Archive for the ‘Higher Ed Experts’ Category

Top 5 Web Project Management Tools for #highered Professionals

September 13th, 2013 Karine Joly 5 Comments

Got Digital Projects to Manage at Your School? Who doesn’t have projects to manage in higher education? Whether you’re in charge of websites, mobile development, web applications or marketing, communication, publications and social media initiatives, you have projects to manage. And, while there is a lot more to successful digital project management than the tool […]

Top Fall 2013 learning opportunites for #highered web professionals

September 5th, 2013 Karine Joly No Comments

So, they are finally back, right? Now that move-in days and orientation weeks are behind you, it’s time for you to think about what YOU are going to learn this fall. Why learn something new this fall? Working in technology and higher education, you know how important it is to keep learning. If you’re reading […]

Looking for new #highered jobs or talent? Check out the new version of the Higher Ed Job Board

August 30th, 2013 Karine Joly No Comments

In July 2008 I spent a long holiday weekend setting up a free job board for the higher ed web community. There was a real need for a job board reserved to digital jobs in higher education. It has always been free to post higher ed jobs – the only kind of jobs that made […]

Win a free pass for the eduWeb conference featuring Jeff Selingo, @chronicle editor-at-large

June 6th, 2013 Karine Joly 37 Comments

Helping you learn and grow in your higher ed career After introducing Tony Dunn’s keynote this past Monday at the HighEdWeb WEST conference in Orange, CA to a great group of higher ed professionals, I’m very pleased to announce that Higher Ed Experts is going to help another conference, eduWeb, bring to you a great […]

Meet the #hewebWEST Conference Keynote: Tony Dunn, author of Tales of Redesign Land

May 31st, 2013 Karine Joly No Comments

Helping you learn and grow in your higher ed career – no matter how you do it As you might have noticed (heard or read) if you followed the High Ed Web New England or Florida conferences, Higher Ed Experts has chosen to support the 5 regional conferences organized by the High Ed Web Professional […]

Why take an online course from Higher Ed Experts? Watch your #highered colleague tell you [3-min VIDEO]

May 29th, 2013 Karine Joly No Comments

Alums know best There is nothing like a successful alum to show prospective students and their parents the value of an education at your institution. That’s why I want to share the opinions of some of your higher ed colleagues who took our courses – especially those who took more than one. Last week, we […]

Email marketing for #highered: 3 issues to keep in mind

May 13th, 2013 Karine Joly 1 Comment

In higher ed, we like to think that we’re special, that what applies to other industries doesn’t work for us. Sometimes it’s the case. Sometimes it isn’t. Higher ed has always had a love-hate relationship with email marketing. We use and abuse it without always understanding its core strengths, limits and associated risks. Greg Rubenstein, […]

Meet the #hewebFL Conference Keynote: Daniel Ryan, ex-Director of Front-end Development at Obama for America 2012

April 19th, 2013 Karine Joly 1 Comment

Helping you learn and grow in your higher ed career – no matter how you do it. As I mentioned a month ago just before the High Ed Web New England conference, Higher Ed Experts has chosen to support the 5 regional conferences this year and help them bring great keynote speakers. Whether or not […]

“Get your #highered content ready for responsive design” says Sara Wachter-Boettcher, book author & @alistapart editor-in-chief

April 16th, 2013 Karine Joly No Comments

Sara Wachter-Boettcher to present about Higher Ed Responsive Websites According to the 2013 State of Mobile & Responsive Web in Higher Ed report, 51% of surveyed institutions have already embraced responsive web design techniques as a mobile solution. While responsive websites offer a flexible device-independent solution, they do come with their own set of content […]

5 real web analytics solutions to #highered problems

January 29th, 2013 Karine Joly No Comments

Do you know what digital analytics can do for you, your stakeholders, your visitors or your institution? There is so (too?) much you need to know to understand what digital analytics can do… In higher education, we can’t spend days working on analytics, so here is a quick list of 5 practical things that can […]

The ultimate social endorsement platform for #highered programs?

December 14th, 2012 Karine Joly No Comments

Universities and colleges have always relied on alums and current students to show prospective students the value of the education to be received. As a result, alums and current students are often invited to help their alma mater by talking to prospective students at special events, profiled on the institutional website or in admissions publications, […]

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 […]

1-1-1 Book Review: Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug

September 13th, 2012 Karine Joly 1 Comment

You might have heard the news that we are embarking on a comprehensive (responsive) web redesign project of all our digital presence components (this blog, Higher Ed Experts, the job board, Higher Ed Analytics, the Wednesday email newsletter – yep everything). I’m really excited by this project as one of my favorite higher ed designers, […]

Meet Web Analytics Pros in #highered: Joshua Dodson, Web SEO Analyst at Eastern Kentucky University

August 31st, 2012 Karine Joly No Comments

If you have any interest in Web Analytics for higher education and haven’t heard about Joshua Dodson yet, you’re probably not a regular reader of this blog ;-) A Google Analytics Certified Professional, Joshua has been teaching our 4-week online course on Web Analytics for higher ed for the past year and, let’s say his […]

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 […]

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 […]