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Enhancing Your Visitor Experience through a Virtual Tour – A WKU Case Study Kyle James, CEO, nuCloud, and Corie Martin, Manager, Creative Web Services, Western Kentucky University Sometimes we get so caught up in a web project that we forget to take a step back and think about the whole picture. How will this web […]
campusM is now used to develop and host mobile apps at more than 25-percent of UK universities. But we live in experiential times, and people value having something tangible that they can try out for themselves when faced with something new.
Hundreds of higher education Web professionals head to the HighEdWeb conference each year to learn the latest and greatest in our exciting and ever-changing industry—that is, what is happening right now. And faster than we can master these new skills, we return “home” to our campus to find the higher ed stork has left behind […]
If you believe the futurist Raymond Kurzweil, humanity is entering a phase of it’s existence where technology will start to merge with our humanity at a downright dizzying pace. In his book “The Singularity is Near” Kurzweil envisions a future where humans live forever, we’ll upload our minds into computers, and virtual reality is the […]
By Doug Tschopp Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms aspire to be university presidents. The […]
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]
Cloud Computing: Planning for Success Jason Fish, Manager of Application Programming, Purdue University This session appeared to be for adults only with a focus on how we can satisfy our users (give them more for them to choose); perform better (meet technology needs); last longer (meet user demands) and pick people up (use other platforms […]
No Such Thing As TMI: How to Create a Culture of Sharing Donna Talarico, Integrated Marketing Manager, Elizabethtown College We hear a lot about oversharing in this social media celebrity-mad age. See: Kardashian, Kim and Twitter. But when it comes to the web and your college community, Donna Talarico of Elizabethtown College argues there’s no […]
The Future of Higher Ed? A Canary In The Coalmine of Online Learning Lori Packer,Web Editor, University of RochesterLori Packer has become an online adventurer. She’s taken her torch and wandered into the coal mine of online learning. So far, she’s been spared the fate of many a canary. Packer (who in the interest of […]
Reach Out and Touch Someone: Marshall McLuhan and the Tactile Web Aaron Rester, Senior Manager of Electronic Communications, University of Chicago Law School Aaron Rester’s session was not a “golden nugget” you could take home and work with right away (by his own admission). His talk was a more theoretical look at the … the […]
Securing the Open Source CMS Doesn’t Take a Dissertation Chris Wiegman, Web Developer, St. Edward’s University We are talking about protecting the brand not just the data. Open source does not mean amateur. Yet open source CMS systems are not designed to keep critical dates secure. Yet there are numerous add ons etc to help […]
I Don’t Have Your Ph.D. – Working with Faculty and the Web Amanda Costello, Web Content Strategist, University of Minnesota Amanda Costello works at the University of Minnesota and talked about “Ph.d people problems” Faculty are specialists – they do their jobs very very well — and they tend to focus on themselves (their work, […]
Rethinking the Virtual Tour: An Immersive Experience that’s More Than A Map John-Paul Takats, Web Analyst, Rochester Institute of Technology In Rethinking the Virtual Tour, John-Paul Takats, a Web Analyst with Rochester Institute of Technology Undergraduate Admissions, led us through the development of their virtual tour. Combining video captured using Google’s tricycle mounted street tricycle and […]
Everything You Know is Not Quite Right Anymore: Rethinking Best Practices to Respond to the Future Dave Olsen, Professional Technologist, West Virginia University, and Doug Gapinski , Strategist, mStoner If you’re participating in #heweb12 either in person, or via twitter, the web (Link!), instagram, etc., you already know that people are using a variety of […]
Education: Impacts and Transformations in the Social Media Era Martha Gabriel, Professor / writer, HSM Education Martha Gabriel is an engineer, postgraduate in Marketing and Design, holds a Master’s Degree in Art and is pursuing a PhD in Art. She is a leader and professor of the Marketing MBA course at HSM Education, and the […]
Digital asset management (DAM) software isn’t for everybody, but if you’re in higher education,
chances are you have enough people, brand assets and marketing communications that it
should be a part of your regular Web workflows.
How UW-Milwaukee redesigned for the LAST time John Mills, Digital Designer, University of Wisconsin-Milwauke Sounds final. You know what they say, “never say never.” He sees what he does as being at the center of the combination art, science, and philosophy. 30k students. Centralized infrastructure but decentralized content. Around 800k uniques per month. His POV […]
Mobile is so 2011. Make all your campus sites & apps look great on any device. Brett Pollak, Director, Campus Web Office, UC San Diego They are a mix of designers and engineers and run Hannon Hill CMS. 29k students. Most majors in social sciences. They are experiencing an increase in engineering due to recent […]
Your CMS is the Elephant in the Room Jeff Abuzzahab, Web and Multimedia Lead, University of Minnesota Jeff Abuzzahab is going to tell us about the elephant in the room. Downton Abbey = HigherEd “don’t rock the boat.” Put people first and then content – worry less about a unilateral CMS deployment. They spent years […]
What #heweb12 sessions or workshops are members of the Link staff most excited about? Find out after the jump.
UCSD’s deployment of responsive design transformed thousands of web pages to optimally function on any device on the market today– and makes them future-ready for devices yet to be developed.
A Google-esque college homepage; Higher Ed’s dirty little secret (one of them, at least); Another MSM folly RE: memes
Michael Hostad dishes on what to expect at this year’s conference, what not to miss in Milwaukee and what he and LL Cool J have in common.
News from the tech and web world that’s keeping us entertained this summer.
Ma’ayan Plaut’s disillusionment with Facebook : saga in two parts