We hope that you all can join us Thursday, Dec. 7 at 12 p.m. at Surin for our 2017 WebTide holiday social! We will be making a reservation in advance to cover the number of attendees, so please send an email to meagan.bennett@ua.edu if you can make it. Can't wait to see you there!
We are delighted to announce that for this year’s first get-together we are hosting live viewing sessions of the 2018 WPCampus Online Virtual Conference! Want to experience web publishing strategy sessions, technical expertise, and networking with users across the world without the expense and hassle of travel? If this sounds right up your alley, be […]
As the legal landscape regarding web accessibility continues to develop, one thing is clear –universities are facing an increasing risk of liability for inaccessible websites and other IT. Private plaintiffs’ firms, advocacy groups and the federal government continue to target websites and digital content covered by the ADA, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and […]
Emerging Technology and Accessibility's Melissa Green will demonstrate Texthelp tools now freely available to all UA students, faculty, and staff: Read&Write, a customizable toolbar with supports for reading, writing, research, and studying; EquatIO, an application that lets you type, handwrite, or speak to create equations, formulas, and other math and chemistry expressions; and Snapverter, a […]
Come join us as John Hunt discusses the web application framework, Laravel, and its use in the College of Arts & Sciences.
WebTide will meet on Thursday, May17 to mark the seventh Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), an event whose purpose is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access/inclusion for people with disabilities. As part of the global GAAD celebration, ETA will be discussing updates to the UA campus wide accessibility initiative and resources […]
Join the Innovation Team in Martha Parham West to play with both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive in a variety of applications and games. After a brief introduction, be prepared to participate in a casual virtual reality demonstration. If you haven’t experienced virtual reality before, this is a great chance to try it out.
Please join us for the July Meetup, lunch at T-Town Cafe. We look forward to seeing you there!
Join us as Strategic Communications gives us an update on OU.
Presented by Jessica Anderson from Strategic Communications.
This month we will tour the OIT Data Center! First, meet us at noon in GP A232 where Strategic Communications will give an important CMS update before proceeding to the data center. See you there!
We hope that you all can join us Thursday, Dec. 13 at 12 p.m. at Rock N Roll Sushi for our 2018 WebTide holiday social! We will be making a reservation in advance to cover the number of attendees, so please send an email to meagan.bennett@ua.edu if you can make it. Can't wait to see […]
We are delighted to announce that for this year’s first get-together we are hosting live viewing sessions of the 2019 WPCampus Online Virtual Conference! Want to experience web publishing strategy sessions, technical expertise, and networking with users across the world without the expense and hassle of travel? If this sounds right up your alley, be […]
Come join us as Zach Riggins from strat comm photography gives photo pointers to capture the best shot!
From keeping content fresh to best practices (and pet peeves!), Strat Comm’s social team will be sharing information on the best ways to approach your social channels year after year. The team will also highlight the social media management tool in use – Spredfast (now Khoros), sharing some of the ways it has contributed to […]
Jaclyn Head, the Lead Web Architect for the Culverhouse College of Business along with Web Content Coordinator, Joey Marino will be sharing their experience successfully migrating Culverhouse's network of sites from a custom Ruby on Rails legacy content management system into a Wordpress Multisite platform.
For our May meetup we will be hosting an open forum discussion about crafting exciting new engagement opportunities within the WebTide community. In particular, we will be sharing methods from Communities of Practice within High Ed and at UA, and exploring ways for WebTide to more effectively promote professional development, innovation, and collaboration opportunities across […]
In this month's meetup, the Division of Student Life web team will be presenting Handling Expectations Regarding Digital Information 'N' Guidelines: Coordinating Accessibility Training Sessions (Herding Cats). Discussed topics will include: the potential disconnect between departmental and divisional expectations, the development of guidelines regarding digital information platforms, and training coordination to help users with accessibility.
For our July meetup, College of Arts and Sciences’ editorial director Lisa Yessick will talk about eTech’s process for managing workflow and production schedules for more than 200 websites. Topics will include the academic department website queue; the process for developing sub-unit, program, and special project websites; and what happened when eTech imposed order on […]
For our August meetup we will be hitting the road for a delicious field trip to Surin Thai! Come hang out with other WebTiders as catch up together and gear up for an exciting and productive fall semester. Please take a moment to fill out the WebTide Fall Lunch RSVP form if you will be joining […]
Jason Phillips from the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment will present a case study of a web-facing text visualization project built to aid in the exploration of a large set of survey comments. Along the way, he’ll give a brief introduction to the topic of machine learning and its uses, and will describe some […]
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and to help us celebrate the WebTide way Cooper Leach from the OIT security team will be presenting a brief chat on the current state of WordPress security on campus and what efforts are currently underway to help keep sites across UA safe and sound.
Join us as we discuss web tools used across the UA community! Prior to our meetup, we are looking to get a little feedback from WebTide members on the tools and resources you use in your day to day work. Visit our survey to participate!
Join us Thursday, December 19, at Rock'n'Roll Sushi downtown for a scrumptious lunch get-together and catch up with UA colleagues after a busy and productive 2019!!! RSVP Note: If you will be attending, be sure to accept this month's meeting invitation on your UA Exchange calendar. We will use your invite response as your official […]
John Hawkins, Director of Web Communications in the College of Arts and Sciences, will be presenting All About Agile Project Management - a conversation highlighting how Agile works as a process, and how SCRUM/Sprint-based development methods can be used in web teams.
Now that UA LMS has been on campus for six months, HR Learning and Development wants to rollout new online features that support professional development and develop new campus partnerships. UA LMS Administrator, Lacee Nisbett, wants to hear our feedback on the current system design and ideas on how digital tools in the LMS can […]
In conference with our scheduled speaker, we have decided to postpone the Alabama Digital Humanities Center topic for a later session - so that our 3/24 meetup can be wholly devoted to the current campus COVID-19 online response and associated academic continuity initiatives. This will be an open forum dialog for comparing notes on digital […]
We hope this finds everyone having a healthy and productive month! Join us for an online meetup as Joey Stowe and Brian Jones from OIT EDAS present “Single sign on at the University of Alabama”. Some specific topics will include: What is SSO What is CAS/Shibboleth SSO protocols (CAS/SAML) Steps for setting up SSO 2 […]
Join us as Anne Ladyem McDivitt, Assistant Professor and Digital Humanities Librarian with the Alabama Digital Humanities Center, highlights how web technologies are being used on campus for pedagogical purposes. She will discuss using web tools to encourage student learning in their subject areas as well as in web literacy. WebTide meetings are for community […]