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University Web Services
University Web Services (UWS) was formed in July 2006 to ensure that NJIT reaches and communicates with both internal and external audiences through a web site that is attractive, representative of NJIT, highly accessible, and easily navigable.

We will provide and deliver up-to-date and technologically forward looking web services to NJIT.  Beginning during the 2006-2007 academic year, we have been relaunching the NJIT website with a new design, information architecture, and in a new CMS.

From UWS's Blog
June 17th, 2009
This week we rolled out a long-awaited blog widget.  Version # 1 allows us to embed blog content into the center column of web pages. The widget automatically pulls in the most recent 3, 5, or 7 blog items (title, plus first 270 characters or so of the posting) and displays it on the webpage.  The... read more!
May 28th, 2009
Well, we’ve been managing our main NJIT Twitter account — twitter.com/njit — for a while now, but we recently set up two other accounts — twitter.com/njitnews and twitter.com/njithighlanders Both the latter two sites use Twitterfeer.com to suck in the RSS feeds from the... read more!
May 19th, 2009
On Tues, May 19, 2009, we launched a new Green @ NJIT site. This site brings together a wealth of information on NJIT’s green and sustainability initiatives and activities. Events Courses Experts Resources How to get involved See it at... read more!
May 8th, 2009
Today (Fri, May 8, 2009) we launched our newly-redone Commencement website.  Commencement is now a “stand-alone” website at http://commencement.njit.edu, rather than a set of pages under the Academics section of our website.  (The old commencement pages were at... read more!
March 31st, 2009
Today (Tue, March 31) we launched a new website — Technical Assistance for Brownfields, a project whereby NJIT provides brownfield services to northeast US communities. The website is at... read more!
March 26th, 2009
Jim Marko, New Media Producer, for University Web Services, is an invited presenter at AcademiX 2009 at MIT on March 26, 2009. The conference is sponsored by Apple.  Jim’s conference session will provide real lessons learned from rolling out iTunes U.  It will focus on the elements necessary... read more!
March 23rd, 2009
Several members of University Web Services are in Philadelphia this week for the Sungard Summit.  This users conference covers many of Sungard products — including their Site Studio CMS product that we use to manage a significant portion of the NJIT website(s). Jim Robertson — Director... read more!