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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.
HEH 20: 4 + Joe: The Podcast Podcast
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This episode is the podcast podcast (how meta!). The gang shares their favorite podcasts that span the gamut on topics. Tune in, and you might just find something new to listen to.
HEH 19: Present-day Screwups and Misspent Youth
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A site gets destroyed (temporarily), and how we all test our sites and prepare for the worst. We also talk about our favorite childhood games.
HEH 18: Is This Good for the COMPANY?
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The gang talks about the what new strategies and goals they have for their schools/sites. It covers speed, new applications, and updates to the CMS. They also look into web boot camps for new hires.
HEH 17: Dang It the Cat Threw up… Hold On
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For some reason throw-up is a common thread to kick this one off. Dan’s cat throws up, and Dave and Dan take a trip which involves a (rather humorous) throw-up story as well involving an airplane barf bag. We also chat about web infrastructure in other parts of the world, and how much we hate (HATE!) mobile ads.
HEH 16: Ken Got Hitched!
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Ken goes to an island and gets married. GVSU looks at taking over web representation of grad programs, We talk about staff training opportunities and communities that our individual universities provide.
HEH 15: HighEdWeb Memphis
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We delve a bit deeper into Daniel’s trip to the HighEdWeb conference in Memphis. He shares the take-aways, and we chat about how all of us can implement some of the things talked about (centralized web support across campus – pay vs. no-pay).
HEH 14: The Conference on Conferences Conference (RIP SXSW)
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This episode is all about conferences. How do we get funding? How often do we get to go? How do we select a conference? We also reminisce (again) about how great SXSW used to be.
HEH 13: How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?
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How do we social? What channels do we all use personally and what do our universities use? How do we keep up on the current social trends and use social in a way that is befitting to an institution of higher education?
HEH 12: You’ve Got (Custom HTML) Mail!
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HTML emails are hard to make! We chat about the process we use to build and send email as well as how we track our users and advertise our schools. We also look into using students and classes for help.
HEH 11: Talkin’ About Our Tools
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We list the tools we use on a regular basis for various development tasks and general use, including coding, password management, utility/productivity, package management, and image optimization.