Archive for April, 2008
This morning, I received two emails asking if it was still possible to register for the May 7 webinar about crisis/emergency websites presented by Mike Dame from Virginia Tech (the initial registration deadline was yesterday). As a result, I decided to postpone the registration deadline until this Friday (May 2) at 9PM ET. If you want to learn more on why and how to design a crisis/emergency web template for your institution, this webinar will help. Institutions registered for this series include: Alfred University Appalachian State University Augusta State University Cape Fear Community College Christopher Newport University Colorado State University Grant MacEwan...
Read MoreI've put together a short online survey to find out if and how paid advertising and sponsorship are used in magazines and newsletters published by universities and colleges. The results of this survey will be used for a study I’m conducting on this topic and a future article. This online survey should take you 3 to 4 minutes. The data you provide will only be used for its statistical interest. If you include your name and email address at the end of the survey (although this isn't mandatory), you'll receive an executive summary of the results highlighting some best practices,...
Read MoreQuick post with some "breaking news." The US News & World Report has just launched its Facebook application -- as announced 2 months ago on this blog. Go have a look and let us know what you think.
At Virginia Tech, Mike Dame and his team have been working on this day of remembrance on the Web for a while and the result is another beautiful piece of Web design on the homepage: A dedicated website has also been created for the event at www.remembrance.vt.edu: . This is how Virginia Tech remembers, how do you? Share with the rest of us by posting a comment.
Sorry for my light blogging, but I have been working on a few projects lately... and something had to give. One of these projects is a feature-long article for the August issue of University Business (it's due June 1st - it's a magazine, not a blog ;-) about email outsourcing in higher education. If you don't have a clue about what I'm talking about you can read a previous post, From outsourcing email to outsourcing IT, I wrote after reading a very good piece about the topic written by Andy Guess from Inside Higher Ed last November. Anyway, I'm going to interview folks...
Read MoreMy second UB column for 2008 is now available in the April issue as well as online: "It's 2008: Is Your 911 Website Ready?" When I wrote this article, my goal was to give you a good piece of third-party validation (hey, you can even print the article so it looks like it was xeroxed from the magazine and share it with your favorite VP and president) to get to work on your crisis web template. You'll find in this column 8 tips from several of your peers (including Mike Dame of Virginia Tech) to get you started. After interviewing Mike for this...
Read MoreI had a very interesting experience this morning presenting a session about higher ed podcasting in the US to a room full of people at the University of Warwick in the UK. No long flight or dreadful jet lag required (but no nice sightseeing in the UK either :-). I did my presentation using WebEx and my dear webcam. What was really neat about this experience was the fact that Tom Abbott, Web Manager at the University of Warwick -- who invited me to present in the first place at the Podcasting for Education conference -- took the time to...
Read MoreHigher Ed Experts was officially launched on April 23, 2007. It was supposed to go live on April 17, but it just didn't feel right to do it as scheduled after the tragedy that stroke Virginia Tech. As you can imagine, I had many sleepless nights in April 2007 working on the launch of this new website as well as the new venture it was supposed to support. Since the launch (and the rocky start with my first web conferencing vendor - I now work with WebEx, the market leader), I've witnessed more than 1,200 people working in universities and colleges...
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