Category Archives: Home 4

A sign of things to come

By Jay Collier | Published: March 14, 2010
One of my professional heros, Jim Groom, aka edupunk, has written about the upcoming WordPress University event on April 8. More campuses are exploring and hacking on open source applications like WordPress to start re-imagining the social implications of web-based communities for publishing, research, teaching, and learning.
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Bates Home/Views: a one-year report

By Jay Collier | Published: March 9, 2010
The Home/Views site — the first phase of a whole-domain renovation for Bates College — was designed to improve first impressions, draw visitors toward their interests, and help them make a deeper connection with the College. We welcomed 260,000 absolute unique visitors to the combined www.bates.edu and home.bates.edu sites in January, 2010; annualized, that is [...]
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Measuring engagement: first impressions

By Jay Collier | Published: November 3, 2009
We’ve only gathered two weeks of integrated data for our new home site — and we’re still fine-tuning, so caveat emptor — but already we can see some interesting trends on our two primary subdomains, www.bates.edu (home page and subsites) and home.bates.edu (the top levels and news site).
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Background on Home 4

By Jay Collier | Published: October 30, 2009
I’ve been receiving inquiries about the deployment of our new home site, so I thought I’d post some background in case you’re interested. Thanks to David Kelly of Dickinson College for giving me permission to share his excellent questions.
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