Homepage Survival Guide: How to Raise Content from the Dead (TNT5) Foothills II In this session, we’ll showcase how we used our braaaains to bring content from many different sources to life by adding an institutional lifestream to our homepage. This stream combines Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Foursquare, Flickr, blog and… Brad Mitchell (Missouri State University) [...]

Shawn Henry @shawn_slh Leads World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) education and outreach promoting Web accessibility for people with disabilities Embracing the carrots. Reasons beyond the legal requirement. Breaking accessibility with an upgrade is not an upgrade. Reviewing some impressive user examples. Accessibility is about people. Don’t just focus on people. Accessibility gone bad examples. Bolding [...]

The Ultimate Open Source CMS – A Cage Match (APS4) Hill Country C & D Watch and listen as Drupal, Reason, and WordPress MU battle for supremacy in a no holds barred cage match! Words and ideas will be mercilessly exchanged, and visual aids are allowed in the cage. A celebrity moderator will be on [...]

Mobile on a Shoestring (TPR3) Hill Country A & B The need to support the ever-growing population of mobile users is critical, yet institutions interested in entering the mobile arena face a multitude of challenges. In the current economic climate, funding for new initiatives is scarce. With IT… Quinn Madson (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee) [...]

Rethinking the Login (APS2) Hill Country C & D OpenID and Facebook Connect have gained growing acceptance as ways to decentralize authentication — to allow people to log in to web services using credentials from other services, like Gmail or Facebook — but have seen limited adoption in… Mark Heiman (Carleton College) It all started [...]

Using WordPress to Power Your Institution’s Entire News Presence APS1 Applications and Standards Track Lacy Tite Web Developer, Vanderbilt University I swear that I’ll attend more then just WP sessions – however, this is by Vanderbilt – one of my favorite examples. Started the project only 16months ago. They use disqus for comments. Content strategy [...]

Got to Austin late, so I missed the first half… Decided to sneak in anyway. The WordPress University Stephanie Leary (Texas A&M University), Shelley Keith (Southern Arkansas University) WRK5 – Big Bend A & Talking about Genesis? theme framework. Sounds great. Search and replace plugin to fix broken links after a move. Backing up – [...]

Time: Thu May 26, 9:00 am – 10:00 am Speaker: Blaise Aguera y Arcas As mapping, mobile devices and social media converge, we’re finding ourselves in a world where the physical and the virtual are deeply interpenetrating. Read/Write World is our project aimed at enabling the sharing and democratized access to connections between the physical [...]

Time: Fri May 27, 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Speaker: Dan Willis I don’t know how this presentation ends … Atlases: a mosh pit of information. Globe vs the old maps. Able to visualize data in a whole new way. A task list is not enough for today’s projects. Get the user’s perspective, not. The [...]

Time: Fri May 27, 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Speaker: Thor Muller 42 – knowing the answer without knowing the question. The embarrassment of riches. Data is backward looking. Success to date, does not guarantee future success. Analysis is hard. Data can be a real killjoy. The optimization trap. Data is amoral. Data is incomplete. [...]