Best Practices for iModules Websites Dartmouth Class Webmasters Association Ed Mazer ’63 

Best Practices for iModules Websites 2 James Barkley ‘06 Martha Beattie ‘76

Best Practices for iModules Websites Mission  Identify opportunities for the College to build out iModules capability  Help the College to create a development roadmap  Identify best practices  Create a how to get to Best Practices for Classes, Clubs and Interest Groups  Build support capabilities to help webmasters get there

Best Practices for iModules Websites Process  Communicate with Mark and Carlo of the Webmasters Assoc.  Include enhancements they have identified as needed  Develop a communications link to keep them in the loop  Survey all Websites for Cool Ideas  Interview Webmasters  Identify the things they have done that they think are hot  Learn what is on their wish-list

Best Practices for iModules Websites Ultimate Goals  To Accelerate College build out of expanded capacities in iModules by helping them to create a roadmap for future development that can be acted on more swiftly.  To Learn how and to transfer the knowledge of how to build “Wow” features to Webmasters  To Help webmasters migrate to iModules 

Best Practices for iModules Websites Update Policies  Work with Martha Beatty, Siobhan Kearney and Judy Doherty to update College address security policies to take advantage of current technology  Coordinate recommendations with Mark and Carlo

Best Practices for iModules Websites Let’s Look at what we’ve got (Getting the Wow factor into your Class Website)

Best Practices for iModules Websites Updating the College security policy I have suggested that:  The relationship between members of each class is a special case  Classmates should be able to exchange s directly and easily to encourage and facilitate that special relationship.  College should provision a page listing classmates names with ability to click to send an

Best Practices for iModules Websites Conditions for allowing direct to Classmates  Contact information are be secured by College login  Display prevents users from making a bulk copy of addresses  Opt-out flag in their College profile to prevent their address from be shared with classmates  A letter will go out to all alums notifying new policy with a link to profile flag to opt-out

Confidentiality and Restrictions on use of addresses  Classmates who wish to access the list must first read and agree to the College policy  Restrictions on use of addresses should be written in plain, simple and brief language that can be read and understood  Statement defines the terms of use  Useless unless read and understood

The College has agreed  The College will build a new page displaying a list of classmates with the ability to click and directly to any classmate  It will use the actual address and your system – not a redirected form  You will get bounce-backs and non-delivery notices  addresses will come directly from the College database in real time

When will it be done?  We hope to have a working version out in 8-10 weeks  This is a bold, ambitious decision  The first version might be imperfect and continued effort will be made to deal with improvements from what we learn 

Best Practices for iModules Websites Statement of Address Confidentiality The following is the proprietary, confidential information of Dartmouth College. Information in this directory is provided for personal use only. No part of this directory may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or retransmitted without the prior written permission of an authorized officer of the College. Any use of the addresses or other information for any multiple mailing without the express written consent of the appropriate College officer is prohibited. I signify that I agree to be bound by the above terms one possibility of how it might look when completed

Best Practices for iModules Websites Class of a Classmate one possibility of how it might look when completed

Best Practices for iModules Websites Embedding JavaScript into an iModules Page JavaScript code only be embedded in a page by the iModules team  Send your requests to  Your request should contain the following information:  The HTML code pasted into the  The address (url) of the target page  The location (Content Block) on the page  The location within the Content Block

Best Practices for iModules Websites How to Integrate Paypal with your iModules Website Doc link link

Best Practices for iModules Websites How to create a Classmate Location Google Map in iModules Link Doc link

Best Practices for iModules Websites How to embed a Photo album in iModules using Flickr link

Best Practices for iModules Websites How to create a Data Feed from Class Twitter Account to iModules Link

Best Practices for iModules Websites How to embed YouTube Videos onto you iModules pages Link

Best Practices for iModules Websites How to embed a MapQuest map into iModules link

Best Practices for iModules Websites How to embed a Survey into iModules using Survey Monkey link

Best Practices for iModules Websites Oh, and one other thing!

Best Practices for iModules Websites How to embed a Facebook Feed into iModules Link

Best Practices for iModules Websites How to embed a Facebook Feed into iModules Link 

Best Practices for iModules Websites Some other cool features you can learn how to do  Hums (for the older classes)  Dartmouth songs  The Greenbook  Etc. Link to Songs Link to Greenbook

Best Practices for iModules Websites So, what have we got here?  Pie in the sky?  A kiss and a promises?  Wait till next year? Is our Best Practices documentation and instructions on how do all this something you will have to wait for ---- or is it ready for prime time?

Best Practices for iModules Websites I have more work to do  Scope out a list of suggested enhancements for the College  Talk to each of you about what you would like to be able to do  How can you help? Make a wish list and it to me greencard

Best Practices for iModules Websites Thanks to the Dartmouth team  To Martha Beattie ‘76 for believing in this mission and for her continued support and encouragement  To James Napoli, Siobhan S. Kearney and Judy Doherty for their amazing support  To Mark Tomalonis ‘79 and Carlo Ordonez ’06  Special thanks to my friend, the talented James Barkley ‘06 for all his help, and for sharing my vision. 

Best Practices for iModules Websites Ed Mazer ’63 Contact me at