How much does a college or university blog really cost?

May 26, 2005

If you’re a school that wants to start a blog for reasons of recruitment, communication, academic voice, strategic planning, or community-buiding, but you’ve been hesitant to, I feel your pain.  I used to work for a “marketing communications consulting firm in higher education” where they once recommended an admissions-focused blog for a client with a ...

Mac Mini

Mac Mini

May 21, 2005

Smaller is better.  The new Mac Mini is lighter and thinner than my firewire drive.

Light Blur

Light Blur

May 20, 2005

BeingEDU

May 13, 2005

I’m now writing about more strategic and web related issues over at a new Ideacodes blog, BeingEDU.com.  Being EDU™ is a weblog about strategic web design and development for college and university websites, co-authored and co-edited by myself and Max Kiesler.  We invite you to take a look, BeingEDU.com, partcipate by posting comments, and if ...

Side Streets

Side Streets

May 13, 2005

Organize Your Brain, Then Share It

May 13, 2005

As big fans of Basecamp, we were excited to try out 37signals‘ personal information manager, Backpack.  A lot of applications have claimed to be online organizers, but Backpack is the first web app that really comes close to being a true web-based brain. In 1996 after learning HTML, I attempted my own web organizer — ...

Boxed Food Co.

Boxed Food Co.

May 5, 2005

View of the lunch counter. Had organic salad with citrus vinaigrette.