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Colleagues: RTI International, nee Research Triangle Institute, is collaborating with the US Department of Labor to learn more about web administrators and web developers. Their request is below my signature. Please reach out to them if you're willing to help. (Please forgive weird formatting. This ...

Every time I get a third-party developer hired by a department, they universally say that they need admin access to our Apple and Google app stores. Is that really true? I am not comfortable with admin as the least required privilege to get the job done! I haven't found great information to rebut these ...

WOW, you have almost 20 developers? How many FTEs is that? What % of their time is used for, say, marketing applications vs. intranet? ------------------------------ Aren Cambre Director, Web Application Services, OIT Adjunct Lecturer of Data Science, Department of Economics Southern Methodist University ...

Context: I represent a team in IT, not marketing. Does your university maintain all of it's custom web development in house, or does it outsource it all? In house. I've found outsourced development to be far more expensive. Also, I avoid adopting or supporting externally-produced code because one of ...

Speaking generically (not specifically about the product you've mentioned), I have had mixed experiences with products targeted towards verticals (vertical ≈ a specific industry). If a product is targeted towards something that is specifically relevant to the vertical, then the experiences are hopefully ...

Can you clarify whether you're looking for someone to host software that you manage, or if you're looking for someone to manage the software, too? If the latter, we've had great experiences with CampusPress for WordPress hosting. We use WordPress for blogs and news magazines. We're running Sitecore ...

Have any of you taken steps to gain control of all Google Maps locations within your campus? A couple of years ago, we had an incident where highly undesirable and possibly unlawful images were placed on two of our properties in Google Maps. Even in the best case, gaining control of these properties ...