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Mar 28

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White Whale Selected to Be WebRedo Partner

This is White Whale. Straight off the WebRedo Blog, Dean of LIS Mike Roy announced on Friday that Middlebury/Monterey will be partnering with White Whale Web Services for the new design and information architecture of the Middlebury website. Mike writes: “We believe White Whale has the right combination of skills, experience and vision to meet our demanding requirements. Their process and resulting products have proven to be creative, user-centric, and highly customized to meet the unique needs of the institutions they work with. We came to this decision through an open, collaborative process that included input from all those who attended the open vendor presentations both in-person and via webcast in Monterey.”

White Whale will henceforth be called “the Whale.”

The Whale will be coming to Middlebury April 27-29 to hear from faculty, staff, and yes even students. They might just be grabbing students in the dining hall, so be prepared. Really think that Midd needs to put the College seal back on the website? Tell it to the Whale. Really think that Midd needs more flash graphics with cool photos? Tell it to the Whale. Really think we need a more interactive course catalog? Tell it to the Whale. While the WebRedo team has been hard at work all year on this project collecting info from across campus, the Whale helps Middlebury synthsize its requirements into a viable design and structure.

Mar 13

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WebRedo: Designing Midd’s Website

Want to avoid another leaf-logo debacle? This time decide what design firm will help Middlebury design our new institutional website (that is everything at middlebury.edu):

From the Web Makeover Team: There are “four vendors as finalists for the Web redesign project, and they’ll be in Middlebury next week, March 16-20, to make presentations. Each of the four will be here for one day.” Feel free to click through to their websites to see some examples of other work these firms have done. They range from other higher ed places to big corporation websites…

Tellart
Monday, March 16, Axinn 100
Public presentation: 10:30 a.m. to noon (1-hour presentation; 1/2-hour Q&A)

White Whale Web Services
Wednesday, March 18, Axinn 100
Public presentation: 10:30 a.m. to noon (1-hour presentation; 1/2-hour Q&A)

Dynamic Diagrams
Thursday, March 19, Twilight Auditorium
Public presentation: 10:30 a.m. to noon (1-hour presentation; 1/2-hour Q&A)

decimal152
Friday, March 20, Twilight Auditorium
Public presentation: 10:30 a.m. to noon (1-hour presentation; 1/2-hour Q&A)

Dec 9

Ten Votes for a Better MiddWeb, Alpha

Some readers may be wondering what exactly is the new “Ten Votes” tab added to our homepage a few weeks ago:

Middlebury College will be giving a makeover to their website (www.middlebury.edu). For you blog-savvy readers out there, that’s huge! Interacting online with the College website is a big part of our lives as students whether it’s looking up classes, checking out weekend events, or posting rides to the rideboard.

J-term will be the time to speak up or forever hold your peace. We’ll have focus groups, surveys, and suggestion boxes aplenty.

BUT, since this is a WEB makeover, why not make it web-oriented? That’s why I’m launching Ten Votes, an online voting system for what is most important to students in the new website.

You submit suggestions and you get ten votes to vote on anybody’s suggestions. You can spend a maximum of three votes on any given suggestion and, of course, you can respond/comment/poke fun at any of the suggestions.

So suggest stuff and vote today!

Nov 7

Redesign Middlebury Online

This is what Vassar’s homepage looked like for Halloween. OK, not going to lie, I’m a little jealous.

But maybe not for long. Middlebury College is undertaking a redesign of our website. And we’re not talking about teeny tiny little changes of moving banners and swapping shades of panther-blue. We’re talking the big stuff — the Middlebury website’s organization, function, and technologies.

Why? And why now? Those cool cats over at LIS have to chuck the technology they currently use to operate the website because big-bad Microsoft is ending tech support. Just think what happens if the people at the help desk you call for help when your laptop breaks have no one to call when their thousands-of-pages website breaks down…

So, it’s an opportunity! LIS, at the appointment of Ronald D. Liebowitz himself, has formed up the Web Makeover Committee with new Dean of LIS Mike Roy at the helm. Yes, that’s right, it’s kinda like Extreme Makeover, Website Edition. Of course, the Makeover comes on the heel of last year’s Internet Strategy Taskforce report.

MiddBlog wants to know: What would you change about the Middlebury website? What kind of stuff on the web do you use now that you might want all of Middlebury to use too? Help yourselves by helping redesign the website and stay tuned for more info on getting involved.

(screenshot via Karlyn Morrissette)

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