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 [...]
That’s what I’ve learned this morning by reading “Emergency Alerts via Facebook and MySpace Are New Ways to Reach Students,” an article written by Jeffrey Young from the Chronicle of Higher Education.
A group of researchers at the [University of Maryland at College Park] is also working to build a prototype of a homemade social network [...]
This morning, I received two emails asking if it was still possible to register for the May 7 webinar about crisis/emergency websites presented by Mike Dame from Virginia Tech (the initial registration deadline was yesterday).
As a result, I decided to postpone the registration deadline until this Friday (May 2) at 9PM ET. If you want [...]
My second UB column for 2008 is now available in the April issue as well as online: “It’s 2008: Is Your 911 Website Ready?”
When I wrote this article, my goal was to give you a good piece of third-party validation (hey, you can even print the article so it looks like it was xeroxed from [...]
Higher Ed Experts was officially launched on April 23, 2007.
It was supposed to go live on April 17, but it just didn’t feel right to do it as scheduled after the tragedy that stroke Virginia Tech. As you can imagine, I had many sleepless nights in April 2007 working on the launch of this new [...]
By now, you’ve heard the news: a gun man shot 22 people yesterday at Northern Illinois University. Seven Six - including the gunman - died.
All my prayers go to the families and friends of the victims as well as to the whole campus community at Northern Illinois University.
There are some blog posts I would rather [...]
By now, you’ve probably heard (or seen on TV or on the Web) what happened last night at Union University in Jackson, TN.
As reported by Ashley Anthony of The Jackson Sun in “Union University tornado damage update”, 2 dormitories were destroyed in Tuesday night’s tornado, 51 students were taken to the hospital and 9 stayed [...]
Since the Virginia Tech Tragedy, higher ed institutions all over the US, Canada and even Australia have been revisiting their emergency preparedness and crisis communication plans.
While planning is very important, a plan is as good as its testing. That’s why many institutions went through emergency drills and other tests lately.
Back in September 2007, I blogged [...]
Would you share your crisis ‘lite’ website homepage with your colleagues in higher education?
Since the Virginia Tech Tragedy, we all have been building/updating the web template to be used in case of a crisis or an emergency.
By nature, these web templates can’t be easily shared among different institutions. You don’t want the general public [...]
What a great conference!
This was the first time I managed to attend (and present at) HighEdWebDev in Rochester, and this was really time and money well spent.
The organizers did a great job at planning and organizing the whole event (although a lapel microphone would have been a great addition for the “soft-spoken” presenters like [...]
