Many of us are currently immersed in making plans to welcome visitors back to campus. We know that especially for institutions with a sizable residential population, campus visits are a key tool for recruitment and yield, and we’re continually striving to make these experiences more personalized and impactful for their prospective students. But managing all…Read more
Tag: Slate
RHB on the Slate Stage: The Art of Automations
For Slate users, one of the biggest efficiency wins that we hear extolled over and over by users is found within Rule Builder, where we’re able to replace many of those previously manual business processes with streamlined automations that essentially do the work for us. But, sometimes, these opportunities can trip us up. One the…Read more
Imagine Voraciously: A Brief Excerpt
Here’s an introduction to Rick Bailey’s latest book, Imagine Voraciously, to whet your appetite for more. This new workbook dives into the beauty of imagination, offers inspirational insight and includes a variety of questions and exercises to explore by yourself or with your team. Books are available through RHB and you can own one by…Read more
Transcript: Build a Better Instance with RHB: Configurable Joins “Expanding into New Spaces: Configurable Joins Advanced Concepts”
On March 30, RHB’s Abraham Noel, Dom Rozzi, John Michael Cuccia and Megan Miller hosted part three of our three-part webinar series, Build a Better Instance with RHB: Configurable Joins. In “Expanding into New Spaces: Configurable Joins Advanced Concepts,” our team discussed independent subqueries, Related and System bases and some of the clever ways we…Read more
Build a Better Instance Part Three: Advanced Configurable Joins Concepts
On March 30, 2021, the RHB Slate team hosted the final session of their three-part webinar series, Build a Better Instance with RHB: Configurable Joins. Building off the Configurable Joins fundamentals introduced in part one and the intermediate skills discussed in part two, in “Expanding into New Spaces: Advanced Configurable Joins Concepts”, team members John…Read more
Relationships, People! Focusing on Personal Relationships Yields Revenue
Either because of or in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, this academic year seems to have flown by. I’m finding it difficult to believe we are just weeks away from fiscal year’s end. Because I began my career in the development office of my alma mater, my heart still races a bit the closer we…Read more
Transcript: Build a Better Instance with RHB: Configurable Joins “Building Up: Intermediate Configurable Joins Skills and Use Cases”
“If you master [subqueries], you can do an enormous range of things, in terms of being able to return multiple records and really be able to get the system to pull out complex relationships…you have the capability to manipulate a lot of different data and present it so that it is digestible in a variety…Read more
Build a Better Instance Part Two: Intermediate Configurable Joins Skills and Use Cases
As more and more Slate users begin querying using Configurable Joins, subquery exports and filters have become an increasingly popular discussion topic. In hopes of answering some of the most frequently asked questions, RHB Slate team members Abraham Noel, John Michael Cuccia, Domenick Rozzi, and Megan Miller hosted hundreds of Slate user community members on…Read more
Making your investment in Slate portals pay off
A few weeks ago, a user posted to the r/ApplyingToCollege subreddit asking fellow Redditors which schools’ application portals stood out, and the responses were exactly what you’d expect from Reddit: a blend of useful insights and brutal honesty, all seasoned with a heavy dose of attitude. (By the way, if you aren’t monitoring r/ApplyingToCollege, you’re…Read more
Slate and the LEGO Rexplorer: The Art of the Expert Build
My seven-year-old put it on my desk just to the right of my laptop. It has been there for about two weeks—Rex’s Rexplorer—occupying a prominent spot on display and in my mind throughout my workday. If you don’t have young kids and you aren’t a kid at heart, Rex’s Rexplorer is a battle vehicle from…Read more