eduWeb2008 - Day 2
This year’s conference has proven to be outstanding once again, and we haven’t even eaten lunch yet! Here is a quick re-cap of what has happened this morning and I hope to update this as we go through Day 2. Also, I used twitter names in my post just in case you aren’t following these people yet.
I had breakfast and attended a topic table on student blogging which proved to be quite interesting. @bradjward was there as well as other people in various different positions at different institutions as other schools. It provided some unique perspective on different kinds of blogs.
The Noel-Leveitz seminar on parents and their roles in the admissions process proved to be quite interesting. It is too bad the delivery of the information wasn’t better, but the data presented was awesome. I can already see some things that we could be doing for our parents.
@mikeRichwalksy presented on cloud computing which was absolutely outstanding. This might address some of the problems that we have as a small institution with dealing with bandwidth and storage. I won’t get into the details right now, but his presentation will be posted online and you can check it out.
@brianwmniles presented on recruiting 2.1 which was a sequel to recruiting 2.0 that he gave at last year’s conference. I am still trying to take in all of the ridiculously awesome morsels of information that he used in his presentation. I’ll post more on this later, but here is one awesome piece of information from his presentation: “Showcase what makes you truly different; Quality is not a differentiater.” An interesting quote considering we spend a lot of time focusing on our competitors in Iowa.
The afternoon presentations were a little less fruitful than the morning presentations but I pulled a few things out that will be useful.
I stared out with @jameskm03’s presentation on e-mail marketing. Nothing to ground breaking, but it was nice the reassure me that we are doing things right. There are a few minor tweaks that we can make to provide a little more value to our users.
I followed Kyle up with a seminar on High Schools students that tell us what they thing about our Web sites. The presentation was given by someone from Royall and Co. Unfortunately the presentation was geared toward CEOs and top level management instead of people that are on the front lines. What makes it even more unfortunate was the fact that they had really good information but they didn’t do a good job of presenting it.
I was planning on finishing up the day with a session on information architecture, but it was canceled and so I ended up at a seminar talking about the multi-channel recruitment process that Wilmington University uses. It was provided some interesting insights from a commuter college perspective. They are using Ning which is an intersting idea that we have been tossing around for a student portal.
That’s all for Day 2 of the conference. Make sure to check back tommorrow for Day 3’s sessions.
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