Archive for the ‘Higher Ed Experts’ Category

Why should #highered rethink content for responsive web design?

I swear. This is my last post related to responsive web design… for this week :-) In preparation for the Higher Ed Redesign Web Design Summit taking place next week (June 19-21, 2012), I had the pleasure to listen to Sara Wachter-Boettcher, the keynote, yesterday. Sara is one of the leading expert in content for […]

Why do #highered responsive websites need more “responsible” content?

Sara Wachter-Boettcher, content strategist and author, knows web content inside out. In late February, she wrote an article for A List Apart, Future-Ready Content that has literally reframed the debate about responsive websites and the mobile first approach. Luckily for our industry, the thought-leader she is currently becoming on future-ready content (or why not call […]

What the Web Analytics for #highered course taught us after 6 months, 5 sessions & 50 students

Exactly 6 months ago – on September 12, 2011 – I welcomed the first class of the Web Analytics for Higher Ed 4-week online course Joshua Dodson and I designed. Today, the students from the 5th session of this course exclusively targeted to people working in universities and colleges are a few days shy from […]

Responsive Web Design for #highered Course: Student Reviews

I believe in the Responsive Web Design (RWD) approach (don’t worry, among other things in life :-) I’ve published several posts about RWD in the past few months. I focused on RWD in my February column for University Business. I asked Stewart Foss from eduSyle to design a 4-week online course about RWD for our […]

UPDATED: The 2012 State of the Mobile Web in #highered Survey Report

UPDATE (9:30AM – Feb 21): An important typo in the % of existing mobile solutions was fixed in the report. A few weeks ago I conducted the second survey about the State of Mobile Web in Higher Ed to provide the community with some insights on the mobile web in our industry. The first survey […]

Responsive Web Design in #highered: One Design to Rule Them All?

My latest University Business column is now available in the February issue as well as online: ” Responsive Web Design in Higher Education: One Design to Rule Them All?” In this column, I make the case for Responsive Web Design in higher ed by sharing some data, examples and tips from early adopters (even the […]

Top 2012 #highered Web and Social Media Conferences

You might not know it, but I maintain a Google calendar of higher ed events and conferences where I keep track of anything interesting for web and marketing teams working in universities and colleges. It’s a useful tool, but here’s a selection (in chronological order) of the most interesting events with deadlines for registration, call […]

Take the Survey about the 2012 State of the Mobile Web in #highered to get the report!

Since the first edition of my survey about the State of the Mobile Web in higher education last year, more research about the topic has been conducted by vendors (Inigral & Stamats), organizations (Educause) and the Mobile evangelist in our industry, Dave Olsen. As you probably know if you are a regular reader of this […]

What #highered pros should learn this year: Share your 2012 Learning Resolutions!

I’ve already said (and written) it many times: one of the things I love the most in higher education is the fact that we can (and have the duty to) learn all the time. No matter how the learning happens, it is always nurtured, welcomed and valued in our small community (and, I know, it […]

Responsive Web Design in #highered: eduStyle Awards founder on converting your website to RWD

I’ve just completed my article about responsive design in higher education. It will be published in University Business in a couple of months (February 2012 issue). I did a few extensive interviews with early adopters as part of my research for this piece. As usual, I could only use a fraction of what I found. […]

Top (First) Responsive Websites in #highered

How do you like your site? Web? Mobile? How about Responsive? As my cutting-edge technically-oriented readers already know (but I love you the same even if you don’t yet ;0), Responsive Web Design wasn’t exactly born yesterday. The term was coined in an article written by Ethan Marcotte and published in May 2010 on A […]

Watch “Meet the Only Web Accessibility Button at #heweb11”: Keynote Welcome Video by higheredexperts.com

Unless you’ve been on a deserted island or maybe in a very long meeting this morning (and the past week), you know that some very lucky 500+ higher ed web professionals are having a blast in Austin at the High Ed Web Conference (hey, you might even be one of them :). This year the […]

Learning Web Analytics for #highered: Course Reviews

I’ve done a fair amount of talking (and writing) about web analytics in higher ed since I first decided to start the higher ed analytics revolution last year. And, it’s fair to say that the bar of web analytics in universities and colleges has been raised with the contributions of several great higher ed professionals […]

11 sessions you should attend at #heweb11 from Oct 23-26 in Austin, TX

One of the biggest events of the year for higher ed web professionals, the High Ed Web Conference, is just 10 days away. And, I’m so sad I won’t be able to make it this year. At least I’ll be with the lucky heweb11 attendees in spirit. You should be able to spot the logo […]

3 tips to create better #highered content by Colleen Jones, author of Clout: The Art and Science of Influential Web Content

Have you heard about Colleen Jones yet? Hopefully you have as she might have the key to web, mobile and social media content woes in higher ed. Colleen Jones wrote the best book I’ve read so far this year: “Clout, The Art and Science of Influential Web Content.” I read and reviewed her book back […]

The 2011 State of Web and Social Media Analytics in #highered [Infographic]

Exactly 3 months ago I launched the 2nd survey on the State of Web and Social Media Analytics in Higher Education. The idea behind this survey was to take the pulse of the online analytics practice in universities and colleges. More than 350 professionals completed this survey in May. And, today, I’m happy to share […]