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Tony

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Jan 11, 2010, 2:32:52 PM1/11/10
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Hi Everyone,

Does anyone have a good handle on customization for Datatel (targeting content)? Has anyone created their own "missing manual" on this matter?

I need some help customizing a user experience for logged in users. And I would like to basically know all the things that are advertised in this Datatel Poster (see attached).

I have reviewed the Advanced Training manual (pages 70-80) but it is not much help.  Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Tony Wiersma

IT Department

Redeemer University College

twie...@redeemer.ca

905-648-2139 x4250

http://www.redeemer.ca/






datatel-emarketing.pdf

Anna McClure

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Jan 13, 2010, 10:02:32 AM1/13/10
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Tony,

Since the beginning I have struggled with this whole "targeting" word
usage. Even if you create all of the groups and target content to them
- the end user is going to have no idea the page is targeting to them.
For example on one of our pages we have "spotlights", "news" and
"banner-ads" and even if I targeted all of these items to a student
the page is not going to change the way it looks - a student is not
going to know that the other student spotlights are targeted to them
or even the news stories unless they pay very close attention to
detail. So I have questioned all of the trouble it takes to target
these items.

So - I am not sure what your specific question is, but to me it is
just a marketing ploy by Datatel using words like customization,
targeting, personalize to sell you something that really does not do
anything very special.

Anna McClure
Webmaster
Western Wyoming Community College
307-382-1858
webm...@wwcc.wy.edu
http://www.wwcc.wy.edu


On Jan 11, 12:32 pm, Tony <tont...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Does anyone have a good handle on customization for Datatel (targeting
> content)? Has anyone created their own "missing manual" on this matter?
>
> I need some help customizing a user experience for logged in users. And I
> would like to basically know all the things that are advertised in this
> Datatel Poster (see attached).
>
> I have reviewed the Advanced Training manual (pages 70-80) but it is not
> much help.  Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony Wiersma
>
> IT Department
>
> Redeemer University College
>

> twier...@redeemer.ca
>
> 905-648-2139 x4250
>
> http://www.redeemer.ca/
>
>  datatel-emarketing.pdf
> 738KViewDownload

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