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I’ve been working on this new webinar series for some time now.
That’s why I’m very pleased today to announce that registration is now opened for “Stop the Presses: Why and how to go digital with your magazine or newsletter” at www.higheredexperts.com/stopthepresses
This series taking place on June 24, 25 and 26 has a great speaker line-up […]

Yes, you’ve read my headline correctly: bloggers editing and fact checking the main media outlet covering higher education in the US.
So, what do I mean exactly?
In the past weeks, two posts from two different higher ed bloggers have questioned some of the facts reported in two different articles published by the Chronicle.

Andy Shaindlin from […]

Exactly 10.6% on Web site and other electronic formats (e.g., e-mail, text messaging) and 24.1% on printed materials (e.g., viewbooks, brochures, letters) according to The Chronicle Survey of Undergraduate Admissions Officers published in its May 2 issue.
The survey results which are only available to subscribers of the print or digital versions (but if you really […]

I’ve put together a short online survey to find out if and how paid advertising and sponsorship are used in magazines and newsletters published by universities and colleges.
The results of this survey will be used for a study I’m conducting on this topic and a future article.
This online survey should take you 3 […]

Earlier this week, Reader Kimberly McGrath, Web Content Editor at Wake Forest University, emailed about an interesting blogging experience taking place at her institution:
This week we have seventeen students on a service trip to New Orleans. Thought you might be interested in seeing the blog.
The students are doing an awesome job writing about their […]

As announced in my first post about these awards, the nominations for best websites, web projects and blogs are now open and will close on April 30, 2008.
So, here is what you need to do if you want to nominate a website or a blog:
If a site is in the eduStyle gallery

Create an eduStyle account […]

With the increasing popularity of this niche blog (and it’s not just my ego speaking, the web stats and Feedburner tell me that its readership has been increasing steadily) as well as my regular gig at University Business, I’ve started to receive more and more press releases and pitches from PR professionals.
While a few are […]

I met Jeff Kraus, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Public Relations at the Virginia Community College System, last June at the conference his organization held for Web and PR folks working in VA community colleges. I was invited to present at this conference by Susan Hayden, a regular reader. At that time, I spoke about Web […]

My sixth UB column for 2007 is now available in the November issue (it was scheduled for the December issue, but apparently my editor couldn’t wait for an extra month — maybe, it’s because it’s especially good ;-) as well as online: “10 Steps to Better Blogs”

This article is a good summary of the presentation […]

Something big is happening.
In several higher ed institutions across the country, some PR and News professionals have started to embrace the conversational age by launching real news blog inviting feedback from readers by publishing - moderated - comments
In the past couple of weeks only, 3 new initiatives were launched in different institutions:

News & […]

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