Nancy's Notables
Nancy Kroes, WUG President, peruses several blogs and world-wide university forums. Anything found notable will be posted here.
- RESS: An Evolution of Responsive Web Design 5/23/12
- 3 Important Things When Marketing to International Students 5/08/12
- Making Complex Selections in Photoshop 5/02/12
- University Infographics: Yes, you should. 5/02/12
- Why do #highered responsive websites need more "responsible" content? 5/2/12
- Meet Content April Newsletter 04/24/12
- Content With Purpose: Ready, Set, Action! 04/24/12
- Your .edu Website is Too Complicated 04/18/12
- What the... Files: Content and Content Strategy 04/18/12
- Mobile Apps Will Pass - History Will Repeat Itself 04/17/12
- Rethinking the UX of the Program Listing 04/11/12
- Structured Content: An Overview 03/27/12
- Delivering An Amazing Site on Every Device: Notre Dame Edition 3/07/12
- Communicate Clearly With Less Content 02/28/12
- The 2012 State of the Mobile Web in Higher Ed Survey Report 02/22/12
- The Basics of Search Friendly Design & Development 02/16/12
- The 5 Most Valuable Places for Keywords on Your Website 02/16/12
- The Mobile Browsing Behaviors and Expectations of College-Bound High School Students 02/15/12
- Creating a Social Media Style Guide 01/31/12
- Evaluating the Mantra "Think Like a Publisher" 01/27/12
- Social Media Guides for Content Creation 01/05/12
- Higher Ed CMS Usage Survey, 2011 12/19/11
- Content Smorgasbord 12/19/11
- Communicate Clearly with Less Content 12/08/11
- Content Entrepreneurship: A Commitment to Change 12/05/11
- LINK - HighEdWeb Conference 2011 11/02/11
- All the Mobile Presentations From HighEdWeb 2011 11/02/11
- Content Takeaways from HighEdWeb 2011 11/01/11
- SEO Copywriting for Content Contributors 10/28/11
- Content Strategy and Web Development in Higher Ed 10/25/11
- Facebook Page Insights 2011 Upgrade: The Complete Reference Guide 10/19/11
- Branding on the Website: Homepage 10/12/11
- How to Make Higher Education Marketing Easier with Google Analytics Intelligence 10/12/11
- Despite Facebook Changes, You Still Contol Your Content 10/6/11
- The Fallacy of User-Centered Content 10/5/11
- Social Media Curation for Higher Ed Events 10/4/11
- Content as Customer Service 9/28/11
- Web Analytics for Content Planning 9/15/11
- Panoramas: A How-To 9/15/11
- 3 tips to create better #highered content 9/15/11
- Design Convergence in Higher Ed Websites 9/15/11
- Stop treating QR codes as shiny objects! 9/15/11
- First Things's First: Print, Web, and Content 09/02/11
- Penn State Web Content conference notes
- Assessing the Vlue of HTML Meta Tags 08/19/11
- Designer QR Codes and Higher Education: Andrew Gossen 8/17/11
- 100% of Colleges and Universities are Doing Social Media 8/5/11
- Elements of Editorial Style for the Web 8/5/11
- Special Entities of HTML 8/03/11
- Recruitment Lessons from the 2011 E-Expectations Study 7/29/11
- Idiot's Guide to Event Tracking 7/28/11
- On-Brand SEO Keywords for Meaningful Search 7/25/11
- Aligning Content Online and Offline 7/12/11
- As Mobile Devices Multiply, Some Colleges Turn Away From Building
Campus Apps 6/28/11
- eduStyle Awards 2011 Nominees 6/24/11
- A 'Content-First' Approach to Higher Ed Web 6/24/11
- Higher Ed Mobile Directory updated 6/22/11
- 25 More Tech Tips and Tricks 6/07/11
- Ins and Outs of Using Gadgetry 6/07/11
- Better Googling 5/24/11
- Live Content on a Low Budget 5/19/11
- Higher Ed Takeaways from Confab 2011: The Content Strategy Conference 5/16/11
- EDU Checkup: Western Michigan University 5/13/11
- Great Content Through Branding 5/13/11
- The State of Higher Ed Social Media 2011 5/12/11
- Perfect Web Pitch to Prospective Students: Why Choose FHU? 5/11/11
- Relationship Management and Content Strategy 05/09/11
- It's the Little Things: Why Microcopy Matters 05/06/11
- Content Challenges: top 3 things to do for better higher ed web content 05/04/11
- Design Decisions: "Apply Now" button 04/27/11
- Content Challenges: How to convince people to drop the copy-and-paste-from-print mentality 04/27/11
- How Big is Too Big? 04/22/11
- Web Writing Guidelines for Content Contributors 04/20/11
- Top 4 findings on the State of Social Media in #highered 04/20/11
- Colleges rehab their websites for big payoffs 04/19/11
- ROT: The Low-Hanging Fruit of Content Analysis 04/14/11
- Mobile Matters: Communication Trumps Technology 04/13/11
- 13 Tips for a Good Interview (and Thus, a Great Story) 04/12/11
- A 1-month no-committee web redesign for Juniata College 03/30/11
- Top Takeaways from The Science of Timing webinar 03/30/11
- meetcontent: empowering higher ed to create and sustain web content...
- Distributed maintenance is killing your higher ed web site 03/25/11
- Web Redesign with a Success Metrics Guide 03/25/11
- Free plug-ins, templates, and presets for Photoshop 03/11/11
- Setting Up Webmaster Tool Accounts 02/22/11
- What it means to be a Buckeye (well done admissions video) 02/22/11
- uwebd University Web Developers forum on ning 02/16/11
- Mobile Web Programming for Beginners? 02/16/11
- Mobile Sites vs. Media Queries 02/16/11
- WelchmanPierpoint blog (Web governance and strategy) 02/11/11
- Design Festival, a Blog About Web Design 02/11/11
- An Interview with Inigral CEO Michael Staton (Schools on Facebook)
- Creating effective user personas 02/02/11
- Social Media Strategy and Business Organizational Structure 01/31/11
- Mobile Emulators & Stimulators: The Ultimate Guide 01/25/11
- Learning How to KISS 1/19/11
- Shouldn't your next higher ed web project be a Content Redesign? 1/19/11
- Google Chrome Updates: Chrome Web Store and OS 01/05/11
- Is FacebookGate "Troll Marketing"? 12/09/10
- Three Years of Facebook Forgery 12/09/10
- Dealing with Fake Facebook Groups 12/09/10
- Here's a Different College Video (Beloit College) 12/07/10
- Export Zoomable Images for the Web Using Photoshop 11/17/10
- In Staging Flash Mobs, Colleges Replace Zombies With Warm Fuzzies
- edUi 2010 Conference Wrap Up 11/15/10
- Understanding Marketing Funnels and Conversion Activities 11/02/10
- Actionable Web Analytics: Five Tips For Insightful Analysis 10/29/10
- Google Analytics IQ Lessons 10/29/10
- Exactly How Much Is An Applicant Worth To Your College or University?
- #heweb10 - Managing Projects in Web Development 10/26/10
- Social Media Policy Resource Guide for Higher Ed 10/26/10
- More examples of the best university Facebook pages 10/26/10
- Creating Type On A Path in Photoshop 10/21/10
- A Complete and Killer Review of HighEdWeb 2010 10/20/10
- What I learned from the #heweb10 backchannel 10/20/10
- doteduguru #heweb10 10/18/10
- Breaking Down My #heweb10 (Karlyn Morissette) Presentation, Part IV
- Breaking Down My #heweb10 (Karlyn Morissette) Presentation, Part III
- Breaking Down My #heweb10 (Karlyn Morissette) Presentation, Part II
- Breaking Down My #heweb10 (Karlyn Morissette) Presentation, Part I
- My (Karlyn Morissette) top takeaways from #heweb10 10/18/10
- Why Are Colleges Flunking Web Strategy 101? 10/15/10
- Got Centerpiece? So Does Everyone Else 10/15/10
- HighEdWeb Photo Gallery of Poster Sessions 10/14/10
- Kyle James' Google Analytics and SEO Presentations from HighEdWeb 2010
- Facebook Groups Redesign: What it Means For You 10/08/10
- Mobile Web OSP 10/05/10
- The Power of "Social" in Social Media 10/01/10
- Does Your Campus Security Have a Place in Social Media? 09/29/10
- The Right Way to Make a Dropdown Menu 09/28/10
- WVU Mobile Web: A Year in Numbers 09/28/10
- HTML5 and Even Fancier Forms 09/21/10
- The IE9 Beta Review 09/21/10
- Removing Blemishes With One Click: The Spot Healing Brush in Photoshop
- Higher Ed Live - weekly videos about what impacts higher ed Web 9/20/10
- Facts about our (Google) network neutrality policy proposal 09/01/10
- iPad: Traveling Cold Turkey (notes from an iPad user) 08/31/10
- W3C Backs the WOFF WebFont Standard 08/25/10
- Google Chrome Web Store to Launch in October 08/25/10
- Refresh Detroit - a group of web professionals who promote web standards, usability, and accessibility and spread knowledge of web design in the Detroit and Ann Arbor areas. Much good to be obtained by reading their site and meeting notes! 08/25/10
- Security Concerns with Google Analytics: Q&A with the Gurus 08/24/10
- Content Strategy Roles and You 08/20/10
- Approaches to web content strategy 08/20/10
- Setting the Precedent 08/16/10
- College Web Pages Are "Widely Inaccessible" to People With Disabilities 8/16/10
- What Ben Franklin Can Teach Us About Web CMS 08/12/10
- Content Strategy is More than Marketing Strategy 08/11/10
- Analytics Reports: Flying Solo? 08/10/10
- Online Cataloging Done Right(ish) 08/06/10
- Google Wave, Poorly Understood and Underused, Dies in Infancy 08/05/10
- Social Media Recruitment: Do prospects really use it? 08/05/10
- Web Analytics Strategy: Data in Context 08/04/10
- INSIDE HIGHER ED: No Laughing Matter 08/04/10
- Content Management Manifesto 08/03/10
- Justice Department Weighs Putting Web Sites Under Disability Rules 07/28/10
- E-Expectations: How to Focus Your Online Recruiting Efforts 07/16/10
- How Luther College is using Reason CMS 07/13/10
- SEO Best Practices: Hitting the Low Hanging Fruit 06/25/10
- eduStyle Awards 2010 06/24/10
- Negative Comments Take 2: My Personal Rules 04/23/10
- Feel the Need for Speed? 04/16/10
- Using site speed in Web search ranking 04/16/10
- Higher Ed Web Analytics: What's Really Important to Report? 04/16/10
- Trending Upward | Web analytics for higher education 04/16/10
- So What if Butler Lost Monday Night! A Bigger Lost Marketing Opportunity Occured! 04/08/10
- How Duke is Using Drupal 04/07/10
- Organizing a Higher Ed Online Media Stream 03/31/10
- 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines 03/26/10
- Negative Facebook Comments: @#$% Me 03/26/10
- Heading Headaches: Balancing Semantics and SEO 03/24/10
- Web Communities: What Would a Chaperone Do? 03/22/10
- 7 Tips For Writing an Effective Instruction Manual 03/18/10
- Flame: A Different Kind of Online Drawing Tool 03/18/10
- CMS Usage in Higher Ed 03/18/10
- Using Evernote to Manage Ideas 03/12/10
- Is Social Media a Fad? Social Media Revolution Video 03/11/10
- Aviary, The Graphics & Audio Suite Is Now Free 03/02/10
- WMU Web rises from #545 to #417 02/24/10
- Multiple Templates on a Site: Ask a Guru 02/24/10
- Why Social Media Comes Last 02/17/10
- Two Ways to Remove a Color Cast from a Photo with Photoshop 02/11/10
- Exploring the power language has on clickthrough rates 02/10/10
- The Web Singularity is Near 02/08/10
- See how your site appears on different mobile devices 02/03/10
- Web Site Content and the E-Expectations of College-Bound Seniors 02/03/10
- Check out more than 400 higher ed websites with a single click 02/02/10
- Mobilizing Your Web Site 02/02/10
- Censor Your Images With a Mosaic in Photoshop 01/29/10
- Best practices for training content contributors 01/27/10
- Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well 01/25/10
- Wireframes on the Fly 01/21/10
- That's Why I Chose Yale 01/21/10
- 18 Tips For Delivering a Memorable Presentation 01/20/10
- Boston University has redesigned its homepage 01/20/10
- Augmented Reality in Higher Ed 01/15/10
- Higher Ed Bloggers 01/13/10
- Best Admission Uses of Twitter 01/12/10
- 30 Screen Capture Tools for Sharing Your View 01/07/10
- Photo Retouching: Removing Hotspots in Photoshop 01/07/10
- Where do you go for tips on Web designing 12/23/09
- Pimp My Text: Bling Bling With Photoshop 12/03/09
- Making Swatches From Photos in Photoshop 12/03/09
- Learning SEO From Lady GaGa 12/03/09
- [Results] State of the University Web Department Survey 11/24/09
- Web Site Content and the E-Expectations of College-Bound Seniors 11/18/09
- Inbound School Marketing — Presentation from SIMTech2009 11/13/09
- Presentations from the Edge of the World 2009 Conference 11/12/09
- 10 Problems Your Content Management System Will Not Solve And How To Overcome Them 11/10/09
- Planet Photoshop Tutorials 11/10/09
- A Few Photoshop Secrets by Joel Pattison 11/10/09
- Mobile Analytics Revisited (Have You Been Keeping Up?) 11/05/09
- Words Drive Action: An Interview with Gerry McGovern 11/04/09
- Breaking Up Large Documents for the Web - Part I 11/04/09
- Breaking Up Large Documents for the Web - Part II 11/04/09
- Breaking Up Large Documents for the Web - Part III 11/04/09
- Software Review: Flimp — Flash Development Tool without the Programming Knowledge 11/04/09
- How to Write Quality and Attentive Online Copy 11/04/09
- Gerry McGovern's Writing for the Web 11/04/09
- Don't lose your identity - Create an effective print style sheet 11/03/09
- How To Quickly & Easily Remove a Background in Photoshop 10/30/09
- The Credibility of College Info from Social Network Sites (or Lack Thereof) 10/23/09
- 5 Tips For Creating An Effective Call To Action Button 10/21/09
- Make a Big Beautiful Call-To-Action Button In Photoshop 10/21/09
- Colleges Put Money Where Their Mouths Are - But at What Price? 10/14/09
- Review: Mobile Educator iPhone Application and CMS 10/14/09
- Salary versus Autonomy 9/23/09 (comments most interesting)
- Trust Agents and Higher Ed 9/18/09
- New Tools and Techniques but Marketing is Still About Creativity 9/17/09
- Show Me The Conversions 9/16/09
- Lazy but effective SEO 9/09/09
- Are Teens on Twitter? And a Bunch of Other Related Data 8/31/09
- Simple status and engagement on Facebook 8/28/09
- A Primer for Effective E-mail Marketing 8/27/09
- How to Resize an Image in Photoshop and Keep it Sharp 8/26/09
- 5 Writing Tips for Web Designers 8/19/09
- Social Web Callouts: Research from BlueFuego 8/04/09
- eduWeb Takeaway: It's About the People 08/04/09
- eduWeb wrap-up 08/04/09
- WMU ranks #545 in top 6000 Universities in the world 7/31/09
- Google, HTML5 and Standards 7/28/09
- 2009 eduStyle Award Winners 7/24/09
- 12 Tools To Check Your Site's Accessibility 7/20/09
- Your Faculty: Do you hide or praise them? 7/16/09
- Six Tools for Testing Designs on Mobile Devices 7/15/09
- On-page SEO - The Google Way 7/15/09
- Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide 7/15/09
- Page Titles and Meta Descriptions: Your Search Calls to Action 7/14/09
- Help Me Help You: Social Media Education 7/14/09
- Inbound School Marketing Slides: Whipple Hill User Conference '09 7/02/09
- Doesn't Matter What You Call It, An Inquiry is a Lead 6/25/09
- What Makes a Website Design a Good One? 6/24/09
- Need a Link Building Strategy? Create Content! 6/18/09
- How Serious are XSS Threats for .edus? 6/17/09
- FineTuna: A Handy Collaboration Tool for Designers 6/16/09
- Four Free Font Managers 6/16/09
- 40 Essential iPhone Applications for Web Designers 6/16/09
- Hands-on with Wave: weird and quite wonderful 6/09/09
- Google Wave - a new communication and collaboration tool that will totally change how we communicate. WOW! 6/03/09
- Social Network Research: 99% of Your Audience Are On Them... 6/03/09
- Mobile Analytics: The Neglected Mutant Step Child 6/01/09
- Search Ranking Factors 6/01/09
- Ohio State Stone Laboratory Site Review - Scored almost 100% 5/28/09
And, have very nice comprehensive course pages - give them a look!
- Creating Mobile Stylesheets 5/28/09
- Contextualizing Content for Mobile Devices 5/28/09
- Content is More Important Than Design 5/28/09
- Social Networking: The Web Game Changer 5/27/09
- How Do People Evaluate a Web Site's Credibility (Stanford) 5/27/09
- Nick DeNardis reviews Western Michigan University 5/26/09
- Understanding SEO: On-Page 5/08/09
- eduStyle Awards: nominees announced and voting begins 5/01/09
- Inspiring Design for Higher Ed 5/01/09
- How Do People Evaulate a Web Site's Credibility? 4/29/09
(why first impressions are important)
- Web Leadership's Role in Higher Ed 4/29/09
- What the Doctor Ordered: Training, Technology and Leadership 4/29/09
- What Not to Wear on the Web: A Fashion Show 4/27/09
- How people with disabilities use the Web 4/23/09
- EDU Checkup: Nick DeNardis reviews higher education Web sites live 4/23/09
- Captioning Your YouTube Videos 4/21/09
- If People Can't Find it, Does it Matter 4/14/09
- How to Create a Bad Website and Frustrate Your Visitors 2/02/09
- A great "student" Web site 9/29/08
- A nice way to showcase key points about your university 6/03/08
