Live from the higher ed blogosphere: New higher ed blogs, old faces and a quick favor

While I can’t tell by the amount of snow still on the ground outside, it feels like spring in the higher ed blogosphere with the arrival of new blogs authored by 2 seasoned higher ed bloggers.

Mike Richwalsky from Allegheny College has recently launched Higher Ed Web Tech where he plans to share some good technical tips and news useful for techies (or webbies) working in universities and colleges. Mike has helped his institution become an early adopter in a bunch of new/emerging technologies (audio podcasts in April 2005, Facebook applications just a few months after the release of the platform API). He is also a regular presenter for Higher Ed Experts about social networking websites strategies and Facebook applications.

Down Under, Georgina Hibberd used to work at the University of Sydney up until a couple of months ago and launched one of the first Aussie higher blogs, templatedata. Georgina is now flying (and blogging) solo at her new personal blog launched earlier this week.

Now, about the quick favor: I know it’s a bit vain, but it’s not as if I ask you favors everyday… right, my dear readers?

So, here it is. As you can see below, this blog is very, very close to break the 1000-subscribers-via-RSS mark (without including the 494 email subscribers).

We need 8 more subscribers, that’s it.

I know a lot of you have already been spreading the word about this blog within your network – thanks a lot!

But, if you haven’t shared it yet with your coworkers (or maybe the folks from the alum association, the admission office, the marketing and communication team or your web professionals colleagues working at other colleges/universities), I would really appreciate if you can take 2 minutes to do it, so we can break that 1000-mark today.

I’ll report about the results tomorrow (they are always published the day after by FeedBurner).