Wow, I haven’t blogged for the past 2 weeks… Anyway, I just want to make a quick post to thank you all the 559 persons who took the Higher Ed Experts/eduStyle/Uwebd/Collegewebeditor.com Survey and let you know that the official list of the 14 winners of the prize drawing is now available on Higher Ed Experts’ […]
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Higher Ed Experts/eduStyle/Uwebd/Collegewebeditor.com Survey: Answer a few questions and get a chance to win one of 14 cool prizes
Once again, I’ve rallied Mark Greenfield, the driving force and new owner of the Uwebd Ning website and Stewart Foss, the owner of eduStyle to create a single survey to poll our respective community members (that would be you ;-). As we did last year, instead of polling our respective members in our own little […]
The registration deadline for Going Mobile Webinars has been postponed to this Friday (October 16) at 9PM ET
Last week, I attended the rehearsal of Dave Olsen‘s webinars on how to create a mobile website for your university in 24 hours or less. And, I’m happy to report that he has really done a lot of work to make the implementation of MIT Mobile Web very easy through the integration of some Google […]
Want to learn how to build a mobile website for your institution in less than 24 hours? Register for Going Mobile Webinars by October 12, 2009
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Dave Olsen’s achievement in developing a mobile website for West Virginia University in just 19 days using MIT Mobile Web open-source platform. Dave spent some time customizing the existing code (that’s the beauty of open-source projects) to integrate Google services and reduce the implementation process to just a […]
The registration deadline for Online Videos 360 Webinars has been postponed to this Friday (September 11) at 9PM ET
I’m postponing the registration deadline for next week’s webinar series: Online Videos 360 (September 15, 16 & 17) to this Friday (September 11) at 1PM ET. For more info and to register, you can visit www.higheredexperts.com/onlinevideos360 This 3-webinar series will be presented by Mike Richwalsky (Allegheny College), Liz Giorgi (University of Minnesota) along with one […]
Find out how closed captioning can make a big difference for your online videos
Two days ago, I had the chance to attend the rehearsal of the webinar Glenda Sims will present on September 16: ADA-Compliant Web Videos 101: How to produce and publish online videos accessible to people with disabilities Glenda is a true accessibility champion. Her presentation does a great job at providing the reasons why accessible […]
Higher Ed TV – Behind the Scenes: It’s Your Turn, a video from Missouri S&T
Last week, Andrew Careaga, director of communications at Missouri S&T, shared on his blog a really great video his team had developed to be played at convocation at the request of the alum association. Didn’t get a chance to watch the video? Take 4 minutes to watch a really cool take on 140 years of […]
Find out how some YouTube videos went viral with the Statistics & Data feature
Don’t know if you’ve noticed but YouTube released about a month ago a new feature available by default for all the videos it hosts (unless you disable it): Data and Statistics. As explained on the YouTube Help Center’s section about Data and Statistics, this new feature is meant to “show you what factors are driving […]
Want to learn how to create better, viral, and ADA-compliant web videos? Register by August 26 for Online Videos 360 Webinars
If you read this blog, there is no doubt you know how important online videos have become in the higher ed marketing and communication mix. With YouTube, iTunes and others, your target audiences have come to expect to be able to watch news and interesting things happening at your institution. Anybody can now upload a […]
Stop the Presses: How to go digital with your mag. Register by July 3rd for this 3-webinar series
UPDATE: I’ve decided to postpone the initial registration deadline to this Friday – July 3rd, 2009 – to allow you to use your 2009-2010 professional development budget if you’re interested in this series. To register, visit www.higheredexperts.com/stopthepresses Just a quick reminder about the next 3-webinar series (an updated version of the series that was given […]
From print to web publications in 5 steps
My fourth UB column for 2009 is now available in the June issue as well as online: “2010: Print to Web Odyssey? A five-step plan for assessing and negotiating the transition from print to web publications” BTW, If you want to learn from editors who went digital or totally paperless with their magazine or newsletter, […]
The registration deadline for Writing Right for the Web Webinars has been postponed to this Friday (May 1st) at 9PM ET
UPDATE: Register for our next Web Writing Boot Camp (Dec 6-8, 2011) at www.higheredexperts.com/webwriting Oops, I did it again ;-) I got a last-minute request yesterday for somebody who wanted to get in this webinar series, and I’ve decided to give you a bit more time. I’m postponing the registration deadline for next week’s webinar […]
Higher Ed Experts celebrates its 2-year anniversary today
I can’t believe it’s been 2 years since I launched Higher Ed Experts, my professional development venture. It’s been a great ride with a good number of highs (including Mike Dame’s presentation about the Virginia Tech Tragedy and the $4300 we were able to raise for the Hokie Fund – I released Mike’s webinar for […]
The 2009 State of Print and Electronic Publications in Higher Ed Survey Results
As you might know, I conducted an online survey a couple of months ago to assess the state of print and electronic publications in higher ed. This was an updated version of a previous survey I did in the summer of 2007. A total of 198 professionals working in institutions representing more than 2.3 million […]
Remembering the Virginia Tech Tragedy with Mike Dame’s account of how web communications were handled
It’s been 2 years. I remember very clearly that day. I only learned about the tragedy around 11AM that morning. I was unplugged to work on a project, and it’s just when I checked my email and the email listservs that I saw a message referring to something terrible going on at Virginia Tech. I […]
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