Tag: strategy

Reminder of how search results work

The MIIS search engine now works the same way the Midd one does, specifically, if your search is the same as a GO shortcut, the user will be sent directly to that page. This means you need to stay on top of updating any GO shortcuts you have created.

Other Updates from Midd

• Comments enabled on stories
• Adding sharing features to stories
• Added .docx, .pptx, .xlsx file types to uploadable documents in webforms
• File upload title bug has been fixed!!
• Course descriptions have been entered into Banner; can now use “Course Listings from Banner” content type

Upcoming Changes

• New colors to be unveiled next week (note: dev server can only be viewed from on-campus)
• New headers on the way

Lynn: Proposed Academics < Courses Restructuring

• Our own version of the Midd course catalog
• New & improved Records Office pages

Changes to Search Function

The MIIS search engine now works the same way the Midd one does, specifically, if your search is the same as a GO shortcut, the user will be sent directly to that page. This means you need to stay on top of updating any GO shortcuts you have created.

New Colors Update

http://chisel.middlebury.edu/~kbyers/drupal

Organic forum?

Discussion w/Rob — creating some sort of organic forum for prospective students to ask questions of current students/alumni

Possible solutions: make connecting with us easier

More contact webforms throughout the website

Virtual visit day

Include contact info w/YouTube vids (so for example, if the video interviews a student, include a way to get in contact with that student…if they have given their consent, of course)

New logo is live today

LinkedIn conversation re: news item

• this is why we don’t really need to police comments on our social networks

Amy: web committee projects

• Web Project List

Web groups/permissions refresher

• Use the following link to administrate your web groups: http://login.middlebury.edu/groups
• If you need your web group turned over to you, let Kristen know

Video embed update from Ian

You can now use image:url_of_the_image.jpg to use a different splash image for a video from MiddMedia. This doesn’t work for the pop-out video player used for the Midd homepage waveform or the MIIS homepage spotlight features, but should work everywhere else.

Example:

[video:http://middmedia.middlebury.edu/media/imcbride/ConflictResolution1.mp4 image:http://www.middlebury.edu/media/view/93871/original/love_indiana.jpg]

Introductions

• Joe has been through 2 major LIS reorganizations in the past year.
• Joe’s department manages 80 applications (Drupal is one of these apps).
• His team is trying to streamline the number of applications by removing redundancies.

The following people report to Joe:

• Ian
• Adam
• Travis
• Alex
• Bryan
• 12 digital media student tutors

Web makeover project: what’s next?

• Web committee has been assembled
• This is a cross-institutional group of 13 people who will meet once a month to decide future priorities
  • Amy McGill is the MIIS representative on this web committee
• 170 subprojects emerged from the web makeover

New Drupal bells & whistles? Getting rid of bugs?

• Both Middlebury & MIIS sites will eventually run on the same codebase
• This means more automatic, dynamic features can be integrated quickly and seamlessly.
  • Ex: library widget, calendaring features
• Amherst’s Monster Menus was added to enable hierarchical permissions; however, this is preventing us from implementing workflows for miis.edu
• Middlebury is working with Amherst to redevelop the code so that it is more compatible
  • Timeline: 3–6 months

What’s Ahead?

Siteimprove

• Piece of software that mails reports to top-level site editors
• Alerts you of broken links, misspellings, missing image alt tags, etc.
  • Timeline: before the end of summer

MiddLab

• New web features to highlight student & faculty academic research
• CNS and other MIIS departments should definitely get plugged in to MiddLab
  • Impact Driven Technology? El Salvador practicum?
• Eventually we will add link(s) to MiddLab from miis.edu
• Next meeting: discuss potential MiddLab projects

New homepage layout

• MIIS Spotlight rotator
• News & Events moved to right column; image associated with featured post

Joe’s visit

• Next meeting is MONDAY, June 14 – Joe Antonioli from Midd will be here
• Putting together a list of items to talk to Joe about (?)

Slowing down for summer

• Remove Twitter accounts from section landing page bottoms if you don’t plan on updating them
  • Otherwise, the bubble will show up empty
• Any summer web projects planned? I am available to consult with individual departments and strategy team members as needed.

Switching to the new logo

• Update any documents or images you have hosted on the web to reflect the new logo that will debut on July 1