April Fool’s Day: National Higher Ed Web Team Holiday! It’s a tradition. On April Fool’s Day many webbies go crazily creative, geeky and funny with their website homepages. I’m sure you’ve seen your share so far, but I just wanted to document my favorite ones. The University of Rochester: Lego University The team even created […]
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Missed the #pseweb conference? Check out the slides and the 1st keynote video!
It’s been just a few hours since I’m back from Vancouver where I presented at the #PSEweb conference, the Canadian version of the High Ed Web Conference (although they are only affiliated in spirit not structurally as Melissa Cheater, the PSEWeb conference magician-organizer explained to the audience). It was the 4th edition of the conference […]
Register for your #highered Halloween treat: a FREE presentation of #heweb12 best of conference session by @amandaesque
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 […]
10 #highered sessions you should attend at #heweb12 from Oct 7-10 in Milwaukee, WS
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 […]
It’s Friday, Friday in #highered: Oberlin College President, VPs and Deans lipdub Rebecca Black
I’ve just watched this video released yesterday and I want to make sure you see it (hey, it’s Friday!) it is a very well-done parody from Rebecca Black’s hit song, “Friday,” by a group of senior administrators – including the President – at Oberlin College starring in this video created to honor the graduating seniors […]
How Furman University got more than 50,000 views with a Flashmob
Flashmobs on campuses and elsewhere have multiplied over the past few years – to the point they usually don’t get too much attention on the Web. While they might look passe to some web and social media professionals in higher ed (you know who you are ;0), the recent flashmob done by 200 Furman University […]
Lessons learned from Texas A&M University Social Media Scavenger Hunt
A couple of weeks ago, Texas A&M University ran an integrated (mashed up?) social media campaign on campus using not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 of the most popular social media platforms, namely Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Foursquare. When I watched the YouTube video announcing the campaign (on Patrick Powers’ blog), I was […]
Let’s show the power of the higher ed community!
Don’t think we can do it? Well, yes, we can. Thanks to Todd Sanders who works at the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay, we have a unique opportunity to do it very simply. We just need to rally this great community behind Todd and another member of our higher ed family, John Pederson, and […]
Top Higher Ed Holiday Cards – 2010 Edition
Looking for the 2018 selection? Check it out! I love holidays cards from universities and colleges – especially, now that many institutions use video (fewer dead trees and more interactivity). So, here’s a selection of my favorites. If you have a holiday card or have seen a cool one, post a comment and I’ll add […]
Beloit College video with squirrels gets close to 6,000 YouTube views
There’s something special going on between higher ed and squirrels. If you went to the High Ed Web conference in Cincinnati last October (or just watch the backchannel over Twitter), you might have heard about THE Penn State Squirrel (front and center in this photo taken by Anne Petersen) – quite the party animal. Maybe […]
Office Hours at Juniper College: The Office, higher ed style?
Do you remember lonelygirl15 and the web series that made YouTube history as many viewers (including yours truly) wondered if she was just another teenager turned successful YouTuber? Office Hours, a new web series created and produced at Junita Juniata College, is reminiscent of this YouTube blockbuster. Nothing surprising since lonelygirl15 was listed as one […]
And the winner of the free #heweb10 conference pass is…
In my Tuesday newsletter this week, there was a call for a chance to win a free High Ed Web Conference registration (not subscribed yet? Subscribe now so you don’t miss another opportunity to win cool stuff) The conference is sold out, so I got a good number of entries. What’s funny is that the […]
Higher Ed TV: a behind-the-scenes look at the New Spice video from the Harold B. Lee Library with Chris Garcia, Multimedia Project Manager
Mike Richwalksy from HighEdWebTech has been keeping track of interesting videos produced by institutions for some time now. So, when I saw he posted about a higher ed parody of the big social media hit video campaign, Old Spice, I checked out the video right away. Believe it or not, but I had been so […]
Higher Ed TV: SUNY Plattsburgh President stars in a funny video invitation to summer reunion
While I’ve never met Dr. John Ettling, SUNY Plattsburgh President, I’m pretty sure he has a good sense of humor. Following in the path of several college presidents (Macalester College President is the most recent one that comes to mind), President Ettling stars in a 4-minute YouTube video serving as the official invitation to this […]
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