http://ucanr.org/blogs/Web_Tip_Blog/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed Best practices for web communications en-us UC ANR http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/ Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:58:24 PST Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:58:24 PST
]]> Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:24:55 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=5619&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=5619
]]> Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:34:48 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=5501&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=5501
]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:15:58 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=5193&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=5193 I've been getting a lot of questions about SEO lately (something must be in the water) and Brenda Dawson sent me this great Periodic Table of SEO Ranking Factors.  Besides being clever - the information contained is worthwhile! This comes from the folks at Search Engine Land and they also have a great site on how to use the factors. Keep in mind that we always have a leg up because our sites contain or link to .edu sites, those sites will automatically help increase your rank. Google, as...
]]> Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:08:12 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=5075&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=5075
]]> Tue, 03 May 2011 16:45:36 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4784&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4784
]]> Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:05:45 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4708&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4708 Ever wondered about these graphics? Mike Poe has written an excellent post on QR codes in the Communication Tools for ANR blog.
]]> Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:23:29 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4341&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4341
]]> Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:01:18 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4302&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4302 Fascinating article in the New York Times about JC Penney's efforts to maximize SEO during the recent holiday season, and how their "black hat" tactics have resulted in punitive measures from Google.
]]> Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:49:15 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4288&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4288 Yesterday, Facebook announced changes to how "pages" look and work. Generally when Facebook announces it is changing how things work — whether layout, privacy or other functions — users are reminded how much control Facebook actually has over the content they are providing. And usually, that reminder is met with grumbles. But the changes to Facebook pages announced yesterday, so far seem to be met with open arms by many users. If you already have a Facebook page: When you login to your...
]]> Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:17:56 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4219&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bldawson@ucdavis.edu(Brenda Dawson) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4219 Hi there, I'm Brenda and I'm a Twitter addict. It didn't start out this way: The first time I heard about a fellow UC communicator using Twitter, I told her that it was a waste of time. I explained my "expert" reasoning: I had read a magazine article that said Twitter was an overpromoted fad. It wasn't long before I realized that I should probably back up my words with actual experience. But when I tried to learn about Twitter by looking at it from the outside, nothing made sense. So I signed...
]]> Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:47:55 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4184&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed bldawson@ucdavis.edu(Brenda Dawson) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4184
]]> Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:28:04 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4142&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4142 Some of the hardest decisions I make in Web site design are about the order of the left navigation. A couple of years ago when we did the Carewords research, I preached the gospel of making better informed decisions about how content is placed on a home page instead of defaulting to an alphabetical listing. Now it seems there's additional research that A-Z sorting is not user-friendly. According to Jacob Nielsen, people rarely think A-Z.  Either "users don't know the name of the thing that...
]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:20:25 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4102&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4102
]]> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:40:32 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4065&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=4065
]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:09:37 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3943&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3943 The Nielsen research findings on e-mail effectiveness lines up with many of the best practices I learned at Constant Contact's Boot Camp last September. I remember the biggest Homer Simpson dope slap moment of the training was the exercise where we considered at how e-mails appear in the Inbox. I have to admit, before the Boot Camp I often gave that part of my e-mail little thought. When I think about myself as a recipient of e-mail, the subject line weighs heavily in how I wade through my...
]]> Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:54:58 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3915&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3915 The latest research from Jakob Nielsen reports that e-mail newsletters remain a Web communicator's best way to supplement a Web site and that the two communication forms are complimentary. In the study, Nielsen notes that even though the amount of new or unread mail is 300% higher than it was just 4 years ago, e-mail newsletters have moved into the mainstream with consumers. More findings: With this increase in mail comes an increase in the importance of a good subject line. The...
]]> Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:44:28 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3868&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3868
]]> Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:35:53 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3813&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3813
]]> Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:55:20 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3809&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3809
]]> Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:10:35 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3715&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed cckintigh@ucdavis.edu(Cynthia Kintigh) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=3715