This post contains terminology that will be familiar to seasoned users of Slate. If you’re new to the Slate universe, we recommend reading the first (and if you’re really curious, the second and third) installments of our previous three-part series on Configurable Joins. If you need a refresher on Slate-specific terminology, this glossary is also…Read more
Author: Megan Miller
Governance Part III: Database Strategy and Progress
Senior Technology Consultant Megan Miller concludes this series on Slate Governance. Over the course of my time at RHB, I’ve worked in more than 100 Slate databases. In terms of complexity and functionality, I’ve collaborated on developing everything from straightforward undergraduate admissions instances to Slate databases with hundreds of graduate degrees to systems for K-12…Read more
Slate Summit Recommendations for 2022
The 2022 Slate Innovation Summit is almost here, and after a forced three-year hiatus for this in-person event due to the pandemic, the RHB team is eagerly anticipating our time in Nashville with the larger Slate community. As veteran attendees, we’ve learned a lot over the years about how to make the most of this…Read more
Interest or Intent? Part III: What Is Engagement?
Over the past several weeks, Rick Bailey and I have explored the contrast between interest and intent for both our prospect and applicant pools. Rick kicked this off, reminding us that for students, interest and intent are entirely different mindsets; if we’re hoping to better understand our enrollment funnel, equating the two does a fundamental…Read more
Interest or Intent? Part II: Understanding the Journey of Digital
In Part 1 of our series exploring interest versus intent, Rick Bailey discussed the important distinctions between general interest in our institution and an actual intent to take decisive action, be that submitting an application, paying a deposit or matriculating. The inquiry and enrollment processes have shifted significantly over the past decade, and the bulk…Read more
RHB on the Slate Stage: Optimizing Your Digital Marketing Efforts Across Platforms
Digital advertising is a marketing must for most institutions, and by funneling campaign responders into our Slate instances, we have an efficient yet powerful mechanism for generating and converting leads throughout the lifecycle. However, we can only optimize our strategy if we’re able to effectively track efforts across our platforms, and this task isn’t always…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
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