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[ Results ] The State of Higher Ed Video
2011 got started at .eduGuru by conducting a survey on the status of video usage amongst us higher ed folks. Video is an increasingly important component of our websites, and it’s not always clear what the best road is to certain goals. We’ve put together all the information we collected from 98 institutions, licensed it [...]
Continue reading...[ Survey ] The State of Higher Ed Video
Time to kick off the new year with some reader interaction! Since we just released the results of our last survey, it’s prime time to see what we could gather next. This time, we’re diving into the wild world of video, and it’s a doozy. This survey will take a few minutes, but it will [...]
Continue reading...Viral Videos: What It Means and Tips For Going Viral
Last Sunday night I had the pleasure of being a guest host on Seth Odell’s new weekly web show Higher Ed Live. You might remember the plug I wrote a few weeks ago. Well after the first two episodes Seth has found a niche where he is providing a ton of value to the higher [...]
Continue reading...Can Video Chats be Useful in Recruitment?
April is an incredibly important month for Admission Offices around the country. There’s accepted student open houses, email campaigns, school swag to be mailed, and events across the country to convince top high school students that they should deposit to your school by May 1. What’s the point of all these increased marketing efforts? Sure, [...]
Continue reading...[Results] Are Classes in Your Toolbox?
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 [...]
Continue reading...When advertising on Hulu (pre-roll ads) goes wrong
Advertising your institution on a number of sites via text, banner, or even pre-roll videos ads has become ever more popular as the shift from print to digital takes hold. There is one downside to this change though, loss of context control.
Continue reading...Designing a Custom Flip Cam
How is this for great - one of the first things I got to do after being officially hired by Fire Engine RED was design and buy a Flip MinoHD to use at NACAC. After conferring with Keith, a fellow new FER employee and a compatriot from an old job, I opted for one of [...]
Continue reading...Don’t Forget to Vote for the eduStyle Awards!
Voting for the second annual eduStyle awards closes in just a couple of days, and we wanted to give you a reminder to drop by and vote! Not only that, be sure to drop a checkmark down for .eduGuru for the best higher ed blog. Just in case you need some more convincing though, I [...]
Continue reading...Talkback: Trusting Your Users
First off, a special thanks to HighEdWeb and Cornell for having the .eduGuru team present virtually at their conference yesterday. It was a good time and a great experience getting to do something a little new and fancy with sharing our experiences with other people. I certainly hope that we can expand on that technique [...]
Continue reading...Captioning your YouTube videos with CaptionTube
I’m an accessibility advocate and one thing thats been bothering me for a while was the lack of an easy way to caption videos uploaded to YouTube. They clearly explain they support closed captioning:
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