“What keeps me up at night is the certainty that someday, someone will give all of this stuff away for nothing.”
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July 31, 2010
At the beginning of 1996 we were the only company making websites for independent schools. We recognized that the web was becoming an important enough communication resource that schools would eventually look to outside sources for help. A lot of other companies eventually arrived at the same conclusion, and of those I'd say that three became truly excellent providers of web communications services to the NAIS community.
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June 09, 2010
It's been three and a half months since we launched Newschoolyard at NAIS, and here's what we've learned thus far:
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April 15, 2010
Newschoolyard is engaged in the Drupal community. I have been in the independent school website business for fifteen years, or 180 months, and this past month has been, by far, the coolest and most mind-boggling of all. Newschoolyard's Platform Architect, Jason Pamental, is headed to San Francisco for DrupalCon next week and my only regret is that I am not going with him. We joined the Drupal education community some months ago, and we are excited to make face-to-face contact with those whose voices we have only heard electronically.
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March 31, 2010
There was considerable response to my SIS blog post from Monday, in the form of comments and through other channels. The responses suggest that I need to clarify some points, and Newschoolyard may need to rethink some others.
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March 29, 2010
Two recent conversations with prospective clients have brought the Student Information System (SIS) topic to the fore. For the record, Newschoolyard is not actively developing data bridges, API tools, data shuttles or other web services to integrate web-based data with SIS data. Our view is that most schools fall into one of three camps:
1. Their scale and scope are such that the benefit of rich integration is negligible.
2. They seek the Holy Grail of a completely integrated system.
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February 24, 2010
Our editor says that my blog posts are too long, but I counter that this audience has a deeper attention span than most, so I hope you will prove me right.
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February 24, 2010
Newschoolyard is pleased to announce two more independent schools have signed-on for our open source web service; Nantucket New School and Soundview Prep. Nantucket New School is a co-educational day school serving students in pre-school through grade eight. Soundview Preparatory School, an independent, coed day school for grades 6 – 12, is located on a 13 acre campus in Yorktown Heights, New York in northern Westchester County.
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February 22, 2010
This post is about paying for web-based functionality--plain and simple. We hooked up with all sorts of third-party solutions to get our site launched yesterday, and the cost was ZERO! In the spirit of full disclosure, in the case of two items on the list below, we have limited free trials, but even then the monthly subscription is less than half the cost of your school's admission application fee.
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February 17, 2010
What’s new? This blog post, that’s what. This is the first whatsnew post and man, plenty is new. I will never forget an idle moment in the exhibit hall at NAIS in Montreal six years ago when one of my counterparts from another websitesforindependentschools company approached me during a lull in the action and asked, “Hey Mark, what keeps you up at night?” I said something about rising blue cross premiums and making payroll. “What about you,” I asked.
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