Last July at the eduWeb conference, Stephanie Geyer, Associate VP for E-communications and Web Strategy at Noel-Levitz, presented the results of a recent online survey her company conducted in June 2008 with 454 parents. At that time in a blog post titled “Live blogging from eduWeb 2008 – Circling Over Enrollment: The E-Expectations of Parents […]
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Email, Gmail, Hotmail and Beyond: Outsourcing email for better and worse?
As promised in one of my latest posts, blogging has been very light lately. Don’t worry, I’ll be back in full mode soon. In the meantime, you might want to have a look at a feature-long article I wrote for the August issue of University Business about email outsourcing: E-mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and Beyond. And, […]
Thinking about outsourcing email and other apps at your institution? Submit your questions for the main players, Google and Microsoft
Sorry for my light blogging, but I have been working on a few projects lately… and something had to give. One of these projects is a feature-long article for the August issue of University Business (it’s due June 1st – it’s a magazine, not a blog ;-) about email outsourcing in higher education. If you […]
Check out the results from a survey about CMS in higher education
A couple of months ago, Elliot Lopez, Project Manager for University Communications at the University of California, Davis created a survey about CMS (as in Content Management System) in higher education. Elliot just emailed me to let me know that the results including answers from 129 institutions have just been published on his team blog: […]
Higher Ed TV: Great and funny YouTube video to promote BlackBoard Conference to SecondLife aficionados
I usually don’t cover vendor-related news, but BlackBoard has really done a nice job using YouTube to promote an upcoming conference to a specific audience while surfing on a very popular phenomenon, i.e. the growing popularity of Second Life in academic technology circles. I came across this video titled “Adventures in First Life Redux” on […]
“Portal 2007 – up and running” at Gettysburg College on June 5-8, 2007: an affordable conference about web portals and CMS’s
After my post about a $0 conference for admissions folks, Gettysburg College’s Portal 2007 Conference looks like another option for higher ed professionals – working in web and IT departments, this time – interested in attending an affordable conference to learn a couple of things and network with their peers. The conference will take place […]
Scholar.com, a del.icio.us Blackboard?
Sorry for the would-be smart post title – couldn’t help myself ;-) As confirmed in a post titled “Scholar’s in open beta!” by Karen Gage on the company’s blog, Educate/Innovate, Blackboard has quietly launched in public beta a social bookmarking web service for its online learning platform clients: “What makes Scholar different from other social […]
Karine’s 2 cents on “Technology 101” webinars
Last Wednesday, I was invited to attend the first 1-hour-and-$100 webinar of a series by Brian Niles targeted to the novice eager to learn more about new technologies such as podcasting, instant messaging (IM), RSS, etc. 38 people showed up for this session about podcasting conducted using Macromedia’s Breeze. Although Brian experienced a couple of […]
iTunes U: free podcasting for higher ed made easy or Apple’s new marketing trick?
You’ve probably heard or read the news. It hit the wires early last week at the same time Apple’s representatives started to contact universities and colleges to talk about a very enticing offer from the Wonderful Wizard of Podz: iTunes U. Brown, Duke, and Stanford Universities; the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, at Ann […]
How to educate your director, VP or president about Podcasting
As a higher web professional, I’m sure you’ve already heard and read a lot about podcasting. Your director, VP and President have not, so it might be a good idea to share this post with them. The past week has witnessed a lot of media coverage about podcasting in higher education. A few interesting articles […]
Relations with vendors: a case of flattery as marketing strategy
In higher education as elsewhere, Web professionals — webmasters, web managers, web editors, web developers, etc.– work behind the scene (or should I say the screen?) We work on the most widely-used information/communication tool in our university or college, while “enjoying” relative anonymity rarely experienced in critical lines of work for our institutions. All the […]
Relations with vendors: how do you spell “Ethics?”
I got an “interesting” email sent to my edu account this morning from an IT firm looking for new project leads in higher education. The email was addressed to an account that’s not displayed on my college website and my institution has never done business with this company – at least to my knowledge – […]
From graduation to alum registration in less than 5 minutes
In the last issue of its email newsletter, IAC has an interesting idea for colleges and universities wanting to keep in touch with their alums: First, it was an idea in the brain of Gary Toyne, the Alumni Director of Weber State University. Unfortunately, he didn’t have the computers he needed to get put his […]
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