The importance of software updates can’t be stated often enough. Â Developers add security fixes and stability improvements over the course of the iterations of their software in addition to the new features touted with much fanfare. Â A few years back, I was frustrated with scouring the web for updates to my most commonly used software… [...]
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Where does he get those wonderful toys? (Part 3)
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How Long Will It Take to Build My Website?
Thursday, September 27th, 2012Psst, you there. Yeah, you. I’d like to share a secret with you: most websites can’t be built in 1-2 days or even 1-2 weeks, given all the other projects that a typical Web team is working on. Not only that, but there’s a lot of strategizing behind the scenes that many don’t see. In [...]
Tags: building a website, creating websites, how long does it take to build a website, Web content, Web content practices
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How to embed youtube clips in the CMS
Thursday, August 30th, 2012A number of you have asked for tutorials regarding embedding a youtube clip into the content management system. So I made a quick video tutorial. Don’t forget to check back on all of the past FAQ walk-throughs from the old CMS Skills Test guide. -Martin
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Where does he get those wonderful toys? (Part 2)
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012Have you ever downloaded a file and gone back to find it, but couldn’t remember where you stored it? With the spread of files I download for the various projects I work on, it isn’t surprising that sometimes items get lost in the shuffle.  The good news though, is that there’s a piece of free utility software for [...]
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Where does he get those wonderful toys? (Part 1)
Thursday, July 26th, 2012Many of my readers have asked that I share the productivity tools I use on a daily basis. Over the next few posts, I hope to cover some of my most often used utilities. The first utility I want to go over is Jing. Jing is the software application I use to create all [...]
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Video Tutorials – CMS Skills Test Prep
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011I’ve created a series of short video tutorials demonstrating basic skills utilized when editing your website using the CMS. More will be added in the future, but for now take a peek because these topics will probably be covered on the CMS Skills Test. How to get content from a Content Block into a Page [...]
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Content Managers Meeting – September 2011
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011As promised at the content managers meeting, below you will find a recording of the entire session including the slides presented. The purpose of these quarterly meetings is to provide content managers the opportunity to learn about policies and procedures that we have put in place with the launch of the new site. At this [...]
Tags: analytics, CMS, communication style, Content Manager, CPA Policy, Ektron, redesign, Web content, youtube
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Treading Redesign
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011…It’s a lot of work. Sometimes it’s a lot of tedious work. But there is something special about having a large part of the university in lock-step working together to make this happen. It’s a testimony to the dedication of each individual and I can’t thank everyone on the IM team and throughout YU enough for their hard work and for keeping us above water.
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Patching the Patch
Thursday, February 24th, 2011I recently came across one of those problems that requires immediate resolution and not always the most elegant one. One of our applications didn’t run consistently for a few days and even if the application isn’t mission critical, it gets a lot of web exposure. The problem is that the application runs based on a [...]
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Back to the Future
Friday, February 18th, 2011In my Digital Marketing class last Spring, we were asked to select three emerging technologies that we thought would grow significantly in the next two years. It’s hard to believe how quaint my predictions now seem after only one year! For the record, my selections: (and remember, this was way back in 2010) __________ Touch [...]
Tags: cloud computing, mobile, technological trends, touch technology
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