Archive for the ‘Web 2.0 Best Practices’ Category

Trying to find out if/how your institution should use Facebook, MySpace or its own social networking application? Register by Monday for Social Networking Websites Week

I’ve already posted a couple of times about “Social Networking Websites Week – All You Ever Wanted to Know about MySpace, Facebook and Co,” a 5-webinar series scheduled on October 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (with the 50% discount for HEE members, the total price for the webinars is just $250 – more information […]

CASE offers public and free access until October 31, 2007 to “Fear and Loathing in Web 2.0,” a great article about the Web 2.0 Denial Syndrome

As I mentioned in this previous post, “Donâ€™t think the conversation is the message? Just look at how higher ed media have been going 2.0 lately,” I was interviewed last June by Andrea Jarrell: Anyway, â€œthe conversation is the messageâ€ has come back at me this week in an email exchange with Andrea Jarrell. Sheâ€™s […]

Trying to push for more Web 2.0 features and social networking applications at your institution? Inside Higher Ed has a great piece to help you make your case

In “Facelifts for the Facebook Generation” published today in Inside Higher Ed, Andy Guess gives a good round-up of the web design trends in higher education: As universities start to unveil the next generation of college Web sites, their efforts include a mix of approaches that tend to overlap. Lewis and other Web administrators note […]

Joost: another delivery channel for the videos produced at your institution?

Everybody is talking about online videos lately (well, the fact that it’s Day 2 of the Higher Ed Experts’ series about online videos might explain some of the chatter in my virtual neighborhood ;-) A recent report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project confirms that online videos have become a must-have web features […]

Live from the higher ed blogosphere: Flickr, Twitter and Presentation 2.0

Last week I read 3 interesting posts written by 3 different higher ed bloggers, but couldn’t find the time to post about these. Paul Baker (Education PR) shares a great story that shows the power of Web 2.0. A year ago, while he was attending a conference in New Orleans, he took some great photos […]

How to put SecondLife to good use: plan and run emergency drills on your virtual campus

Lately, I’ve read more and more negative comments about SecondLife. Many inside and outside of higher education have questioned the return on investment of SL campuses for universities and colleges as Jeff Young from the Chronicle of Higher Ed wrote a few days ago in the Campus Wired Blog: More than 100 colleges have set […]

Higher Ed TV: Dickinson President on the record about the US News and World Report College Rankings… on YouTube

I’ve already written about college presidents who blogged. I even interviewed Michael Crow, ASU president, when he started his blog: The President Post. However, this is the first time I stumbled upon a president vlogging (or video blogging) on YouTube… and Dickinson College‘s President Durden does a pretty good job at it in “Dickinson takes […]

Higher Ed TV: “College Scene Investigation” from USC Aiken, a great way to promote student life activities

It looks like The University of South Carolina Aiken has given the keys to some of its current students to produce a very good series of YouTube videos. I don’t plan to attend college soon, but I got hooked watching the first 4 episodes of “CSI at USC Aiken” – aka College Scene Investigation – […]

Almost Live from EduWeb 2007 in Baltimore: iTunesU – Managing & Marketing University Media Assets

I’ve just realized that I haven’t posted this post Melissa Cheater, one of the 6 readers who did some guest blogging this year at EduWeb, sent me Wednesday morning after getting back to the office. Ken Ronkowitz, Media & Instructional Tech manager at NJIT and an excellent higher ed blogger at Serendipity 35, presented last […]

Higher Ed Experts: 3 new professional development series – a total of 11 webinars – are open for registration

I’ve been working on these 3 new webinar series for a while now, and I hope you’ll find these 3 programs (11 webinars in total) by Higher Ed Experts interesting and useful for you, your team and your institution: Lights, Camera, Action – How to Add Online Videos to Your Marketing Mix September 11, 12, […]

Don’t think the conversation is the message? Just look at how higher ed media have been going 2.0 lately

If you attended one of my sessions about Web 2.0, seen my presentation files or read my article published in the March issue of CASE’s Currents, you might have a vague idea of where I’m going with the headline of this post. But, if you don’t – here’s just a quick excerpt from the initial […]

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 […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education goes 2.0 with online video reports by Jeffrey Young

In a previous post titled “Professor Wesch from KSU featured in a great video report from The Chronicle,” I raved about the first online video report produced by Jeffrey Young, Web Editor at The Chronicle: Produced by Jeffrey R. Young, the video report does an excellent job presenting Professor Weschâ€™s work at KSU as well […]

Straight from flickr to uvic.ca: The University of Victoria features student photos selected by a panel of faculty members on its website homepage

I’m currently doing some research for an upcoming feature article to be published in the Canadian publication, University Affairs, which explains why I’ve spent some quality time lately with the websites of a few Canadian institutions. As I was looking for contact information, I noticed a photo at the bottom of the right column of […]

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 […]

Register now for “Crisis Communication 2.0 Week,” a 3-webinar series on June 26, 27 & 28 featuring Michael Dame (Virginia Tech), Joe Hice (UF) and Andrew Careaga(UMR)

Some of you might remember the words of Michael Dame, Director of Web Communications at Virginia Tech, in his letter to his higher ed colleagues (that would be you) he asked me to publish a couple of weeks ago: I hope that in the near future, weâ€™ll have the opportunity to discuss our experiences to […]