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Agenda

• Introductions
• Overview Campus Trends
• Overview Lessons Learned
• Our Approach
• Looking Ahead
• Discussion and Feedback

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About Media Solutions
Introductions

• Stanford University Media Solutions is the
  professional, online communication resource for
  the Stanford University community.
• Our full-service production group combines the
  latest ideas and technologies to create
  distinctive web sites, courseware, print
  materials, and online tools for research,
  teaching and learning.

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Campus Trends
Overview

• Applicants, students, new faculty and staff are
  forcing the campus to become more web-savvy.
• Stanford departments are ready for more
  sophisticated use of their web sites.
• Web site as tool, not brochure-ware
• Desire to raise the floor of Stanford web.
• Look and feel World-class or high-school class?
• Functionality On beyond Filemaker
• Accessibility issues on the horizon.

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Campus Trends
Overview

• In the marketplace
• New tools are easing content creation and
  maintenance
• High-cost remains for CMS
• Open Sourcing is lowering cost of application
  development (but its still not cheap)
• Identity tension remains
• Stanford/School/Department/Research Group
• Cross-disciplinary efforts
• Academic/intellectual energy around the web
  continues to grow
• Campus knowledge remains in silos, but walls are
  breaking down

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Lessons Learned
Overview

• The web is organic.
• No substitute for fresh content.
• People dont care how you are organized (really).
• Help people accomplish the task they came to do.
• Presentation matters.

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Lessons Learned
Overview

• Phase it.
• Start the train and people will jump on.
• Customize strategically.
• Remember how bad the old site is.
• Dont blame everything on the web project.

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Why Media Solutions
Our Approach

• Quality products by a team of professionals
• Commitment to satisfying clients
• We belong to Stanford
• Professional solutions available when you need
  them
• http//mediasolutions.stanford.edu

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What We Do
Our Approach

• Graphic and visual identity
• New or high-profile centers, programs, buildings
• Interactive courseware and training
• Include compliance-based efforts aimed at staff
• Custom design and production services
• Build on standard platforms, integrate with
  larger campus efforts
• Products and tools
• Address campus needs and budgets

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Products and Tools
Our Approach

• QUAD
• Manage your site easily from anywhere.
• Events Calendar
• Effectively promote your upcoming events.
• SiteBuilder
• Rapidly build and expand basic web sites.
• Script Library
• Enhance your sites functionality.

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Demo
Our Approach

• QUAD
• Manage your site easily from anywhere.
• Events Calendar
• Effectively promote your upcoming events.
• Design Options
• Standard Stanford look-and-feel

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QUAD
Our Approach

• Dynamically-driven web site that provides
• Distributed content delivery and administration
• Automatic links across related content
• Professional Stanford-tailored graphic and
  information design
• Ability to adapt and grow as you grow

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Events Calendar
Our Approach

• Gather and Share Information about Upcoming
  Public Events
• Custom formats and views including both summary
  and detailed information about each event
• Easy searching, sorting, and browsing
• Simple updating process through a web browser and
  internet connection
• Easy upload of supporting files and images
• Highly controllable event submission by multiple
  groups or individual
• Data portable to other systems and calendars

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SiteBuilder
Our Approach

• Basic Web Site Creation
• Rapidly build static websites of various sizes
  with up to four levels of navigation using web
  browser and online forms
• Easily transfer old site content into a new site
  structure
• Allow distributed content entry
• Use one click interactive sitemap to create or
  delete pages, re-arrange the hierarchy of pages
  within a site
• Preview entire site as content is updated before
  any static files have been built

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Script Library
Our Approach

• Online forms
• Flat-file databases
• News posting and archiving
• Find a specialist
• Contact us

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Our Approach
Custom Services

• Design unique look and feel
• Develop or copyedit content
• Perform customized data mapping
• Audit and document existing site
• Port existing content
• Incorporate statistics package
• Add video/audio
• Create interactive forms

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Looking Ahead

• PHP, MySQL, XML, CSS
• Data flow between infrastructure and individual
  applications
• Technology clearinghouse
• Accessibility standards
• Higher education/nonprofit-focused applications

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Feedback and Discussion

• What questions do you have?
• What are your specific needs?
• How can we help you?

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Contacts

• Wynn Hausser, Director
• wynnh_at_stanford.edu, 5-9743
• Penny Chumley, Producer
• Penny.chumley_at_stanford.edu,3-1191