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Mobile already at 50%

by Michael Santoroski on November 12, 2012

I wanted to share some stats from a recent email we did to High School juniors and seniors. It appears that mobile and desktop are now at 50/50. Below is a report from five days after the original send date. We generally see that mobile peaks early on, then desktop catches up later on down [...]

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CloudFlare–Dipping my Toes into the Water

by Michael Santoroski on April 18, 2012

I started playing with CloudFlare last week, since they promise to “super charge your website.” And would wouldn’t want that, right? Website load and response times has been a bit of an obsession with me lately, and CloudFlare looks like a great way to squeeze some additional marginal performance out of our site. Content Delivery [...]

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Facebook Connect + Coldfusion Using the Graph API

by Michael Santoroski on September 2, 2011

The new graphapi makes getting Facebook connect super easy, but putting all the pieces together is a little tough. What you need to do is set-up the Facebook connect button, and let it save the cookies for you. From there you can get an access token, required to get information back from the API. You [...]

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Blog Upgrade

by Michael Santoroski on April 9, 2011

Just a quick note to let you know we have upgraded our blog to use Dreamhost’s VPS (Virtual Private Server) service. So far seems to be running much better.

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Active Campus Portal – Screenshots

by Michael Santoroski on October 30, 2009

Here is a screenshot of the upcoming replacement for MyRC with the Roanoke College branding in place. The new portal will be released on January 5, 20105. Features include: Integrated view of Outlook calendar and class schedule Blackboard Webadvisor My ToDo list Weather Password Change Daily Announcements Team Sites College News, Sports News & Dining [...]

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Tips for a Successful Video Shoot

by Whitney Anderson on April 22, 2009

I’m working on a new round of videos for the Roanoke College website and virtual tour this spring and summer.  We did a bunch last year for the virtual tour.  One of our consultants came up with the concept of getting a bunch of students together, asking them general questions and just let them talk [...]

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Quick Notes….

by Michael Santoroski on December 4, 2007

Here are some interesting things going on: I have been checking out the online family tree generator, Geni. www.geni.com. It’s super awesome! I want to try and buy some songs from Amazon mp3, everyone says it’s the bomb! (Did I really just say "the bomb") They took Eureka season 2 off iTunes, and I am [...]

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Top Five "Can’t Live Without" Podcasts

by Michael Santoroski on October 30, 2007

These are my all time fav podcasts, what I listen too as soon as then download to my iPod. 5. Windows Weekly — This is part of the TWIT network and is hosted by Leo Laporte. But Paul Thurrott makes it all worthwhile, I have been a big fan of the Supersite for Windows for [...]

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