News and Tips for Higher Ed Pros

So, I gave my presentation about my 12-step program to better blogging and managed to turn it into some kind of stand-up comedy act this afternoon at HighEdWebDev as Vista - loaded on the laptop made available to the presenters by the organizers (note to self and tip for all of you: if you have your laptop, use it) - started to go through my slides… automatically.

At the beginning, I wondered if it was some kind of cool feature (yeah, I know, “cool feature” with a Microsoft product - what was I thinking?) bringing up the next slide on an audio cue of some sort. It wasn’t. For a strange reason, PowerPoint was configured to move to the next slide after a certain scheduled period of time.

Very neat.

Thanks to the technical support provided by 2 attendees of the session (big thanks go to John who managed to make it work), I was able to resume the presentation.

I created a special web page including the resources I discussed in the presentation (slide handouts, the 1-page checklist and all the links) as well as 10 tips by higher ed bloggers (a tip by blogger). You can find everything at www.higheredexperts.com/betterblogs

If you’d like to read about the presentation from a third-party, Gabriel McGovern did a short post about the session on his blog.

• University Business Column: 10 steps to better blogs
• HighEdWebDev 2007: Early-bird registration deadline ends on Sept. 14, Karine presents on Oct. 15 and the call for conference guest bloggers is open
• Live from the CASE Conference in Philadelphia: Great live blogging at highered.prblogs.org
• Live from HighEdWebDev 2007: Let’s try Twitter to keep in touch
• HighEdWebDev 2007: Got an idea for a presentation? There’s still time to submit a proposal before the new deadline of June 12