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[Results] Higher Ed CMS Usage

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

At the end of February, .eduGuru set out to begin another round of research on a trend in higher ed web development. This time, we took a look at the CMSs being used from school to school. Which CMS to use for a university is a question that lingers in forums and on mailing lists [...]

[Guru Survey] Higher Ed CMS Usage

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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If there is one question that serves as the elephant in the room for higher education web development, it’s: “What CMS should I use?” The question is common, but not at all simple, and research data is not easy to come by. We would like to provide some helpful information in this area, and have [...]

Want help? Ask the Gurus!

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

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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 [...]

[Results] Are Classes in Your Toolbox?

Friday, January 29, 2010

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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 [...]

[Guru Survey] Are Classes In Your Toolbox?

Monday, December 7, 2009

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Good budgeting includes doing effective resource management. The web has to produce a lot of different media, and so making the most of our resources is extremely important. This is becoming increasingly important as we’re asked to do more with less. The neat thing about higher ed though is that we have access to a [...]

[Results] State of the University Web Department survey

Monday, November 23, 2009

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253 Total Responses First and foremost I wanted to thank everyone who took the time to fill out the survey. The feedback from this has been amazing and I know everyone has been anticipating the results. These results will help others shape and make informed decisions about their web environment. I have a feeling most of [...]

5 min survey: State of the university Web department

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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5 min survey: State of the university Web department

Last week myself, Michael Fienen and Karlyn Morissette had the privilege of speaking at the HighEdWeb 2009 Conference. I can’t explain how great it was to see so many higher education web professionals, I feel humbled being around so many awesome people doing great things.

Student Workers in Higher Ed Web Offices Research Results

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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I hope that everyone is having or has had a great time at HighEdWeb 2009 this year! If you couldn’t make it, hopefully we’ll see you next year. For those who missed it or would like to refer back to it, I wanted to make the information related to my session on student [...]

Highlights from E-expectations: Class of 2009

Tuesday, March 31, 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 [...]

Student Worker Research

Monday, November 24, 2008

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It’s time for you to give a little back, and help me with some research I’m doing for some presentations to follow up in the future. But it will be worth it, because in helping me, I will help you by taking all these numbers and stats and turning them into something cool, hilarious, and [...]