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Pre-break & Week of 1.4.10

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  • Set up several new blogs:
  1. Life of a Logger (student athletes); 3 users accepted; reminder email sent out week of 1.4.10; set up users and sent login info
  2. Studying Abroad; 5 users accepted to date; waiting on a couple special invites extended before break for Gilman Scholars
  3. Collins Unbound
  4. Library Logged
  5. Web Work; to help me keep track of what I do, when
  • Worked with Admission on 422 forms to be integrated into site with iframe.
  • Updated features on site, including:
  1. Voices blogs (updated before break; after break, removed Maddy; updated Kelsey, Julie, Adrienne; added Alayna, Lisa); added 2 related blogs (irrelevancey and globaloney)
  2. Express Yourself: Added Amelia Vance composition to Crosscurrents PDF and added link to MP3 of composition performance (after converting with WAV to MP3 converter found on CNET); added Elements feature.
  3. Wrote profile for Keith Blocker and sent invitation, but no response yet.
  • Planned professional development courses:
  1. Sat down with Sarah and brainstormed layout of social media class; invited SMTF to participate.
  2. Started identifying tasks for Advanced CMS class and Best Practices class.
  3. Modified CMS Basic manual.
  • 1.4.10: Welcome/Yield site planning meeting (1.5 hours)
  • Planning for Live Green Challenge
  1. Sent status notes to group with sample posters before break.
  2. Confirmed planning meeting to nail down events/speakers and plan RA training.
  3. Invited speakers including Bill Smith, Kristi Lynett, Barry Goldstein, and Dan Sherman.
  • Helped MK with HelpDesk/TechHelp/Service Desk updates around site. This helped me find the problem with Search showing duplicate pages, which I reported to Mark on 1.5.10.
  • News problem with not showing more than one page of news listings reported 1.5.10; passed onto Fastspot; they sent update to fix on 1.6.10.
  • Learned how to do Blog CSS myself. 🙂 1.6.10.
  • Typed up draft of Recycled Rag. Notified Shirley about signing up as charter participant for STARS. Signed up for STARS webinar.
  • Worked with Admission on integration of 422 form into new site via iframe.
  • Got event module modifications SOW signed and faxed to Fastspot. Scheduled kick-off.
  • Started working on web strategic plan.