eric stoller & the lunch episode

Oct 31, 2019 | Academics, Admissions, Advising, Campus Life, Communications, Conferences, Consulting, Data, Digital Media, Financial Aid, First Year Experience, Marketing, Professional Development, Public Relations, Retention, Side Hustles, Social Media, Student Success, Web

Photo of Eric StollerEric Stoller is the vice president of digital strategy at GeckoEngage. You may know him from his articles on Inside Higher Ed, his speaking engagements and his consulting work around digital engagement. He’s always loved doing marketing and public relations, but never wanted to work for an agency. Eric’s experiences in student development services at University of Illinois Chicago and enrollment management at Oregon State University really cemented interest in the intersection of technology and student success. He’s had an incredible and unique journey through the world of higher education. 

Links to cool stuff

Episode 173

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
Subscribe on Google Play
Subscribe on Spotify
Subscribe on Stitcher

#heweb19 & the return of the golden nuggets

Oct 24, 2019 | Conferences, Data, Digital Media, Marketing, Outside Higher Ed, Public Relations, Social Media, Video Production, Web

What’s better than actually going to the HighEdWeb Conference? Recording an episode with your friends that actually went! At least that’s what Lougan is telling himself this week as he welcomes Jackie and Jon-Stephen back to the show along with new guest Alaina Wiens. We chat about what it’s like running social media for the conference, and the various presentations they gave. We also talk about the “golden nuggets” they are taking back home this year. 

Links to cool stuff: 

Episode 172

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
Subscribe on Google Play
Subscribe on Spotify
Subscribe on Stitcher

melissa mae cheater & the power of maple syrup

Jun 13, 2019 | Campus Life, Communications, Conferences, Digital Media, Marketing, Public Relations, Web

For our second international episode, we sat down with Melissa Mae Cheater, the digital content manager at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. Melissa is also the founder of #PSEWEB (Post Secondary Education Web), a Canadian offshoot of the Higher Education Web Professionals Association here in the US. During the show, we chat about the differences between student life in the US and Canada. Melissa also shares her thoughts on how departments across campus can better work with their communications teams to celebrate success. 

Links to cool stuff: 

Episode 162

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
Subscribe on Google Play
Subscribe on Spotify
Subscribe on Stitcher

Complete our Listener Survey

Listeners, we want to know more about you. Help us out by completing a quick 5 minute survey!

Go To Survey

#heweb18 & the golden nuggets

Oct 25, 2018 | Accessibility, Conferences, Digital Media, Diversity and Inclusion, Leadership, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Media, Web

Subscribe: RSS

This week on the show, Lougan and Jackie are joined by Higher Ed Social alums Liz Gross from Campus Sonar, Jon-Stephen Stansel from University of Central Arkansas and Jeff Stevens from University of Florida Health. We also welcomed Andrew Cassel from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. We sat down at Sacrament Brewing in Sacramento, California to have a great discussion about the 2018 Higher Education Web Professionals Conference. There were a lot of great takeaways, so take a listen!

Links to cool stuff

 

Episode 135

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
Subscribe on Google Play
Subscribe on Spotify
Subscribe on Stitcher

kasandrea sereno & the six flights to nashville

Jul 5, 2018 | Academics, Advising, Communications, Conferences, Consulting, Graduate School, Retention, Student Success

Kasandrea Sereno is the lead academic advisor at the University of South Florida. She is completing her doctorate in higher ed organizational leadership at Vanderbilt University and is the head of My Advisor Says, an independent academic consulting company that helps those who want to go to college. Kasandrea talks with Lougan and Jackie about her doctoral work, advising technology and the importance of the advising relationship to retention and student success. 

Links to cool stuff: 

Episode 119

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
Subscribe on Google Play
Subscribe on Spotify
Subscribe on Stitcher

mark anbinder & apple carplay

Oct 24, 2017 | Conferences, Marketing, Social Media, Web

Subscribe: RSS

credit: Libris by PhotoShelter

We return from our break this week to welcome back Mark Anbinder, the web communications manager at Cornell University.  We saw Mark just last week at the HighEdWeb Conference in Hartford, CT.  We discuss the conference and talk about what experiences we enjoy at events like this.  As it turns out, Jackie and Mark both have new vehicles with Apple CarPlay. That new feature has allowed Mark to binge listen to the podcast, and he shares with us a list of his favorite episodes. We finally end the show talking about our experiences with our Apple Watches and Mark talks about his Swatch.

Mark’s Favorite Episodes: 

Links to cool stuff: 

Episode 94