Every project has its ups and downs. Sometimes it’s pretty predictable. This bingo kit is for any web project manager, designer, developer, writer, freelancer, or anyone else who works on website projects. Rules Pick a project, any project. Each team member gets a card (reload to refresh the card). As the project goes on, mark …
Higher ed loves conferences (as do I). My boss has been live-tweeting the AMA Higher Ed Marketing conference for the last day or two. We’ve sent people to eduWEB Conference, South by Southwest Interactive, CASE, EDUCAUSE, RubyConf, RailsConf, and plenty of others. But these things cost money – travel, registration, food, per diem, etc. And …
In pushing social media on campus (including an institutional blogging platform to hold personal/professional blogs), the question arises: Who owns this content? I want to explore a few scenarios. Please post to the comments and share your own opinions on these. 1. You post to your personal blog on company time, using a company computer. …
This week I presented to our team at AgencyND about Mobile – what’s the deal and what’s coming. I call this the Mobile Horizon, as a nod to the Horizon Report which aims to inform higher education about the future technologies and their implications. Mobile is all the rage, and for good reason. View the …
If higher education is to avoid a painful death in the coming decades I have a relatively simple plan: create an R&D process. Add it to the Strategic Plan Executive leadership, the board, deans, and officers of the University must be aware of this effort. The goal isn’t survival – that’s playing defense and it’s …
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It’s a hot topic. It’s been a hot topic for over a decade now. The dramatic societal and cultural shifts that have come with nearly ubiquitous technology and connectivity have permeated every facet of our lives. We’ve seen how this shift has had dramatic effects numerous industries including music, newspapers, banking, and retail. The factors …
I recently looked at using Ning to power a private social network, but one little red flag was a deal-breaker. From the Terms of Service: You hereby grant Ning, during the course of your usage of the Ning Platform, a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicenseable and transferable right and license to (i) use, reproduce, …
In researching and writing an upcoming post, I came across this prescient quote from the President Emeritus of the University of Michigan, written in 1997: “Who needs specialists in an age where intelligent software agents may soon be available to roam far and wide through robust networks containing the knowledge of the world, instantly and …