Things in Higher Ed are better than we let on. But how do we build on our awesomeness to help our institutions be successful?
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Joy to the World Wide Web
The holiday card: a fixture of the higher educations communications landscape.
As Web Content Editor of Tarrant County College Susan Ragland develops and provides mandatory training for all website contributors. She is also responsible for maintaining the college district’s official social media accounts. With five campuses, an enrollment of about 50,000 and a full-time Web staff of only three, maintaining the site can be challenging. Susan’s […]
When we come to HighEdWeb, we see that we are definitely not alone. We support, help, and teach one another.
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?
Angry Birds Turns Two, Foursquare Triples, Facebook + Dayton U = $50K scholarship
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HighEdWeb: The Membership Model
The Board of Directors is pleased to announce we are working to formalize membership structure for the Higher Education Web Professionals Association.
One f*cking great promotional website, let some Klout out of your Klout, opening the door to your Google+ page
Donna Talarico is integrated marketing manager at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pa. She loves cheese, craft beer and Scrabble.
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?
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Six Questions with Bob Johnson
Bob Johnson, an experienced higher ed marketing professional, shares his thoughts on what he sees as marketing/Web/comm departments’ biggest gaps, his pet peeves and greatest lessons learned.
Pushing the envelope in higher education is not always easy, so imagine the challenge when you want to transform the envelope into a zombie that wants to eat your students’ brains.
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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.
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Man in #000000 – heweb11
If you were lucky enough to be at The HighBall on October 25, you got to see some very special hewebbers pay tribute to Johnny Cash.
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Seth Odell wants you to know that real-time campus event coverage is a beautiful thing. He also wants you to know that you have absolutely no excuse not to be doing it.
In February 2011, Tufts launched TuftsNow, an integrated news space for the university, with the goals of “telling good stories” and “presenting and delivering those stories well.”
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View Presentation Description and Presenter’s Bio. John Boyd from North Park University (@octothorp) started with a bang, or blow, by encourging us to “tap into your inner vandal”. Breaking things when you test is good (yes, GOOD!). This session was packed with helpful tips. Personally, it brought about many “doh! why didn’t I do this?!” […]
View Session Description and Presenter Bio Francis Zablocki, online alumni community manager at SUNY Geneseo, discussed his school’s experiences with online communities. I’m going to roll this session blog a bit it differently than others as this topic hits a bit closer to home for me than other sessions I attended. I have been and […]
View Session Description and Presenter Bio Photo by Daves Portfolio, Flickr. About AU American University is a 4-year university with around 13,000 students. It has both a politically and socially active student body. Time to Redesign Why should AU Redesign their website? Many people felt like it was visually boring, had outdated content, and complained about […]
View Session Description and Speaker Bio So what? This is the key question we should be taking when approaching our content. In fact, Rick Allen says we should ask this at every stage of the content process. Most of us use analytics, but are we using them right? There are two approaches to analytics, according […]
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 […]