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The Web Singularity is Near

5. February 2010

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 [...]

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

28. January 2010

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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. [...]

Is There a Brain Drain Coming?

24. November 2009

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Just last night, it was announced that the State of Kansas would be making its fifth round of budget cuts (cutting higher ed back to 2006 levels), now equaling a full $1 billion in cuts from of what was originally supposed to be a $6 billion state operating budget. Kansas is small potatoes. Students recently [...]

Book Review: Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig

24. September 2009

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Book Review: Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig

If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you might have caught on that I recently got into the book Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Lawrence Lessig, one of many that I’ve been meaning to check off my least of to-reads. Let me spoil the review by telling you not to [...]

The Online Education Game is Changing

8. September 2009

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The walled garden of higher education just took a volley from one dangerous cannon. It’s a cannon that might not knock the wall down this time, but there will certainly be successors that could. What I’m talking about is a place called StraighterLine.com. The short of it is that for $99 a month, you can [...]

Web Leadership’s Role in Higher Ed

28. April 2009

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Last week, I was fortunate enough to graduate in the second annual Pittsburg State University Leadership Class. This is a program modeled after other similar programs around the state and nation, programs which are designed to groom and cultivate forward minded people into folks capable of stepping up and contributing to the growth and development [...]

Highlights from E-expectations: Class of 2009

31. March 2009

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Stephanie Geyer, Associate Vice President for e-strategy and Web development at Noel-Levitz, released their latest E-expectations survey of 1,005 college-bound high school seniors in 2009 at the OmniUpdate Users Conference this morning. This is their fourth year doing this research study in conjunction with James Tower and the National Research Center for College and University [...]

Reining in the outliers for a university-wide cohesive Web presence

31. March 2009

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A prospective student does a Google search for “English composition [university name]” and is brought to your English department’s site. While there, they find the program that intrigues them, and decide to jump off course to learn more about tuition and fees, housing, and dining services. Along they way they bounce through three additional department [...]

Links of the Week Feb 1st, 2008

1. February 2008

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Here’s the weekly wrap-up of worthly tech news and a few extra tidbits. Lots of great news and articles this week! By far the biggest news of the week just happened this morning with Microsoft agreeing to buy Yahoo (links below). I’ve been telling people for the last month now that Yahoo was the perfect [...]

The Presidential Election Race using Web 2.0

30. January 2008

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According to recent results published by Pew Research Center, nearly one in four Americans regularly use the web to learn about presidential candidates and their campaign.