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The Word of the Week is: Academic Calendar

I get the feeling I’m going to need to start digging for some more insightful statistics. This is just too easy.

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We have an installation of some monitoring software. It monitors the accessibility of web pages. It creates static HTML reports. A different report is generated for each “site” we monitor. Separate HTML reports are fine, even preferred at times, except that they are totally useless for getting a bigger picture of […]

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Years ago in an interview I was asked how I would solve the university’s web consistency problem. At the time, the thought was “good luck!” In an environment with a decentralized web site, it seemed unlikely that content management would happen. That question has been asked once again, but now we’re in a better position […]

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The Word of the Week is: Academic Calendar . Does four consecutive week classify as a pattern or a trend?

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So, it’s over. I’m exhausted. I met a ton (figuratively and probably literally) of new people. I talked, a lot. I felt like I did a lot more talking than listening, but that’s the way it goes sometimes.

I have some thoughts on the conference that I want to mull over first, […]

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For the third week in a row, the Word of the Week is: Academic Calendar

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That’s right, it’s time to trek to Rochester, NY to learn and chat with other web nerds who work in the Ivory Towers of Academia™. Unfortunately I didn’t get my travel plans in order soon enough to submit any presentations. Now, I’m not one to let little details like that shut me up. […]

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When the university gets around to redesigning the campus web presence, it will need to meet the following goals:

Accessible
Manageable
Usable
Findable
Flexible

If implemented properly, Web Content Management would be a great tool for making inroads toward achieving the first three: accessibility, web document management, and usability.

By placing the onus for accessible templates in the hands of developers who […]

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For the second week in a row, the Word of the Week is: Academic Calendar

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This session was far more “nuts and bolts” than I expected — useful nonetheless. Key takeaways:

Use virtualization to test, test, and test some more your configuration and deployment environment. Also a great place to play with and learn the new technologies involved (SCCM, Server 2008, Vista itself, etc.)
BDD Solution Accelerator
Win PE is a core part […]

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