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Welcome to #heweb11!
Just like HighEd Web, Link, The Journal of Higher Education Web Professionals, is for you and by you — so we’ve got lots of ways to keep you connecting with, and participating in, this year’s conference!
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Groundhog Day again? Really?
I love higher education. But like any relationship, what originally attracts and enchants can later be irritating and disappointing.
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Six Questions with Chris Wilson – #heweb11 Keynote
Chris Wilson talks about web development, Google TV and Cake v. Pie.
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Six Questions with Shawn Henry – #heweb11 Keynote
Shawn Henry leads the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) education and outreach activities promoting Web accessibility for people with disabilities.
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Top 5 HEWeb Developments Since #heweb10
Things move at the speed of light in Higher Ed. No, really.
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Link Boxers: Geolocation, Google and Zagat, Hackathon
As school starts, the leaves turn and our thoughts point to how we can get more #GirlsUnderTrees on our web sites, there have been some keen techy nuggets floating around the news wires.
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Panoramas: A How-To
Panoramas can be created easily using Photoshop, and can be a great addition to your normal photo rotation.
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Austin, Here We Come!
Whether you’re attending heweb2011 online or in the flesh, Link’s got you covered.
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Workplaces Revealed: Joel Goodman, Trinity International University
Where you work really does affect your quality of product and mental health.
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How Roller Derby Helped Me Fall Back in Love with PR
Routine. Drudgery. Burnout. They’re things we all fear or deal with when we work in an industry long enough. Little did I know those feelings would be hip-checked into oblivion by a group of women on wheels, in fishnets.
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Link Boxers: There’s Pr0n on the Internet?!?! Edition
Remember when summertime used to be slow and there wasn’t much news and the politicians walked arm-in-arm singing kumbaya while they enacted policies that benefitted the nation? Nah, we don’t either. Here are some of the latest items that caught our eye in this busy summer.
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Workplaces Revealed: Laura Kenyon, SUNY Geneseo
My workplace isn’t a home office; it’s an office inside a home. Roemer House, or as we call it, “Roemer,” is home to SUNY Geneseo’s department of College Communications.
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Is a Niche Social Network Right For Your School?
Social networks targeted to certain niches of the population — the smaller and less well-known sites — might also serve your institution’s goals.
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Customer Service, Social Media and a glass of wine: Reuben offers tips at #hewebROC
Reuben’s keynote discussed the value of changing and challenging traditional approaches to both the Web and marketing, but also noted the value of principles from “old school” companies.
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2011 Commencement Roundup
We’ve assembled a sampling of things #highered folks tackled this year. Professionals in departments ranging from IT to marketing and all shades in between forged ahead this year to expand all things communication surrounding commencement ceremonies.
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Link Boxers: Google+, Picasa and Privacy
Google+ for business… and Higher Ed?, Google Rebrands Blogger & Picasa, Harvard on Social Media: Privacy, Schmivacy
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Six Questions with Mark Greenfield
Greenfield discusses the flattening of higher-ed, the design of a perfect classroom building, and how he missed out on a chance to see Led Zeppelin live.
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Foursquare: Lessons learned from one of the platform’s Top 10 Universities
As social media manager for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I frequently try out new platforms to see if our students are using them and if they might become useful tools for my campus. For the past 18 months, I’ve channeled my inner mayor on Foursquare, a location-based social network.
