Archive for November, 2009
My latest UB column is now available in the November/December issue as well as online: "How to YouTube with Success: Six tips for optimizing online videos" Here are the 6 tips: 1. Get listed on YouTube EDU. 2. Make videos that are easy to share. 3. Choose keyword-rich titles, descriptions, and tags for the videos. 4. Produce context-rich videos. 5. Don’t ignore your most fervent video fans—and critics. 6. Add closed-captioning. University Business: How to YouTube with Success I wrote this column a couple of months ago, after writing this post on how closed captioning can make a big difference but long before YouTube made...
Read MoreOnce again, I've rallied Mark Greenfield, the driving force and new owner of the Uwebd Ning website and Stewart Foss, the owner of eduStyle to create a single survey to poll our respective community members (that would be you ;-). As we did last year, instead of polling our respective members in our own little corners of the Web, we agreed to launch a grouped survey to find out what makes the higher ed web and communication community ticks and how our respective websites can better serve this group. Higher Ed Experts/eduStyle/CUwebd Survey - 2009 :: This survey has about 25 questions (but...
Read MoreIt looks like the incredible success of the lipdub produced by students from UQAM in Montreal, QC (more than 2.5 million views as of this writing) has pushed some institutions in the US to finally join the university lipdub movement. Texas State University in San Marcos did its lipdub on November 8th in the LBJ Students Center with about 30 students. Lisa Duncan, University Marketing videographer was behind the camera. Twitter / kymfox: @TXSt students are doing a lipdub The lipdub is available on Vimeo: Texas State University - San Marcos Lipdub There is also an interesting making of produced by the University...
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