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The university website used to be where a college search started. In 2026 it's no longer the first stop.

46% of high schoolers used AI to find colleges this fall. Six months earlier it was 26%. And 18% of them removed a school from their list based on what the AI said, before a human ever saw the page.

That's one of eight shifts hitting university web teams at once. The article also breaks down the four federal and platform deadlines colliding inside a nine-month window, and why the teams making real progress are doing the unglamorous work first.

Read the full breakdown: https://t.co/0h3KsrTTXu

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A campaign goes live in English Monday.

The French version ships the following Tuesday.

The Arabic version ships the Friday after.

By the time both go live, the English original has been revised twice.

This isn't a translation problem. It's an architecture problem.

Article: https://t.co/e5FwgcMRBc

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A question worth asking your team this week:

If we switched donation platforms tomorrow, how painful would the data migration be?

If the answer is "we're not sure we can fully get our data out," you don't have a platform.

You have a dud.

Article: https://t.co/Z0e285MjfX

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Drupal 10 EOL: December 9, 2026.

The practical cutoff to sign a migration partner and be live by then: June 2026.

We're in May.

The teams that wait until Q4 spend more, ship less, and inherit technical debt that outlasts the migration itself.

Article: https://t.co/aIyikoebqv

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85% of healthcare leaders are using or exploring generative AI.

91% don't feel "very prepared" to deploy it responsibly. (McKinsey)

That gap shows up as AI-drafted content reaching patient pages with no approval log, no accessibility check, and no record of who reviewed it.

Article: https://t.co/6P4NVyLFCW

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A crisis hits at 9 AM.

Donor intent peaks in the first 24 hours.

Where's your fundraising campaign at 9:30?

If the answer is "still in the vendor's support queue," your platform is the reason the mission lost its window.

Article: https://t.co/X8asTl6V1y

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Global nonprofits rarely run one Salesforce instance.

They typically run several. Different markets, different mappings, different customizations.

That's the integration reality most donation platform evaluations skip past.

It's also where operational stability lives or breaks at scale.

Full article: https://t.co/gTR2GOGsHZ

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Three numbers reshaped enterprise marketing in 2026:

25.11% of Google searches now show AI Overviews.
8,667 digital accessibility lawsuits filed in the US in 2025.
52% of senior marketers say brand inconsistency costs them $6M+ annually.

Discovery, legal, brand. All shifted. All converge in the CMS.

Article: https://t.co/eznkSisgUU

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A global nonprofit's CMS audit landed on our desk last quarter.

The most consequential finding wasn't a security gap.

It was that editors in different countries had each built their own version of the same landing page. All live. Same conversion goal.

Each version reasonable. Together, a broken donor journey.

Article: https://t.co/Jl4nIxkh0Q

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We wrote up the full 60-minute self-audit checklist for technical leaders. Five risk areas, with red flags for each.

https://t.co/oeqDtTRcvJ

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Most enterprise Drupal sites don't fail suddenly.

They degrade quietly: one unreviewed module update, one undocumented config change, one deployment that "worked fine."

By the time the CTO asks hard questions, nobody can say when the site was last patched.

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The 7 questions: https://t.co/hh0wySG6Fw

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Most enterprise Drupal sites are being maintained, not managed.

Tickets get closed. SLAs get met. Green dashboards.

None of it tells you whether anything is being prevented.

Our CEO on the seven questions a VP of Technology should ask in their next QBR.

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10 questions to evaluate a Drupal migration partner for higher ed:

https://t.co/wGMjHemVPP

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Most higher ed teams evaluate Drupal migration partners like a software vendor.

That's the wrong playbook.

Distributed governance, accreditation, and IT turnover that outlasts the project are risks generic evaluations miss.

We pulled together the questions buyers underuse.

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We wrote up what portfolio-scale fundraising actually requires from a donation platform.

https://t.co/HVNwfXOiRa

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UNHCR runs 3,000+ campaigns across 35+ markets, processing $67M+ in donations.

Their fundraising teams publish a new campaign in 15 minutes, with no developer involvement.

Most enterprise nonprofits don't have a fundraising problem. They have an infrastructure problem.

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We wrote up what an AI-first Drupal CMS configures out of the box for university dev teams. About 200 hours of enterprise setup, already done.

https://t.co/xUz4Rb7hih

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ADA Title II went into effect for US universities last month.

WCAG 2.2 conformance is now a compliance requirement, not a roadmap item.

Most enterprise Drupal builds still start with weeks of accessibility configuration before anyone can publish.

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We wrote up how nonprofit teams use AI-first CMS workflows to ship campaigns without filing dev tickets. UNHCR case study included.

https://t.co/YPkgccsQCr

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A humanitarian client launched their emergency appeal in 6 hours.

The same campaign on their previous CMS took 5 days.

The difference wasn't budget or team size. It was who could publish the landing page without a dev ticket.