The School of Business Administration runs an E-Commerce Summer Camp for 16-17 year old’s to learn key computer and business skills. Part of the camp is a paid internship where they can put what they learn to practice.
This summer we are accepting an intern from the camp. Our summer intern, Orlando Collins, a senior at [...]

A few days too late, but better than never. Quite a bit about social interaction in higher education. Enjoy.

EduWeb Buzz – Connecting with the Facebook Generation
Veen on data overload
Oprah Winfrey’s Stanford Commencement Address [Weekend Watching]
The Experience Evangelist – Campus Tour Prank Video – University of Colorado
Recap of Adobe Acrobat 9 Presentation
How we read online. – [...]

We just launched a contest to win a Dorm Room Makeover. The site is based on three videos which have a similar feel as viewing a famous person’s crib. The goal of the site design is to encourage viewing each video and make a selection of your favorite to enter the contest.
With screen shots of [...]

Not a lot of articles this week but some good quality reads.

College Web Editor – Higher Ed Magazines: Gone Digital, Going Paperless?
Facebook catches MySpace in visitors
EduStyle Blog – The future face of Higher Ed websites?
Making Video Accessible
Writing Style for Print vs. Web (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
How to become a viral phenomenon
College Web Editor – Don?t upload [...]

Refresh Detroit is a part of the Refreshing Cities organization. They are a group of web professionals whose goal is to promote web standards, usability, and accessibility, and to spread the knowledge of web design in the Detroit and Ann Arbor Michigan areas.
The next Refresh Detroit meeting will be 6:30pm, Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at [...]

Links from this week follow the theme of building it better. All are great resources to optimizing, planning and helping out the user. Its been a long week, take some time to enjoy the articles below.

How to Build a Better Content Model for Your Site: Understanding News Consumption Patterns
Web designers should do their own HTML/CSS [...]

Previously had no concrete statistics about which social networks our current or prospective students use. Last week we ran some statistics for the visitors of the wayne.edu homepage to figure out which social networks they had visited.  We ran it on the weekend of May 31 to June 1st to get the largest percentage of [...]