New kuali.org Website is Live

This morning the DNS record for kuali.org was changed to point to the new Kuali website. The new site is Drupal-driven, and beyond providing a web presence for Kuali it serves as a piece of Kuali's infrastructure to help us communicate and collaborate better. This post outlines some of the changes to kuali.org.

1. Follow Kuali: Kuali now offers free subscription "Channels" that allow you to easily follow Kuali projects. You can opt to receive just Kuali Foundation News (along with the Newsletter), or receive updates from a long list of sources including Kuali News, Blogs, Affiliate and Adopter Blogs, FAQs, Job Postings and more. You can choose whether you want to receive a digest of updates in your email inbox, read feeds through a Feed Aggregator, or follow Kuali on Facebook or Twitter. Kuali is using a combination of Drupal, Google Feedburner, FeedMailPro and RSS2Twitter to offer these services. I encourage anybody who participates in Kuali to subscribe to the Kuali Insider channel right away.
   
2. Kuali Days Schedule: The Kuali Days Schedule now includes a "Calendar" view (look for the link in the upper-right corner of the page) that allows you to easily see concurrent sessions. More data, including conference descriptions and presenter bios, are being added to the schedule. The schedule is viewable through smart phones (although the Calendar view is not) and prints in an easy-to-read format.
3. About Kuali: This section of the website has new content, including pages on Kuali's Values, History of Kuali and Adopter Stories (featured on the home page).
   
4. Resource Guide: This is a new page that summarizes the resources available to learn about Kuali. Some new resources include Tutorials and a page on The Business Case for Kuali.
5. Frequently Asked Questions: Our FAQs are now stored in a database, and can be categorized by Kuali Project and displayed hierarchically. For example, the Kuali Foundation FAQ contains answers to questions about each of the Kuali projects, whereas the KFS and KC site FAQs only have questions and answers relevant to their project. FAQs can be read through RSS, and when new FAQs are added they are included in the Kuali Insider subscription channel.
6. Quicklinks menu: On the upper-right side of the page you will see the Kuali "K" along with a few links. That "K" also appears on all Kuali websites, and will bring you back to the Kuali Foundation (kuali.org) site. Note that we use this menu to put time-sensitive links of interest. Right now you will see a link to a page about Kuali events at Educause, and the Kuali Days 8 Schedule.
7. Search: The content on kuali.org is now search-able and includes built-in advanced search options. Look for the search link in the upper-right corner of the page.
8. Employment Opportunities: This new page allows the Kuali Foundation to post Kuali-related employment opportunities, whether they are offered through the Foundation, a Member Institution or Commercial Affiliate. Jobs posted here appear in the Kuali Insider subscription channel, and on the home page under "Feeds."

Most importantly, the new website greatly simplifies the creation of content and empowers the Foundation to keep its public information fresh, informative and targeted. Kuali.org will continue to evolve, so be sure to stay connected by signing up now to Follow Kuali.