Happy Halloween! It’s been another great week with tons of progress as we rush to get sites out by the end of the year. Looks like the community has been hard at work too, check out the links of the week below.

INSIGHT: A great way to figure out the weak spots
The “Can’t Have It” Gap
Design [...]

Something big is happening to the university Events Calendar.
A little bit ago Rob Vrabel mentioned we were working on the events calendar and I would like to confirm that we are and we have some great things in store.
We will be running down all the new features in detail closer to launch but here are [...]

Last week I gave a presentation to our small group of communicators, it shows the past, present and future goals for the wayne.edu Web site architecture. I didn’t have time to officially mind map the entire process so I just drew it up on the white board and took photos so bear with me.
The Past
Five [...]

This week I attended TEDxDetroit with 150 other idea people.This weeks list of links all follow the theme of helping out. They all give insight, tips or explain things we see every day but fail to acknowledge.

what 15 freshmen taught me about social media.
Carsonified » 10 Tips on Writing Hero-worthy Error Messages
7 Reasons Why Google [...]

It has been a crazy week, getting back after a week off is tough but I am finally all caught up. This week a few interesting things have happened, more Wave invites went out, FacebookGate started again and we started the planning stages of the next big change to the Wayne State Web landscape. Below [...]

It looks like “FacebookGate” is happening again this year. I suggest reading the two links in the last sentence to get some context about the issue at hand.
What is Happening
This year it looks like they already created a fake group for us along with a bunch of other school’s class of 2014 groups. This is [...]

This week 450+ higher ed web workers converged in Milwaukee, WI for the HighEdWeb 2009 conference. I was lucky enough to not only be part of this group but also give a presentation. The conference was filled with great people, sessions and excursions. The tone of the conference was very easy going and friendly. I [...]

Not much of a pattern to the links this week, quite a few hacks though. Google Wave sent out 100,000 invitations and I was lucky enough to get one. Wait for a post later this week for a review. In the mean time enjoy the links of the week.

Newpaper social media policies all miss mark
Detecting [...]

The English Language Institute (ELI) is just a small part of the Office of International Programs. We are in the process of realigning and redesigning all sites within the office and ELI was the most ambitious to launch.
Some of the goals for the new ELI site

Unifying the navigation
Bringing the site into the central identity
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