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5. February 2010

The Web Singularity is Near

By Michael Fienen - I should probably feel terrible for making a play on Ray Kurzweil’s famous book title, because I don’t think I’m quite good enough to borrow from someone like him. But, I did it anyway. I know, I’m without shame. I’ve come to terms with that. I want to go a little editorial on you all [...]

3. February 2010

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Want help? Ask the Gurus!

By Michael Fienen

Okay, today marks the launch of an exciting new experiment – and hopefully permanent addition to the .eduGuru web site. We all have a lot of resources at our disposal in our day to day job, and we want you to consider us among them. So, to kick this off, note the new button in [...]

1. February 2010

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3 Things Higher Ed Can Learn from the iPad (for Better or Worse)

By Nikki Massaro Kauffman

I’ve been thinking about this one ever since the big announcement came. Rather than give Apple the halo effect or the horn effect and hold it up as the model of what to do or what not to do, I thought these few lessons were a bit of both:

29. January 2010

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[Results] Are Classes in Your Toolbox?

By Michael Fienen

Towards the end of 2009, we started a new survey of higher ed web professionals to take a look at one potential way that you are using the resources around you. The question centered on a fairly simple, central concept: odds are that on your campus you have classes teaching the creation of different kinds [...]

28. January 2010

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IMHO 7 Reasons Why Higher Ed Is the Best Gig in All the Web

By Michael Fienen

Okay, I simply couldn’t resist tossing out a counterpoint here. This topic was started by Mark Greenfield (who was following up on a Steve Krug presentation) and continued here recently by my colleague Nikki. The reason that I want to run this from the other side is twofold: one, sometimes we just need a boost. [...]

27. January 2010

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IMHO 7 Reasons Why Higher Ed Is the Toughest Gig in All the Web

By Nikki Massaro Kauffman

I was on Twitter last week when Mark Greenfield put out the following call:

26. January 2010

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Best practices for training content contributors

By Nick DeNardis

The driving force of any web site is the content contributors, the people who know every detail of their department and hold the key to student success. These are the people you want publishing web content. What they have is value, the closer you can get them to the content creation process the better.

22. January 2010

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Product Review: My Wishlist for the Lynda.com Academic Site License

By Nikki Massaro Kauffman

Rather than spending time and money reinventing the wheel by creating Web-based tutorials for popular software titles only to sink more time and money into updating them with each subsequent version, schools can use a lynda.com academic site license to enable everyone on campus access to the entire lynda.com library of titles.

20. January 2010

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Authenticity: What I learned on my winter vacation

By Karlyn Morissette

Last week, I vacationed with my family in Fort Myers, Florida and, despite the HORRIFIC cold, I was able to get out and do some shopping. I went into this one surf shop with my family and came upon the following ad:

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