Archive for the ‘President and VPs’ Category

Could SecondLife help you raise awareness and funds for your construction projects?

We’re building a new Arts Center at my institution. The groundbreaking ceremony was held last March, and the new building is scheduled to open to the public in September 2007. As a result, I’ve been working on a special microsite about this new building and its construction for the past few months. The goals of […]

RSS: The Next Big Thing in University Web Communications

My third column for University Business is now available in the June issue as well as online: â€œRSS: The Next Big Thing in University Web Communications.â€ If you are a University Business reader who has just discovered collegewebeditor.com, welcome! Donâ€™t forget to subscribe to this blog via RSS (use one of the buttons available at […]

Why you should watch closely YouTube

Have you already heard about YouTube? Not yet? Well, you will pretty soon. So, you might want to find out more about this video-sharing website as soon as possible. Even if I haven’t written a lot about customer-generated videos up until now, I believe they are going to play a bigger and bigger role on […]

Karine’s 2 cents on “Technology 101” webinars

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 […]

How to get your boss, VP or President up-to-speed with podcasts, blogs and RSS

I’ve already mentioned an easy — free — way to get you, your boss or your colleagues up-to-speed with new media in a previous post. My offer to get you or anybody else in your institution started with a free Bloglines account loaded with the best higher ed RSS feeds is still on the table […]

Illinois Institute of Technology President is blogging and… inviting comments

When comments are open and not filtered, blogging isn’t for the faint of heart. That’s what Illinois Institute Technology‘s President, Lew Collens, has probably realized — the hard way? — after a few posts in his 26-day blogging experiment with the new communication channel: the President’s Blog. “This blog, which will be live from now […]

Karine writes about higher ed podcasting in print – and online – at University Business

I’ve crossed over to print — well, technically it’s more a come-back as I started my professional life writing for traditional media (newspapers, magazines and even radio). Last Fall, Tim Goral, the Editor of University Business and a reader of collegewebeditor.com, sent an email to your favorite blogger and made an offer I could not […]

Top 3 reasons to get your university/college president blogging

As I wrote in the introduction of an interview with Michael Crow, ASU President, he is one of the first higher ed presidents to see blogging and podcasting as efficient communication channels with his different constituents. President Crow isn’t the first president-blogger, as Lou Anna K. Simon, MSU President, has been blogging since January 2005 […]

3 questions to a higher ed blogger: Michael M. Crow, Arizona State University President, from “The Presidentâ€™s Post”

The Arizona State University President is one of the first higher ed presidents (well, he is probably the first. If you know another, let me know) to blog and podcast on a regular basis. He has been blogging at “The President’s Post” since early December and plans to start podcasting every week this month. With […]

ASU President to become the first university president-podcaster

President Crow from Arizona State University is a pioneer when it comes to the new Web2.0-enabled world of higher ed public relations. After launching his blog, “The President’s Post,” last month, Michael Crow has just announced today on his blog that he will soon start to podcast on a weekly basis: “On a separate but […]

Educate your director, VP or president about why your institution should podcast

In a previous post titled “How to educate your director, VP or president about Podcasting”, I pointed you to a few articles about podcasting and its use in higher education to help introduce the notion to your manager. If you were able to pick his/her interest with these links, you might want to push a […]

3 questions to a higher ed blogger: Dean Dad, a dean blogging anonymously at “Confessions of a Community College Dean”

“Dean Dad” is the pseudonym used by a dean who has been blogging anonymously at “Confessions of a Community College Dean” since June 2004. I’ve already told you to check out his blog as it really offers interesting insights. Dean Dad has also recently written a very good piece for Inside Higher Ed titled “Deaning […]

Educate your VP or President with this Business Week’s primer on social networking websites

I’ve already posted about the online social networking phenomenon that has taken such a big place in our students’ life. However, an article published by the good old mainstream media will probably have more resonance with your boss and your stakeholder. If you want to educate your director, VP or president about this topic, Business […]

How to educate your director, VP or president about Podcasting

As a higher web professional, I’m sure you’ve already heard and read a lot about podcasting. Your director, VP and President have not, so it might be a good idea to share this post with them. The past week has witnessed a lot of media coverage about podcasting in higher education. A few interesting articles […]

How to educate your website stakeholders about your job in 2 seconds

Are you tired of explaining to your boss, her VP or the President what your job is all about? Are you often asked by people on campus what can possibly keep you so busy all day and all year long? Thanks to Andrea Schwandt-Arbogast, Humboldt State University Web Manager, you can stop explaining, resume your […]