Bestselling author, social influencer and motivational speaker Erik Qualman highlighted the #HEWEB19 Wednesday, Oct. 16, activities. Author of five well-known books on digital leadership — including “Socialnomics” and “What Happens on Campus Stays on YouTube” — Qualman has brought his message to 53 countries and reached more than 30 million people — now including our […]
Author: Lacy Paschal
Lacy is the Executive Director of Digital Strategy at Vanderbilt University, a HighEdWeb Board member, and chairs the MPD track for the annual national conference.
The Higher Education Web Professionals Association (HighEdWeb) is pleased to announce the election of a new vice president, secretary and treasurer. Vice President Tom Wojciechowski Tom Wojciechowski (Daemen College, Buffalo, N.Y.) joined the Board of Directors in 2015. Tom has acted in a variety of roles at HighEdWeb, including as Annual Conference vice chair in […]
The Higher Education Web Professionals Association (HighEdWeb) is pleased to welcome three new members to its Board of Directors: Lisa Catto, Western Oregon University Lisa Catto has managed Western Oregon University’s social media and media relations since 2005. She developed the university’s social presence back when MySpace was still the new kid on the block […]
The Higher Education Web Professionals Association has named Sara Clark as operations director for the association. Clark will coordinate the day-to-day operations of the association and its volunteers. Clark has been a long-time supporter of HighEdWeb. She chaired Annual Conference planning efforts in 2008 and 2014. And she served on the Board of Directors from […]
Twitter collection from Monday’s keynote #HEWEB17 @TanjaDzambaz
A catalyst for change: Hundreds of forms were attacked, tens of thousands of emails were sent, email accounts were overwhelmed and shut down, and business processes ground to a halt. On one cold February morning our Web team discovered that the our good friend FormMail was neither good nor a friend. After more than a […]
Six Questions with Chris Hardwick
How much “funny” should colleges and universities be trying to deliver to their audiences? On a scale of Ned Flanders to Krusty I’d say Barney Gumble. You’re so many people’s favorite nerd. Who is yours? Neil deGrasse Tyson. Or John Hodgman. In your self help book “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level […]
Six Questions for Dr. Moira Gunn
How are schools treating women in technology disciplines today, versus when you were at Purdue to earn your doctorate? This is an interesting question. And there are several ways to answer it. First of all, we can all count the numbers. There weren’t many women in the MS Computer Science program, and then I went […]
Mythbusters Host Adam Savage was the keynote presenter at HighEdWeb 12 in Milwaukee. We’re capturing his talk, and the social media reaction to it, in this story. [field name=code]
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Chris Wilson – #heweb11 Storify by Lacy Tite Tue, Oct 25 2011 18:12:56 Chris Wilson – #heweb11 Chris Wilson, of Google, shares some fascinating insight on the history of web programming, old school video games, and “magic” that we make with technology. alanariley@alanariley And @cwilso from Google takes the stage! And of course the squirrel. […]
Rethinking the Login #heweb11
View Session Details and Presenter’s Bio. What’s the problem? Secondary and tertiary audiences — alumni, parents, prospects — can’t remember how to login. Passwords, usernames, etc. We don’t login often enough to remember. You don’t let us choose our identity. We’re not on campus to get support. 26,000 active alumni 19000 email addresses on file […]
IA is the convergence of Users + Content + Context
View Session Details and Presenter’s Bio. I’m going to just start with the takeaways: Developing relationships is key — with other developers, with IT teams, with content owners. It makes doing your job easier. It takes work … it’s worth it. COMMIT to the openness of your data Create RELATIONSHIPS with other developers on […]
View Session Description and Presenter Bio Jason was a pinch-hitter for this session about miscellaneous jQuery bits – and provided us with 45 minutes of demoing jQuery live on various website. The purpose of the demo was to show some ways you can use jQuery in a development/debugging sense — as well as just some […]
Shawn Henry – #heweb11 Storify by Lacy Tite Tue, Oct 25 2011 19:15:42 Shawn Henry – #heweb11 meredith_tweets@meredith_tweets Love that the #heweb11 conference keynote is about accessibility! Mon, Oct 24 2011 18:13:36 ReplyRetweetFavorite Six Questions with Shawn Henry – #heweb11 Keynote | Link: The Journal of Higher Education Web Professionals Shawn Henry focuses her personal […]
My workspace definitely has a direct impact on how I work and interact with colleagues and clients – the more inspirational and “me” it is, the better!