Program your New Year’s resolution in javascript ; customer service #epicfail; CES 2012
Author: Kristin Hanson
Angry Birds Turns Two, Foursquare Triples, Facebook + Dayton U = $50K scholarship
While I’m still digesting all of the killer ideas I came away with from the conference, I’m struck by the notion that you can boil down a lot of the messaging into two key questions: so what? and why not?
One f*cking great promotional website, let some Klout out of your Klout, opening the door to your Google+ page
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HEWEB11 Wrap-Up
Much like the live music that made its host city famous, High Ed Web 11 jammed, from the early early morning till the early, early night. For four solid days.
View Session Details and Presenter Bio Unlike almost all other media, social media seems to be the medium that real measurement forgot. Despite all the charts and graphs we can find in various social media platforms, most of us still aren’t getting a great read on what’s going on in our Facebook pages or Twitter […]
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View Session Details and Presenter’s Bio. You’ve seen QR codes all over the place this year. But are you using them effectively? Xavier University’s Cliff Jenkins sought to teach attendees how to use the ubiquitous codes better during his HighEdWeb 11 session Monday afternoon. Developed by Toyota, the QR code entered the marketplace in Japan […]
View Session Details and Presenter’s Bio. Photo by hellolapalme, Flickr. You know the drill. You’re in marketing and you’re ready to kill the IT guy. The IT guy has been making voodoo dolls of the content writer for two years and don’t even get me started on that bleeping code guy who wouldn’t know his […]
View Session Details and Presenter’s Bio. Photo by Dunechaser, Flickr. No one wants to have to experience a crisis and communicate about it on the Web. But these days it’s essential that you have a plan to do when a tragedy does strike. That’s the message Nyleva Corley and Chris Latham from the University of Texas […]
View Session Description and Presenter’s Bio Feel like your school’s news sites are out of control? Vanderbilt University did. They got the chaos under control by using WordPress, Lacy Tite told an audience at HighEdWeb 11. VU found itself posting a single story to multiple sites, controlled by multiple people. If a change had to […]
Things move at the speed of light in Higher Ed. No, really.
View Presentation Details Photo by Ambrosio Photography, Flickr. Forget the other 99 percent for the moment. Are you part of the 91 percent? The 91 percent of schools that don’t have a mobile website yet, according to recent data from West Virginia’s Dave Olsen. WIlliam and Mary’s Tiffany Broadbent and mStoner’s Doug Gapinski encouraged attendees at […]
As school starts, the leaves turn and our thoughts point to how we can get more #GirlsUnderTrees on our web sites, there have been some keen techy nuggets floating around the news wires.
Remember when summertime used to be slow and there wasn’t much news and the politicians walked arm-in-arm singing kumbaya while they enacted policies that benefitted the nation? Nah, we don’t either. Here are some of the latest items that caught our eye in this busy summer.
Reuben’s keynote discussed the value of changing and challenging traditional approaches to both the Web and marketing, but also noted the value of principles from “old school” companies.
What’s forecasted for iCloud; Toshiba anti-iPad; High-speed internet, low price?
A Meal Ticket for Delicious; Blogging: Dude, Don’t Be Lame;The Student Loan Debt is Real, Though
RIP Flip, But They Still Won’t be Able to Take a Walk of Shame, Insert Picture of Giant Ball of Twine Here
We caught up with Jared Spool to talk about the trends he’s seeing, what his best user experiences have been recently, and to get some important information about Julia Child.