Changes to myUMBC for August 9 & 10, 2010

I was lazy last night (read: sleep deprived) and didn't write a post, so you get all of yesterday's goodness mixed in with today's:

• Start - The new Start page has been enabled.  We hope you like it.  We have some neat ideas for this page in the future.
• Topic Pages - While we're nowhere near complete, Topic pages are starting to be flushed out.  We will be right upfront about saying that we're going to make some mistakes with which links show where.  We've completely changed the system we use to manage links in myUMBC (meaning, we actually implemented a system rather than doing everything by hand, ugh) and there will be some bumps moving links into the new myUMBC.  Just let us know if you don't find something that you think you should and we'll fix it as fast as we can.
• Sidebar Content - We now show related content in the sidebar.  This should make it easier to find other new and interesting things to check out.
• Feed Discovery for Browsers - Most modern web browsers should now show you a little button in your address bar allowing you quick and easy access to the RSS feeds that come from most tools in myUMBC.  This makes it really easy to get myUMBC content into tools like Google Reader.
• Event Attendee Emails - If you're allowing attendees on your event, you will now get an email when someone signs up.
• Spotlight Archive - You can now browse past spotlights by role, date and even keyword.
• Cleanup of typos and random bug fixes.

We are only 3 days away from our big upgrade.  The changes will be slowing down as we start prepping for launch, but I'll keep posting them.

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Thanks,
- Collier