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2010 Mobile Strategy

by Michael Santoroski on February 15, 2010

2010 is going to be a big year for the Roanoke College mobile strategy. Right now we have four initiatives for the year. #1 – New iPhone/Android Home Page Now in “preview” at i.roanoke.edu, our new home page was designed by New City in Blacksburg, Va, who also designed our home page and sports page. [...]

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Picasa for Higher Ed Image Management

by Whitney Anderson on May 29, 2009

One of my Twitter friends, Rachel Reuben, was recently asking about our experience with Picasa and  I emailed her my pros and cons.  I decided to post that information here, as it might be helpful to others.  We had Extensis Portfolio right when I started working here and nobody particularly liked it.  We tried several [...]

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How to translate an alumni magazine to the web

by Whitney Anderson on April 27, 2009

I’m live blogging the Print & Web (Can the marriage be saved?) presentation at the CASE Design Institute in Boston presented by Art Jankhe, Ronn Campisi and Scott Dasse. The presentation is about the Bostonia magazine that was recently redesigned. They really tried to break everything up, knowing that people don’t want to read long [...]

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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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A YouTube of Our Own

by Michael Santoroski on February 19, 2009

Our VP asked us last week to create a place for professors to upload audio and video. I had been pushing for using YouTube for this, but the various issues of too much public access and pesky “who owns what” questions made us look to a more internal solution. It would be trivial to create [...]

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Campus Map

by Whitney Anderson on January 6, 2009

We got the demo of our new campus map yesterday from New City Media.   We really like it.  The zoom in and out works great, the filters work great and overall I think it is very usable.  We have requested one change with the way the it functions when you click on the building names [...]

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Random Web Requests

by Whitney Anderson on December 19, 2008

We all get random web requests from our clients or users.  You know what I’m talking about!  Well, I was recently punked by my colleague, Michael.  Here’s the email I got. The text reads, Hey, that web page in the place with the thing, doesn’t have the stuff that it used to before we moved [...]

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Easy, custom flash photo galleries – Slideshow Pro Director to the rescue

by Whitney Anderson on December 11, 2008

So, we’ve been using Slideshow Pro here for a long time, as has probably at least half of the higher ed community.  [Example gallery] It’s been used in conjunction with a web app written by my colleague, Michael.    However, it’s been a real pain to do these galleries. Here’s a few of the problems I’ve [...]

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We tweet. Do you?

by Whitney Anderson on October 1, 2008

It seems that Twitter has taken quite a while to catch on amongst the masses.  People, even seemingly techno-savvy ones, don’t really get it.  But, we get it and we like it and think it’s really catching on.  I like to think of it as a mini-blog broadcasting tool. So, why do we Twitter? Here’s [...]

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10,000 Puzzle Pieces

by Michael Santoroski on May 29, 2008

We are in the final phases of getting the new Web site launched (which is why this blog hasn’t been getting updated). Our new launch date is June 9. And as we careen towards that date, I feel like we are trying to put together a 10,000 piece puzzle. Overall, things are going very well.  [...]

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