Archive for the ‘Conferences’ Category

CASE Currents: “User Generation,” a Web 2.0 primer for communication and marketing professionals in higher ed

After I presented with Joe Hice at the CASE conference for senior marketing and communication professionals in Philadelphia last September, Rae Goldsmith, CASE Marketing VP, asked me to share the content of our presentation about Web 2.0 with the readers of their magazine. I wrote the article, “User Generation,” and it’s now available in the […]

2007 CIT: a conference focused on emerging technologies in community colleges

After taking some “time off” to wrap up two big typo3 upgrades, I’m back in full blogging mode. If your institution is a community college, chances are you’ve already heard about the League for Innovation in the Community College. [BTW, if it’s not, you might be more interested in my last post about other interesting […]

Top higher ed conferences in 2007

I love conferences. A conference is a great way to learn and share while meeting interesting people. I wish I could go to more… I’ve been invited to present at 2 conferences this year (more details about these when everything is confirmed). In the meantime, here is my short list for higher ed conferences to […]

Almost Live from HighEdWebDev 06: Todd Markelz’s Keynote Speech

Brian Phelps covered the keynote speech at HighEdWebDev for collegewebeditor. Brian Phelps is Web Manager at the University of the Pacific, and owns PhelpsTeknowledge. He sees his work as facilitating information delivery, enhancing the process through usability and information architecture. Brian sent this guest post yesterday The keynote address for HigherEdWebDev 2006 was delivered by […]

Live From HighEdWebDev06: Redesign Your College Website, Incrementally

That’s the idea Rose Pruyne from Penn State defended in her presentation “Incremental Design” at HighEdWebDev 06 in Rochester today. Nobody got a chance to blog about it as far as I know, but I was able to retrieve the presentation slides Rose shares through the conference delicious tag highedwebdev2006. I interviewed Rose for my […]

Live From HighEdWebDev06: How to Lower Costs and Increase Accessibility with Web Standards

Bryan Hantman of University of Maryland presented yesterdat a session at HighEdWebDev in Rochester titled â€œSetting the Standards: How Web Standards Lower Costs & Increase Accessibility.â€ Dimitri Glazkov, one of the HighEdWebDev guest bloggers, enjoyed this presentation a lot. This is Dimitri’s second post. Bryan Hantman of University of Maryland gave a good talk on […]

Live from HighEdWebDev with… Photos

Dave Olsen, a member of the Web Services unit at West Virginia University, offered to share the photos he took yesterday at the conference. Want to see what you missed? Go browse Dave’s Flickr conference album!

Live from HighEdWebDev06: How to Shoot, Edit and Publish Your Institution’s Videos on the Web

Andy Mrozkowski, Webmaster at Mars Hill College in North Carolina presented this morning a session at HighEdWebDev in Rochester titled â€œVideo Content Using Flash.â€ Andy’s videos can be watched on his institution’s YouTube page. Webmaster at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, Matt Herzberger is one of this blog’s readers who answered my call […]

Live from HighEdWebDev06: Open-Source, In Search of a New Business Model for College Web Site Development

J. Todd Bennett and Will Ezell from Dotmarketing presented this morning a session at HighEdWebDev in Rochester titled â€œOpen-Source: In Search of a New Business Model for College Web Site Development.â€ Karine’s disclaimer: I usually shy away from blogging about vendor presentations. This morning, Dimitri Glazkov, CTO at Estrada, another CMS vendor, offered to cover […]

Mark your calendar for the 2007 EduWeb Conference

Can’t go to Rochester for HighEdWebDev 2006 in 2 weeks? Well, make sure you mark your calendar for the 2007 edition of EduWeb, a great conference for anybody involved in higher ed Web, marketing and PR. The conference will be held on July 22-24 in Baltimore, MD, in the Sheraton Inner Harbor with the consultant […]

What to expect for the HighEdWebDev06 conference in Rochester, NY

HighEdWebDev 06 will take place on October 22-25 in Rochester NY. I won’t be able to attend this great conference and put out a call for guest bloggers a week ago. Two readers have already offered to help, so there should be some coverage of HighEdWebDev on this blog (if you want to share your […]

Calling all good souls going to HighEdWebDev2006: Guest blog the conference for collegewebeditor.com!

Are you going to HighEdWebDev2006 in Rochester, N.Y. in about 3 weeks? I’m not. I wish I could, because this is one of the best conferences about the Web in higher education. According to the organizers of HighEdWebDev2006, more than 400 people have already registered. That’s why I’ve decided to place a new call for […]

Back from the CASE Conference in Philadelphia: Web 2.0 and Crisis Communication Presentation Slides

As you might know by now, I gave two presentations at the CASE conference for Senior Marketing and Communication Professionals. I copresented an introduction to Web 2.0 and a seminar about crisis communication with Joe Hice, Associate Vice President for Public Relations & Marketing at the University of Florida. The slides for both presentations are […]

Live from the CASE Conference in Philadelphia: 4 tips to get PR and communication professionals started with blogger relations

I keep telling the people attending the CASE conference for Senior Marketing and Communication Professionals how important it is to start thinking of blogs as media and define some ground rules on the way their institutions should handle relations with bloggers. So, here are just a few pointers: Don’t wait for a crisis to start […]

Live from the CASE Conference in Philadelphia: Great live blogging at highered.prblogs.org

As regular readers know, Andrew Careaga, the co-chair of the CASE conference I’m currently attending is also a seasoned blogger. He is doing an amazing job at live blogging this conference, so you should definitely check his posts about the different sessions he has attended up until now: Liveblogging from CASE: The politics of branding […]

Live from the CASE conference in Philadelphia: 10 steps to You 2.0 or how higher ed marketing/PR pros can get ready for Web 2.0

I’ll be posting later the presentation about Web 2.0 Joe Hice and I gave this morning at the CASE Conference for Senior Communication and Marketing Professionals currently taking place in Philadelphia. At the end of our talk, we shared a checklist of things marketing and PR professionals can do to get ready for Web 2.0: […]