Archive for the ‘Conferences’ Category

Missed the HighEdWeb New England Conference? Check out these #hewebne #highered slides

March 19th, 2013 Karine Joly 1 Comment

Did you attend the 1st HighEdWeb Regional Conference of the year? High Ed Web New England took place earlier this week, on Monday and was a huge success with 160 people in attendance. This was the 1st of the five regional conferences scheduled this year. I could only be there in spirit and via the […]

Want to present this summer in Boston? Submit your #highered proposal for eduWeb13 by Friday

February 11th, 2013 Karine Joly No Comments

You have exactly 5 days to come up with a great topic for a session at eduWeb 2013. The conference will take place in Boston from July 29-31, 2013, but the call for proposals will close this Friday. This year again I’m chairing the Marketing Conference Track, and I’m looking for sessions from executives and […]

Top 2013 #highered Web and Social Media Conferences

January 24th, 2013 Karine Joly 6 Comments

Have you decided yet what conference(s) you’ll attend this year? I keep track on a Google calendar of higher ed events and conferences of anything interesting for web and marketing teams working in universities and colleges. It’s a useful tool, but each year I try to share with you a smaller selection (in chronological order) […]

Why and how to present at a #highered conference in 2013

December 17th, 2012 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Since I started to teach social media marketing in 2011, I’ve realized that teaching is really the best way to learn (and keep learning) what’s really important about a topic. When you don’t have the opportunity to teach in a physical or virtual classroom, presenting at conferences is the next best thing. The regular speakers […]

Register for your #highered Halloween treat: a FREE presentation of #heweb12 best of conference session by @amandaesque

October 23rd, 2012 Karine Joly No Comments

Working with Faculty and the Web 101 Unless you’ve been living under a rock or burried in a pile of work, you’ve probably heard that Amanda Costello (@amandaesque), Web Content Strategist at the University of Minnesota, won this year’s the “best of conference” award at the heweb12 conference in Milwaukee, WI. Amanda gave her talk,”I […]

12 must-read LINK posts about #heweb12: the blogged edition

October 17th, 2012 Karine Joly No Comments

While I wasn’t in Milwaukee at the higher ed web conference last week, I made a point of spending 2 hours yesterday reading EVERY SINGLE post of the 36 published on LINK (Way to go, Team LINK!) during the conference. I blogged my first conference in July 2005. I know how much work is involved […]

Beyond the Responsive Homepage in #highered: UNL and some?

September 27th, 2012 Karine Joly 6 Comments

The past 12 months have been marked by a rising interest for responsive web design techniques in higher education. Last year at the #heweb11 conference in Austin the focus was on mobile. While Brett Pollack (UCSD) and Nathan Gerber (UVU) mentioned RWD in their presentations, RWD was still perceived as a small part of the […]

10 #highered sessions you should attend at #heweb12 from Oct 7-10 in Milwaukee, WS

September 18th, 2012 Karine Joly 5 Comments

Do you know what I did last weekend while @tsand was doing arts and crafts with bacon and the little Higher Ed Experts logo guy? I spent 3 hours reading and reviewing ALL the #heweb12 session descriptions, selecting the most interesting ones and putting together an even shorter list for this post. While I won’t […]

Take a #highered SOOC: Learn more, earn a certificate and move up!

August 22nd, 2012 Karine Joly No Comments

I’m sure you’ve heard about MOOCs over the past 2 months. MOOCs are the latest and hottest things in the world of higher education. And, there hasn’t been a single day this summer without an article, a post or a tweet about the Massive Open Online Courses offered by Coursera, EDx, Udacity or others. I […]

Share your favorite #highered mobile/responsive website to get a chance to win a free MWF conference pass

August 16th, 2012 Karine Joly 4 Comments

Did you know that there is a higher ed conference focusing exclusively on mobile? The 2012 Mobile Web Framework Conference taking place on September 5-7, 2012 at UCLA is the only conference in higher ed focusing exclusively on mobile. With two tracks on Mobile Engagement and Mobile Development, the conference schedule really looks like a […]

9 slidedecks + 1 video from the #eduweb12 conference in Boston #highered

August 3rd, 2012 Karine Joly 1 Comment

I attended the eduWeb conference earlier this week in Boston. I got a chance to meet many of you, talk to new folks and exchange great ideas. While I was able to take away a lot, I also had to keep up with work which prevented me from attending some of the sessions that were […]

12 sessions you should attend at #eduweb12 this week in Boston, MA

July 30th, 2012 Karine Joly 1 Comment

I’m going to Boston this week for the first time in my life (!) to attend the eduWeb Conference. Can you believe it? Higher ed conferences have brought me several times in Las Vegas for the past 6 years, but never once in Boston before. Anyway, if you attend the conference and read this post […]

Top 5 best #highered responsive websites in competition for the 2012 RWD eduStyle Award

July 12th, 2012 Karine Joly No Comments

Responsive web design has become the new black in higher education over the past few months. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the presitigious eduStyle Awards now include a category for responsive websites, category sponsored by Higher Ed Experts (I thought it would make sense since our 4-week online course on RWD for higher […]

Want to present this summer in Boston? Submit your #highered proposal for eduWeb12 by Friday

March 26th, 2012 Karine Joly No Comments

You have exactly 5 days to come up with a great topic for a session at eduWeb 2012. The conference will take place in Boston from July 30 to August 1st, but the call for proposals will close this Friday. This year I’m chairing the Marketing Conference Track, and I’m looking for sessions from executives […]

1-1-1 Book Review: The Art of The Pitch by Peter Coughter

March 14th, 2012 Karine Joly No Comments

A few weeks ago I received in the mail a review copy of The Art of The Pitch: Persuasion and Presentation Skills that Win Business by Peter Coughter. Since I’m getting back on the conference circuit this year after taking a year off, I thought reading this book could help me get my inner presenter […]

Top 2012 #highered Web and Social Media Conferences

January 23rd, 2012 Karine Joly 11 Comments

You might not know it, but I maintain a Google calendar of higher ed events and conferences where I keep track of anything interesting for web and marketing teams working in universities and colleges. It’s a useful tool, but here’s a selection (in chronological order) of the most interesting events with deadlines for registration, call […]