2. Why We Need a New Calendar
The current web calendar is
• over 5 years old
• no longer supported by the authors
• hard to maintain, much less add new
features
• rather basic, not visually appealing
• unable to import from other systems
4. The Presentation
#COR4: The Most Important Page of Your Website
Presenter: Jason Pontius - White Whale
Nothing on your website is as important as your calendar.
Calendars aren't just about when and where events are
happening. They're the single best marketing and
storytelling opportunity on your entire site. The best
illustration of the personality of your school is what's
happening on campus. If there are interesting and diverse
events on the calendar, visitors will think of your school as
an interesting and diverse place. And if not— if your
calendar is a clunky, broken-looking page with only a
handful of internal events in plain text— well, you can finish
that sentence yourself.
5. The Summary
People don’t think of events as a
“marketing” opportunity, but your
calendar tells the story of your
school better than almost anything
else.
Jason Pontius
6. Events as Marketing
The Featured tab will
be a subset of the Day
tab, with events which
we think speak to
marketing the
university.
8. Evaluation Team
• Made up of over 25 volunteers from across
the university
• Evaluated “the usual suspects” to get an idea
of each systems’ capabilities before engaging
them
• Requested a written presentation from six
vendors, and then narrowed down to three
who were invited to do video presentations.
• LiveWhale was the unanimous selection
12. What Makes LiveWhale Great
Linked calendars allow you to import events from other calendars –
complete with default image and directly to the university calendar
13. What Makes LiveWhale Great
All university
buildings are in the
system and linked to
a Google Map
location.
Yes, that does mean
that off-campus
locations can be used
too.
14. What Makes LiveWhale Great
Events can be displayed on your website through javascript widgets.
Or, if you prefer, you can process RSS or iCAL feed outputs.
15. What Makes LiveWhale Great
Easy RSVP forms
allow you to
collect information
on who will attend
your event.
16. What Do We Need From You?
We need your events!
• Log in now and start adding your events.
• If you have never used the calendar before, contact me about
setting up an account.
• We have had world leaders and other prominent speakers visit
campus on several occasions and those events were not added
to the previous calendar. Our goal is to make sure that all events
that are important to you and to the university get included in the
future.