Archive for the ‘HigherEdBlogCon’ Category

Call to Higher Ed Pros: Got Skype? Let’s talk!

HigherEdBlogCon got some very interesting conversations started among great higher ed professionals, scattered all over the country (read: the US). Dan Karleen, the co-founder of the online conference held last month, just had another crazy idea: keep the conversation rolling by using the latest free service from Skype, skypecast. So, if you have an interest […]

Live from HigherEdBlogCon: How to get your boss, your colleagues or yourself up-to-speed with new media

Need a quick way to introduce your boss, his/hers or the board to online new media or as I like to call it PR 2.0? Look no further than Dan Karleen’s 10-minute screencast prepared for HigherEdBlogCon. Dan’s presentaion is actually composed of a screencast, links and the transcripts of 3 interviews with Paul Baker, Erin […]

Live from HigherEdBlogCon: 3 great case studies of admission-related podcasting initiatives

If you want to get the truth as well as great tips on how to launch your admission-related podcasts, just take a couple of hours to watch and read 3 case studies presented today (but available almost forever) at HigherEdBlogCon: Case Study: Blogging and Podcasting for Student Recruitment at Ball State University Nancy Prater Heather […]

Live from HigherEdBlogCon: How to use the Facebook to keep in touch with your alumni

Thought Facebook was only for current or prospective students? Wrong. In their 43-minute screencast for HigherEdBlogCon, The Teeming Web, Bob Robertson-Boyd from Capital University and Dimitri Glazkov Estrada explain, among other things, how you should use the Facebook to keep in touch with your alums. As you know, most of your current students are already […]

Live from HigherEdBlogCon: How to create a Google map in 5 easy steps

Don’t have a Google map on your institution website yet? What are you waiting for? Ok, don’t feel bad. I haven’t put one on my website yet either. But, things got a bit easier for us thanks to a friendly librarian, Chris Deweese (Lewis & Clark Library System) and his presentation at HigherEdBlogCon. In “Google […]

Podcasting 101: Learn how to podcast from a higher ed podcaster, Dennis Miller

Dennis Miller, Mansfield University’s PR director and podcast producer, has just launched a new series on podcast production. In the first episode Miller explains that he decided to start sharing his experience, mistakes and tips to help other higher ed PR and marketing professionals get into podcasting. This 10-minute podcast also sums up the different […]

Live from HigherEdBlogCon: Unchain your work from a single computer with nomadic desktops

One of the aspects of Web 2.0 I find the most interesting is the possibility to transfer my computerized life from a single machine to the Web, so it can be accessed from anywhere – at home, at work or on the road. As most of you probably know, there are lots of good new […]

Live from HigherEdBlogCon: All you need to know about copyright issues in podcasting

As announced in my previous post, HigherEd BlogCon started yesterday on a computer near you. The best thing about this free online conference is that you can “attend” presentations whenever you have time. I didn’t get a chance to catch one of the two presentations scheduled yesterday that picked my interest in the teaching track, […]

HigherEd BlogCon: time to subscribe to the conference’s RSS feed

The first higher ed online conference about the so-called Web 2.0 technologies, HigherEd BlogCon, will start on April 3 – well, that’s Monday! – on a computer near you, so you’d better hurry up and subscribe to its RSS feed – your free pass to this conference. Want a few good reasons to subscribe now? […]

HigherEdBlogCon: Just 11 days left to submit your proposal

As you probably know by now (after all, isn’t it the third time I’m posting about this event?), a very special conference will be held this April on a computer near you: Higher Ed BlogCon, an online conference focusing on the use of blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, vblogs and other digital tools. I know a […]

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

As announced last month in a previous post, the first higher ed online conference about the so-called Web 2.0 technologies (blogs, wikis, podcasts, vodcasts, etc.) will take place in April 2006 on a computer sitting on your desk. You won’t need to submit a budget request to attend this conference (isn’t it nice?), but that […]

Higher Ed BlogCon: the first online PR conference for higher education will be held in April 2006

Some very interesting people have been planning quietly a great event: an online conference modeled after Global PR Blog Week 2.0 that will try to address all the new developments on the Web that have started to shake up the higher ed PR world. Available to the public this morning on Dan Forbush’s wiki, The […]