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Are Your University Websites Working Together, or Against You?
Read FULL Article: Are Your University Websites Working Together, or Against You?There’s a question that exposes more about the health of a university than almost any accreditation review, board presentation, or strategic plan.
Digital Insights from Crowd Favorite
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Forget the CMS. Building an End-to-End DXP
Feature Rich DXP’s are Already Live The world of the web has changed. Websites are no longer based on a single database but are now fully-integrated digital experiences built on many moving parts and applications. Digital Experience Platforms (DXPs) act as centers of gravity in a complex, extensive, and interconnected technology landscape. Here, Crowd Favorite…
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From Digital Strategy to Project Management: Hertz’s Digital Rebuild Gone Wrong
Top rental car company Hertz became the talk of the enterprise development community as they slapped management consulting firm, Accenture, with a $32 million dollar lawsuit for a digital transformation gone wrong. A successful digital strategy, that is perfectly aligned with a client’s vision for the project, should not only provide the right solutions to…
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Enterprise Digital Experiences in a Modern World
Hey Enterprise, 2008 called, It Wants Its Content Workflow Back With the advancements in modern web development, websites that consist only of CMS-editable static text and images are a reminder of a distant past. This especially holds true for large-scale businesses who want more from their enterprise presence on the web. Customer relationships online have…
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WordPress Media Management in the Enterprise
When handling high-traffic sites, large numbers of simultaneous image uploads and inordinately large media libraries, WordPress media management requires customization to remain performant.
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Atomic Design: Optimizing Production of Open Source Digital Experience Platform Projects via Page Building
With Enterprises moving to the Open Source CMS world, Atomic Design and front-end page builders optimize the development of large-scale DXP projects.
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7 Questions to Ask Before Creating A Data Compliance Strategy
Is Your Company Data Smart? Pull up the latest tech news, and the top headlines likely involve a massive data breach scandal or talk about the upcoming international privacy regulations. Global data privacy concerns are a hot topic: According to IDC, the digital universe – the data we create and copy annually – is more…
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What Does GDPR Mean for the Enterprise?
Getting your Legal, Marketing and Technology Teams on the Same Page Today, it’s more important than ever for marketing, technology and legal teams to work together to focus on a cohesive result rather than crossing the departments’ independent “finish lines.” As an attorney focused on technology, as organizations cast a wider global net in marketing,…
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SEO Considerations for the Enterprise
Discussing Digital Trends and Techniques with Enterprise SEO Expert Rebecca Gill The rules of SEO are constantly evolving. With the modern digital landscape moving at breakneck speed, business organizations need to act quickly in order to develop a strategic roadmap and take the sort of calculated risks that will land them on the first page…
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How Will WordPress Gutenberg Affect the Enterprise?
When it was announced that the WordPress 5.0 upgrade would bring with it a new, non-elective editing framework called Gutenberg, it sparked a wave of reactions that rippled through the tech community and beyond. After all, when you’re talking about changing the structure of a content management system (CMS) that powers 30% of the web,…
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Avoiding unintended exposure from the WordPress REST API
With the rate of 4.7-4.9 adoption on the rise, we want to address one particular feature of 4.7 that has raised a lot of concern: the inclusion of the WP REST API content endpoints in WordPress core itself.
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Deleting 3 million spam comments from your WordPress database
Recently, I was working on a project that required me to copy a database with 3 million spam comments. The database export was 12GB and just about everything I tried failed because of the sheer size of this file. I eventually did get it to work. Here’s how: First, I tried doing things server-side using…
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Is WordPress a viable CMS for the enterprise?
For a long time, WordPress advocates working at large enterprise organizations and institutions have been fighting an uphill battle to bring their beloved WordPress CMS into the fold of their companies. This battle has been fought in the face of stiff competition (like SharePoint and Luminis), misconceptions (WordPress is just a blog), and some real…
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The sweet layers of UX design
The UX process can be thought of like a multi-layer cake. Done well, the steps build on top of one another, ultimately providing a satisfying user experience. Determine Foundation Define goals, business objectives, and user needs This is the base layer of any project. Supporting all subsequent layers, the strategy sets the stage for…
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Amusement park websites: best practices for digital engagement
With nearly half of Americans planning to visit an amusement park within the next year, parks have a big opportunity to bring in business through website traffic.
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Takeaways from the 2016 Phoenix Method + Madness Conference
Our design team recently attended Phoenix’s main design conference, Method & Madness. It was an enlightening weekend hosted by the ever-amazing group of AIGA volunteers who brought in speakers from all over the states. To see a community come together to support design and to support one another is so special. We at Crowd Favorite…
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Considering customer touch points: The many expressions of a brand identity
I recently had to choose a daycare for my daughter, and I was overwhelmed by the many options. Some were clearly not for me, while others were certainly viable options. From this experience I learned that, in a world of many choices, it’s important to pay attention to how customer touchpoints, and brand identity, can…
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Our top four favorite tools for user research
At Crowd Favorite, we love to dig in and learn all about the experiences users have, both good and bad. We get to know our clients and their audiences. We listen, we learn, and evaluate. To get to the root of the problems our clients are experiencing, we use a variety of tools. Here are…
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WordCamp Europe 2016
In the WordPress world, last weekend was dedicated to the biggest WordCamp ever: WordCamp Europe 2016, which took place in Vienna, Austria. With over 2,000 people registered, more than 1,000 people watching a live stream of the event, and countless volunteers and world-class speakers, it was incredible experience for everyone – three days of learning,…