It’s “submit-your-proposal” season in higher ed with a few call for proposals recently launched or closing soon.
If you’ve never presented at a conference, why not try this year?
It would be nice to see new faces (nothing wrong with the regulars, of course) and hear new perspectives.
I’ve compiled a list of the top 5 speaking venues you should consider along with a few details (deadline, direct link to call for proposal online forms, etc.)
Have I forgotten another good option? Let us know by posting a comment!
You might not know it, but I maintain a Google calendar of higher ed events and conferences where I keep track of anything interesting for web and marketing teams.
It’s a useful tool, but here’s a selection of the most interesting ones (as well as a recap of upcoming HEE webinars ;-) including highlights deadlines for registration, call for proposals and other interesting information like registration fees.
Have I missed any good conferences?
Please let us know by posting a comment.
I love conferences.
Unfortunately, I can’t go to all of them – especially when they take place in Europe. So do most of you, I bet.
That’s why I really enjoyed watching earlier this morning the live stream of the keynote given by Professor Derek Law (University of Strathclyde) at the IWMW 2009 conference held until July 30 at the University of Essex in the UK: Headlights on Dark Roads
IWMW is THE web conference in the UK.
The organizers have done a great job at integrating social media and video streaming to offer a great experience to remote attendees. All the plenary talks are offered live from the website of the University of Essex. You can even ask a question – as I did this morning – by tweeting it to @briankelly
Starting tomorrow (July 29) at 9AM ET, Higher Ed Experts will also offer the FREE webinar versions of 2 sessions presented at this conference that were pre-recorded a couple of weeks ago:
Just check out www.higheredexperts.com/iwmw2009 to find out how to access these recordings.
As you probably know if you’ve been reading this blog for a bit, I maintain a Google calendar of higher ed events and conferences where I keep track of anything interesting for web and marketing teams.
It’s a useful tool, but sometimes a good old post does the trick as well – especially when it highlights deadlines for registration, call for proposals and other interesting information like registration fees.
www.higheredexperts.com/webredesign.
Have I missed any good conferences?
Please let us know by posting a comment.
This is the second installment of my new series dedicated to vendor deals and other bargains to help you survive and thrive with tighter budgets.
After the first installment about a very interesting offer to send up to 10,000 email per month for free for institutions with non-profit status, this time we’re talking about a discount on a conference fee for the next Xpert Summit taking place in Las Vegas next month.
Organized by Brian Niles’ Target X for their clients – mainly folks working in admissions offices or in charge of marketing/communications to prospective students, this conference is open to others, but for a $200 fee.
Brian and his team are regulars on the conference circuit and are always providing great value (without too much pitching in their presentations). So, when Adrienne Bartlett, Client Concierge at TargetX, emailed me with this offer, she got my attention.
What’s the deal?
If you’re looking to get some practical tips on email, social media or college visits, to network with some of your peers and can find a good deal on hotel & travel, you can attend this year’s Xpert Summit for free even if you’re not a client. That’s a $200 saving.
What does the fine print say?
Be prepared to listen to some sessions including some product information – hey, it’s a user conference after all.
Want to have a look at the schedule and the different sessions?
Just download this PDF file.
How do you get started?
If you’re interested and want to sign up without paying the $200 conference fee for non-clients, just email Adrienne and to get the fee waived let her know you’re a collegewebeditor.com reader.
Here are the slides and links for this workshop I gave on November 16, 2008 at the AMA Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education
Workshop Slides
Workshop Links
All the links
Blogs examples
Interesting articles
UPDATE: after my workshop, I was invited by Tom Williams from Innogage to answer a few questions live on Ustream. Tom decided to cover the conference by broadcasting some live videos with speakers over his Ustream channel every day – There were a few people asking questions via chat and the session was recorded. I’m addressing a few points about blogging and you can also see what a 4-hour long workshop can do a speaker ;-)
Just a quick post as I’m packing this morning for the AMA Symposium for Higher Education.
Karlyn Morissette and I will be live blogging/twittering as much as we can from the conference. We haven’t agreed on a hastag for Twitter yet, so feel free to follow me and I’ll make sure I let you know how to follow all the action from the conference attendees (although I’m not sure how active this crowd is going to be on Twitter).
While I’m scheduled to present a workshop about blogging tomorrow afternoon, Karlyn will give a presentation on integrated email marketing on Monday morning.
Her session promises to be a very interesting and useful, but if you’re not going to the conference, you can still register for Email Marketing 360 as Karlyn will present the first webinar and Carmella Manges has prepared a great presentation about email analytics and measurement for the second.
Besides the twittering and the blogging, I also plan to interview some of the attendees (more than 600 people will be at the conference) for my upcoming University Business column to be published earlier next year.
If you’ve read the news lately, you know that the economy isn’t very promising, some have already started to make adjustments and I’d like to find out how the higher ed marketing/communication community is coping with the bad economy.
Can’t make it to the conference, but have good tips, great ideas or strong opinion about the topic? Post a comment or email karine@collegewebeditor.com to get a chance to be featured in this article.
If you are at the conference, don’t be shy and come say hello, I look forward to meeting new faces.
For the past few days I’ve been busy wrapping up my presentation for the marathon 4-hour workshop I’ll give this Sunday at the AMA Symposium for Higher Education.
And, I can report that blogs aren’t dead or “so 2004″ as Paul Boutin would love his readers to believe after scanning his Wired article published on October 20, 2008:
Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug.
Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago.
[...]
And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter.
As higher ed blogger, Kyle James, noticed in a comment posted on higher ed blogger Andrew Careaga’s post about this essay, there’s something really fishy in this (link-bait?) article:
they are declaring the death of blogging… on a blog… by a blogger…
Paul Boutin is indeed a correspondent for the blog Valleywag.com, a gossip blog per Wikipedia definition.
But, enough with this rhetoric.
I’m sure you want proof that all this “blogs-are-alive” chatter isn’t a conspiracy developed by bloggers for bloggers. So, I did some investigative research for my AMA “Blogging Boot Camp” workshop and thought I’ll share the results with you, dear readers (anybody out there?)
In his Wired piece, Boutin tries to defend the point that Twitter, among other social media applications, has killed blogs.
Twitter — which limits each text-only post to 140 characters — is to 2008 what the blogosphere was to 2004. You’ll find Scoble, Calacanis, and most of their buddies from the golden age there. They claim it’s because Twitter operates even faster than the blogosphere. And Twitter posts can be searched instantly, without waiting for Google to index them.
You can also search the posts from this blog, collegewebeditor.com, instantly without waiting for Google to index them, but I’m not claiming yet that my blog’s internal search engine will bring more traffic than the big G.
Didn’t I say that I would stop with the rhetoric?
Sorry for that.
Now, let’s focus on hard cold facts:
How do Twitter and Blogs perform when it comes to Google rankings?
Just look at this story posted on Missouri S&T’s research blog, Visions, last month: Brain Powers for Power Grids.
The blog post was announced on Missouri S&T Twitter account almost immediately:
A bit more than a month after the posting on the blog and Twitter, check out what pops up for a Google search on the topic.
No Twitter post in sight.
Don’t get me wrong.
Twitter is a great tool, but in a world where everybody googles blogs are still bringing amazing value with a bit more context than any 140-character would ever be able to do.
What do you think?
I’m currently wrapping up putting together my slides and handouts for the following 4-hour workshop I’ll give at the AMA Symposium for Higher Education on November 16, 2008:
Blogging Boot Camp: How to Start and Develop a Successful Blog
Since I would have never been asked to present this workshop without this blog, I thought it might be a good idea to invite your input about its content.
Hey, you’re the readers and some of you are also bloggers!
So, here are my questions to you:
Is there anything you’d like to know about blogging in a higher ed setting?
or, if you’re a blogger yourself, is there anything you wish you had known before starting your blog?
Please post your reply in the comments (I’ve finally added a subscribe-to-comments plugin, but haven’t had a chance to test it yet, so let me know if it doesn’t work)
After being away from this blog from some time – geez, almost 2 weeks, that’s what work can do to you sometimes – I’m back with a new edition of my “Catch-up Date with Karine” series.
Unless, you were leaving on an unconnected deserted island last week, you’ve probably heard about all the great things happening at the HighEdWeb conference in Springfield, MO last week.
Whether you could attend or not the conference, you should check out the following links pointing to the presentation slides made available by the HighEdWeb organizers:
Marketing, PR, etc.
Cool Web Thingies
Projects (CMS, Redesign, etc.)
Techies’ Corner
There was also some live blogging (and twittering) going on at the conference. Karlyn Morissette compiled most of the posts on the eduguru blog.