The Chronicle of Higher Education

Virginia Tech Tragedy Illustrated Power and Peril of Running a University Web Site During a Crisis

By SCOTT CARLSON

Baltimore

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?

Here at the eduWeb conference on Monday, Michael Dame, director of Web communications at Virginia Tech, gave a blow-by-blow account of how the...

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