A review of 2009 and social media with the University of Winnipeg’s Division of Continuing Education

It’s been an exciting year at The University of Winnipeg Division of Continuing Education! We launched a new website, http://dce.UWinnipegCourses.ca, based on feedback, research, and requests from current and former students and staff. We are quite pleased with the results.

To be clear, http://dce.UWinnipegCourses.ca does not replace our presence at http://dce.UWinnipeg.ca, which is our main site on the UWinnipeg.ca server. Rather, it was designed to complement it with more specific features that our students were requesting.

For example, in addition to describing the major full-time and part-time day and evening programs, it also includes detailed timetable and course outline information. There are now easier ways to contact us for individual course information, as well as ways to connect via Facebook and Twitter.

Speaking of Facebook and Twitter, UWinnipeg DCE started to get serious about using social media to keep in touch with our students. You can find our accounts at http://dce.UWinnipegCourses.ca/Facebook and http://dce.UWinnipegCourses.ca/Twitter. In addition, we have a Delicious bookmark account at http://delicious.com/UWinnipegCourses.ca where we are regularly adding resources that can help our students with their courses, getting financial assistance, and other tasks.

Also, we created a flickr photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/university_of_winnipeg_dce to highlight some of the unique sights at the University of Winnipeg.

If you are a “Yahoo! Answers” user, you can find the “University of Winnipeg DCE” profile at http://tinyurl.com/ydplqjy where we try to answer questions on a regular basis.

These are just the first baby steps we are taking to open up UWinnipeg DCE to the general public; we look forward to more exciting progress in 2010. Stay tuned 🙂