Last week I read 3 interesting posts written by 3 different higher ed bloggers, but couldn’t find the time to post about these.
- Paul Baker (Education PR) shares a great story that shows the power of Web 2.0. A year ago, while he was attending a conference in New Orleans, he took some great photos of post-Katrina classrooms and uploaded them to Flickr. A few weeks ago, he was contacted by a publication that asked permission to use one of his photos.
Magazines are always looking for convenient and affordable solutions to illustrate their articles. By making some of your institution photos available on Flickr, you can help editors find them and… get more press clips to show.
- Patrick Berry (Institutional Knowledge) has been playing with Twitter lately to post automatically portal usage updates to his office blog. In his post, Patrick explained that Twitter is the perfect platform for sharing casual information.
In this line of thought, Twitter might be a good (cheap) tool for folks in charge of Student Life to share their calendar of events on a very short notice or for cafeterias to promote the special of the day or let their campus customers know when they run out of apple pie… ;-)
- Mark Greenfield will experiment with Presentation 2.0 at HighEdWebDev this year. Scheduled to present a session titled “Higher Ed Web Development Gets Flattened or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New World Order,†Mark has invited readers of his blog to take an active part in the creation of this presentation.