Archive for the ‘highedweb2010’ Category

TPR 3 – Feedback

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Just received the audience feedback from my 2010 HighEdWeb presentation and wanted to share. Thanks again to everyone who attended! Evaluation Summary Looks like I scored above average for both my track and the overall conference – nice! In fact, the numbers give me an average score of 6.52. This is higher then the 6.44 […]

What’s in It for Me? Progressive Personalization for Alumni-oriented Sites (Best Of)

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

Mark Heiman Senior Web Application Developer, Carleton College The beard is part of the job – who knew??? We all of us are doing a really bad job at building alumni sites/communities. Hella? Yes, he worked it into his presentation! Social media is necessary but not sufficient There is no correlation between web engagement (logging […]

HTML5 Design (Best of)

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

Christopher Schmitt @teleject Web Design Specialist, Heatvision.com, Inc. Of course I had to check out the session that beat me :) Not surprising though – HTML5 is a hot topic. XHTML is dead. About 90 HTML elements. In XHML  is just a XML representation. We still have limited tags. Microformats are great, but not a […]

Powered by Orange: Lessons from Launching a Digitally Driven Campaign

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

David Baker Director of Web Communications, Oregon State University Had to go see the presentation from my neighbors at Oregon State. Started with a single statement that they wanted to convey (look at the slides for exact verbiage) Audiences didn’t know about all the cool stuff we were doing, but they were ready to believe […]

Taming Google Mini

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

Kevin Zink Senior Consultant, mStoner Not sure if I will learn anything new in this session, but it has been a while since I thought about our mini. Page Layout Helper If I remember correctly, it sucks – though that doesn’t really matter since no one in this room seems to be using it. Kevin […]

One Map to Rule Them All

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

Chad Killingsworth Assistant Director of Web & New Media, Missouri State University Maps are cool (you know it’s true) The right map can be a recruitment source! Out of date maps are worse then no map at all. Non interactive maps (PDF’s) suck too. Branding that reinvents the user interface pisses users off Too much […]

One Map to Rule Them All

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

Chad Killingsworth Assistant Director of Web & New Media, Missouri State University Maps are cool (you know it’s true) The right map can be a recruitment source! Out of date maps are worse then no map at all. Non interactive maps (PDF’s) suck too. Branding that reinvents the user interface pisses users off Too much […]

Video Killed the Radio Star, but It Could Help You Meet Your Goals

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

Aaron Street Director of Communications, Southern Arkansas University Tonya Oaks Smith DIrector of communications at the UALR William H. Oh, no tech issues… wait, wait good now. We know that video is an attention getter. involve internal audiences recruit students engage alumni involve parents promote events entice donors b-roll database.  (you know, for the media) […]

Hold Up! WordPress Can Do That?!? GTFO!

Monday, October 11th, 2010

Mike Richwalsky Director of Marketing Services, John Carroll University Let’s play ” find the WP site” – oh, wait they all are! Full university web sites? Allegheny – 151 sites and 104 users (soon to grow) John Carroll – Just launched. 27 sites, 35 users. Must have plugins (for a CMS) Amazon S3 – all […]

Rapid Iterative Design: A Minimalist Approach to Requirements Gathering and Interface Design

Monday, October 11th, 2010

Beth Snapp Team Lead, Web and Data Solutions, Ohio State University, Arts and Sciences She wins on the longest title so far :) Rapid Iterative Minimalist Agile! Or, Rapid Iterative Design. More time writing code. Less time writing documentation. Manifesto for Agile Software Development: Working software over comprehensive documentation Just enough documentation is just perfect. […]