Archive for the ‘Higher Ed Experts’ Category

Higher Ed Experts New (Preliminary) College Rankings

While many of us are waiting for the results of the beauty contest the US News and World Report college rankings to be published later this month, I thought you might be interested in the Higher Ed Experts‘ Preliminary College Rankings: Top 27 institutions Tidewater Community College (19) Duke University (8) Penn State University (7) […]

Almost Live from EduWeb 2007 in Baltimore: iTunesU – Managing & Marketing University Media Assets

I’ve just realized that I haven’t posted this post Melissa Cheater, one of the 6 readers who did some guest blogging this year at EduWeb, sent me Wednesday morning after getting back to the office. Ken Ronkowitz, Media & Instructional Tech manager at NJIT and an excellent higher ed blogger at Serendipity 35, presented last […]

Need to make your case to get started with online videos at your institution?

The good folks at the Pew Internet and American Life Project have just made your life a bit easier by releasing today a new 28-page report about online videos. The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates between February 15 to March 7, 2007, among […]

Almost Live from EduWeb 2007 in Baltimore: Flash Video for your Institution

Webmaster at Mars Hill College, Andy Mrozkowski presented a session titled “Flash video for Your Institution” yesterday in Baltimore. Andy will actually present at ” Lights, Camera, Action – How to Add Online Videos to Your Marketing Mix, ” a 3-webinar series in September I designed for Higher Ed Experts (For more info, go to […]

Higher Ed Experts: 3 new professional development series – a total of 11 webinars – are open for registration

I’ve been working on these 3 new webinar series for a while now, and I hope you’ll find these 3 programs (11 webinars in total) by Higher Ed Experts interesting and useful for you, your team and your institution: Lights, Camera, Action – How to Add Online Videos to Your Marketing Mix September 11, 12, […]

Higher Ed Experts donates $4,300 to the Virginia Tech Hokie Spirit Scholarship Fund in the name of the higher ed community

Just a quick post to let everybody know that I’ve made a $4,300 online donation to the Virginia Tech Hokie Spirit Scholarship Fund in the name of the higher ed community. The funds were raised via a $100-per-attendee donation made by people who attended Crisis Communication 2.0 Week a few weeks ago. Attendees paid $250 […]

Calling all good souls going to EduWeb on July22-24: Guest blog the conference for collegewebeditor.com!

Are you going to the 2007 EduWeb Conference in Baltimore on July 22-24? Well, you’re lucky, because you’ll get a chance to listen to Mike Dame, director of web communications at Virginia Tech, presenting a shorter version of the webinar he presented for Higher Ed Experts: From the Inside Out — Lessons Learned in Web […]

Planning to launch a blogging initiative to boost your admissions outreach program? Register for Admissions Blogging 360 by Wednesday July 11, 8PM ET

I’ve now reviewed the presentation files of the 3 presenters (Nancy Prater from Ball State University, Ben Jones from MIT and Sam Jackson from the Sam Jackson College Experience) scheduled for Admissions Blogging 360, the next 3-webinar series I put together for Higher Ed Experts. And, let me tell you that this really looks like […]

Higher Ed Experts Update: Registered Member? Faculty Member? Supporter? Show your colors with HEE badges!

I’ve been playing a bit with Photoshop this morning to create a couple more “Higher Ed Experts” badges (the first one has been on the right column of this blog for a few weeks now). I thought some of you might want to show to the online world they are part of the Higher Ed […]

Higher Ed Experts Update: Crisis Communication 2.0 Week Webinar Series is On

Just a quick post to let everybody know that Joe Hice, Associate VP for Marketing and Public Relations at The University of Florida gave a great presentation today to kick off “Crisis Communication 2.0 Week,” the first webinar series offered by Higher Ed Experts. Close to a hundred people were in attendance as several participants […]

Higher Ed Experts Update: WebEx retained as the new web conferencing provider for HEE webinars

Quick update and follow-up to my last post about the technical issues encountered at the free inaugural webinar yesterday. As I announced to all HEE registered members in an email yesterday, I’m committed to quality and want to provide the best possible experience to webinar attendees and presenters. As a result, I decided to make […]

Higher Ed Experts Update: YouTube Webinar — the good, the bad and the ugly

It’s been about 2 hours since the first inaugural webinar of Higher Ed Experts ended. As I said to the attendees at the beginning of the webinar, this free session was also a “stress test” for the web conferencing application… and it succeeded in pushing my stress level to the roof. The whole webinar experience […]

How to build your own social networking website for your institution? Follow Elon University’s example

While more and more universities and colleges are looking into the opportunities offered by the third-party social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook or by private social networking applications offered by vendors, Elon University has chosen a DIY approach. Over the course of 4 months, a team of four built what now looks like […]

Register now for “Admissions Blogging 360,” a 3-webinar series on July 18, 25 & 31 featuring Nancy Prater (Ball State University), Ben Jones (MIT) and Sam Jackson

I knew admissions-sponsored blogging was a hot topic when I originally asked Nancy Prater and Ben Jones if they would present a webinar to share their experience and know-how. What I didn’t know is that both would be quoted extensively in an Associated Press story written by Andrew Welsh-Huggins and published in many newspapers and […]