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2018 Conference

Your HighEdWeb smorgasbord: The Poster Track

Have you ever visited a restaurant and eyed the delicious options, unable to pick just one? Fretting over which one to pick and wishing you could have it all. Then you see it – the buffet. That glorious option where you don’t have to pick just one. The poster track at HighEdWeb is your conference […]

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Putting the YOU in Usability, Accessibility, and Design (#UAD)

Hey – want to know a secret from your friends in the Usability, Accessibility & Design track? YOU, my friend, are an experience designer.  Really, we’re serious.  Think about it for a minute: whether you are a manager, programmer, content person, social media specialist, every day you make choices that impact how people experience your […]

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Get ready for #AIM! (Applications, Integration and Mobile)

Each year at HighEdWeb, the Applications, Integration and Mobile (#AIM) track offers sessions that ensure you can make the most of your website application development skills and knowledge. We’re really excited about our sessions this year — we think they will provide insights and tools for all the members of our teams and communities. Take […]

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2018 Conference Six Questions

6 Questions with HighEdWeb 2018 keynote speaker Sir Ken Robinson

It’s not often in our daily lives that we get to hear from somebody as accomplished (or knighted!) as Sir Ken Robinson, one of our keynotes at HighEdWeb 2018. In advance of the talk by this internationally recognized authority in creativity and innovation (and TED Conference rockstar) on Wednesday, Oct. 24, we had the opportunity […]

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2018 Conference Management & Professional Development

Getting your leadership on with Management and Professional Development (#MPD)

If you are a first-time attendee at the HighEdWeb conference, you might do a double-take when you look at the schedule and notice a track marked “Management and Professional Development” (aka #MPD). After all, this is a web conference! One might be forgiven for thinking it should be full of nothing but code, content management […]

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2018 Conference Content Creation Usability

Turn Data into Actionable Insights with Amy Grace Wells

The Content/UX Academy helps participants learn to research, plan and build content strategy based on user experience, best practices and analytics. On Saturday, October 20, Amy Grace Wells will communicate the difference between user goals and business goals in an intimate, hands-on workshop. Amy Grace is a content strategist and UX designer with nearly 15 years of […]

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2018 Conference Six Questions

6 Questions with HighEdWeb 2018 keynote speaker Manoush Zomorodi

As seen in a previous episode, this year’s HighEdWeb 2018 keynotes include Manoush Zomorodi, an award-winning podcast host, author and relentless examiner of the modern human condition. To start getting hyped for her talk on Monday, Oct. 22, we asked her our customary 6 Questions, plus a bonus round. 1) One of your themes is how to […]

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Lightning talks. They’re talks. Made of lightning.

At the HighEdWeb conference last year in Hartford, we debuted a presentation format that I’ll admit I’d been wanting to try for a very long time: lightning talks. 10-minute blasts of pure awesome, positively sizzling with wisdom. I’m not exaggerating when I say that our inaugural lightning talk presenters — Lougan Bishop, Lacy Paschal, JP Rains, Jason […]

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HighEdWeb 2018: It’s made of people

What’s the last thing you learned that made you better at your job? Got it? OK, now hold on to it for a minute and think: how did you learn it? Did you hear it on a podcast? Or read it in a book? Or follow a link on Twitter? Or watch a video tutorial? […]

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2018 Conference

Podcast host/author Manoush Zomorodi to join #heweb18 keynoters

The HighEdWeb 2018 Annual Conference has so many fantastic features and events, we can’t list them all in one post. But at the top of our list of great #heweb18 things are two great keynotes — Wednesday’s talk by Sir Ken Robinson, and on Monday… Manoush Zomorodi! Manoush Zomorodi (@Manoushz) is an award-winning podcast host, […]

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Sir Ken Robinson announced as #heweb18 keynote

The HighEdWeb Annual Conference is known for hosting the BEST presenters, and we are proud to continue this tradition with our HighEdWeb 2018 Wednesday keynote speaker: Sir Ken Robinson! An internationally recognized authority in creativity and innovation, in education and business, Sir Ken Robinson (@sirkenrobinson) is also one of the world’s leading speakers. Videos of […]

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Volunteer with the Academies

We are seeking volunteers to help with Academy event planning and alumni outreach. We’d love your help.