Author: Rebecca Walters

Web Strategy Meeting 03.22.11

Homepage Links/Buttons Mock-ups

Taxonomy Doc Updated

Learn more about our taxonomy terms and what they’re used to accomplish.

Expanding our Color Pallette

with Shanna Kesler

Are you ready for Facebook’s makeover?

This means you:

  • Monterey Institute Intensive English Programs
  • Middlebury-Monterey Summer Intensive College English
  • Student Services at MIIS
  • Monterey Institute’s Summer Intensive Language Programs
  • Center for Nonproliferation Studies
  • Digital Learning Commons

Drupal Work Session?

How does next Friday from 2pm-4pm work?

Web Strategy Meeting 03.08.12

Web Team Structure

Eric Morrow

  • Makes videos
  • Can assist with storytelling efforts
  • Manages the YouTube Channel

Rebecca Walters

  • Collaborates with Middlebury LIS to add new features to the MIIS website and mobile website
  • Manages the MIIS website homepage, tagging system, permissions, templates, etc.
  • Trains new web editors on the Drupal CMS
  • Works with web strategy team members and other departments on their web/social media needs
  • Manages the blogging community
  • Knowledgeable of basic SEO and Google analytics

Shanna Kesler

  • Manages the Academics section and works closely with the Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education and the Graduate School of International Policy and Management
  • Writes for any graduate program landing pages
  • Knowledgeable of basic SEO and Google analytics

Web Strategy Meeting 02.23.12

Academics Landing Page

Is there a better, more scannable way we could organize this content? Examples:

Social Media at MIIS

Facebook

Monterey Institute (Main Page)
Monterey Institute Intensive English Programs
Middlebury-Monterey Summer Intensive College English
Student Services at MIIS
Monterey Institute’s Summer Intensive Language Programs
Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Digital Learning Commons
Monterey Institute Incoming Student Group (2012-2013)
CNS Alumni Group
Other Alumni Groups: San Francisco, Minneapolis, Austin, Nairobi, Denver, Los Angelos, New York

Twitter

@MIIS
@MIIS_GSIPM
@gstile
@MIISStuServ
@CNS_Updates
@CNS_DC
@MIISOIS
@miisesl
@MIISCACS
@MIIS_SILP
@FisherForum2010
@equipomonterey
@SustainableMIIS
@MIISMPA
@miisalumni
@MIISNetImpact
@miisDLC
@colemanlibrary
@MIISAmbassador
@MMSICE
@MIIStisp
@Center4Blue

MIIS Tags Revisited

  • How the alumni tag should be used.
  • Learn more about our taxonomy terms and what they’re used to accomplish.

MIIS Website Menu Details

Example: Admissions Requirements vs. FAQs

FAQs Page Template

  • See Admissions FAQs
  • Let me know if you still need this template for your FAQs webpage

New Ambassador Program

  • With Molly Lineberger & Danielle Johnson
  • Student-driven recruiting efforts; one student representing each program
  • Middlebury has a similar program
  • Will have profiles on the MIIS website

Pinterest

Test our New Web Inquiry Form

Web Strategy Meeting 02.09.12

Site Error

  • Photos, opening paragraphs, and sidebars disappear
  • Usually happens when the server’s being upgraded, or when it goes down
  • Be vigilant

Promoting Our Videos

with Eric Morrow

How to Create Digital Signs

  • Resize your Powerpoint or Keynote slide to 1920×1080
  • Get inspiration from these templates: Best of Fall 2011 Keynote OR Powerpoint
  • Signs are published on Monday mornings. Please submit your signs for the upcoming week by 10am on Monday morning.
  • If your GAs are working on the signs, they can schedule an appointment with our GAs (who make signs each week for DLC workshops) by emailing miisdlc@gmail.com to get some more inspiration.

New Buttons!

Small Buttons

Big Buttons

Photoshop Tutorial

  • Grab a Mac computer! Get your hands dirty 🙂
  • Who needs a copy of Photoshop? We’re taking orders.

Web Strategy Meeting 01.12.12

Project Updates

Mobile Website

  • MIIS seal now downloads on iPhones
  • Blogs icon now appears on all devices
  • “Upcoming Events” now removed from iPad

Events Calendar

We’ll be transitioning over the summer to Middlebury’s calendaring system. Preview our test calendar. Departments will submit their event info through a webform to be scheduled on the public facing calendar.

Campus Map Update

by Anja Mondragon

  • Progress with SketchUp
  • Project Timeline
  • How to Contribute

Online Video Content Report

by Eric Morrow

  • Demographics report
  • Traffic sources report

New Buttons?

Drupal Taxonomy Review

  • Learn more about our taxonomy terms and what they’re used to accomplish.
  • CBE stories vs. Summer Fellows stories
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