Community outreach – Fort Worth Business Press- About: E-Business

TCU class connects students, organizations&bodytext=Next month, a number of area nonprofit organizations will debut professional Web sites. This is the seventh year that e-business seniors have acted as consultants and created Web sites for area nonprofits, and in December the latest teams will have the Web sites completed and turned over to the organizations. Mackay, director of the school’s e-business program and an associate professor, said the class was not about just the nuts and bolts of building a functioning Web site. Jake Mattison, an e-business and entrepreneurial management major, said part of the reason he picked the e-business major was the opportunity to take Mackay’s class and tackle a real-world project. Mackay said that the students have to communicate within their teams as well as with their clients and there is a lot of documentation that must take place to chart progress and to give the organization a background of information for when they take over Web site operations. read more

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