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Social Media on a College or University Home Page?

by Michael Santoroski on February 16, 2010

I have been thinking about when it will be time to put social media on the home page for Roanoke College. This is a big change for me, since for a long time it was “if,” now it is “when.” I have followed University of Richmond’s and Washington & Lee’s use of Twitter and Facebook [...]

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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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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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