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Educause Survey of College Home Page Content Brings out the Geek in All of Us

Educause’s compilation of college web page content from a technical perspective is a fascinating and revealing way of looking at how colleges develop their most public interface with their publics: the home page.

The data available to mine from this - in terms of what is working for other colleges, and what technologies are being ignored - is substantial and will guide the work that I do for the foreseeable future. I’m particularly going to pay attention to how colleges are implementing XML site-wide and what social media tools they’re integrating into home pages. I also want to see how other institutions handle the “what belongs on the home page” question.