Archive for the ‘Website Stakeholders’ Category

Sign up for the first college fair to be held on the SecondLife Teen Grid on October 20-21, 2007

There’s still time for your institution to sign up and you don’t even need a campus in SL to participate. As of today, the following 20 institutions have expressed interest in participating in this virtual college fair organized on the Teen Grid of SL: Front Range Community College, Colorado Bradley University, Illinois Florida State University […]

Ball State University re-launches its website

Yes, that’s right. BSU hasn’t just redesigned its website: the university is relaunching it tomorrow (October 1st) as Nancy Prater, University Web Coordinator, told me in an email a couple of weeks ago. The project including the redesign, a revamped information architecture and a CMS implementation took 18 months as explained in “Extreme Makeover: Web […]

5 tips to be better prepared for a campus emergency or crisis

Even if you don’t take the time to read my last article about crisis communication (although you should), don’t ignore these 5 basic tips and share them with folks in charge of crisis communication at your institution: Make sure the chief communication officer of your institution is part of your emergency team. Include in your […]

A good primer about crisis communications 2.0 you can print

September isn’t over yet, but the month has already seen 2 shooting-related crises: Yesterday at St. John’s University in Queens, NY (the campus was locked down after a masked gunman was found on campus) Last Friday, 2 students were shot at Delaware State University. The good news is that lessons learned after the tragedy at […]

Higher Ed Experts Update: The registration deadline for Social Networking Websites Week, the 5-webinar series has been postponed to Thursday September 27, 2007 at 1PM ET.

After the registration deadline expired yesterday evening, I received a few emails asking if I could give people a bit more time to register for the October 1-5 webinar series about social networking websites: Social Networking Websites Week – All You Ever Wanted to Know about MySpace, Facebook and Co: October 1-5 2007 Social networking […]

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 […]

Find out about the state of print and electronic publications in more than 200 institutions

Last July, I launched an online survey about the state of print and electronic publications in higher education to help me with two projects of mine: my column scheduled for the October issue of University Business a study I conducted for a big public university over the summer. When I asked you to take part […]

What to expect for the HighEdWebDev07 conference in Rochester, NY

HighEdWebDev 2007 will take place on October 14-17 in Rochester NY. This year, I’m going to Rochester but I put out a call for guest bloggers last week to try to offer the best possible conference coverage. Two readers, Stephen and Martine, have already offered to help (if you want to share your notes about […]

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 […]

3 questions to a higher ed blogger: Andrew Shaindlin, Executive Director of the Caltech Alumni Association from “Alumni Futures”

Executive Director at the Caltech Alumni Association, Andrew Shaindlin has been blogging at Alumni Futures since last February, but managed to make my list of 5 bloggers that make me think last May by posting regularly well-researched, well-written posts targeted to alumni professionals. 1) Why did you decide to start your blog Alumni Futures in […]

Higher Ed Experts Update: Stats and facts on how admissions offices use social media

I’m glad to introduce the first event of a new series called “30 minutes with a Higher Ed Expert.” The plan is to try to schedule one of those free online events per month. As regular readers might know I signed a yearly contract with WebEx for Higher Ed Experts, and I thought it would […]

Interested in Web CMS adoption in higher ed? Take UC Davis online survey!

Reader and HEE member Elliot Lopez, Project Manager for University Communications at UC Davis, has beaten me to the punch with his online survey about Web CMS in higher ed. This was indeed on my to-do list for September ;-) Anybody contemplating a CMS selection and implementation in higher education will kill for some fresh […]

Need help to launch your online video initiative this Fall (or later)? Register by Friday for “Lights, Camera, Action – How to Add Online Videos to Your Marketing Mix”

I’ve already posted a couple of times about this 3-webinar series about online videos scheduled on September 11, 12 and 13 (with the 50% discount for HEE members, the total price for the webinars is just $150 – more information is available at www.higheredexperts.com/onlinevideos) I designed for Higher Ed Experts, so this is just a […]