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Management & Professional Development

A Conceptual Framework for Effective Web Governance in Higher Education

Understanding the web as public versus private, or Internet versus intranet, is a simplification that does not reflect the significant differences that exist in nearly every higher education web site –there are six components that make up college and university web sites today.

Link Boxers: Crisis Communications with a Non-crisis, Web 2.0 Cheating, and iPhones as Far as the iCanSee

Somehow, we’ve been doing this for a year now. Somehow, the academic year is rapidly coming to a close. And somehow, a column with as silly a name as this has survived a year too.

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ALL CAPS Social Media

ALL CAPS: Pinterest

Pinterest: valuable tool for higher education?

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Six Questions

Six Questions with Jamie Ceman

Jamie Ceman, marketing director for the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, shares why – and how – integrated marketing communications works.

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Marketing Six Questions Social Media

Six Questions with Ma’ayan Plaut

Ma’ayan Plaut talks about why the f*ck people should choose Oberlin, her Tumblr-love and how undergrads are like squirrels.

Link Boxers: Google+, SxSW, That Recruitment Video is a Horror Show

It’s March, and that can only mean one thing: workplace productivity is about to swirl the drain as college basketball takes center stage….er, I mean, “Hi Boss, how are you? No, just keeping my nose to the grindstone here. Lots of hard work going on. Have you checked out our Klout score recently? Whooeee!”

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Content Creation Marketing

Unlock SNHU.edu with the Konami code

When up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A is added to a higher ed site, magic happens.

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Workplaces Revealed

Workplaces Revealed: Dave Tyler, Web Writer, The College at Brockport

My job here at Brockport is officially called “Web Writer” but its morphed quited a bit since I arrived here in July of 2009. Similarly, the location of my actual workspace has had its nomadic moments as well.

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Content Creation Social Media

Days of our lives, in photos: worth much more than 1,000 words

Efforts to collect photos of students exploring all the opportunities on campus always seem harder than it should be. But a day in photos, with multiple contributors, is like a daylong scavenger hunt for real images.

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Social Media

Link Boxers: College Memes, Official vs. Community Facebook pages

In which we ask questions in a column ala Carrie Bradshaw.

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Management & Professional Development The Working World

In the Trenches: Combating the Issues that Face Higher Ed Web

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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Workplaces Revealed

Workplaces Revealed: Susan Ragland, Tarrant County College

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 […]

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2011 Conference

Tales From the Field: My First #heweb

When we come to HighEdWeb, we see that we are definitely not alone. We support, help, and teach one another.

Boxers: The Conspicuous Consumption Edition

Angry Birds Turns Two, Foursquare Triples, Facebook + Dayton U = $50K scholarship

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Marketing Six Questions

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.

From the Editor

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?

Link Boxers: Google +*&#$ Klout

One f*cking great promotional website, let some Klout out of your Klout, opening the door to your Google+ page

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2011 Conference

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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2011 Conference

Engaging Your Global Audience with Real-Time Campus Event Coverage #heweb11

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.

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2011 Conference

How To Break Things Really Good #heweb11

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?!” […]

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2011 Conference

In the Shadow of the Colossi: Alumni online communities in the age of Facebook and LinkedIn #heweb11

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 […]

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2011 Conference

Everything But the Kitchen Sink – A campus wide web redesign perspective #heweb11

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 […]

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2011 Conference

Measuring the result of the bright and shiny #heweb11

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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2011 Conference

Chris Wilson Keynote – Better Education Through the Web

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. […]

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2011 Conference

Herding Cats: Web Governance in Higher Education #heweb11

View Session Details and Presenter Bio Higher Ed presents unique challenges for web professionals — challenges which can prevent us from doing our jobs to the best of our abilities. If you’ve dealt with entrenched silos, information architecture issues, rolls and rolls of red tape, and campus politics, Mark Greenfield knows how you feel. And he […]