eduWeb 2008: twitter, live blogging with a twist, meet-up & survey about social media use in higher ed

I know, I know, It’s been a while since my last post, but I’ve been thinking about you every single day as I was working hard to prepare something special for this edition of eduWeb 2008.

Didn’t get the budget to come this year?

Don’t worry, you’ll be able to follow some of the action (if not all the fun) by following me on Twitter and reading this blog.

This year, I haven’t placed a call for guest bloggers – which is what I did in 2007 and 2006 – because I got a different idea. I’ve asked all the speakers working in universities/colleges to share in 140 words (characters would have been a bit tough) or less the biggest take-away from their presentation or table talk. These short posts written by some eduWeb speakers will be published at the end of their presentation (don’t want to spoil anything for the attendees), which means that you will get some easy to digest summaries as the days go even if you’re not in AC.

Are you coming to Atlantic City next week?

Make sure you watch out for the posts written by the speakers of the presentations and table talks you attend and post your feedback, comments and questions about the presentation.
I would really love to get some conversation going around these posts – which is why I’ll switch off the comment moderation queue, so your comments can be posted in real time (I’ll get extra work to remove the comment spam, but I can do that for 3 days, can’t I?)

Then, I hope that you’ll stop by the BlogHighEd Social at the Poolside Cafe scheduled on Monday between 7 and 9 pm. I’ll be there, so if you’re a reader, don’t be shy and come say “hello.” I look forward to meeting you.

I’ll arrive in AC Sunday afternoon, so feel free to send me an email as well, if you want to meet earlier – especially if you have an idea for a future webinar for Higher Ed Experts. I also go to conferences to meet new faces, so I’m also going to try to recruit new speakers for Higher Ed Experts.

Obviously, I hope you’ll be able to stick around for my keynote “It’s The Community, Stupid!” at the end of the conference (but will understand too if you have an early flight) at noon Wednesday.

Last but not least, long-time reader Rachel Reuben, director of Web Communication & Strategic Projects from SUNY at New Paltz, has put together a very interesting survey on the use of social media in higher education as part of an independent study research project she conducts for her MBA.
She will write a paper about the results at the end of August (and I’ll make sure to share the most interesting bits with you). So, if you haven’t taken this survey yet, please do it now.