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My Twitter Widget

January 28th, 2009

In the temporary place of blogging, below is my Twitter widget for @mattklawitterWU. I tweet usually once or twice a day. I’ll get back to blogging more regularly soon. Promise. I have a lot going on with my new position at Washington U., so this will help share some of my activities in the meantime.

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Recent ND.edu Press

October 8th, 2007

It’s been well over a month since the launch of the new ND.edu website. We’ve gotten plenty of feedback, made some tweaks, added content, and continue to post new carousel spaces on a very frequent basis. Overall, the site is holding up strongly.

Recently, we have received some press. For starters, the site was featured on October 5, 2007 as Adobe’s “Site of the Day.” I added a screen shot in my ND.edu Redesign Flickr set.

Also, John Nagy of the Notre Dame Magazine wrote an interesting article about the launch of the new site. The article was published in the Autumn 2007 issue, and it can be read online.

I am pleased to see the news work its way not only inside the Notre Dame community but also outside to the general public. We’re working very hard to add new features to the site in the coming months, and there is a staff of dedicated people who have been keeping the site current with news, information, and video.

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Countdown to Nd.edu has Begun

August 24th, 2007

We have officially started the countdown to the new nd.edu. There is a live countdown ticker currently on the site.

The Countdown: nd.edu

We are all excited and anxious to present this new website to the Notre Dame community.

Are you ready? I just posted a live version of “Here Come the Irish” on our official Notre Dame YouTube channel.

Turn up the speakers and get ready for Tuesday. It’s going to be fresh and new. Is your Flash player up-to-date?

 

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Get ready for August 2007

July 31st, 2007

The team at the Web Group is working very hard towards our most significant milestone. Can’t say much for now, but be sure and check back August 28. As we begin the month of August tomorrow, I can start to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But, a colleague of mine was quick to remind me that this is just the beginning. I have confidence in our team. We can take on anything.

The first few turns of the flywheel are very difficult, but once it starts to roll, it really rolls.

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Hot Coffee Coming Through

March 29th, 2007

Howard Schultz, the chairman of Starbucks, visited the campus of the University of Notre Dame today to accept the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Award for Ethics in Business at the Mendoza College of Business. He is well respected for making Starbucks a world-renown global brand.

I’ve seen him interviewed on 60 Minutes and most recently on PBS when Starbucks was profiled in the Good to Great show and books by Jim Collins (amazing book). Mr. Schultz is very articulate and quite charismatic—not to mention a billionaire. He humbly accepted the recognition distinguishing him as a champion of business ethics and corporate social responsibility. He also confidently and respectfully fielded questions from the audience about Starbucks—many of which were not easy.

It was a surreal moment for me because as I walked with my colleagues to the lecture, we were discussing (even debating) mockup designs for the new nd.edu site (we are working on this big project) and how this effort is going to present Notre Dame’s content, messages, stories, and contributions to the world in amazing new ways. This lecture was a true reminder of how significant of a responsibility this is to us as communicators, not to mention an honor. I realized how important this is to us because we spent the entire walk back across campus discussing innovative ways to capture such an event and how we can use the Internet to continue the dialog.

Also, while we were waiting patiently in the lecture hall, we each had our laptops running. We updated Howard Schultz’s Wikipedia profile to include the award and his lecture at Notre Dame. In the foreground of my field of vision was my colleague adding this content to the wiki, and in the background was Howard Schultz preparing to receive the award.

One last note…lots of people swarmed Mr. Schultz on his way out, so we got out of the way and walked out of the building. As we exited, Mr. Schultz (remember this is Mr. Starbucks) was right behind us in a hurry. He had to fly back to Seattle that night. My colleague, John, stopped, walked over to him, and stuck out his hand. What John did not realize is that the rest of us could see his “entourage” sizing John up in case something was not quite right. Thankfully, Mr. Schultz walked over to John and was kind enough to shake hands. A colleague then asked, “How much did that handshake cost Mr. Schultz?”

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