News and Tips for Higher Ed Pros

After taking 2 airplanes to get to Philly and a ride with Mike Richwalsky & Josh Tysiachney from Allegheny College and Brad Ward from Butler University (and BlogHighEd) to Atlantic City, I checked in yesterday around 4:30 pm.

My room has a gorgeous view, but the $12.50 Internet wireless connection could definitely be better.

I’m missing quite a few bars and the best spot to get access is actually not the desk, but the bed (Wayport’s - the company providing the service - help desk support if not very helpful was really professional, and I guess the view from the bed isn’t bad either)

We had a very interesting conversation over dinner at The Cafe about cloud computing with Mike, Josh and Mark Greenfield. Mike and Josh are scheduled to present about the topic at 9:45 Tuesday morning.

We also discussed email outsourcing to Google or Microsoft as I had some fresh examples from my upcoming feature article for the August issue of University Business.

Before Mark’s keynote this afternoon, I’m supposed to work a bit more on my own - scheduled on Wednesday, fine tune the scheduling of the speaker’s blog posts, have coffee with Pamela Michael, Head of Digital Media and Marketing at Imperial College (London) and meet Stewart Foss from eduStyle.

If you see me in the lobby, don’t be shy and come say “hello.”

• Email, Gmail, Hotmail and Beyond: Outsourcing email for better and worse?
• eduWeb 2008 in 140 words - Head in the Cloud: On-Demand Solutions for Processing, Storage and Content Delivery Needs by Mike Richwalsky and Josh Tysiachney from Allegheny College
• Thinking about outsourcing email and other apps at your institution? Submit your questions for the main players, Google and Microsoft
• eduWeb 2008: It’s the community, Stupid! Really.
• EduWeb 2008: Call for proposal open and familiar faces for the opening and closing keynote speakers