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ShareSummit Country Day School empowers publishers and engages community
New tools plus new templates plus Web 2.0 technology equals one thoroughly connected web site
09/05/08
Campusuite 4 has armed the Summit web site with a plethora of Web 2.0 tools. Faculty, and even students can manage and add content to the web site anytime and anywhere using only the Internet and a web browser.
CINCINNATI -- A Campusuite content management system customer since version 2.0, The Summit Country Day School in Cincinnati has recently upgraded to Campusuite 4.0, equipping the school with Web 2.0 tools that will further bolster internal work-flow processes and connect them with the Summit "community" in ways like never before.
The Summit depends on the web site to provide insight into the philosophy, programs, and achievements of the award-winning school, while providing the resources that serve the information needs of their extended community, including prospective students and parents, donors, and alumni. As a school with a concerted focus on technology – and an increasingly sophisticated, mobile customer base – the web site has to walk the walk – literally and figuratively.
The Summit needs easy-to-use CMS tools to engage its already tech-savvy kids and families and give them the ability to upload their videos and publish other student- and school-related content, yet have a gatekeeper that will have final say as to what content goes out to the web site. Today, information is everywhere and it could reside with one person, or many people. Providing a platform that is accessible, secure and easy to use enables the efficient collection of that information and a way to coordinate and disseminate it throughout the school community.
Not just for staff and faculty use, Campusuite 4.0 offers up the tools to involve even the students at The Summit. Student helpers, for example, can be granted access to the web site to create and stage content, upload photos, videos and other student-centric content. The ability to upload and drop a video on any given page is crucial. Not being limited by traditional restraints empowers the people closest to the content to manage it and push it out to very targeted constituents.
For more than a century, The Summit Country Day School has maintained a legacy of excellence in independent, Catholic education. A nationally recognized leader in character education, The Summit offers a compelling combination of small classes, caring faculty, academic rigor, and strong spiritual values.
The Summit Country Day's Campusuite CMS implementation is consistent with a wave of migration to Web 2.0 technologies and "cloud computing," as evidenced by Google's recent unveiling of its Chrome® open-source web browser. Similarly, Campusuite employs these same user-centric technologies to keep the IT "back end" of the software effectively invisible to the user, while providing increasingly powerful applications through web browsers.