University web marketing and usability

…formerly “Sardionerak’s tiny shed”, but that was bit too vague…

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I work as a web coordinator for three very different faculties at a university in Sydney. This is my story...

Archive for November, 2006

By mere chance, I stumbled upon a very interesting web page that listed all of the Australian university networks and their members:
Groupings of Universities in Australia
That in itself is not very fascinating, institutions claim to be part of networks all the time. However, when I started checking out all the listed university web sites for […]

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The University of Wollongong at Australia’s east coast (just a couple hours south of Sydney) introduced their Virtual Tour a while back. I couldn’t find a specific date, but I was introduced to it by a colleague at least 6 months back.
University of Wollongong Virtual Tour
The tour is promoted heavily on the whole UOW web […]

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MQtv - Macquarie University going multimedia

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

I actually don’t know when Macquarie University went live with this new part of their web site (I think it was on 4 October 2006), I stumbled upon it about 1 week ago, and thought it might be nice to talk about it after going through most of their contributions. I also do NOT work […]

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As I’ve written before, we just revealed the new web site for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences a couple of weeks ago, and I just thought I would share some of the reasons behind some of the more controversial decisions of the information architecture and the general usability of the site.
Today, I would […]

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