Comments on: umanitoba.ca 4.0 http://utools.ca/journal/2005/04/13/umanitobaca-40/ Inside the mind of steev. Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:12:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Joey Coleman’s Blog » Blog Archive » U of M / Dell / Everywhere Girl http://utools.ca/journal/2005/04/13/umanitobaca-40/comment-page-1/#comment-38926 Joey Coleman’s Blog » Blog Archive » U of M / Dell / Everywhere Girl Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:37:42 +0000 http://www.utools.ca/journal/2005/04/13/umanitobaca-40/#comment-38926 [...] I posted the information and waited for the University to change their website. At 2pm CST, the University Administration had viewed my blog (they have checked it a couple times a day since February when I used it to mobilize students to demand better food service on campus) and were aware the “student” on the website had been exposed. Nothing happened that day. Overnight, the story spread. At 0122CDT, it was blogged about on steev’s thoughts. At the same time, the visits to my site were increasing. The information was out and students were disappointed in the University. When I went for coffee, many students were talking to me and could not believe this happened. Still, there was no action by the University. At 1432CDT, one of the College newspapers, The Paulinian, had picked up the story on their blog. There was still no action from the University. By the end of the day, the entire University knew what was happening. Not only that, many students were sending emails to the Director of Public Affairs and some to the University Vice-President (External). By this time, I had many students saying how they would have posed for free and I started to keep a list on my blog . By this time, I had an entire page of pictures with the “Dell Girl” on other websites. Yet, still no action from the University and no students had told me of getting responses to their emails. [...] [...] I posted the information and waited for the University to change their website. At 2pm CST, the University Administration had viewed my blog (they have checked it a couple times a day since February when I used it to mobilize students to demand better food service on campus) and were aware the “student” on the website had been exposed. Nothing happened that day. Overnight, the story spread. At 0122CDT, it was blogged about on steev’s thoughts. At the same time, the visits to my site were increasing. The information was out and students were disappointed in the University. When I went for coffee, many students were talking to me and could not believe this happened. Still, there was no action by the University. At 1432CDT, one of the College newspapers, The Paulinian, had picked up the story on their blog. There was still no action from the University. By the end of the day, the entire University knew what was happening. Not only that, many students were sending emails to the Director of Public Affairs and some to the University Vice-President (External). By this time, I had many students saying how they would have posed for free and I started to keep a list on my blog . By this time, I had an entire page of pictures with the “Dell Girl” on other websites. Yet, still no action from the University and no students had told me of getting responses to their emails. [...]

]]> By: Joey Coleman http://utools.ca/journal/2005/04/13/umanitobaca-40/comment-page-1/#comment-586 Joey Coleman Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:08:53 +0000 http://www.utools.ca/journal/2005/04/13/umanitobaca-40/#comment-586 From what I am hearing, the webmasters wanted to go to a content management system (CMS) for the entire site and someone in the Ivory Tower (Administration Building) said no but still wanted to launch this new campaign. This is my speculation: I think the webmasters had rebuilt everything using CMS and had it ready to launch. Then someone in Admin vetoed it and they are currently redesigning each individual page. It would not surprise me that someone in Admin without any clue about web design and the work involve would be telling the webmasters exactly how to do things. From what I am hearing, the webmasters wanted to go to a content management system (CMS) for the entire site and someone in the Ivory Tower (Administration Building) said no but still wanted to launch this new campaign.

This is my speculation: I think the webmasters had rebuilt everything using CMS and had it ready to launch. Then someone in Admin vetoed it and they are currently redesigning each individual page. It would not surprise me that someone in Admin without any clue about web design and the work involve would be telling the webmasters exactly how to do things.

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