Higher Ed Professional Development Resources

Welcome University Business Readers! I hope you enjoyed my February 2009 column “More with Less.”

Here’s the list of some good free or cheap resources for professional development:

Higher Ed Experts Webinars: I design and host these webinars for people working in higher education. The webinar fee ranges from $120 (single webinar) to $300 (3-webinar series). Topics include social media, website redesign, digital magazines, online videos, web analytics, etc.

University Business Web Seminars: Sponsored by vendors, these web seminars are offered free of charge but required registration (and you can expect to pitch by the vendor after the event). Topics include technological solutions implementation, success stories using vendor products, etc.

collegewebeditor.com: This is the blog I maintain with news, tips and tricks about PR, marketing and the Web in higher education since February 2005.

Higher Ed Expert’s Newsletter: In this free email newsletter sent every week during the academic year, I offer a selection of the best content published by higher ed blogs, discussion forums, design galleries, etc. You can subscribe online.

Higher Ed Events Calendar: This is the calendar of higher ed conferences and other events I maintained for people working in marketing, communications, PR and the Web. If you use Gmail, you can subscribe easily to this calendar.

Blog High Ed: This is a syndicated feed of the best higher ed blogs related to marketing and communications in higher education.