Author Archives: Jay Collier

Online collaboration for workgroups

By Jay Collier | Published: February 8, 2010
Ann McClure included our workgroup collaboration strategy in the February issue of University Business. Meet Me Online Collaboration tools allow administrators to work together even if they can’t get together. People rarely work in isolation. But it’s not always easy to meet in person to work on a project. Connecting online can be done from almost anywhere. The [...]
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Evaluating Drupal and Wordpress MU

By Jay Collier | Published: January 25, 2010
Authoring, editing, and managing official College Web sites As part of our new Web Hub program — and in previous discovery projects (2008 | 2007) — I’ve been evaluating open-source content management software. Our two finalists are Drupal and Wordpress MU. Based on hands-on experience — as well as some preliminary ranking of criteria against our goals [...]
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Site inventory version 1.0

By Jay Collier | Published: January 19, 2010
Thanks to the stellar work of our colleagues (especially Ted Coulombe) and our student assistants (Nelson Harris and Bradley McGraw), we now have a near-complete inventory of Web sites on Bates’ multiple public Web servers. Now that we have received permission to lead the effort to renovate Bates’ official Web sites, we are working on [...]
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Moving into the Hub

By Jay Collier | Published: January 7, 2010
After two years blogging at batesmedia.net, I have moved to a new host and domain name: batesweb.net. This is not because I’ve been dissatisfied with WordPress.com. To the contrary; the service has proven capable of just about everything I’ve needed to do with this blog.
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