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 [...]

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 [...]

If you interact with our department through the wcs[at]wayne.edu email address for requesting services or update your Web site you will notice a change in the responses over the next month.
We are testing a service called Tender Support to handle keeping track of updates and issues.

A single point of contact
It was important to us to [...]

This week we had our first campus communicator meetup. In the past it was a once per year half day event with presentations and mandatory attendance. This year we scaled it down to a 1-2 hour discussion on timely topics with a smaller group.
About 20 communicators from across campus attended the meetup. We had salad, [...]

After launching the Web Communications Blog at the beginning of this year with the intent to bring awareness not only our department but also to help the campus community at large with support and initiatives to advance the web. Over the past year we have accomplished a lot and I just wanted to give a [...]

You probably have not noticed but we made a slight change to the flash panel on wayne.edu. In the top drawer we place success stories from around campus. But before you get to the stories it was designed to display a branding image.

Why this made sense then
It made sense when we first launched because it [...]

Today is a day to blog about poverty, to bring awareness to others, to inspire others to make a difference. Detroit is no stranger to poverty, it is all around us. I wanted to detail what our department has been doing to work simply and locally to help charity programs in and around Detroit.
In the [...]

If you are a web worker and haven’t seen it yet, please take ten minutes to complete the 2008 A List Apart survey so we can build a snapshot of our industry.

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Last week was spring break here at Wayne State. We had a significant drop in visitors to the main wayne.edu site. Below is the graph in green the previous week while in blue the spring break week. This seemed normal at first glance since less students were on campus to login at the library where [...]

In a surprise move yesterday Microsoft announced it has changed its position on the default rendering engine of IE8 from IE7 rendering to the bleeding edge standards mode. This is a HUGE win for web developers across the world, the average user and everyone with a disability.
Making the standards mode “standard” means the web will [...]