Web Content Management Forum

SHU Website Redesign in the Works!

The Web Content Management (WCM) team is excited to announce that the university has selected a new web design company and content management system (CMS) to redesign the Sacred Heart University website, with an anticipated launch of August 2012! After carefully reviewing nearly 20 proposals, the Web Team and Web Redesign Committee met with four web design firms and three CMS companies. At the conclusion of the presentations, the group unanimously voted to hire New City, an award-winning web design company based out of Virginia, and Terminal Four, an innovative higher education content management company.

 The SHU Website Redesign Committee consists of 17 individuals representing departments across campus, including Nancy Boudreau, Kim Galiette, and Caitlin Robles, together with Funda Alp, Alane Bikovsky, Renata Cioffi, Maura Coppola, Tracy Deer-Mirek, Diana Fitzsimons, Frances Grodzinsky, Alexis Haakonsen, Matthew Kenney, Christopher Lavoie, Katie Nichols, Jamie Romeo, Julie Savino and Deborah Surbey.

Beginning next week, New City and the Web Team will kick off our web redesign Discovery Phase, a fun and engaging process of gathering feedback from all SHU constituents. New City will be on campus Wednesday – Friday, October 26 - 28 to conduct focus groups with prospective students and current undergraduate, part-time and graduate students, and parents. New City will simultaneously host several brainstorming sessions, also known as KJ sessions, with faculty and staff across campus, including representatives from admissions, student life, academics, mission, university advancement and marketing. In the coming weeks, the University’s senior staff will participate in one-on-one interviews as well. The results of the Discovery Phase will set the creative and strategic direction of our website redesign.

We plan on keeping the University Community informed about the progress of the new website, so be sure to subscribe to our blog http://sacredheartuniversity.typepad.com/words_from_a_web_diva/ for updates.  In the meantime, we encourage feedback from everyone within the SHU community. Please email sitefeedback@sacredheart.edu with any questions, comments or suggestions.

Thank you for your continued support!

The WCM Team

Nancy Boudreau
Kim Galiette
Caitlin Robles

 

SHU Website Wins 2011 WebAward for 3rd Consecutive Year!

I am pleased to announce that for the third year in a row, the Sacred Heart University website has received the Web Marketing Association's University Standard of Excellence Award for outstanding achievement in web development!!

The Web Marketing Association’s annual WebAward Competition sets the standard of excellence for website development.  Best websites are selected by judges from around the world who review the entered websites using the following seven criteria: design, ease of use, copywriting, interactivity, use of technology, innovation and content. SHU's website scored higher than the industry average in four categories, rating especially high in both content and copywriting. 

The WebAward Competition is the premier award recognition program for Web developers and marketers worldwide. For more details on the award and recipients, visit WebAward. 

Congrats to Sacred Heart University and the Web Content Mangement Team!