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Katie Brosious and Michael Fienen discuss the challenges and opportunities involved in moving to a dedicated online catalog and bulletin management system. As schools slash budgets and look for ways to save money, being able to offer a means to reduce the amount of printing done by your school's registrar can be a nice step forward, not just for the budget, but also when looking to improve sustainability. Many schools have processes mired in complexity, or use tools that create more problems than they solve.
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It's Time to Give Your Online Catalog a Facelift
Katie Brosious
Michael Fienen
Who is Katie? About Katie: • BS in Journalism & an MBA in marketing from the University of
Kansas. • She has been working for AllofE Solutions for almost 3 years • Lives in Lawrence, Kan. with her fiance and golden retriever,
Murphy. • Great passion for helping HE pro's become more efficient using
web-based systems. • Has been project lead on the catalog management project since
the very beginning when Michael started making her life crazy.
About AllofE Solutions: • Software R&D company HQ'ed in Lawrence, Kan.• Our enterprise-level systems are used by hundreds of the world's
largest, leading companies• We build software for software product companies • Heavily focused on the education sector (both K-12 and higher
education)• One of the most comprehensive and deepest product suites within
this sector• Has been involved in pioneering web-based systems
for universities for over a decade
Who is Michael? About Michael: • Director of Web Marketing for Pittsburg State University (Kansas)• CTO at nuCloud (http://www.nucloud.com/)• Staff writer for .eduGuru • Author of dotCMS From the Ground Up• Spent more than the past 5 years at PSU, with over a decade of
web development experience• Loves mobile, accessibility, UI/UX, and content• I like good theatre, good fountain pens, and bad movies. Long
walks on the beach optional.
About nuCloud, LLC: • Providing low cost SaaS solutions for higher ed• Our team has nearly two decades of combined higher education
web experience• Same people behind eduRank and the award winning higher ed
blog .eduGuru• Focused on creating solutions to real world problems faced by
universities• Currently offering interactive maps, social media mashups, and
catalog management systems - with more in the planning stages
twitter: @fienen
How have catalogs worked?
• Paper Trail• Revisions, Revisions, Revisions • PDF's• Maintenance Problems• Manipulating Content Management Systems
Catalog Archive Formats
Tools in Use
Who's looking for a [new] solution?
Some survey comments..."Currently both of our catalogs are in split pdf's, which is a pain for everyone involved. I'm in the process of talking with the Dean's Office to convert to an HTML set-up, but it's very daunting!"
"There was an attempt to create a home-grown system at one point in the past, but it proved to be somewhat convoluted because of the amorphous nature of the catalog content."
"...Our process is broken and cumbersome. Print is produced in Quark and then we (web) are given PDF - haven't figured out way to feasibly reverse-engineer it into text/xml/html/anything..."
"We have a print document that gets converted to PDF, then I'm told to 'post it online'. That's our online catalog. Yay."
Get all the results at:
http://bit.ly/catalogsurvey
The Value of an Online Catalog
• Cost centerso Printing costso Mailing costso 3rd party costso Concurrent web editing timeo Paper for proofso Toner from proofs
What If...?
• Postage goes up?• Your 3rd-party designer raises rates $50/hour?• Your printer rates go up?
http://bit.ly/catalogcalc
Doing it smarter
• Annual budgets and Maintenance cost• Paper Trail• Workflow• Software• 2 for 1 - Managing print and web from one place
CatalogM: Why it's different
• Background: Content Management and Curriculum Management
• Flexibility• Integration• Focus on intuitivity• Comprehensive feature set• Most advanced yet more affordable• Customiz-ability - ability to meet unique needs
Demo: CatalogM
Next StepsContact
Michael - [email protected]
Katie - [email protected]
if you are interested in learning more about this project or implementing it at your university.
Download the .eduGuru Survey Results:http://bit.ly/catalogsurvey
Use the Savings Calculator:http://bit.ly/catalogcalc