Archive for the ‘Faculty’ Category

Is Instagram the new #hesm campus press release platform in #highered?

Hashtags FTW Ah, the power of hashtags… They made Twitter by allowing total strangers with common interests to connect on the 140-character social media platform. Instagram and Pinterest have used them since day 1, LinkedIn has adopted them and it looks like Facebook should be next. In higher ed, they were front and center in […]

1-1-1 Book Review: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg

I read my fair share of books about digital marketing, web design, content strategy, social media, business and communication. If a non-fiction book doesn’t fall into these pre-defined reading buckets, it usually won’t cross my path. But, it’s been impossible to ignore Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, since […]

Register for your #highered Halloween treat: a FREE presentation of #heweb12 best of conference session by @amandaesque

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 […]

Extreme makeover for your #highered online course catalog: How to turn THE catalog into an influential publication

Yesterday I got a peek at what Colleen Jones, author of “Clout: the Art and Science of Influential Web Content,” will talk about in her master class next week – on Oct 5, 2011 – on Influential Web Content Strategy for Higher Ed and this got me thinking about ways to make the dreaded online […]

How to promote your institutional blogs written by students, staff and faculty members while getting a chance to win up to $1,500

Isn’t this headline quite a teaser? I stand by it though as this is also a good way to look at the Edu Blogger Scholarship Contest. As I’ve explained on this blog a few weeks ago, I’m managing this contest targeted to edu bloggers. It’s open to the “usual suspects” of the higher ed blogosphere […]

eduWeb 2008 in 140 words – Conceptualizing A University’s Approach to High QUality in Technology Enhanced Learning by Mark Schofield, Dean of Teaching and Learning at Edge Hill University, UK

Note from Karine: This year, Iâ€™ve asked all the eduWeb speakers working in universities/colleges to share in 140 words or less the biggest take-away from their presentation or table talk. If you’ve attended this session, feel free to weigh in by posting a comment, a question or a suggestion. SOLSTICE is a model for ‘intelligent […]

eduWeb 2008 in 140 words – From Dull Edge to Cutting Edge by Amy Stevens, Web Communications Manager at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

eduWeb 2008 in 140 words – You Have Faculty Using Technology to Market? Are You Kidding Me? by Dr. Greg Williams, Assistant Professor and Director at UMBC

Want to find out how to promote academic excellence at your institution to potentially 25 million people? Register for “Podcasting Made Easy” Webinar Series by Friday!

Reach 25 million people via podcasting??? Ok, there is a bit of marketing hype in the title of this post, but I got your attention – right? Besides, it’s not all hype since this upcoming 3-webinar series by Higher Ed Experts includes a session about iTunes U, Apple’s free audio and video streaming hosting service […]

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 […]

June 2007 University Business column: “A Second Life for Higher Education?”

My third UB column for 2007 is now available in the June issue as well as online: “A Second Life for Higher Education?” If you are a University Business reader who has just discovered collegewebeditor.com, welcome! Donâ€™t forget to subscribe to this blog via RSS or email. If you have any questions or feedback about […]

Professor Wesch from KSU featured in a great video report from The Chronicle

The Chronicle of Higher Education offers a great video report this morning on his blog as part of a post titled “An Anthropologist Explores Video Blogging.” Produced by Jeffrey R. Young, the video report does an excellent job presenting Professor Wesch’s work at KSU as well as his famous YouTube video about Web 2.0. Too […]

UAB puts a human face on research with its Antarctica 2.0 website

Spring might be upon us, but some folks at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have really their mind more focused on ice, snow and Web 2.0. To promote their research team’s expedition at Palmer Station Antarctica, they launched, earlier this month, a dedicated website called “UAB in Antarctica” that uses a lot of Web […]

Higher Ed TV: “The Machine is Us/ing Us” from KSU Professor Michael Wesch, a brilliant Web 2.0 primer

In 4 days (including a weekend), this video created and uploaded by Kansas State University Professor Michael Wesch was viewed more than 8,000 times. And, it’s probably just the beginning. While it doesn’t directly promote KSU or its digital ethnography working group (although the latter is included in the video credits), I’m pretty sure it’s […]

What makes a faculty podcast successful? The case of the â€œ12 Byzantine Rulersâ€ by Lars Brownworth

Faculty podcasting can be a great way to promote academic expertise to external audiences. As reported in “History Teacher Becomes Podcast Celebrity” published today in The New York Times, Lars Brownworth, a history teacher at a boarding school in Long Island, NY, the Stony Brook School, has become a podcasting success story with his series […]