http://blog.richmond.edu/astech Helping faculty, staff and students in the School of Arts & Sciences tell their stories more effectively Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:53:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Reprinted from myVU: A tool created by Vanderbilt to allow easy integration between the course management program Blackboard and Apple’s iTunes U will be available to all universities using Blackboard, thanks to a new partnership between Blackboard and Vanderbilt. The partnership was announced July 15 at BbWorld, the annual meeting of Blackboard's ... http://blog.richmond.edu/astech/2009/07/16/partnership-with-blackboard-to-integrate-itunes-u-with-blackboard-learn/ Are you a Twitter fanatic who happens to be associated with the School of Arts & Sciences? We're interested in finding faculty, staff and students in the Twitterverse. Leave your Twitter handle in the comment form! http://blog.richmond.edu/astech/2009/07/15/do-you-tweet/ The School of Arts & Sciences has two flip cameras that can be borrowed by faculty, staff and students who are interested in producing videos for the University's YouTube channel. In fact, you don't even have to produce the video. Take some raw footage of your research, a class, whatever ... http://blog.richmond.edu/astech/2009/07/15/interested-in-using-a-flip-camera/ Whether it’s a lecture, performance, reading or panel discussion, every event that gets uploaded to the YouTube channel helps to paint a fuller picture of what’s going on at the University of Richmond. Want to share your event with friends, colleagues or any of the 150 million people on YouTube ... http://blog.richmond.edu/astech/2009/02/05/how-to-successfully-get-your-as-event-on-richmonds-youtube-channel/ Remember, there's no bad time to update your faculty/staff bio. Because faculty/staff bios are maintained through a central database, they can't be updated at the departmental level. To update your bio, all you need to do is E-mail Giavanna Palermo with your edits or additions. You can include the changes ... http://blog.richmond.edu/astech/2009/02/05/its-always-a-good-time-to-update-your-facultystaff-bio/ Curious about Twitter? Thought this might be useful. Here's a video tutorial that walks a user through using Twitter. If you're a faculty or staff member who's already Twittering, leave a comment and include your handle or, better yet, tweet @rachelbeanland or @mdlevy. You can follow the University of Richmond's tweets ... http://blog.richmond.edu/astech/2009/02/05/twitter-basics/ Did you know the School of Arts & Sciences, and in fact the entire University of Richmond, is on YouTube? Check out the University's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/universityofrichmond. The channel is organized by play lists: research, arts, events, athletics and more. If you're hosting a lecture, talk or other event that ... http://blog.richmond.edu/astech/2009/02/05/the-school-of-arts-sciences-is-on-youtube/ Online feature stories are stories about students, faculty, staff or programs that touch your department or program. On your Web site, they look a little like this: When you click on the feature story's promo, you go to a new Web page that includes a slightly larger photo, like this: The photo is ... http://blog.richmond.edu/astech/2009/02/05/want-new-feature-stories-on-your-department-web-site/ Pardon our mess. Over the next few days, we're going to be reorganizing this blog to make it a little more user-friendly. Stay tuned. http://blog.richmond.edu/astech/2009/02/05/pardon-the-mess/ For anyone interested in the CMS migration timeline from the EduWeb 2008 presentation "50 Web Sites in Six Months", this is it. Of course, there were more minor milestones, but this will give you a general idea of the  process. CMS Migration Posted using ShareThis http://blog.richmond.edu/astech/2008/07/17/cms-migration/