Archive for the ‘Higher Ed Bloggers & Podcasters’ Category

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,” […]

Teams of One in #highered unite… and go check out Higher Ed Solo by Ron Bronson & Tonya Oaks!

You might not know this, but I’ve been blogging for the past 7.5 years. When I started collegewebeditor.com, I was a… web editor in a College, an army of one (well, more precisely an army of half as the position was only part-time) in charge of the website and the online marketing for a small […]

The UBC Admin Blog: blogging by higher ed executives done right

I stumbled on the UBC Admin Blog thanks to Martine Lafleur who shared its link on Twitter. Yesterday, I took the time to explore this recently launched group blog aimed at enabling further dialogue between senior administration and students at the University of British Columbia. While president blogs have been around for some time (President […]

5 little-known facts about Collegewebeditor.com for its 5th birthday

Can you believe it? It’s been 5 years (here’s my first post), 5 years where I witnessed and chronicled amazing changes in web, marketing and PR in higher education. So, here are 5 little known facts about collegewebeditor.com: It’s a millionaire with 1,010,801 spam comments caught by Akismet (BTW, would you be my Valentine, Dear […]

Interested in the first 100 days of a chief communications officer at a big university? Go back to HiceSchool!

Previously AVP of Marketing and Public Relations at his alma mater, the University of Florida, Joe Hice started to work as the chief communications officer at NC State University last week. What’s really interesting here is that Joe has decided to share his first 100 days on the job through his new professional blog (he […]

eduStyle – Collegewebeditor Best Higher Ed Blog award nominee: Tales From Redesignland

UPDATE: Tony Dunn has just announced that he decided to put his blog, TFRL, to sleep after 2 people had complained about it to his CIO. That’s a very sad day for the higher ed blogosphere and the higher ed web community. The blog is still nominated for the award, so feel free to vote […]

eduStyle – Collegewebeditor Best Higher Ed Blog award nominee: SquaredPeg

As you’ve probably heard (or read in my previous post), the eduStyle awards include a people’s choice award for the best higher ed blog this year. As a partner for this category and a fervent supporter of higher ed blogging, I’ve decided to publish a series of interviews with the 5 nominees for this award. […]

eduStyle – Collegewebeditor Best Higher Ed Blog award nominees: .eduGuru and Karlyn Morissette

eduStyle – Collegewebeditor Best Higher Ed Blog award nominee: mStoner Blog

Vote for the Collegewebeditor.com best higher ed blog and the best school’s blog eduStyle awards

You’ve probably heard about the eduStyle awards. There has been a lot of buzz around these awards organized by eduStyle. Well, now is the time for you to vote and choose the people’s choice awards in different categories including the two in partnership with this blog and yours truly. So, without further ado, here are […]

10 higher ed blogs you could nominate now for the eduStyle/Collegewebeditor Best Higher Ed Blog Award

You might have heard that tomorrow (April 15, 2009) is the last day to nominate blogs for the eduStyle annual awards. This year again, I’m supporting the blog category of the awards. As I explained in a previous post, anybody can nominate blogs in the student and institutional categories by just following the instructions on […]

Announcing the 20 finalists of the Edu Blogger Scholarship Contest and the Collegewebeditor.com/eduStyle best blogs awards

I had 2 announcements related to higher ed blogging awards, so I thought it made sense to bundle both in a single post. First, I’d like to announce the 20 finalists of the Edu Blogger Scholarship Contest “popularity” phase that ended yesterday: al-jamiat.com blogs.oc.edu christine.smcbloggers.com dontwasteyourtime.co.uk eironae.com elearningpundit.com heidicool.com highedwebtech.com highered.prblogs.org higheredmarketing.blogspot.com isupportuoregon.org karlynmorissette.karlyn.me killjill.wordpress.com […]

How to promote your institutional blogs written by students, staff and faculty members while getting a chance to win up to $1,500

Isn’t this headline quite a teaser? I stand by it though as this is also a good way to look at the Edu Blogger Scholarship Contest. As I’ve explained on this blog a few weeks ago, I’m managing this contest targeted to edu bloggers. It’s open to the “usual suspects” of the higher ed blogosphere […]

The 2009 Edu Blogger Scholarship Contest: Frequently Asked Questions

I don’t plan to make the contest the only topic I’ll blog about in the next few weeks, but I think it’s important at this stage to give you an update about a few questions that were asked (even if you’re not an edu blogger yourself – you should share the information with the ones […]

Get a chance to win US $1,500 with the 2009 Edu Blogger Scholarship Contest

Actually, it’s even better than this as I’m talking about 3 different scholarships: The 2009 Edu Blogger Scholarship worth US $1,500 2 Lucky Edu Blogger Scholarships worth US $500 each Do I have your attention now? Hopefully, I do. With 4 years of higher ed blogging under my belt, I know how demanding (and most […]

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 […]