The plan for my next 1-1-1 Express Book Review was to review Kristina Halvorson’s “Content Strategy for the Web,” but Tim Nekritz did such a good job in his review that I’ll just skip it and go straight to the next book on my list: Clout by Colleen Jones. I first heard about this book […]
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1-1-1 Express Book Review: The eduStyle Guide to Usable Higher Ed Homepage Design by Stewart, Cody and Andy Foss
First, let me start with a disclaimer: I’ve just received and browsed my electronic review copy of The eduStyle Guide to Usable Higher Ed Homepage Design (email arrived a bit before 6AM this morning). I knew it was supposed to be released any day now, but I had no clue when it would hit my […]
Andrew Shaindlin’s 8-step plan to get your alum association on Twitter
Andy Shaindlin and Elizabeth Allen from Alumni Futures has just published a very interesting white paper: Activating Alumni Networks with Twitter. This free 36-page PDF file includes a good primer about Twitter (aimed at the non-user), an overview about different uses, some recommendations as well as the results of a recent online survey conducted from […]
Mobiles, Cloud Computing, Geo-Tagging and the Personal Web will be widely adopted on campuses within 3 years
According to the 2009 Horizon report, while mobiles and cloud computing are already well established on many campuses across the world, geo-tagging and the personal web should be widely used in higher education by 2012. Released yesterday by The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE program, this report is definitely […]
Catch-up Date with Karine: Admissions – Special post NACAC conference
No post since the last edition of this series “Catch up-Date with Karine†aiming at fighting the information overload, I guess you can imagine how busy the past week has been. Anyway, here’s what I got for you with this special edition about “all things Admissions.” With NACAC’s 64th national conference taking place last week […]
CASE offers public access to my Currents article about Web 2.0 until April 15, 2007
I don’t know if Dennis Miller’s last post or Andrew Careaga’s ealier comment about the topic have helped make the case for open access I started when I submitted my final draft a few months ago. But, I’ve just heard from Andrea Gabrick, the CASE editor I worked with on my article about Web 2.0, […]
MySpace 101: how teenagers use the popular social networking website
A lot has been written lately about MySpace in newspapers all over the country (well the US, I mean) but also the world. Most of the time, journalists paint a very dark picture of the social networking website: a place that sexual predators, high school bullies and other dangerous kinds have made theirs. While our […]
Meet Steve Krug, the author of “Don’t Make Me Think,” at HighWebDev05
I’m just back from Salisbury where we had a great conference. In my previous post, I talked about what was probably the best presentation I attended there: “Got Five? Effective User Testing with $5 and Five People” by Liz Norell, the director of Web Communication at TWU. As she indicated in her presentation, her method […]
Plan for the next big thing(s): trends to watch in higher education
Websites are not developed and/or maintained in a vacuum. Because the Web is more flexible and dynamic than traditional communication channels, Website Stakeholders tend to expect quicker responses from their Web services. That’s why it’s crucial to stay ahead of the game to be able to plan for (or suggest — if you’re in the […]
Online donors are better givers than regular givers
You might want to share this article, Getting to Know Your Online Givers Can Pay Off (PDF file), with your favorite fundraiser on campus. In his paper published by CASE, Peter B. Wylie presents the results of a study performed in 2004 on the records collected in the following way: Five four-year higher education institutions […]
Educate your website stakeholders about the “Net Generation”
Sometimes hundreds of thousand words are worth more than a short executive summary, especially in higher education. Does your VP need some hard cold (read “printed”) facts before entertaining your latest web bugdet request? Is your admission office not convinced that it would be a good idea to offer instant messaging (IM) as a way […]
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