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Management & Professional Development Social Media The Working World

Effective Social Collaboration

Eight tips to jump start your social community.

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Management & Professional Development

Simplify, Simplify: Working with Faculty in the Technical Fields

What’s the best way to work with faculty in very technical fields, or with material that is tough for the public to understand?

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Uncategorized

A HighEdWeb Tweet Retreat: Finding Inspiration Through Twitter Without Being in Milwaukee

I found support to persevere in my task; it was like hearing an inner voice telling me I can do this –except it wasn’t an inner voice, it was real people encouraging me by tweets.

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Location-based services: Where are we going next?

Near Field Communication (NFC), rather than QR codes, is poised to transform location-based services

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#heweb12: Link Staffers’ Choice

What #heweb12 sessions or workshops are members of the Link staff most excited about? Find out after the jump.

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Responsive Design Technological Developments

Going Responsive: How UC San Diego Did It

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.

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Applications and Standards Content Creation Marketing

My Week with Google Street View

What’s it like to to be part of the Google Street View Partner Program? Corie Martin takes us inside.

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Marketing Social Media

A Look at Facebook’s College Groups

Ma’ayan Plaut’s disillusionment with Facebook : saga in two parts

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Accessibility

Web Accessibility Baseline Testing

As access to Web-based services has become an essential part of higher education, universities across need baseline testing to demonstrate compliance with state and federal laws.

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Applications and Standards Marketing Mobile Regional Conference Technological Developments Usability

#hewebSYR 2012

HighEdWeb Syracuse brought Web professionals from across five states and three countries for a packed day of sessions covering everything from crisis communications and student social media ambassadors to Wordpress plug-ins and mobile learning.

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Mobile

Mobile Demystified at untether.talks

Nicholle McGill reports out on mobile’s next steps

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Applications and Standards

Form Vs. Function: Is that a WP Theme or Plugin Function?

FInd out the best methods for adding new functionality to your WordPress site.

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Design Marketing The Working World

Redesigning Your Redesign

DĂ©jĂ  vu all over again.

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Marketing Social Media

Foursquare @ WKU: Using 4sqonCampus for event promotion

When we got to thinking about cool, new, free things we could do on campus for our students, Foursquare made a lot of sense.

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Marketing Social Media

Meetups and Photo Booths and Deals, Oh My! — Using Social Media to Create Hybrid Events on Your Campus

In the age of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, FourSquare and SCVNGR, there are new ways to engage your audience that are inexpensive and interactive, without sacrificing impact.

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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.

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Technological Developments

The Science of Games: Why the Game Layer is the (Present and) Future of the Web

The basic tenets of play enable us to explore new and innovative solutions in safe spaces, to experiment in ways perhaps not possible in “real” life, and to motivate one another (and ourselves) to take much-needed and desired actions.

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Applications and Standards

Flick of the Switch: Turning on the LAMP in Just 30 Minutes

You can get a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server up and running in just 30 minutes.

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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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Mobile

Mapping Campus with Google Map Maker

If you take the time to add a sufficient level of detail to your campus using Map Maker, your visitors and campus community will likely be able to find their way around even if they didn’t to go to your website first.

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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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Applications and Standards

Pragmatic Emergency Preparedness

A solution allowing for rapid, broad changes by an individual web professional, so institutions can get out urgent messages quickly.

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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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Marketing The Working World

Joy to the World Wide Web

The holiday card: a fixture of the higher educations communications landscape.

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Applications and Standards Mobile

MWF: The UC Mobile Solution

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?