Warren Wilson College recently underwent a change in leadership with a new President. At the same time, the exciting changes happening all over the internet have finally managed to trickle into higher ed. The many projects underway made Karine Joly, in her University Business article, declare 2006 “the year of the redesign.” […]
There’s three new blogs in the Higher Ed Marketing links section below. Go check them out!
Fuzzy Content
University Web Marketing and Usability
Mistaken Goal (actually a Student Affairs and technology blog–very interesting)
Added 12/8: U Marketing Guru
Added 12/11: Intermedia (PR & New Media)
I’ve also got my student work crew in a fishbowl for you. Watch them on […]
My Podcasting post has stirred up some discussion, which is wonderful. I wanted to take a moment to respond to a few things from comments that warranted a closer look.
Dan Karleen wrote:
First, who is hawking podcasting as a singular cure for enrollment woes?
I’m guilty of trying to be provocative over precise here. Mostly […]
Before you go to your next marketing conference and listen to the trend prospectors hawking Podcasting as a holy balm for your enrollment woes, make sure it’s not snake oil!
Michael Stoner pointed out that the PEW Internet & American Life Project has released a new study that throws some doubt onto the efficacy of the […]
I’ve returned from a fantastic month in the trenches of novel writing. I’ve got a lot of fun things to share in the world of higher ed web as we head into winter. Learning DOM scripting, a redesign, rebuilding a custom CMS from scratch–it’s going to be a fun couple months.
But in the […]
It’s out now and will be all over the world in less than a month. Go grab it.
Internet Explorer 7 will be delivered through Automatic Updates - customers should complete preparations by November 1
To help customers become more secure and up-to-date, Microsoft will distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates and the Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites. Internet Explorer 7 will be available for users of genuine […]
Time for a little late night blogging. I just got done watching Saw on Showtime, so I figured it would be a great time to delve into higher ed marketing!
Future Web
Today’s keynote speaker was Nick Fink, founder of Digital Web Magazine, and Director of User Experience for new media company Blue Flavor. Nick […]
I’m laying out of the next session. The marketing track was supposed to be about “Maximizing Your Internet Marketing Results” by CUnet. Turns out it’s little more than an infomercial on lead generation. I haven’t the foggiest interest in obscure, third-party lead generation companies (they are always the most car-salesman-like folks at […]
I’ve just gotten out of the first full day of sessions. I feel beaten. I wonder if the hotel would frown if I carried this nice desk chair from my room down the elevator to the conference area for tomorrow? Sitting in a hard little chair all day has near killed me.
Anyhow, […]
I’m laying out of the lunch session on podcasting to charge some batteries (literally and figuratively) and because I don’t think that medium is appropriate for Warren Wilson at this time. While the camera phone and PDA are getting juiced up, I’m going to give you a quick report on the beginning of the […]
This is my report on “Breaking the Frame of Web Design” Presented by Fritz McDonald.
Fritz is the Creative Director at Stamats. He supervises web and print designers as well as writers. His ideas regarding breaking out of the web design “frame” are influenced in part by author Brendan Dawes.
(Fritz McDonald begins his talk.)
After […]
I’m scheduled this afternoon to attend a pre-conference seminar. From the conference website:
Breaking the Frame of Web Design
Presented by Fritz McDonald, Creative Director
In terms of innovation, the Web is opening up possibilities in a way it hasn’t done since the great dot.com age. Yet, in spite of these gains, many Web sites are only […]
[…] The best way for me to innovate and enjoy what I do is to go native. Time to slip into the digital tribe and move among its peoples—virtual, 3D hands brushing in the darkness of social networked second lives, a million onymous youth dancing hyper-textualy into the night, the thrumming of drum and bass shared via mapped music genomes, and the twinkling glow of liquid-crystal-pixels offering up the entire geo-positioned world like an altar to a social, multi-cultural, semantic, hive-minded, Mercurial GOD.
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ - Blog of Danah Boyd. A PhD student studying privacy and the internet.
http://greenteaicecream.co.uk/ - “Social Value and the Social Web”
http://www.fastcompany.com/ - Interesting blog associated with Fast Company magazine.
I am taking a hiatus for the remainder of the summer to finish some hulking, be-fanged programming projects. Once those are complete, I am going to “take off the training wheels” on erelevant–redesign and revision it around a broader central theme. It will be less personal, less inflammatory and more topical and content-oriented. […]
When Time magazine named “You” as its person of the year in 2006, it was a ham-handed attempt to salute “user-generated content” as the driving force behind Web 2.0. Last year MySpace and YouTube commanded $580 million and $1.6 billion, respectively, because regular folks participate in the grand techno-democratic experiment, baring their souls to the […]
