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HEH 18: Is This Good for the COMPANY?

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The gang talks about the what new strategies and goals they have for their schools/sites. It covers speed, new applications, and updates to the CMS. They also look into web boot camps for new hires.

What’s 2017 going to be in your area? Strategies? Goals?

  • GVSU
    • Upgrade to the CMS to reflect the new design of the home page
      • Caching, less server load
      • Admissions application rewrite – accessibility/usability
      • Increase grad enrollment (marketing/web) – giving it a lot of attention for the first time (centrally)
      • Iowa Admissions
        • Admissions application rewrite – responsive
          • It’s hard to drop in those random misc required questions in a way that works with the rest of the application. A possible solution is to visit it regularly and look at the big picture.
          • New digital marketing/tracking system
          • Iowa Libraries
            • Support systems/pages for content developers
            • New Style Guide (or pattern library)
              • Interface consistency (elements) – “This is how it looks”
              • Audit for usability and accessibility
              • Survey web users/audience (pop-up on top pages)
              • Standardize development workflow
              • New library search interface
              • UALR
                • Integrate CMS with other systems
                  • API to standardize systems
                    • Student portal -> content wide
                        • Grow/nurture a new team
                          • Workflow? Tell Stories.

                            • Web/Online Boot Camps/Training

                            • It was a single platform consistent across all browsers that HTML5 does not *yet*?
                            • Mobile support of HTML5
                              • Getting very popular
                              • Don’t watch a tutorial – collaborative development with a mentor on a team. They look very thorough and… actually good.
                                • Firehose
                                • Bloc
                                • General Assembly
                                • The Iron Yard
                                • Provide actual work experience

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