are and why they’re worth your time. Facebook is more...