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== John E. Schwartz, Regional Director, OmniUpdate ==

- Main contact person for OmniUpdate, packets handed out (grab extras)

- brief slide presentation

- demo from the science website

=== Why CMS? ===

- website is a valuable asset

- ~ 16 present

- enrollment (Knowle Levitz, interviewed students) / 20% here, 40% went through website

- advancement (donors, community leaders knowledge)

- brand (sets the image of the university, tone, etc)

- identity (website IS Texas A&M - why? Never get here)

- INVESTMENT, needs attention

=== Benefits ===

- better communications

- faster updates

- increased efficiencies

- maintain web consistency

- reduce the burden of the technical staff (really?)

=== About OMNIUPDATE ===

- 20 years

- 7 years CMS, primarily higher education

- SunnyDale High, Pepperdine, SUNY, Tulane, Dartmouth (new features), Pennsylvania System

- we know our customers and listen to their feedback

- 450 college websites, 3.0 million pages

- call any of our references, we'll share them

- DVD in packages, pre-recorded interviews w/ our customers

==== What makes us different? ====

- focused toward the end user

- not asking them to learn new tools

- already familiar to their users

- no need to retrain a bunch of people

- On-Demand solution for quick deployment

- flexibility (believe in industry standards, don't want you locked to any one solution or costly migrations)

- XML, XSLT, JSP, PHP

- Support multitude of protocol (LDAP, Active Directory)

- pricing model scales (based on users)

==== User Acceptance ====

- can't force people to use a system that they can't already understand

- making it easy/flexible is key

=== Demo ===

Gallena University

==== Eric, tasked w/ updating content ====

- navigate to the page on the actual website

- direct edit link in the bottom corner

- takes him to login screen

- takes you back to the same page seamlessly

- full-context editing

- makes changes directly or can copy/paste it

- setup the toolbar to each one of the users (you can eliminate things that you don't want them to be able to do)

 OPTION: Copy/paste (text-strict) -> that way they can't add any funny type treatments that you don't want

- sends forward to the reviewer

- sends an email to reviewer

==== John, manager responsible for editing/reviewing/publishing ====

- workflow, see list of items tasked to review/edit

- compare feature (you can see what changes they made) what was different

- publish, later (timed), send to additional user for review/approval, decline, or decline and keep it

==== What's New RSS ====

- setup the regions that you want to have access to

- 11 levels (only?)

- ex. news blurbs, templates set up by administrator

- news item -> form (will follow the form styles set by administrator)

- separates "pieces" of information

 User friendly URLS - that YOU decide about?

- it will not allow you to publish images unless you comply with 508 accessibility

 ?: Can you turn off the alt-tag requirement prompt
 Not currently, will look into that

==== Asset Library ====

- you can decide who can has access to this library

- all file types (images, doc, etc)

 ?: there's a set number of links that the lower-end user can do / what about higher-end users
 Yes, mid-level users can have access to use things and link to things beyond the asset library

 ?: is there a way to expand beyond 11 roles
 Yes, but hasn't been asked before (would have to be customized at their level)

 ?: would the users be defined in common across the university
 As it stands now, yes. Could be differing if the sites are running seperately though, so techinically could have differing configurations

 ?: Can it run multiple sites w/ various access
 Colleges would have to agree to the 10 levels across the university and they would have to add additional levels to the system

==== Configuration ====

- setup custom toolbars (which you can add to various users)

- setup custom templates / CSS allowed

==== Check Out ====

- if a page is checked out, then it can't be edited by anyone

- administrators can override this and check them back in

- schedule reminders (update emails sent to remind folks to check back in and edit)

 ?: Access to multiple groups
 Good question, get back to you

 ?: Could you add the alt-tag during file upload, allowing for common definitions
 get back to you

 ?: Allow for scripting within page
 Yes, there is a full HTML editor - for certain types of administrators

==== Road Map ====

- form feature, calendar feature (but not locked into)

- version 7 -> XML the way to go, so that you can repurpose the content VERY quickly