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Today, I’m celebrating the third “birthday” of this blog launched on February 12, 2005 as well as its 500th post, which means I posted exactly 200 posts since its last birthday - and I didn’t do it on purpose ;-).
Now with 946 readers via RSS feed (according to feedburner), 450 email newsletter subscribers and [...]

So, this blog’s reader survey has just ended. And, the lucky winner of the $30 Gift certificate is… Jonathan Steffens from University of Missouri-Columbia.
Congratulations and thank to the 91 readers who took the time to do the survey between December 12, 2007 and January 10, 2008.
With the 86,047 (70% more than last [...]

So, I’ve decided to drink the video Kool Aid to wish you happy holidays and the best for 2008 as suggested by a couple of readers in the survey (if you haven’t taken the survey yet, please do and you’ll get a chance to win a US $30 gift certificate from Amazon)

If you feel “jolly” [...]

It’s that time of year again.
With December come the snow (unless you read this post from California or even better Australia or New Zealand), the greeting cards and this blog’s readers survey.
Started in December 2005, this short survey has become a holiday tradition at collegewebeditor.com. Moreover, it’s a way for you to provide [...]

As most of you know, I’ve recently conducted a survey to get some feedback about this blog.
Between December 1st, 2006 and January 8, 2007, 77 readers (about 3 times more than the previous year) took the time to answer 10 questions.
With the 50,670 (about 5 times more than the previous year) unique visitors this blog [...]

After proceeding to the draw, I can now announce the name of the winner of the $30 gift certificate:
Edward Terry from Austin Community College in Austin, TX.
I would like to thank all the survey participants for taking the time to answer my questions. I’ll share the main findings of the survey in a future [...]

In December 2005, I did a survey to gather information about this blog’s readers. Launched on December 20, the survey ran for about 3 weeks allowing 26 people to tell me a bit more about themselves (anonymously though) and their expectations as blog readers.
This year, I’ve decided to start the survey a bit earlier in [...]

HighEdWebDev 06 will take place on October 22-25 in Rochester NY.
I won’t be able to attend this great conference and put out a call for guest bloggers a week ago. Two readers have already offered to help, so there should be some coverage of HighEdWebDev on this blog (if you want to share your [...]

So, I’ve finally decided to upgrade my wordpress platform. I’ve been using WP 1.2 since the launch of this blog, which means that this isn’t a simple process to switch it to the latest version, WP 2.0.
As a result I need to do some work on my design template, so you will get a chance [...]

Yep, I’ve been blogging for a full year. Can you believe it?
I published my first post, “It’s a baby blog” on February 12, 2005 at 1:53PM.
When I started last year by a sunny afternoon (well, it might have been a rainy one ;-), I didn’t imagine this blog would bring me so much: [...]