As promised earlier, below is the third “recommended reading list” I’ve prepared for my “Best of 2005” series. So, after higher ed executives and marketing/PR/ communication professionals, it’s the turn of Web professionals with these 10 must-read posts published on collegewebeditor.com in 2005.
- Higher Ed Web Pro Files: 15 interviews with great insights from your peers
- How to measure the ROI of the college website? Step 1: define strategic goals
- How to measure the ROI of the college website? Step 2: set up a website dashboard
- Higher ed website redesign: why you should build your case
- Higher ed website redesign: how you can build your case
- (Almost) Live from Salisbury’s Web Communications and Strategies Conference: how to do user testing with $5 and 5 people
- What are high school juniors looking for on a college website? Top 10 most popular activities, Top 5 most valuable info & Top 15 expectations
- What role does the Website play in the college admission process?
- Campus emergency alerts: time to switch to RSS?
- Got something interesting to share about RSS, blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 applications? Submit a presentation proposal to HigherEd BlogCon by January 31, 2006
If you haven’t done it already, please take 2 minutes to answer the 10 questions of the 2005 readers’ survey. This will help me make this blog better in 2006 — you also get a chance to win a $30 gift certificate at Amazon or iTunes if you take the survey (ok, I know I’m really starting to sound like a broken record ;-)
The good news is that I’m done with my “Best of 2005” series.
For those of you who’ve just discovered this blog and want to go deeper in what’s available in the archives, you can also read my +120 posts published in 2005 (I’m sure most of you have definitely better things to do… But, please let me know if you can get through this blogathon in a single sitting without dropping dead ;-)