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Don’t Make Me Tweet at #heweb10 – The Video

After last years Great Keynote Meltdown the HighEdWeb conference committee was very was in tough position to choose a keynote speaker for theconference.  They changed it up bringing back some of their best presentations from the past few years (thank you for choosing me to come back and represent with my Web Analytics [...]

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Redesign Your University Website According to xkcd

I’m sure most of you saw the University Website xkcd comic last week and shook your fists in the air. The front page of a university website is a battleground, no doubt. Dylan Wilbanks posted a good reaction to the comic on his blog and Steve Kolowich covered it extensively in Inside Higher Ed.

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A Satirical Look at Higher Ed: The Cronk of Higher Education

Sometimes it’s good to step back from those three-hour conference room meetings or vendor calls from Hell and just laugh at yourself for a bit. Working in higher ed is a demanding, non-stop job but there’s plenty of opportunities to find humor in most situations.

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What would a College Super Bowl Commercial Look Like?

Maybe you saw Web ManagerRichwalsky’s post earlier this week about Google’s Super Bowl Ad and the local commercial for The University of Akron that me mentioned?  This got me thinking and let’s be honest, who doesn’t like to talk about Super Bowl Commercials?  This post doesn’t really have any practical purpose, but it’s fun to [...]

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Happy Halloween from the Gurus

Hopefully everyone is having a wonderful Halloween!  Last year we gave you a few Halloween comics so this year we thought we would once again offer a little humor.  After all you don’t want to be totally spooked today, right?

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Don’t Forget to Vote for the eduStyle Awards!

Voting for the second annual eduStyle awards closes in just a couple of days, and we wanted to give you a reminder to drop by and vote!  Not only that, be sure to drop a checkmark down for .eduGuru for the best higher ed blog.  Just in case you need some more convincing though, I [...]

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What the Elf: ElfYourself of the .eduGuru Team

So I’m having a little fun waiting out a Blizzard in Boston.  Enjoy! Disco

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