How much does a college or university blog really cost?
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
Smaller is better. The new Mac Mini is lighter and thinner than my firewire drive.
BeingEDU
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 ...
Organize Your Brain, Then Share It
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.
View of the lunch counter. Had organic salad with citrus vinaigrette.

