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Ken tells us all about his trip to WordCamp Minneapolis. We dig into cloud hosting (mainly for CMS), and get a bit into using Docker.
HEH 34: He Touched my Fanny!
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It’s a random conversation this time, folks. We chat Zime (it’s back!), Dan getting stopped by the TSA, some future conferences, new podcasts we enjoy and Dave’s classes starting this fall.
HEH 33: Let’s All Take a Moment to Floss
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Russian hacking (they’re after Daniel), Admissions Apps, Google Search Appliance, Analytics, Icon Libraries, and more… brought to you today by the letter H (as in HEH, as in High Ed Hangout). Enjoy!
HEH 32: Back to the Boob: The Quilt Situation
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Scott had a son, and is adjusting to life as a new parent (and the time he took off work). The GVSU guys jump back into accessibility training with a new consultant…. and then somehow the conversation transitions to quilts.
HEH 31: Dude! Get away from my Chicken!!
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Daniel kicks things off by trying to enjoy some fried chicken, but is foiled by his cats. From there we chat about our design process and making sure it fits the larger university brand. Then we try to figure out the definition of a landing page.
HEH 30: Happy One Year Anniversary!!
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It starts with the weather, moves on to politics, and then to religion (or at least a TV show slightly about religion) before the conversation moves on to discussions about college applications and how to improve their usability.
HEH 29: Puppets! Puppets! Puppets!
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The conversation tonight includes things learned via penetration testing at GVSU, what we know about retention policies at our schools (Internet Archive?) and content update policies. We also learn that GVSU Library has puppets you can check out… like a lot of puppets!
HEH 28: We’re doin’ it live!!!! (3 of us anyway)
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Daniel is in Iowa City visiting Ken and Scott, so they are podcasting from the same location at the University of Iowa Libraries. Dan and Dave join remotely to discuss personal sites and hosting on campus and focus groups and how the kids use the internets these days.
HEH 27: Puddting?
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The lost episode.
Scott lost his internet connection, so the episode got called off. No internet = no podcast. 🙁
HEH 26: Daniel’s Wallet got Poop on it!
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How do we handle user tracking and privacy policies for our university? What do we do for retargeting and advertising? What do we all use personally to keep our internet usage private?
HEH 25: Let’s Get Accessible!
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Dan and Dave bring an enlightening report back from the CSUN Accessibility Conference in lovely San Diego, CA.
HEH 24: How I Learned to Love the (Ginger Beer) Bomb
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People keep uploading HUGE images, so we chat about the best ways to handle automatically optimizing them via the various CMS tools. We also dip into usability and card sorting exercises.
HEH 23: Don’t Let Your Dog Eat Poo
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Tonight the topics center around outside vendors and products for various tasks at our universities. We cover digital marketing, scholarship searches, chat and events calendars. We also touch on strategic planning.
HEH 22: Inject this into your SQL!
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Tonight the High Ed Hangout gents talk about security and what they’re doing to make their sites more secure. They also chat about rolling out new features and updating their CMS.
HEH 21: I Just Wish It Was Bulbous at One End
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The gents chat about current books they are reading and then talk about what (non-computer) hardware they use for home, media, health and more.