Archive for August, 2010
UPDATE (August 31, 2010 at 12:22PM ET): Eric Olsen from Lewis University is the winner of the SIM Tech conference pass. Congratulations, Eric! Fall is always a busy conference season (very similar to summer, actually). Once we're done with the mandatory "break" from mid-August to mid-September to welcome students, things get usually very busy in October and November. This year is no exception with Higher Ed Web in Cincinnati, OH (Oct 10-13), Educause in Anaheim, CA (Oct 12-15), SIM Tech in Las Vegas, NV (Oct 20-22), eduUI in Charlottesville, VA (Nov 7-9), the AMA Symposium in San Diego, CA (Nov 7-10) and...
Read MoreOffering a consistent look and feel on the Web at a big university is a challenge. When implementing a content management system across hundreds of units or departments isn't an option - for budget reason, some institutions have to adopt a different approach. At the University of Alabama, the central web communications team includes only 4 people. That's why Andy Rainey, director of Web Communications, is a big proponent of the "teach-them-how-to-fish" approach. His team has always designed and published web resources to help the larger university community get up to speed with their web presence, using more recently WordPress...
Read MoreThis is just a quick post about a newly redesigned website: Macalester College's. Nick Balcom Raleigh, Online Communications Coordinator at Macalester, emailed me a couple of weeks ago about the redesign - so it's about time I share it with you :-) The new version was developed in-house by a team of four and has replaced a previous design from 2004. Nick explained that the new design is built using the open-source CSS framework Blueprint, jQuery and jQuery UI plugin to enhance interactive elements and is compliant with W3C and ADA. I really like how the live Facebook feed is integrated in the...
Read MoreI know I've been talking about this higher ed online analytics revolution for some time now, but it's now time for action. It started in May with a survey to get a better idea of the state of online analytics in higher education. The survey was a big success as 399 professionals working in higher education took the time to fill it out. The results have been published and shared widely. They basically confirm that we've got some serious work in front of us to give online analytics the place it deserves in the higher ed marketing decision process. Higher Ed Analytics...
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