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What a difference a year makes. Well, two years.

Mike — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:00:38 +0000

I'm now squarely in the terrible twos phase of blogging.

QR Codes Going Slightly More Mainstream

Mike — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:07:48 +0000

How can we use QR codes in higher ed in an interesting manner?

It May be Time to Brush Up On Your Campus Emergency Plan

Mike — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:10:50 +0000

A shooting on campus is every higher education employee’s worst nightmare. There was an interesting post in yesteday’s Wired Campus about the University of Alabama at Huntsville’s emergency alert system. Last week, there was a shooting on their campus and sadly, three faculty members were killed, two other faculty members and one staff assistant was injured in [...]

Google Runs a Super Bowl Ad. Will Higher Ed?

Mike — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:38:42 +0000

Google runs a Super Bowl ad. But why?

Amazon Lowers Outgoing Bandwidth Pricing

Mike — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:34:52 +0000

Amazon has reduced the cost of bandwidth served out by its various web services, including S3, EC2 and their CloudFront content delivery network. Prices now start at $0.15 USD per GB for the first 10TB. This is down from $0.17USD per GB before. New prices for everything but CloudFront look like this now:Level Old Price New PriceFirst 10 [...]

7 Reasons Higher Ed is the Best Gig in all the Web

Mike — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:44:34 +0000

I’ve been following via Twitter and blogs this week talk about the challenges and obstacles we face in the web world of higher education. Mark Greenfield started the conversation here, and Nikki Kauffman continued things here. Michael Fienen has a similar post about why higher ed is great here. Good to see we have some [...]

Holiday Card Post-Mortem

Mike — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:30:45 +0000

A breakdown of our 2009 holiday video production.

A Dr. Horrible-esque Recruiting Video

Mike — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:20:05 +0000

Yale brings some admissions video thunder.

Fundraising via text: a viable option?

Mike — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:30:00 +0000

Fundraising by text message. Can it work in higher ed?

Future trend: crowdsourcing content In higher education

Mike — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:00:56 +0000

Nice video, huh? Watch it in HD, it’s even cooler. That’s a clip of “Terrible Lie” by Nine Inch Nails. His album “The Downward Spiral” pretty much defines being 18 and that weird, strange and wonderful time between high school and college. Anyways, Trent Reznor (who attended the college I currently work at for 1 year) [...]