Archive for the ‘Web 2.0 Best Practices’ Category

Bates College goes beyond the usual homepage redesign with Home 4 running on WordPress

September 21st, 2009 Karine Joly 4 Comments

Have you seen Bates College’s new homepage? You should check it out. It is really different and innovative. Bates College Not because it uses fancy graphics or animations, but because Jay Collier and his team at Bates College have decided to make this redesigned homepage more than just a collection of the usual navigation scheme, […]

Higher Ed TV: How to promote academic programs with online videos

September 2nd, 2009 Karine Joly 3 Comments

Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business has used online videos to promote its Graduate Program in Business Administration with great success. I stumbled upon this mini-series composed of 4 different YouTube videos last week and found it very compelling. What I like about these videos is their punch, simple call-to-action (go to the website) […]

Higher Ed TV – Behind the Scenes: It’s Your Turn, a video from Missouri S&T

August 24th, 2009 Karine Joly 1 Comment

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 […]

Want to learn how to write right for the Web including Blogs, Facebook and Twitter? Register by next Monday for this 2-webinar series

April 20th, 2009 Karine Joly No Comments

The registration deadline for the “Writing Right for the Web” 2-webinar series scheduled on May 5 and 6, 2009 is now approaching fast. For more info and to register, you can visit www.higheredexperts.com/writingright This series features 2 speakers who have mastered the art and craft of Web writing: Tim Nektriz from SUNY Oswego and Mary […]

American University has just launched its newly redesigned website

March 31st, 2009 Karine Joly 1 Comment

I got the tip about AU web redesign launch yesterday in an email from Maralee Csellar, Acting Director for Media Relations at American University. As explained in the top news story available on the homepage, New Site Launches, Will Change AU Communications, the whole redesign process started in the summer of 2006 took more than […]

Find out how a higher ed executive, UF’s Joe Hice, has ignited conversations with his blog, Gator Grotto

January 26th, 2009 Karine Joly 3 Comments

First, let me start by a quick disclaimer, I might be a bit partial on this topic for 2 reasons: I’ve known and collaborated for almost 3 years on different projects (conferences, webinars, etc. including the upcoming “Saving Big” Webinars for which registration ends tonight by the way) with the blogger behind this blog – […]

Higher Ed Experts in 2009: Social Networks MBA, Saving Big, Stop the Presses and Analytics 360

December 16th, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

And, that’s just the program for the months of January, February and March 2009. I’ve just wrapped up the upcoming webinar series for the first quarter of 2009, and I hope you’ll like the result. With the tougher budget times we’re all facing in higher education, I’ve decided to focus the next webinar series I […]

AMA Symposium: Carnegie Mellon University 2.0 with a web redesign, viral videos, blogs, facebook application and the Pausch Effect

November 17th, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

This session is presented by Marilyn Kail, AVP of Marketing and Communications and Jay Brown, Director of Marketing for Web Communications. First, CMU started with web 1.0 by doing a homepage redesign with a content management implementation. The old design was done in the mid-90’s and… it showed. The new design breaks with the traditional […]

Higher Ed TV: The University of Florida launches today its new “Remember When” TV and YouTube campaign

October 24th, 2008 Karine Joly 1 Comment

I wrote about UF previous campaigns and videos in the past. So, when Joe Hice, AVP for Public Relations and Marketing at the University of Florida, emailed me about their new Gator Nation ad campaign earlier this week, it didn’t take me long to check it out. The TV spot (that I can’t show you […]

Catch-up Date with Karine: YouTube Contest, Twitter, Web Style Guide, Cloud Computing Use & Homepage Data

September 14th, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Here’s the third edition of this series “Catch up-Date with Karine” aiming at fighting the information overload. Please let me know if you find it useful by leaving a comment or sending an email at karine@collegewebeditor.com. Looking for some YouTube Love? Why not suggest to your community members to take part in YouTube’s first journalism […]

Higher Ed TV: Blue has no clue where the 2 missing Butler mascot costumes are

September 11th, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

No, it’s not another episode of the famous kid show Blue’s Clues, but it could be. Butler Blue 2 is the official and furry mascot of Butler University (as all you sports fans probably know) According to Blue’s blog (yeah, I know, dog blogs aren’t that common, but this puppy even got a greater-than-life statue […]

RISD has the president we have all been dreaming of

September 10th, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

The inauguration of John Maeda the 16th president of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) will take place this Friday. Why do I think he is the kind of presidents we have all been dreaming of? First, just look at his inauguration online guest book, created for the campus community to add their thoughts, best […]

OSU’s new homepage includes a tag cloud for most popular links

August 21st, 2008 Karine Joly 13 Comments

That’s a pretty innovative way to deal with the put-me-on-the-homepage syndrome all higher ed web designers have to face when it’s time to redesign a university/college website. No fighting to find out which links to put there? Just go with what the web users want! Beautiful, don’t you think so? The new redesign is available […]

Blogging the Olympics: The Gold goes to UCLA

August 5th, 2008 Karine Joly 1 Comment

I know, I know, the Olympics haven’t even officially started yet, so my post title is somehow misleading. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself ;-) However, UCLA does stand a good chance of winning the gold medal in blogging. After 5 days spent offline on a very windy beach (I’m not playing the diva here, the […]

eduWeb 2008: It’s the community, Stupid! Really.

July 25th, 2008 Karine Joly 9 Comments

I’m late to the party for final thoughts about the eduWeb conference, because I’ve just made it back home. Technically, I could have driven back home yesterday, but just chose to meet with family and have some fun after a 2-day long journey from Atlantic City. For those of you who didn’t follow me on […]

Share your secret behind your higher ed community success

July 23rd, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

When I was asked to present the closing keynote at eduWeb 2008 last October, I said to myself: “this is great! For the first time in my life, I’m 100% sure I will have the last word ;-)” Then, when I picked my topic, “It’s the community, Stupid! 7-step plan to raise and nurture any […]