[Sagamore Online] State of Sagamore Online Video Conference

[Peter Helander, EVP Marketing]

OMG. THAT IS HORRIBLE! HORRIBLE CMS. Looks like it was designed 1991 by a
8th grade student that was bad at design.
Kind of sad since www.opentext.com that powers the site seems capable of
better designs/solutions.
Not only does the DESIGN SUCK, the user experience is lack-luster. 
It is barely a step above DOS in design and navigation and userfriendliness
- and I am also pretty sure it is not RESPONSIVE and look good on mobile
devices.

When you have WordPress and actually VERY good School CMS systems, why go
with this? 
That I would like (maybe not) find out. 
Even if this was FREE, I would highly recommend DEKALB not to use it.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: John R. Lenz [mailto:john at lenzmarketing.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 4:23 PM
To: Dave Allen Barker Jr
Cc: Sagamore Online Discussion List; Anindita Rao; Nancy Shober; Peter
Helander; Jonathan Baldwin
Subject: Re: State of Sagamore Online Video Conference

Dave, if you keep your shirt on this time I might join the conference.

It might be a bit premature to have the public website on the agenda since
the county IT dept. is moving toward using a universal CMS across the
county. This transition will happen sometime this year. Ms. Brown just told
me about it.

The system they are transitioning to is called http://www.eschoolview.com/
and I have no idea why this was chosen. 

Here's a DeKalb page with info about it:

http://fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us/~its/?OpenItemURL=S1DEDC58F

I don't understand why they didn't use something like wordpress multisite
http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

Anyway, I'm keeping an eye on that part of it and Ms. Brown is feeding me
information. Hopefully we can retain at least some of our brand identity. 

-J

On Aug 19, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Dave Allen Barker Jr wrote:

> Tomorrow night, Tuesday, August 20, 8:30pm, I'll be hosting a video
conference (with at least Peter Helander) to talk about the state of the
Sagamore Elementary School community's online efforts.  Please feel free to:
watch live or later, review or edit the notes/agenda, participate in the
video conference, reply(-to-all) to this email, forward to anyone with
interest.  Details can be found at:
> 
> https://plus.google.com/events/c1q7onbh0gmctr4bt7jb1mtgjoc
> 
> I've never really done something like this before, so please speak up if
you have any questions-I'm sure someone else is wondering the same thing.
> 
> At last Friday morning's New Parent Coffee I met Peter Helander, a new
parent to Sagamore with expertise in online communications.  Instead of
sharing our perspectives on the state of Sagamore online right then and
there, we agreed it'd be wise to do it in a recorded video conference
instead.  That way, more people can easily participate in the discussion,
and the discussion can be watched live or later by anyone interested.

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