Tuesday, March 11th 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Samuel Felder Sr Designer, University of Southern California
How is your team put together?
Departments do what they want essentially. Set up as for hire group in IT. Set up web council and when creating central content, create an API or pattern library for designs (yahoo). Opened course catalog for people to use as they chose.
The API’s were created for the class schedule and events calendar. Push events into facebook etc. Also provide a way to pull events into dept sites.
Who has guidelines for navigation and look?
IT – programming services – – Communications – design and branding
or
mishmash where you do what you want
U of Kansas has a good branding policy/docs/site
U of Chicago redesign used a consulting firm for interviews with stakeholders to determine the best direction to go and determine the internal dev priorities. The homepage is just the traffic cop where interest and information is mainly on the 2nd levels. When putting together the new site, don’t talk about the look, just talk about the users.
Use of Flickr API for asset management
Harvard: Empower students to create content or watch the trends an follow up with them. They know the newest things out there and are using them. Their knowledge can be harnessed to use and maintain those resources. Sponsor dev contests and hack days to build on resources.
Student blogging:
MIT has a great student blog that gives a view into what goes on at a university – REAL experiences.
-Google Analytics is a great tool that many many universities are using for stats.
How do you do ID management for perspective students who aren’t yet in the system? OpenID is a good option since many of the email providers they are using support OpenID with a single sign-on