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Campus Technology Conference

The 2008 Campus Technology Conference is being held in Boston from July 28-31. Here is a description from the conference website: Campus Technology 2008 welcomes attendees to its 15th annual summer conference, where leading innovators and experts in technology for higher education guide faculty, instructional designers, eLearning program managers, information technologists, and campus administrators into  Read more »

eduWEB Conference 2008

I’m looking forward to seeing many of you at the upcoming eduWEB conference in Atlantic City.  I’m in the process of finishing the keynote speech.  There have been numerous new tools emerging recently so I’ve completely revamped the speech since th

More on Higher Ed Websites becomeing Irrelevent

I have been blogging for several years and the post that received the most attention by far was Will Higher Ed Websites Become Irrelevant?. I’ve talked about this at recent conferences by sharing the following observation:  In 2005, 100% of my time

Will Higher Ed Websites Become Irrelevant?

Jeremiah Owyang is one of my favorite commentators on Social Media. I have been thinking about his post Web Strategy: How to evolve your irrelevant corporate website for quite some time and if this is applicable to higher ed sites. The basic premi

University Politics are so Vicious Precisely Because the Stakes are so Small

I’ve had several discussions this week about the unique challenges of managing a college or university web site. Sometimes it is easy to get totally consumed with campus politics. One of my favorite quotes is from Henry Kissinger “University politi

The 2008 Horizon Report

The 2008 Horizon report was recently released and as always contains valuable information on the latest technology trends impacting college campuses. The Horizon Report is a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning In