On the second day of Confab, Normandale Community College's Lynne Figg took the stage to talk about how her college undertook a web governance initiative to address content ownership and quality issues. We interviewed Figg and colleagues Mary Krugerud and Matthew Crawford about the project: Below is our Storify of tweets from the session: [View the story … [Read more...] about Higher Ed Rocks Confab: Web Governance at Normandale
Higher Ed Takeaways From Confab: The Content Strategy Conference 2012
Last week, Meet Content attended the second annual meeting of Confab: The Content Strategy Conference. It was another three sweet days of killer content and cake. Yep, still plenty of cake (and related puns). Higher ed had an even larger stake in the conference than it did last year (check out our higher ed Confab 2012 Twitter list). Plus, there were two great higher ed talks … [Read more...] about Higher Ed Takeaways From Confab: The Content Strategy Conference 2012
Introducing Meat Content
Over the past year, we’ve talked a lot about web content and ways to improve it in higher ed. And while those conversations have been great, we think we’ve identified a more pressing topic deserving of our attention. And that topic is meat. A highly advanced analysis of popular topics among the higher ed web community showed that bacon is among the most discussed topics. … [Read more...] about Introducing Meat Content
Some New Ways to Meet Content
It’s hard to believe that it’s almost been a year since we launched Meet Content. In that time, we’ve covered a wide array of topics — everything from inline links to infographics — and have had many enlightening and inspiring conversations with you about how we can keep making content better. To that end, we’d like to share a few new offerings from Meet Content that we hope … [Read more...] about Some New Ways to Meet Content
Content Takeaways from HighEdWeb 2011
Last week, we traveled to Austin, TX, for HighEdWeb 2011, one of the most eagerly anticipated events on our calendar. We were excited to present on making quality content count with web analytics (Rick) and reinventing news on your university website (Georgy, who received a Red Stapler and Best of Conference honor for the session). While the content track was held on the … [Read more...] about Content Takeaways from HighEdWeb 2011