EduWeb: 7 collegewebeditor.com readers to blog the conference on July 31 and August 1st

With more than 200 attendees already registered, the EduWeb Conference Director, Shelley Wetzel, can be proud of her decision to re-create the great – yet defunct – Salisbury Web Conference. Next week, both sides of the fence as she put it in an interview I published earlier – i.e. marketing folks and IT people – will gather in Baltimore for a promising edition.

As I mentioned earlier, other engagements will prevent me from attending the conference this year, which is why I launched a call to this blog’s readers a few weeks ago.

Well, today I’m happy to let everybody know that my call was answered by no fewer than 7 people!

I knew amazing people are reading this blog (doesn’t hurt to flatter your audience, does it?;-), but frankly, I didn’t expect that so many will agree to cover the conference for collegewebeditor.com and share their notes with those less fortunate who couldn’t get the budget or find the time to go to Baltimore next week.

As a result, I can now confirm that the world, our field and the blogosphere are just full of very nice people ;-)
One of our guest bloggers, Drew Ollanoff, even decided to go to the conference after offering to cover it!

Anyway, I thought I would share with you the tentative schedule that Aba, Drew, Kesha, Natalie, Nina, Rachel, Shane and I have all put together for our special EduWeb blogging edition (eh, eh, I feel like a big shot editor ;-)

Day #1

• A Mouse, A Coffee House, and a “River” – What they can teach you about marketing your school, by Jeff Kallay – Target X
  -> covered by Rachel Reuben from the State University of New York at New Paltz
• Thinking Outside the Table:Designing the Websites withCSS and XTML, by Bryan Hantman – University of MD, Baltimore
  -> covered by Aba G. Blankson from Cornell University
• Building a Brand that Matters, by Kari Kovar – Stamats
  -> covered by Shane Colvin from the Faculty of Education at University of Oslo
• New Voices: Observations from the University Blogosphere by Dan Karleen, Thomson Peterson’s and Rob Pongsajapan, Georgetown University
  -> covered by Nina Sossen from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Search Engine Marketing, Shelly Brown, Southwest Baptist University
  -> covered by Drew Olanoff from Educational Directories Unlimited
• Web Projects: Formalize Your efforts with documentation and research and generate more internal support, site success
  by Staci Roberts Beam Northwestern University
  -> covered by Rachel Reuben from the State University of New York at New Paltz
• Effective Keyword Selection for Search Engine Marketing in Higher Education by Mark Shay – EDU Directories
  -> covered by Kesha Boyce Williams from The Cleveland Institute of Art
• Usability Driven Homepage Design: A User-Centered Approach by Matthew Winkel – The College of New Jersey
  -> covered by Drew Olanoff from Educational Directories Unlimited

Day #2

• Marketing Your University w/ Dynamic Print, Immersive Web Sites, and Streaming Media, by Ryan Fisher – Furman University
  -> covered by Natalie DiPasquale from Ripple Effects Interactive
• Educational Website Benchmarks: Auditing for Results, by Jon Mikel-Bailey- Wood Street, Inc.
  -> covered by Kesha Boyce Williams from The Cleveland Institute of Art
• HTML Email & Flash Appeals: The Basics and Beyond, by Andrew Iskowitz – Swim Design
  -> covered by Aba G. Blankson from Cornell University
• Online Student Journals as Effective Recruitment Tool, by Patricia Baldridge – Philadelphia University
  -> covered by Natalie DiPasquale from Ripple Effects Interactive
• Mobile Web Design: Grappling with a Wireless Web, by Catherine Derecki – University of Mary Washington
  -> covered by Rachel Reuben from the State University of New York at New Paltz
• Editing Print Document for the Web, by Merry Bruns – Science Sites Communications
  -> covered by Rachel Reuben from the State University of New York at New Paltz
• To Blog or Not to Blog, by Nina Sossen – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  -> covered by Shane Colvin from the Faculty of Education at University of Oslo