Archive for the ‘General’ Category

May you rest in peace with pens and paper, Charb.

Disclaimer: forgive me this off-topic personal post, but I HAD to write this. A tall, quiet guy with huge thick glasses I first met Stephane Charbonnier (Charb.), Charlie Hebdo’s publication director who was among the people killed in the attack – about 30 years ago. He was a tall, quiet guy with huge thick glasses. […]

A big thank you and a question after 9 years of #highered blogging

I’m going personal (and a bit emotional) today. Wow, I’ve been blogging about web, communications and social media in higher education for 9 years (13 of blogging in total if anybody is keeping scores ;0). I’ve actually been at it long before we talked about social media – yep, it was first called “new media,” […]

Collegewebeditor.com gets a new look for Christmas

While you were wrapping your holiday presents and baking your cookies, I finally got a few hours to set up a new theme for my beloved blog. I’ve chosen a design that is reader-friendly (pretty good idea, isn’t it?), clean and light: BigFeature. Mike Richwalsky used this theme for JCU Magazine – and as soon […]

collegewebeditor.com is 4-year old and gets a new design for its birthday

Today, I’m celebrating a big anniversary (what can I tell you, I’m just another vain blogger ;-) as collegewebeditor.com turns 4 years old. Yep. 4 years. What a journey since my first post written on WordPress 1.2! The blog has now more than 1,400 RSS subscribers, 600 or so newsletter readers, around 10,000 monthly visitors […]

Collegewebeditor.com is 3-year old with this 500th post

Today, Iâ€™m celebrating the third â€œbirthdayâ€ of this blog launched on February 12, 2005 as well as its 500th post, which means I posted exactly 200 posts since its last birthday – and I didn’t do it on purpose ;-). Now with 946 readers via RSS feed (according to feedburner), 450 email newsletter subscribers and […]

2007 Reader Survey Results and Amazon Certificate Winner

So, this blog’s reader survey has just ended. And, the lucky winner of the $30 Gift certificate is… Jonathan Steffens from University of Missouri-Columbia. Congratulations and thank to the 91 readers who took the time to do the survey between December 12, 2007 and January 10, 2008. With the 86,047 (70% more than last year) […]

Karine on camera: Happy Holidays!

So, I’ve decided to drink the video Kool Aid to wish you happy holidays and the best for 2008 as suggested by a couple of readers in the survey (if you haven’t taken the survey yet, please do and you’ll get a chance to win a US $30 gift certificate from Amazon) If you feel […]

2007 Readers’ Survey: answer 10 simple questions to get a chance to win a US$ 30 gift certificate from Amazon

It’s that time of year again. With December come the snow (unless you read this post from California or even better Australia or New Zealand), the greeting cards and this blog’s readers survey. Started in December 2005, this short survey has become a holiday tradition at collegewebeditor.com. Moreover, it’s a way for you to provide […]

2006 readersâ€™ survey results

As most of you know, Iâ€™ve recently conducted a survey to get some feedback about this blog. Between December 1st, 2006 and January 8, 2007, 77 readers (about 3 times more than the previous year) took the time to answer 10 questions. With the 50,670 (about 5 times more than the previous year) unique visitors […]

2006 Readers’ Survey: and the winner of the $30 Amazon gift certificate is…

After proceeding to the draw, I can now announce the name of the winner of the $30 gift certificate: Edward Terry from Austin Community College in Austin, TX. I would like to thank all the survey participants for taking the time to answer my questions. I’ll share the main findings of the survey in a […]

2006 Readers’ Survey: answer 10 simple questions to get a chance to win a US$ 30 gift certificate from Amazon

In December 2005, I did a survey to gather information about this blog’s readers. Launched on December 20, the survey ran for about 3 weeks allowing 26 people to tell me a bit more about themselves (anonymously though) and their expectations as blog readers. This year, I’ve decided to start the survey a bit earlier […]

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 […]

Spring cleaning at collegewebeditor.com

So, I’ve finally decided to upgrade my wordpress platform. I’ve been using WP 1.2 since the launch of this blog, which means that this isn’t a simple process to switch it to the latest version, WP 2.0. As a result I need to do some work on my design template, so you will get a […]

Collegewebeditor.com is one-year old

Yep, I’ve been blogging for a full year. Can you believe it? I published my first post, “It’s a baby blog” on February 12, 2005 at 1:53PM. When I started last year by a sunny afternoon (well, it might have been a rainy one ;-), I didn’t imagine this blog would bring me so much: […]

2005 readers’ survey results and 2006 resolutions

As you probably know if you’ve read my last two posts, I’ve recently conducted a survey to get some feedback about this blog. Between December 20, 2005 and January 4, 2006, 26 readers took the time to answer 10 questions. When you factor the 10,074 unique visitors this blog received in 2005, it’s fair to […]

$30 gift certificate: and the winner is…

After proceeding to the draw this morning, I can now announce the name of the winner of the $30 gift certificate: Elaine Nelson. I would like to thank all the participants for taking the time to answer my questions. I’ll share the main findings of the survey as well as a few resolutions for 2006 […]