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Small Project? Small Team? Big Success! Webinar Video, Slides, and Q&A

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Small Project? Small Team? Big Success! Webinar Video, Slides, and Q&A

Feb 26, 2013By mStoner Staff

Last week I presented a webinar on strategies, tactics, tips, tools and platforms that small campus web teams (or any size, really) can use to tackle the multitude of smaller projects on their plates at any given time.

For those of you who couldn’t make the webinar and would like to take a look, here are both the archive of the full presentation and the slides alone:

Full Video Recording

Slide Deck Only

P.S. One of the items I was most excited to share during the webinar was how mStoner plans to utilize many of these techniques and tools as part of a CMS option for smaller site implementations in higher education using WordPress. There is some information in the slides, but if you would like to hear more about how this approach could meet your small site needs, I’d be happy to talk to you about it in detail. Shoot me an email (fran.zablocki@mstoner.com) or tweet (@zablocki) any time!

P.P.S. There was also a question and an additional bonus resource that I promised I’d follow up on during the Q+A:

Q: How secure is WordPress?

A: It depends. There a lot of really talented people in higher ed and a lot of them work on small teams. In my experience, these individuals are skilled and professional. They know how to take advantage of the power of WordPress in a way that makes it a reliable and secure option. They do what it takes to effectively manage a website. Conversely, there are websites owned by people who don’t necessarily take security into account at a very high level. A lot of these sites aren’t necessarily actively managed, so issues aren’t noticed very quickly and proper updates and patches aren’t applied in a timely way. Sometimes blogs are created and abandoned, but the server is still out running an old, vulnerable version of the software. Passwords aren’t always created with security in mind, and things are done with a lot of default settings.

Bonus Time Zone Management tool: Lots of tools exist that provide you with the time around the world now, but Every Time Zone provides a really slick and easy way to see what time it will be anywhere and at any point in the day. It helps keep the mStoner team on the same page with each other and clients in many different time zones. http://everytimezone.com/