It is well documented that Millennials consider e-mail to be old school and prefer to use IM. At UB, we have started to experiment with the MeeBoMe widget that will allow people to IM our various offices directly from a web page.  We have added it to two of our sites and so far, so  Read more »

A recent post on Read/Write Web titled 2007 Will Be A Big Year For RSS explains how the arrival of IE7, Vista and other new products should bring RSS to the mainstream. I agree that RSS is ready for prime time. I have been using RSS for quite some ti

I was one of several people interviewed by Karine Joly for the article “10 Tips for Surviving a CMS Switch” in the October 2006 issue of University Business” magazine. Karine has also published my five tips on the collegewebeditor.com site. Conte

In most of my presentations I mentioned the importance of 3G cellular networks and the impact it will have on the Mobile Web. 3G will bring broadband speeds to cell phones which will greatly improve the Web experience for anyone using a cell phone to

At the recent HighEdWebDev2006 conference in Rochester, I had the opportunity to conduct a workhop called “Emerging Web Technologies: Building New Connections in Higher Education” with my friend and colleague Jim Leous from Penn State. Jim and I have