Building a homegrown university portal with a tiny team

Follow our small web team of two on our journey to build a homegrown campus portal in the Drupal CMS we dubbed My.Fred. We’ll cover the steps we took to gather requirements and user feedback from our campus users to build and deliver a stable, simple, user-centric web portal service. Because the simple core of […]

Forest for the trees: Growing your evergreen content strategy

Evergreen content is content that, due to its timeless message or longstanding relevance, will continue to provide value to your audiences and drive traffic to your website even as time passes. In higher education, the “evergreen content strategy” is an often elusive goal attempted between the management and application of a dozen other responsibilities. This […]

Design for storytelling: Building a platform for sharing the lived experiences of race at a PWI

Can technology help predominantly white institutions reckon with their racial histories in a just and equitable way? We attempted this with Lived Experiences: Race at Miami University — an online collaborative storytelling project that chronicles the history of racial dynamics at Miami University of Ohio. Lived Experiences is a media-rich website that brings together oral […]