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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Link Boxers: College Memes, Official vs. Community Facebook pages
In which we ask questions in a column ala Carrie Bradshaw.
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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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Workplaces Revealed: John Jackson, Virginia Tech
As a kid in school, I tried to avoid the principal’s office. Not that the principal at my grade school was a bad guy, but I was more worried about the repercussions at home. I found some small irony in that childhood strategy when I learned that my current workplace was the principal’s office when…
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Six Questions with Karlyn Borysenko
Karlyn Borysenko, the Director of Social Media at Southern New Hampshire University, earned a Best in Track Red Stapler Award at HighEdWeb 2011 for her presentation, “What Colleges Can Learn from the Insane Clown Posse.” Karyln, “fascinated with the role that psychology plays in our working lives,” is pursuing a Ph.D. in Psychology from Capella…
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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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Link Boxers: It’s the end of the world as we know it, and we feel fine
Program your New Year’s resolution in javascript ; customer service #epicfail; CES 2012
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Joy to the World Wide Web
The holiday card: a fixture of the higher educations communications landscape.
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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.
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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?
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Boxers: The Conspicuous Consumption Edition
Angry Birds Turns Two, Foursquare Triples, Facebook + Dayton U = $50K scholarship
