Archive for August, 2008
Mike Richwalsky and I date back from July 2005, even if we only met last year at the HighEdWeb conference in Rochester. Since my first interview with him published on this blog, Mike has been a source for a few of my UB columns and has presented 3 webinars for Higher Ed Experts. He will present the 4th one on September 24, "Beyond YouTube: How to host and promote your online videos on the Web." Mike has been blogging for some time now, but launched HighEdWebTech.com about 6 months ago, which is why I decided to ask him a few...
Read MoreI've taken some time this afternoon to set up something that is going to simplify your life if you're actively looking for a new position in higher ed or just want to make sure you won't miss your dream job one day. As you might know, I launched in early July a free job board, www.higheredexperts.com/work, just for you (well, thousands of you, my dear readers, but still for you ;-) This is a free service I wanted to provide to the higher ed community as it has given me so much over the past few years. Since things have started to...
Read MoreI've just (I know, I know, I'm late here but my Web browsing time has been dramatically cut over the past few weeks) found out about David Baker's really good blog: Big Glorious Mess, and I think I've just fallen in love with his blogging. It's smart, thoughtful and very well-written, so you should definitely check it out and add it to your regular reads. BigGloriousMess David Baker - whom I don't know, I've never met and haven't probably even exchanged an email with - used to work at the University of Missouri and is now the Director of Web Communications...
Read MoreThat's what I've learned this morning by reading "Emergency Alerts via Facebook and MySpace Are New Ways to Reach Students," an article written by Jeffrey Young from the Chronicle of Higher Education. A group of researchers at the [University of Maryland at College Park] is also working to build a prototype of a homemade social network for the university's Web site designed for use in emergency situations. The project is an outgrowth of work by Ben Shneiderman, a professor of computer science at the university, and Jennifer J. Preece, dean of the university's College of Information Studies. They published an article...
Read MoreThat's a pretty innovative way to deal with the put-me-on-the-homepage syndrome all higher ed web designers have to face when it's time to redesign a university/college website. No fighting to find out which links to put there? Just go with what the web users want! Beautiful, don't you think so? The new redesign is available as a preview and will go live on September 15. OSU web team has invited comments on its redesign blog (as it did back in 2005 - geez, do I sound like the higher ed blogger grand'ma when I say that) from the campus community and some of them...
Read MoreThese past few weeks, I've seen many questions around branded YouTube channels (via the non-profit or the partner program) as well as the frustration building up in the higher community around the lack of transparency surrounding YouTube's decision to decline either status to some institutions. YouTube - Partner Program I've been thinking about writing an upcoming column for University Business about this topic for a couple of months now. I've tried to get in touch with YouTube's media relations service (following the advice of Morgan Magilligan from Google PR department by emailing -- via my Gmail account -- press@youtube.com) without avail since...
Read MoreThe University of Bath Web Services team didn't expressively request any help, but if any higher ed web developer can provide some tips, it looks like it would be more than welcome as Phil Wilson hints in this blog post: So, two days in, and dealing with FBML, the Facebook API and the low quality of the documentation has felt very much like playing a Grand Master at chess, only he won’t tell you the rules. None of this is to say that we haven’t made progress of course (because we have!), but it has meant we’ve had to revise our initial...
Read MoreI'm officially back from my trip to Europe. I flew back yesterday and can confirm that it can take less time to come back from France than from Atlantic City (haven't attended the eduweb conference in AC last month or heard about the journey back home for attendees? Check out this blog post to understand). Anyway, while I'm trying to catch up with everything after almost 4 weeks without quality time at my office, I thought I would point you to a great article about/for blogging university presidents published this month in University Affairs: "Presidents who blog." The author of this piece,...
Read MoreAs promised in one of my latest posts, blogging has been very light lately. Don't worry, I'll be back in full mode soon. In the meantime, you might want to have a look at a feature-long article I wrote for the August issue of University Business about email outsourcing: E-mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and Beyond. And, if your institution went that road, I'd like to hear from you about the whole "email outsourcing" experience. Do you think this is as good as it sounds in my UB article? Tell us by posting a comment!
I know, I know, the Olympics haven't even officially started yet, so my post title is somehow misleading. Sorry, I couldn't help myself ;-) However, UCLA does stand a good chance of winning the gold medal in blogging. After 5 days spent offline on a very windy beach (I'm not playing the diva here, the weather was really chilly), I've just found a very interesting email from Kevin Roderick, Director of UCLA newsroom in my inbox. In his note, Kevin introduced the latest initiative of his office (I did blog in the past about one of their YouTube videos): Bruins in Beijing,...
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