Higher Ed News and Trends

09/28/2009 Want a fresh take on the campus tour online video? Have a look at the University LipDub Project!

This is one of these posts I have to write as soon as possible.

I was working on my weekly newsletter when I checked very quickly Twitter and saw this tweet from Mike Richwalsky about an online video:

Twitter / Mike Richwalsky:...

09/23/2009 Want to learn how to build a mobile website for your institution in less than 24 hours? Register for Going Mobile Webinars by October 12, 2009

A few weeks ago, I wrote about Dave Olsen’s achievement in developing a mobile website for West Virginia University in just 19 days using MIT Mobile Web open-source platform.

Dave spent some time customizing the existing...

09/21/2009 Bates College goes beyond the usual homepage redesign with Home 4 running on WordPress

Have you seen Bates College’s new homepage?

You should check it out. It is really different and innovative.

Bates College

Not because it uses fancy graphics or animations, but because Jay Collier and his team at Bates...

08/18/2009 Find out how some YouTube videos went viral with the Statistics & Data feature

Don’t know if you’ve noticed but YouTube released about a month ago a new feature available by default for all the videos it hosts (unless you disable it): Data and Statistics.

As explained on the YouTube Help...

08/10/2009 Want to learn how to create better, viral, and ADA-compliant web videos? Register by August 26 for Online Videos 360 Webinars

If you read this blog, there is no doubt you know how important online videos have become in the higher ed marketing and communication mix.

With YouTube, iTunes and others, your target audiences have come to expect to be able to...