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2008 ...

July: Carmella Manges / St. Edward's University

August: Christopher Scotton / doublePositive

September: Adrienne Bartlett / TargetX

 
2008 Schedule ... Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday

Tentative (dates/times may change) | Abstracts: Topic Tables | Presentations

Key: Breaks Activites/Events Workshops Meals/Receptions
Tuesday, July 22 - Grand Cayman Ballroom
7:30 am - 11 pm Developers Lounge - 4th Level/Newport I, Trump Marina
7:30-8:30 am

Continental Breakfast:

  • Social Breakfast and Special Interest Groups, Cayman A
  • Topic Tables, Cayman B
  Topic Tables -
  1. Creating an Identity with your Blog, by Ellen Taricani, Penn State
  2. Overcoming Data Silos to Enhance Relationship Marketing, by Todd Gibby, CEO, Intelliworks
  3. The Shocking Truth They Don't Want Us to Tell You: You Don't Need An Agency to Succeed by Damien Navarro, Principal/VP Business Development, and Brian Harris, VP, Enterprise Accounts and Alliances, Earth Bound Media Group
  4. Vendor Free: Open Source Solutions by Nick Shontz, Developer/Systems Analyst, University of Montana
  5. A Microsite + Local Search = Increased Applicants by Abu Noaman, CEO, Elliance
  6. Online Communities: Adding Value, Protecting Your Brand by Desiree Ugo, VP, Client Services, YourMembership.com
  7. Spend Time on Strategy and You'll Thank Yourself Later by James Runkle, Director of Strategy and Account Management, and Mike Graham, Creative Director, Second Melody LLC
  8. Your CMS Implementation Can Be a Success by Tonya Price, Director, Marketing and Web Operations, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  9. From Dull Edge to Cutting Edge by Amy Stevens, Web Communications Manager, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
 
Track: Marketing
Track: Development
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Track: Marketing OR Development
Time / Room
Cayman A
Cayman B
Cayman C
8:30 -9:30 am

Branding in the Wild Wild Web (Part 1) by Ms. Alka Joshi, Director, Marketing and Community Relations, and Shashi Naidu, Web Technician, Evergreen Valley College

Conceptualizing A University's Approach to High Quality in Technology Enhanced Learning by Mark Schofield, Dean of Teaching and Learning, Edge Hill University, UK

Circling Over Enrollment: The E-Expectations of Helicopter Parents by Stephanie Geyer, Assoc. VP for E-Communications and Web Strategy, Noel-Levitz

9:30 - 9:45 am Break
9:45 - 10:45 am

How to Accelerate your Search Marketing Campaigns in Education by Jennifer Brady, University of Massachusetts & Dave Reske, NowSpeed Inc.

Head in the Cloud: On-Demand Solutions for Processing, Storage and Content Delivery Needs by Mike Richwalsky, Asst. Dir. of Public Affairs, and Josh Tysiachney, Web Communications Coord., Allegheny College

Buzz, Brands and Babes: Finding Out How Your School's REALLY Being Portrayed Online ... and what to do about it. by Sean Carton, Chief Strategy Officer, idFive

10:45 - 11:00 am

Munchies & Drinks Break

11:00 am- 12:00 pm Recruiting 2.1: An Update on the Revolution in Student Recruiting by Brian Niles, CEO, TargetX Bring more to your front page without the clutter. Utilizing AJAX to bring content in on the fly by Richard Orelup, Programming Czar, Valparaiso University Open-Source Update: The progress of Reason, an open-source CMS for higher ed by Matt Ryan, Assoc. Dir. of Web Communications and Development, Carleton College

12:00 - 12:30 pm

Break / Networking with Exhibitors (lunch setup)

12:30 - 2:15 pm

Lunch & eduStyle Higher-Ed Web Awards Ceremony (Cayman A & B)

2:30-3:30 pm

High Tech and High Touch: Integrating the Web and Print Using Variable Print Technology by Dr.Cam Cruickshank, VP for Enrollment Management, and Matthew Allison, Webmaster, Tiffin University

Align Your Web Technology to Your Web Strategy by PaperThin

E-Mail Marketing for Higher Education by Kyle James, Webmaster, Wofford College

3:30 - 3: 45 pm Break
3:45 - 4:45 pm

High School Students Tell All: What they really think about how we use the web in college recruitment by Dr. Pamela Kiecker, Head of Research & Issue Analysis, and Bill Royall, President, Royall & Company

Surviving a Website Redesign by Inas Hamam, Associate Director of Communications, The American University in Cairo

Producing Our Catalog with our Web CMS by Anne Macdonald, Managing Associate Dir. for Web Services, Suffolk University

4:45 - 5 pm Munchies & Drinks Break
5 - 6 pm

Blogs: The Many Voices of a University by Heidi Cool, Senior Web Designer/ Webmaster, Case Western Reserve University

Information Architecture in Higher Education by Dimitri Glazkov, Software Engineer, Estrada

The Admission Lifecycle and Mass Notification: A multi-channel enrollment management model by Chris Ferguson, Director of Admissions, Wilmington University

6:00 - 8:00pm "Mixer on the Marina" Reception (Bayview Room, Trump Marina Hotel)... Open to ALL attendees of the Conference ... sponsored by OmniUpdate, James Tower and Noel-Levitz. Drinks: beer and wine are free; cocktails are additional cost; Food: grilled vegetables, cheese, fruit, and the Round of Beef.
6:30 - 8:00pm Walk the Boardwalk - Trump Marina Lobby

Dinner On Your Own (not part of the conference) ... join a group of your peers and eat at one of the Trump Marina's restaurants