Higher Ed Experts

Register for Start the (Word)Presses webinars by Jan 11, 2010 to get 5 webinars for the price of 2

Posted on Dec 21, 2009 by Karine Joly in Higher Ed Experts, Higher Ed News, Webinars

UPDATED on January 3rd, 2010:

Happy New Year! By popular demand, the deadline to get the free bonus has been postponed to January 11, 2010 and the registration deadline for THIS series is now January 19, 2010

Want to find out how to create the online version of your print magazine or newsletter using WordPress?

We have what you need:

Start the WordPresses, a 2-webinar series including a live presentation on January 21, 2010 as well as a pre-recorded demo walking you through all the steps to set up your WordPress magazine.

And, if you register at www.higheredexperts.com/startwordpresses by December 31st, 2009 by January 11, 2010, you’ll get free access to the following on-demand 3-webinar series (a $350 value) until March 31st, 2010:

“Why and how to go digital with your magazine or newsletter” recorded on July 7, 8 & 9, 2009

This is a 3-webinar series that will show you why more and more higher ed institutions have gone digital with their news-oriented publications. It will also help you get ready for an eventual switch from print to electronic or to better integrate both media at your institution by sharing winning strategies, lessons learned and practical advice from editors of higher ed digital magazines.

• Going Paperless: How to prepare and survive the transition from print to digital
  John Lofy, Editor of Michigan Today, will explain why and how his 40-year old alum magazine took the paperless route by switching to a web magazine combined with an email newsletter. He will share lessons learned, practical tips and advice to prepare and survive this major change.
• Paper and Pixels 101
  Bonny Griffith, Editor of Fuse at Ithaca College, will tell you why and how her 2-year old hybrid print and digital magazine helped her institution reach prospective students. She will also share some winning strategies to integrate and optimize efforts using both media.
• The Editor’s Guide to the Digital Galaxy: How to edit a paperless and multimedia magazine
  Karl L. Bates, Manager of Research Communications and Editor of Duke Research will explain what it means to go from print to digital for writers and editors. He will share practical tips, winning strategies and useful pointers to write and edit a multimedia, digital and paperless magazine.

And, the 14 Survey winners are…

Posted on Dec 16, 2009 by Karine Joly in Higher Ed Experts, Higher Ed News

A couple of weeks ago, Mark Greenfield, the driving force and new owner of the Uwebd Ning website and Stewart Foss, the owner of eduStyle and yours truly launched the second edition of the Higher Ed Experts/eduStyle/Uwebd/Collegewebeditor.com Survey.

As I explained on collegewebeditor.com at that time, the idea behind this unique survey was to poll the higher ed community once and to provide some cool prizes at the same time.

We would like to thank all the 559 people who took the time to answer our questions and without further ado announce the 14 lucky winners of the drawing:

• USSportsAcademy won the free pass for Start the (Word)Presses
• eduwebdev won the free pass for Website Redesign Boot Camp
• D. Collie from George Mason University and J. Gardiner from Northampton Community College won a free passes to Analytics 360
• CRT10 from Penn State University won a free pass for Open Source CMS Fair as well as the honorary prize for the most cryptic email address
• starmadilla and J. Fradett from Bishop’s University won a $50 gift certificate from Amazon
• kodiak324, digital_julie, tlshears, johncallery and J Zarate from TCU won an electronic copy of the eduStyle Guide of Usable Higher-Ed Homepage Design
• danilo04 won an eduStyle Standard Website Review 10-page Report + 1 Copy of the team edition of the electronic book
• bamit won an eduStyle Standard Single Web Page Review 5-page Report + 1 copy of the team edition of the electronic book

Congratulations to the winners!
You’ll hear from Stewart and me very soon.

Higher Ed Experts: new website, new look, same great professional development

Posted on Dec 09, 2009 by Karine Joly in Higher Ed Experts, Higher Ed News

As you can see, we’ve been working behind the scenes on Higher Ed Experts for the past few weeks.

The result: a new website that should be easier to use and to maintain.

The core idea behind this project?
Simplify.

We want to make it simple to register for webinars, to get to the resources and to find contacts at other institutions.

We don’t want to replicate what already exists elsewhere, so this won’t be the place to have extended discussions, talk about your passions, share your photos, ask for a quick tip (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin. Flickr, cuwebd do already that, don’t they?).

Our goal is to provide useful resources and curate the most important information about the latest trends and best practices in higher ed web, marketing and communication.

This first release of the new website was designed to be a work-in-progress as we want to build it with all our members.

So, why not let us know in the comments what you think about this new beginning?

And, don’t forget to visit the Member Center to find out more about the resources available to our members.