Notes from the 2nd Floor

Updates from September, 2008

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  Off to Atlanta

  Jared Smith 11:57 am on September 21, 2008 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Cascade Server (3), Conferences (2), content management, hannon hill

  I’ll be in Atlanta, GA for the next couple days for the Cascade Server Users’ Conference. Cascade Server is, of course, the content management system which will be powering the new-look College website next year. (Read more about that project at webdev.cofc.edu, our Web Development resources site.)

  I’m looking forward to bringing back gobs of information to help make the College’s content management system really rock out in the coming months. I’ll be blogging the conference here, so stay tuned!

   

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  Inaugural (Or, Here Goes Nothing)

  Jared Smith 11:50 am on September 12, 2008 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Blogging (2), culture, inaugural, transparency, Webmastering (2)

  This is a blog about work.  No, not one of those blogs about work that spread gossip and thus are warned against from many corners of the Internet.  (Sorry )  When done right, a blog about work does wonders for building a culture of transparency and trust in an organization.  That’s the goal here.  That, and I like to show off cool things we’re doing in IT Web Strategies. 

  People often ask me what my job’s really like.  I figure the best way to answer that question for one and all is to start a blog that gradually attacks that question.  Life as a webmaster is an ever-changing thing — there’s some new technology, challenge, threat, you name it — EVERY DAY. So, this is where I’m going to chronicle these events, with tips and tricks and some fun anecdotes along the way.

  Comments are wide open and will be wide-open throughout.  Blogging is a two-way street, and it’s nothing but a broadcast if you’re not interacting.

  So, without further ado…here goes nothing.