An Overview of Content Management

Systems Specialized for Higher Ed

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Top Eight Content Management

Systems for Higher Education

1) Buzzr.com Higher Education

Content Management System Platform is known as very affordable and having fast turn around

times. Created with mStoner, world’s leading digital marketing consultancy for higher ed.

Complete turn-key solution, with hosting and support built in. Known as Software as a Service, or SaaS. Our solution lets schools create and easily administer either their main campus websites (and responsive mobile sites) for small colleges or university schools and/or many smaller sites or micro-sites using the same centralized multi-site platform.

For an in-depth review of the process of working with the Buzzr Higher Ed CMS for a small college, you can look at this video from our partner.

Recent websites include Palo Alto University, Paul Smith's College, and this departmental site for Utah State University.

More than 100,000 websites have been created with Buzzr open source technology.

Buzzr Higher Ed CMS (continued)

Strategic marketing, content, design services available

Fully integrated responsive design for mobile and tablets.

Buzzr implementations typically take 1/3 the time and cost less than one half the price of a custom Drupal education website.

Leverages Drupal, the most popular CMS in education, but since the solution is fully-supported by us (including hosting, security and training), eliminates the need for costly, in-house web developers.

More than 10,000 Drupal modules for further customizations.

Websites can be cloud hosted or exported to your own servers.

Optional Quickstart system for one-click self-service roll-out of new sites. Ideal for student organizations, faculty sites, small departments, or even teaching website skills.

An intuitive, icon-based user interface for managing content.

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Buzzr Higher Ed CMS (cont.) Editing options presented in-line, on pages throughout each site.

A flexible list of content types, such as faculty profiles, news articles and feature stories.

Create dynamically updates directories of content, such as faculty or student directories.

Calendars for presenting campus events.

Online giving for donations and development

Simplified user interface for managing user roles and permissions.

Built-in site search tool.

Integrated Google Analytics and search engine optimization tools.

A homepage slideshow with text overlay.

Drag and drop widgets such as calendar, campus headlines, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, random stories. A special interest feature system with randomized sidebar content.

A system for tagging content and generating tag-specific dynamic views, widgets and pages.

2) Campus Suite

Focused on just the higher education market for

15+ years. Focuses on bringing together

community of students, faculty, parents and

alumni. Views their products as communication

tools. Campus Suite customer support is trained

to focus on problems specific to Higher Ed. Offer

online, phone and video support.

Campus Suite (cont.) Simple-to-use content editing and publishing

Workflow approvals Permissions based access

Choose from multiple templates for design

Responsive design for mobile and tablets

Online directories. E.g. student organizations, faculty listings. Faculty pages to create profiles. Teach pages for individual teacher sub-sites with lesson plans, calendars, etc.

Podcast tool. Podcasts personalize a website so greater user engagement.

Social media integration. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and more.

Form builder

Announcements to spotlight timely news

Photo galleries

3) Hannon Hill

Hannon Hill, founded in 2001, is known for

premium customer support. Customers can call

them as much as they want and speak to the

entire Hannon Hill staff. Special help forums,

webinars and tools & tips posts to further

advance customer support. Cascade Server is

their premium CMS product. Cascade

Server emphasizees features for mobile, social,

agile/flexiblity, collaboration and extensibility.

Hannon Hill (cont.) Cascade Server product specialized for mobile publishing and responsive design

Integrated publishing with Twitter, Wordpress and Facebook

RSS Broadcasts

Simple-to-use content publishing and editing.

Workflow management tools.

"Content Strategy Management Suite"

Multi-site platform with Quickstart tools. Unlimited sites ad users.

Cloud or installed servers. Platform agnostic (Windows, Linux, etc.)

Analytics suite.

Schedule publishing of content

Shorten URLs for SEO. Search engine friendly, SEO scoring

Custom meta-data

Enterprise Search Version control

Personalized administrative dashboards. Online and onsite training Free code repository

Annual user conference

Multi-server publishing, load balancing, failover

4) Ingeniux A popular choice, Ingeniux offers CMS 8, along with 24x7

support. They also offer robust digital asset management.

Software as a Service. It’s a hosted, cloud solution. If you have a web browser and permission to enter, you can access the CMS.

Add apps. 300+ extensions.

Form builders

Google analytics

CRMs.

Simplified editing. They advertiser a “tech-free” editing experience, meaning no coding or tech training required to administer day-to-day content.

Mobile ready. A responsive site accessible from any mobile device is part of their service offering.

5) Jadu Jadu is very popular with colleges. It’s also a CMS

used in other verticals.

Drag and drop design that non-techies can use.

Simple to add and edit content creation and editing function.

Customize marketing message based on visitor registration information. E.g. Prospective students shown info on the degree they want to pursue.

Multi-site called Jadu Galaxies. Let your departments, organizations all use the same CMS as the main college website, but with their own sites.

6) Live Whale The LiveWhale’s CMS also provides easy content

creation and editing. Bills itself as the CMS “for

storytellers."

Design flexibility. Hundreds of color coordinated layouts.

Skip the designers when building a site. Or hire them to

build a custom design.

Unlimited e-mails tech support.

One day of on-site training.

LiveWhale Calendar is made just for schools. Add images,

videos, content on events listings. E-commerce for tickets

sales to events.

7) OmniUpdate

Founded in 1982, the company has focsed on

higher ed since the 1990s. Their OU Campus

CMS has been deployed by scores of educational

institutions, making it a market leader. The CMS's

highlighted features include powerful

administration, streamlined content, user-friendly

editing, reusable content, quality control,

convenient publishing, extensibility and effortless

syndication.

OmniUpdate (cont.) Software as a Service cloud or local hosting

Code open to developers

"Modules" -- add ons to extend functionality.

Course catalogs

Calendars

Campus maps

Faculty directories

Blogs

E-mail campaign managers

Mobile

Social media mashups

Live delivery platform

"True cost calculator" for adding up tuition, fees, etc.

Robust dashboard called “Gadgets.”

Back end dashboard for analytics, going as deep as analysis of individual pages.

URL editor

Image editor

Drag-and-drop "snippets" of information from page-to-page

Check out content

Site activity trackers Inbox messages

Dependancy tags.

Simple-to-use publishing tools. No tech knowledge required to post and edit content. Rich text editor works isimilar way to creating an offline documents with text, charts, images. One click to publish.

8) T4

T4's slogan is "defining digital engagement for

Higher Education." Headquartered in Dublin, T4

serves large numbers of European clients, but

also has U.S., Australia and UK offices. "Achieve

greater engagement online with personalization,

social media integration, easy to create micro and

mobile sites," T4 promises.

T4 (cont.) Intuitive editing tools

Permissions based publishing of content

Multi-sites with large numbers of templates

Responsive design and mobile templates

Accessibility

Workflow approval

Social Media Dashboard

Google Analytics

SEO tools for improving performance

E-mail integration

Campaign management performance

Form builder

Recruitment dashboard

Research dashboard

Integrate with third-party systems such as Blackbaud, Ellucian and Blackboard

Personalize user experience

Course structure

Course catalogue

Social poster

University events

Expert databases

E-portfolios

Research showcases

24/7 support

Want more information?

Contact Buzzr.com at 917-410-1490 or

ed@buzzr.com

Ask for Ed Sussman or Taub Swartz