Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Higher Ed Experts Update: Crisis Communication 2.0 Week Webinar Series is On

June 26th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Just a quick post to let everybody know that Joe Hice, Associate VP for Marketing and Public Relations at The University of Florida gave a great presentation today to kick off “Crisis Communication 2.0 Week,” the first webinar series offered by Higher Ed Experts. Close to a hundred people were in attendance as several participants […]

How to build your own social networking website for your institution? Follow Elon University’s example

June 11th, 2007 Karine Joly 9 Comments

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 […]

Facebook wants you to build your applications targeted to students and alums on its platform

May 28th, 2007 Karine Joly 2 Comments

I’ve already written a lot about the possibilities offered by the Facebook API for our institutions. And, it seems that it is precisely the direction where Mark Zuckenberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, wants to lead his company. The announcement was made at F8, a big event in San Francisco last Thursday (I know it […]

“Portal 2007 – up and running” at Gettysburg College on June 5-8, 2007: an affordable conference about web portals and CMS’s

May 19th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

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 […]

How do adult Americans like their technology? Pew Internet Life & Project’s Typology of information technology users

May 6th, 2007 Karine Joly 2 Comments

The Pew Internet Life & Project has just published its latest report: “A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users.” It is based on the findings of a daily tracking survey on Americans’ use of the Internet, data gathered through telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates between February 15 and April 6, 2006, […]

Facebook has just introduced its API 2.0: FQL – Facebook Query Language

February 27th, 2007 Karine Joly 1 Comment

After releasing its API – Application Programming Interface – in beta 6 month ago, Facebook has just announced this week the launch of FQL: Facebook Query Language. I’m sure the developers, programmers and database administrators among the readers will have noticed – with reason – the name similarity with the infamous SQL, the Structured Query […]

Scholar.com, a del.icio.us Blackboard?

January 9th, 2007 Karine Joly 3 Comments

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

May 15th, 2006 Karine Joly No Comments

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 […]

“Students on Student Technology” at XplanaZine: Live from high school

April 7th, 2006 Karine Joly No Comments

If you really want to know what’s going on in high school in terms of technology or maybe show your stakeholders what they can expect from prospective students, you should definitely check out “Students on Student Technology,” a series at XplanaZine by Katrina Rinaldi, a graduating high school senior. As noted by XplanaZine’s editor in […]

Educause 2005 Annual Conference: Faculty and technology, friends or foes?

October 20th, 2005 Karine Joly No Comments

I guess you already have your opinion on the big question, and the answer depends on the people composing this important constituency on campus. However, with a new generation of students considering their cell phones, instant messengers, laptops or iPods as life lines, the question has become an existential one for people in charge of […]