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#heweb10 - Managing Projects in Web Development
Daniel Frommelt (@Frommelt), University World Wide Web Coordinator from the University of Wisconsin, gave a sobering statistic in his presentation of Web Development Projects: people only retain 50% of what people say only an hour after a meeting. Two weeks later, they only remember 25%.
Continue reading...Book Review: Problem Solving 101 – A Simple Book For Smart People
Anyone that has read this blog for any time knows that I consider myself a problem solver first and a web/tech guy second. A few weeks ago I presented a problem solving presentation deck and even further back I’ve talked about how to optimize your email habits, RSS reading time and establishing oneself as an [...]
Continue reading...Another Use for Powerpoint – Problem Solving Deck
I’ve always said that I don’t really consider myself a technology or a web person. Instead I think of myself as more of a problem solver through technology. If you remember a while back I wrote a blog post on Email Management Best Practices. I very much know the challenges and problems with letting an [...]
Continue reading...5 Tips for Running a Productive Social Media Meeting
Summer is almost upon the higher education world. You know what that means for enrollment and marketing offices - planning committees, mailing calendar adjustments, strategy meetings, year-end recaps.
Continue reading...QA on Higher Education Web sites. How to do it and what to look for.
Running a web office I see a lot of sites, quality assurance is part of every minute of my day. Everything I see goes through the same quality checks otherwise we don’t launch it. Tools and people will come and go, quality on the other hand is the one thing in a web office that [...]
Continue reading...Presentation Notes from Google Wave in Higher Education
This week I talked to a group at theHELIX conference, sponsored by MOREnet. MOREnet is one of the high level networking authorities that provides connectivity services for educational entities in Missouri. My presentation discussed Google Wave’s place in the current and future plans of higher education. Below, you can find an outline of [...]
Continue reading...IMHO 7 Reasons Why Higher Ed Is the Toughest Gig in All the Web
I was on Twitter last week when Mark Greenfield put out the following call:
Continue reading...Data Collection #FAIL
Over the years and in various roles: technical, training, leadership. I’ve served on a number of implementation teams and used a number of data-collection applications: time-tracking, project-management, Web analytics, surveys, other statistics packages. What I have learned from these experiences is that there are three common ways to fail:
Continue reading...Student Workers in Higher Ed Web Offices Research Results
I hope that everyone is having or has had a great time at HighEdWebthis 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 workers in [...]
Continue reading...Image Library: Moving from Extensis Portfolio to Google’s Picasa
We’ve been using Extensis Portfolio Server and clients for five years between two departments, Public Affairs and Design & Printing Services, to attempt to organize our digital image library of nearly 50,000 images. We’re also starting to store videos on this same server. We have a mixed environment of PC and Mac platforms. The PCs [...]
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