For OmniUpdate User's Conference, March 09

1. Bring Multimedia and
Interactivity
to Your Site(s) at Minimal Cost
Ellen Kanner
Web Producer/Designer
Dartmouth College
www.dartmouth.edu
Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2009, 10:15-11:00 am

2. Web Services
at Dartmouth College
• ~4000 undergrads
• Using OmniUpdate for about 6-7 years
• ~293 web editors editing ~140 client websites
• Managing this with a staff of 3

3. How we “do” support?
• We do the heavy lifting
• They do the content

4. When you’re in our situation...

5. Training
• We provide one-on-one introduction to
OmniUpdate
• Monthly “Tips & Tricks” sessions with advanced
teachings and multimedia options

6. How do we support those
‘special feature’ requests?
• Photo galleries
• Rotating photo ‘badges’
• Embed video
• Google Form that tracks responses
• Google events calendar
• Google Gadgets and Maps

7. What do these solutions offer?
• Fairly easy option for folks with minimal
HTML experience
• Copy HTML code from YouTube, Flickr,
Google directly to HTML Editor window in
OmniUpdate (Authority Level 8 and above)

8. What do these solutions offer?
• Publicity, visibility
• Sharing - ‘subscribe’ or post elsewhere
• They’re simple and free

9. Department establishes account
• Client registers for the account
• They’re responsible for maintaining the
content on the external site
• We help put code initially into web page

10. Video

11. Video

12. Video

13. Photo Galleries

14. Using Flickr

15. Collecting Form Data using
Google Forms

16. Events on your site using
Google Calendar

17. Google Maps and the
Directions Widget

18. Sharing Widgets
• Addthis.com
• addtoany.com
• Exhibited on speakingof.dartmouth.edu

19. Questions?
Ellen Kanner
Web Producer/Designer
Dartmouth College
ellen.kanner@dartmouth.edu