Higher Ed News and Trends

08/26/2008 Fresh higher ed blogging at Big Glorious Mess

I’ve just (I know, I know, I’m late here but my Web browsing time has been dramatically cut over the past few weeks) found out about David Baker’s really good blog: Big Glorious Mess, and I think I’ve just...

08/25/2008 The University of Maryland is working on a social networking application to be used in case of emergencies

That’s what I’ve learned this morning by reading “Emergency Alerts via Facebook and MySpace Are New Ways to Reach Students,” an article written by Jeffrey Young from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

A...

08/21/2008 OSU’s new homepage includes a tag cloud for most popular links

That’s a pretty innovative way to deal with the put-me-on-the-homepage syndrome all higher ed web designers have to face when it’s time to redesign a university/college website.

No fighting to find out which links to...

08/20/2008 Need help to host and promote your online videos? Register for “Beyond YouTube,” the Sep 24 webinar presented by Mike Richwalsky from Allegheny College

These past few weeks, I’ve seen many questions around branded YouTube channels (via the non-profit or the partner program) as well as the frustration building up in the higher community around the lack of transparency...

08/20/2008 Writing a Facebook Application in 5 days is hard. Can you help the University of Bath Web Services team?

The University of Bath Web Services team didn’t expressively request any help, but if any higher ed web developer can provide some tips, it looks like it would be more than welcome as Phil Wilson hints in this blog...