Emergency at Virginia Tech Shows the Power of the Web, Says Campus Official

People connect to a college first and foremost through its Web site. In the midst of a tragedy, do you know where your Web designer is?

At an eduWeb conference in Baltimore last week, Michael Dame, director of Web communications at Virginia Tech, gave a blow-by-blow account of how the university harnessed the Web to disseminate information following the mass shooting on its campus in April.

Before starting work at Virginia Tech, in 2005, Mr. Dame had some experience dealing with

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