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Marketing Mobile Website Development

#HEWebHero Q&A: Dave Olsen

We asked our HEWeb community, who is your #HEWebHero? Erik Runyon recommended Dave Olsen, assistant director of digital marketing technology at West Virginia University. Dave is part of WVU’s university relations team and works closely with admissions on enrollment marketing. This spring, that was all about virtual events. We caught up with Dave to ask […]

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Mobile Usability Website Development

The State of Web Performance in Higher Education

Some in this community might say I’m a bit of a web performance curmudgeon. Five of my six HighEdWeb presentations have in some way had a focus on performance. And to be honest, at the rate we’re going, next year is going to be as well. Let’s take a walk down memory lane In 2012 […]

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2016 Conference Content Creation Mobile Technological Developments Usability

360-Degree Video: We Live In The Future

Arielle Mari, Mark Lee, and Karen To from Colorado College presented a post-lunch session on 360-degree video. (You can find all their examples at 2cc.co/heweb16 — and looks great on mobile!) 360-degree video allows potential students a literal window The team’s first foray into 360 video used the Ricoh Theta; it’s a low-end device, less […]

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Mobile Responsive Design Technological Developments

More on RWD with Matt Klawitter

We dig deeper into Responsive Web Design by interviewing Matt Klawitter.

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Mobile Responsive Design Technological Developments

Behind the Grid: What’s the Big Deal About Responsive Web Design, Anyway?

Responsive web design! All the cool kids are doing it. Since Ethan Marcotte wrote the book on the topic in 2011, it’s become the new, hip way of approaching web design amidst widespread device proliferation and the rise of mobile. If you were at the HighEdWeb 2012 conference, chances are you attended a session either […]

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Mobile MOOC

Link Boxers: Savage ideas; Square Deals at SBX; Are You a Big MOOC?

News from the tech and web world that’s keeping us entertained this summer.

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Applications and Standards Marketing Mobile Regional Conference Technological Developments Usability

#hewebSYR 2012

HighEdWeb Syracuse brought Web professionals from across five states and three countries for a packed day of sessions covering everything from crisis communications and student social media ambassadors to Wordpress plug-ins and mobile learning.

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Mobile

Mobile Demystified at untether.talks

Nicholle McGill reports out on mobile’s next steps

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Mobile

Mapping Campus with Google Map Maker

If you take the time to add a sufficient level of detail to your campus using Map Maker, your visitors and campus community will likely be able to find their way around even if they didn’t to go to your website first.

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Applications and Standards Mobile

MWF: The UC Mobile Solution

Universities have to consider quite a bit in developing a mobile strategy. What devices do you support? Do you go the app or mobile web browser? How do you display disparate information in a cohesive way?