Level up: Boost engagement with online games

What’s your favorite phone or computer game? If you have ever played or watched someone else play, then you know how engaging a game can be. Using gamification to boost engagement is part of the Cornell alumni marketing team strategy. But, we are a higher ed institution, not a gaming agency! We are challenged to […]

Ad hoc identity management for parents of admitted students

Our goal was to convert our “post-deposit checklist” into a dynamic, personalized online resource that parents as well as students could use. The personalization part meant we needed to provide secure access to parents, who have no identity in our network. We solved this by providing guest accounts in Microsoft Azure that we connected to […]

Drupal and Microsoft Azure together in harmony

Microsoft Azure is the environment of choice for many higher ed institutions. It provides a lot of really great services to remove the burden of building web sites that are both easy to deploy and scale well. Drupal is the content management system of choice for an even greater number of higher ed institutions. Together […]