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 February, 2007

Enhanced Second Life - Outback Online

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Now that Second Life has received a considerable amount of press, it was only a matter of time until another company came forward with a new bold claim to make it all bigger, better, and faster: Outback Online!
As I have already said in a previous post on Second Life, I can quite easily imagine that […]

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Most of the time, I point at other people’s research and then give my 2 cents, which must be quite boring for some of you. However, today, I can finally offer another original piece of research that I was able to conduct, thanks to some of my colleagues (not sure if I could name them […]

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How cool is this headline? Yes, it could also be published in British newspapers of ill repute (no offense), but it’s a great attention grabber, isn’t it?
As usual, I have to thank the blogs first who gave me the idea for this post: templatedata and collegewebeditor ! The University of Melbourne released another one of their beautiful web […]

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I don’t know how it is in other parts of the world, but here in Australia, Second Life is slowly gaining momentum in the media. The early signs of a hype are there - you can tell because they really make stories out of nothing. I guess now that even grand-parents have heard of YouTube, […]

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