Blogs

Alumni Futures, written by Andy Shaindlin at Cal Tech, latest news and ideas alumni directors and communications staff should know
http://www.alumnifutures.com/

Here's a blog by Karine Joly aimed specifically at college and university communications professionals who are using the web
http://www.collegewebeditor.com/blog/

Websites

Great website with lots of advice offered by CASE colleagues. The Web Sightings page has the most relavent content in relation to Alumni web sites.
http://supportingadvancement.com/

CASE itself
www.case.org

Free content management, open source software
www.drupal.org

Website building and content management software favored by bloggers
www.wordpress.org

Books

"Don't Make Me Think," A common sense approach to Web usability, Steve Krug, Second Edition, New Riders Publishing

"What Customers Think," Gerald Zaltman, Harvard Business School Press

People

Opinion Dynamics, based in Cambridge, Mass., has built and conducted alumni surveys for universities. Contact John Gorman, 617-492-1400.

Hilary Marsh has a company that specializes in selecting and implementing content management. The site contains a number of resources that may be of interest.

http://www.contentcompany.biz

Internet communications consultant and website design, Michael Stoner
http://www.mstoner.com

Quickbase is a web-based product sold by Intuit for managing communications projects, schedules, and budgets. Contact Keira Bromberg at keirab@comcast.net

Podcasts
Who's on Second?,
http://www.rabble.ca/rpn/podcast.php?id=wos