Our many thanks to Jeffrey Veen and Kyle Ford for the excellent keynote presentations they made at HighEdWeb 2008. These videos are now available on the HighEdWeb 2008 conference site:
-Sara
Each year the conference attracts some of the best and brightest to speak on the topics that concern web professionals working in all levels of higher education. This year, we have a whole new way to show off the high caliber of professionals that chose to present — Podcasts.
In this first installment, we are presenting the 5 sessions that won “best of” for each track:
APS8: Hello, Is Anyone Out There? Using Web Analytics to Understand Your Audience (transcript)
MMP8: Getting Them to the Table, and Keeping Them There: Campus Web Redesigns (transcript)
SAC1: It Isn’t About the Feature Set: Selecting a Web Content Management System that Works for You (transcript)
TPR3: Cross-Site Scripting: What is it, and how can you protect your site from becoming a victim? (transcript)
UAD5: The Accessible Video Interface (transcript)
Hello HighEdWeb professionals around the world -
The future of our professional association looks bright. We just wrapped up our annual conference in Springfield, Missouri, where over 400 fellow professionals gathered from at least three countries and 40 U.S. states to share countless solutions with each other. That doesn’t count people following us via #heweb08 on Twitter. (A special thanks to Sara Clark at Missouri State and her team for pulling together such a great conference, the entire program committee and our many presenters for such a great program.
I’m personally looking forward to seeing friends old and new in Milwaukee in 2009. Planning is already underway.
But there’s more to professional associations than national conferences, blogs and e-mail lists; and we certainly have some ideas. However, we want your feedback — and your help.
We’ve constructed an online survey full of our ideas for future projects we could begin under the HighEdWeb umbrella — or should I say globe? We hope you’ll tell us what you think. Feel free to drop us anonymous feedback via the survey, or signed feedback by e-mail or comments to the blog post.
We want this to be your association, and we want to start new projects that are to your greatest benefit. And we hope you’ll help us out along the way as we try to turn these ideas into realities.
So please give us a few minutes and take our survey now, and help us steer the great ship that is HighEdWeb over its next few years.
More to come.
-Steve Lewis
President, HighEdWeb
@stebert on Twitter
slewis@brockport.edu
The Higher Education Web Professionals Association strives to provide exceptional service to all higher education web professionals. To that end, we recently recorded the HighEdWeb 2008 track and keynote presentations with the intention of branching out into podcasting conference sessions. We also started the process of transcribing this content for captioning, with a goal to release the completed transcripts as soon as possible.
We launched the intial, basic set of “best of track” podcasts within a week of the conference in order to meet growing attendee demand; however, this rollout proved to be premature, so we have removed the podcasts temporarily. We will re-post the optimized, finished files in the coming weeks.
Thanks for your patience, and please check back for updates on this process.
And so, as we consign another HighEdWeb to the record books, we want to thank all of the 400+ Web professionals who came together this week — both in person in Springfield, M.O., and via tools like Twitter — to share ideas and infinite solutions. We had a great time and look forward to seeing you all again next year in Milwaukee for HighEdWeb 09!
As you go back to your own institutions filled with great ideas, feel free to get a refresher by checking out presentation slides and materials on the HighEdWeb site. Just visit the “Schedule” page and click individual session titles to see descriptions, presenter info and links to materials.
We also recorded many of the presentations and will be launching the first HighEdWeb podcasts very soon! Keep an eye out for more information coming your way.
Thanks again to all who were part of HighEdWeb 08; we hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did.
- colleen
conference committee
We’re just a few short days away until the conference (wow!), so as you start packing for Springfield, be sure to take care of a few details first
** If you haven’t already, be sure to join the HighEdWeb 2008 Conference Community on Ning, where you can get regular updates, join in discussions and chat with fellow attendees.
** Start following the HighEdWeb Twitter stream (username = HighEdWeb; topic = #heweb08), for fast updates and news items.
** Go to Ning and add topics you would like to discuss at HighEdWeb 08. We’ll
** Sign up to compete in the first HighEdWeb Guitar Hero Championship! You can throw your hat into the ring via Ning or by e-mailing frommelt@uwplatt.edu. As they say, “To the victor goes the spoils,” and let me tell you, the Championship prizes are really great!
We’ll see you in just a few short days. And now, it’s Springfield, M.O. and HighEdWeb 08 or bust!
Attention, all friends & colleagues who have yet to register for HighEdWeb 08: conference registration ends tomorrow, Sept. 23. If you’re planning on coming to M.O. in just under two weeks, please be sure to register today.
If you’ve already registered, we’re looking forward to seeing you! We have a few things you can do to prepare for the conference:
The Higher Education Web Professionals Association is pleased to announce the election of Association officers:
President: Steve Lewis (SUNY Brockport)
Vice-President: Dan Frommelt (University of Wisconsin - Platteville)
Treasurer: Gordy Pace (University of Montana)
Secretary: Shelly Brown (Southwest Baptist University)
Many thanks to all those on the Board and those who have held leadership positions in the Association — your work and dedication is truly appreciated.
http://www.highedweb.org/
Hello everyone,
We are less than a month away from HighEdWeb 2008 - hard to believe. It will be great to see all of my colleagues and peers very soon - one of the greatest benefits of this conference is that you meet wonderful people from a variety of backgrounds and places. Sounds cliche, but it really is all about the networking - and the commraderie is a big added benefit.
Speaking of networking, the HighEdWeb poster sessions, which will be held on Tuesday, October 7 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. are a fantastic way to not only meet and network with the presenters themselves, but to also meet and network with those who attend. The poster sessions always generate good conversation and ideas. Please make the time to stop by, if only for a few minutes, to take them in, meet new people, and support your HighEdWeb colleagues! More information about the poster sessions is available via the Poster Sessions listing on the conferences Web site.
See you in Missouri!
–Karen
Today we hit an exciting deadline: in exactly one month, we’ll be traveling to Springfield, M.O., and the campus of Missouri State University to kick off HighEdWeb 2008: Infinite Solutions!
If you’re not already registered for HighEdWeb 2008, please be sure to register today to join us in October. There are a limited number of spaces and they’re filling fast, so don’t delay. Speaking as a Web professional who manages college Web communications, I can tell you that this conference has just enormous value for me — it’s my “not-to-be-missed” professional development experience of the year. I am always so impressed with the high, high caliber of presentations, and with how generous my colleagues are with sharing their solutions and ideas for the future of the profession. Each year (and this will be my fifth HighEdWeb) I leave with my head spinning with great inspirations and my bag full of business cards from amazing colleagues across the country who are just so generous in sharing their time, talents and expertise. I’ve been lucky enough to not only attend the conference each year but to also volunteer some time to help the conference committee a bit, and I can tell you honestly that this conference just gets better and better every year.
If you ARE already registered for the conference, here are a few things you can do to start getting ready for Springfield: