Higher Ed News and Trends

10/14/2009 Duke gets a new homepage powered by Drupal and… campus stories

After Bates College last month, Duke University unveiled its new homepage on October 1st.

The last design was done in 2006 and had definitely a Google-ish kind of look.

Duke Homepage (2006)

With the new design Duke’s...

10/13/2009 The registration deadline for Going Mobile Webinars has been postponed to this Friday (October 16) at 9PM ET

Last week, I attended the rehearsal of Dave Olsen’s webinars on how to create a mobile website for your university in 24 hours or less.

And, I’m happy to report that he has really done a lot of work to make the...

10/12/2009 Social Networks: Should you go private or stick with Facebook?

A frightening and yet interesting thing happened to Rachel Reuben from SUNY New Paltz a few days ago. The Facebook page she created 2 years ago for her university disappeared. Rachel tried everything to get the page back as she...

10/02/2009 7-step plan to Social Media Measurement for Higher Ed Institutions

My new UB column is now available in the October issue as well as online: “Social Media Measurement 101: A seven-step plan to set up (and benefit from) a simple social measurement program “

Here are the 7 steps:

1....

10/01/2009 Interested in the first 100 days of a chief communications officer at a big university? Go back to HiceSchool!

Previously AVP of Marketing and Public Relations at his alma mater, the University of Florida, Joe Hice started to work as the chief communications officer at NC State University last week.

What’s really interesting here...