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.
From UWS's Blog
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.
- Read our relaunch page for early details and our UWS blog for later and on-going updates.
- Keep up-to-date on our Site Studio CMS (Content Management System) training schedule.
From UWS's BlogJanuary 15th, 2010
Today we launched a new site at twitter.njit.edu. As the “What’s this?” says:
The website is a peek into the NJIT conversations in the twitterverse.
Twitter is a quickly-growing free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read... read more!
January 12th, 2010
Today (Tues, Jan 12, 2009) we flipped the IST website (Information Services and Technology) from its old (circa summer 2006) design to a standard design.
See... read more!
December 30th, 2009
Good article in the Nov 2009 issue of Fast Company magazine. How to Write a Mission Statement That Isn’t Dumb.
The author wrote about mission statements that are goals, rather than sentiments, and that are quantifiable.
Microsoft’s: a computer on every desk and in every home. Reminds... read more!
December 29th, 2009
The state of Utah recently (fall 2009) publish guidelines to their state employees on the usage of social networking sites. The section on moderating comments was particularly well-written:
Moderating Comments
In some social media formats such as Facebook, Blogs, Twitter responses, etc., you may... read more!
December 28th, 2009
Nice article from a year ago: 50 Best Branding Ideas: How colleges and universities are successfully creating and communicating their brands
It was in the December 2008 issue of University Business and is online at: ... read more!
November 30th, 2009
NJIT generally follows a “Rule of Three” in the host names of public-facing internet services. For example, servername.njit.edu is acceptable; it has three name elements. However, neither www.servername.njit.edu nor server.name.njit.edu are acceptable; they have four name... read more!
November 16th, 2009
We are now starting to roll out a new template for our academic college and department websites that will replace the old people “listing” pages. Here are two examples of the old-style pages from the School of Management website:
And, here are two examples of the new-style... read more!
