Friday Five: #summersongs 2013 (off topic)
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing 05-24-2013 8:07 am
It’s Memorial Day weekend, the official kickoff of summer in the U.S. And while a lot of us will return back to work after the long weekend, we can at least reminisce about long, lazy days at the beach or lake, cross-country road trips, sandlot base...
Two Online Reading Tools That Will Save You Time
Posted by CKSyme.org 05-24-2013 7:42 am
Keeping up with the flow of information on the web is a task. I use two online reading tools to help me manage my reading and curating time. Im always looking for new and better tools, so if you have any suggestions, be sure and leave them in the comment...
Lets Talk
Posted by Alaina Wiens 05-23-2013 5:35 pm
I’ve been absent. I’m sorry. My life has been a whirlwind of many things these past weeks and months, not the least of which was the HighEdWeb Regional Conference in Michigan. Friends, I cannot tell you how proud I am to have helped bring all ...
#hewebmi top takeaway: technology is nice, but collaboration is key.
Posted by InsideTimsHead 05-23-2013 8:33 am
HighEdWeb Michigan (#hewebmi) staged an outstanding conference earlier this week, and the theme I took away from it more than other involved the importance of collaboration. Perhaps that sounds a strange takeaway from a conference about web communication ...
#hewebmi top takeaway: collaboration is key.
Posted by InsideTimsHead 05-23-2013 8:33 am
HighEdWeb Michigan (#hewebmi) staged an outstanding conference earlier this week, and the theme I took away from it more than other involved the importance of collaboration. Perhaps that sounds a strange takeaway from a conference about web communication ...
Gamification for #highered: fad or future
Posted by College Web Editor 05-23-2013 7:26 am
Do you need to worry about Gamification If you’ve been working for a few years in higher education, you’ve seen your fair share of fads. So, when something new pops up on your radar, the first thing you need to do is to try to figure out if i...
Bells and Whistles or Alarms What New Pew Data on Teens Means for Higher Ed Social Media
Posted by CKSyme.org 05-22-2013 12:07 pm
Since 2006, the number of teens that post their personal email address on social media has doubled from 29 percent to 53 percent. This was one of the eye opening pieces of data shared on the Pew Internet Research new report on Teens, Social Media and Pri...
Cities, MOOCs and Global Networks
Posted by GlobalHigherEd 05-21-2013 5:43 pm
The last few days of higher ed media coverage have been rich with discussions about the tangle of global networks being formed. A case in point is yesterday’s announcement, by Imperial College London and Zhejiang University, to collaborate on a new...
Webinar Recording Available for How to Use Social Media to Influence SEO
Posted by mStoner blog 05-21-2013 5:26 pm
Social media is great for building community and fostering conversations. Some of social medias most untapped potential lies in its ability to influence search engine result pages, where two-thirds of all prospective students go to...
Disrupt your summer; attend the 2013 CASE Summit
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing 05-21-2013 1:00 pm
If there’s one topic that causes great consternation and hand-wringing in the halls of academia these days, it’s the topic of disruption in higher education. We read blog posts about it. We watch videos about it. We even read entire books abou...
