Magen Tracy 102 A & B, Frontier Airlines Center Berklee College of Music made great strides in the past three years using student content to further our admissions and public relations agendas. We make student blog posts, video, and pictures a big part of our strategy, and focus a large part of our marketing efforts […]

Dwight Nagy 103 C, Frontier Airlines Center For over 9 years our office compiled campus-submitted deadlines, announcements, and events to send out in a daily email called Wooster Headline News (WHN). Not only did WHN feel dated, it had scaled out of control, and was deleted by many users. Through the use of Drupal, WHN is […]

Sven Aas, Jason Proctor 103 C, Frontier Airlines Center Whether we’re integrating systems or getting everything out before the house of cards collapses, sooner or later most of us find ourselves converting, migrating, exporting and archiving our content. In this talk, Jason Proctor and Sven Aas will review a series of conversions they’ve completed, identify […]

Seth Meranda 102 C, Frontier Airlines Center A mobile website necessity can become the foundation for one of the greatest advancements of web development. In a sense, mobile devices have derailed our web development trains, and put us on a track to a more exciting, scalable and adaptable destination. In the spring of 2012, the […]

Jonathan Davis 102 C, Frontier Airlines Center User-centered design can be the catch 22 for higher education. How can you show a result without an investment? How can you get investment without proven results? Before we receive additional resources from administrators, we have to prove concepts on the cheap first.  At Illinois State University our […]

Stephanie Leary @sleary 103 A & B, Frontier Airlines Center Is WordPress the right CMS for your department, or even your whole institution? How do you sell your colleagues on WordPress? What kinds of sites can you build with WordPress? We will discuss how WordPress’s theme system is uniquely suited for campus-wide branding initiatives, and […]

Take a quick look around the web and it becomes obvious – users really do create the best content. The articles of wikipedia, the videos of youtube and the LOLcats of the cheezburger network- all examples of platforms based entirely on user generated content.Now think about your students, faculty and staff. Given the opportunity, what […]

Chris Wiegman 103 C, Frontier Airlines Center As the author of the Better WP Security WordPress plugin, Chris Wiegman has spent a bit of time over the last couple of years securing WordPress and other open source CMS installs and fixing sites for those who did not. That said, making a reasonably secure site with […]

Jeff Abuzzahab #TPR3 Technical: Propeller Hats Required Track This frank and lively presentation will take you through the brief history of a college’s epic web fail after believing the University’s one size fits all CMS would cure all ills and how, after the crash, the web disaster was turned around by the presenter and his […]

Speaker: Terry Ryan @tpryan Reproducing animation as code can produce really ugly code. Flash interface is much better interface. Adobe edge hopes to bring that interface to html5. OK – that interface is nice. Very nice, but how do you add interactivity? – Labels, triggers and actions Discoverabilty – you can add mouse pointers and […]