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Get those gravatars

You may notice on lots of site people have avatars next to their comments. Why don’t you? You probably haven’t made a gravatar. Next you might ask: What is a gravatar? A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog appearing beside your name when you read more..

For the greater good or saving money, you choose

Time and time again I get this feeling that lots of people in higher ed have their head buried in the sand. People fail to realize that many of the things they do and resources they create can be useful and time saving for others. It seems like everyone wants to tackle every project on read more..

Follow up - Press release 2.0 - Stamats 08

Thanks to those of you who attended my talk on Social Media press releases. Here are my slides. Here is a video of my session. Here is the SMPR template I refered to http://www.shiftcomm.com/downloads/smprtemplate.pdf Here is the defacto site about SMPRs’ http://www.socialmediarelease.org/ If you would like to read further here are the sites I used to learn about Social Media read more..

Speaking : Stamats 08

I will be doing an upcoming conference in St. Petersburg, FL for the Stamats Integrated Marketing Conference. I will be speaking about press releases in a talk named Press Release 2.0: Generating Buzz in the Social Media Era. This is a talk that I have done before that I have since revisited and changed quite read more..

HighEdWeb 08

I am going to be attending HighEdWeb 08 and look forward to meeting lots of you. I will also be presenting a session on Tuesday at 9:45am. Press Release 2.0 - News Releases in the Social Media Era. I did this talk once before with what was a very social media press release take on read more..

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Back channel is powerful

I have noticed a trend over the last year at many conferences. The only discussion being had is not that of the speaker on stage. But that of the attending and following along online audience as well. This isn’t an entirely new revelation people have been live blogging and irc channels  for years. But not read more..

All of eduWeb 2008

Unfortunately, I’m not able to attend this year but since I am going to be keeping up online I thought I would provide all I find as a resource to others as I did last year. This post will be updated multiple times over the course of the conference. DIGG IT Tracking Linkbunch of all the tracking NEW read more..

User experience web and beyond

I had one of the best web user experiences I have ever had the other day. Enough that I feel obligated to post about it. I was purchasing a Flip camera via Amazon. Amazon in general is a great shopping experience. The cart the recommendation, the reviews. It ties everything together in a great package. So read more..

Design Inspiration

I had a running “Friday Design Inspiration” series that I would post here on the site and due to the fact that I am ridiculously busy with consulting and other things I am going to change it up a bit. Rather than the Friday highlight posts I will just update whenever I find something. So you read more..