Three years in the making

I’m about to celebrate my two-year anniversary with SMU. I really love the people I get to work with, and I’m learning a lot about marketing, Web geekery, managing people, working with vendors, and navigating the higher education environment.

Today was a big milestone because we launched a new alumni section of our Web site. This project has been going on in some form for three whole years…in other words, a year before I became a pony. It’s had various stops and starts due to changes in staff, changes in direction, roadblocks put up by vendors — you know, the usual work stuff.

The blessing and the curse of working in online marketing is that the good projects are never really done — they just keep evolving. So we’ll get up tomorrow and keep making little changes. But it was a proud moment today when we actually flipped the switch.