Mar30th
In February, Notre Dame’s Alumni Association did something remarkable: it launched an interactive television program entirely online. The program is called Tender, Strong, and True: Living the Gospel Daily. It’s a panel-format show discussing a topic of faith with academics and spiritual leaders. And through UStream, the entire world can join in the discussion. Now …
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Mar18th
ND is rolling out Blogs at Notre Dame, a blogging platform using WordPress MU. We’re hoping to get some of our brilliant and interesting faculty members blogging. This raises a lot of questions: There’s been a lot of talk about blogging for admissions and student recruitment, but should faculty members blog? Will that hurt or …
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Mar9th
The web profession is a client-driven one, even when we don’t technically have clients. We’re always teaching, educating the various stakeholders as to best practices, how to use new technologies, and why they shouldn’t waste their time on the flashy buzzword-du-jour. If you’ve been doing this long enough, these conversations will all be familiar to …
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Mar3rd
Like many higher ed web professionals, my team is caught in the middle. On one hand, we have clients and want to help them get their projects done, make them happy, and accomplish their goals. On the other, we have the institution. Even if we’re entirely client-driven and can run like a business, we’ve got …
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Feb26th
Note: I know very well that the word is spelled résumé but for whatever reason my blog won’t display the é character unless I explicitly state it with an HTML entity code . Argh. I’ve been doing a lot of hiring lately. This time around, I took careful note of the factors I considered as …
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Feb11th
A recent question on our internal campus communicators network prompted a question about Google’s social networking entrant, Buzz. There’s been plenty of chatter about it, so I don’t feel the need to summarize what Buzz is. As @donschindler pointed out, Jeremiah Owyang has a great comparison of some top social networks including Buzz. He urges …
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Jan16th
If you haven’t checked out the Horizon Report in the past, it’s an annual publication that highlights key technologies expected to affect higher education in the next five years. This year’s report was published on January 14 and has some real gems, as usual. What’s On the Horizon The near-term technologies include mobile computing and …
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Jan9th
Take this brief quiz and make a mental note of your responses: Have you and your boss (or client) agreed on the important metrics for your website’s success? That’s it. If the answer is yes, you’re on the road to being an analytics superhero. But if you don’t know the answer to that question, all …
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