High Ed Hangout
By High Ed Hangout
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Description
High Ed Hangout is a bunch of higher ed geeks from around the country drinking beers and chatting about technology, the web, design, marketing, development, media, and whatever else comes to mind (usually with a higher ed spin). Come hang out with us!
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CleanHEH 40: If you sell alcohol… please sponsor us! | Dan got a new phone (cheap!), Dave got rid of Facebook, Daniel updated WordPress, Scott likes Reply All Podcast, Ken is scared of browser fingerprinting… and MORE! Dave deleted his FB account. There’s a place where FB shows you what it knows about y | 4/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 39: Wet Nun Smell | This week’s chat is about security. Dave went to a conference and wants to disconnect and move to the woods. We mess with Ken’s new Google Home. Dan is just sort of with us this week due to some technical issues. | 4/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 38: Pajama or Pa-jah-ma? | Should Daniel get an iPhone X? We all weigh in on his tech purchase. We also chat about the Digital Summit Conference, how the new GVSU Admissions app is going and password vaults – is the cloud safe for your passwords? | 3/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 37: Milking Nuts | Where does almond milk come from? We have a (maybe too in-depth) conversation to try to figure it out. We also chat about a bunch of other randomness including google tracking, home assistants (Google Home and Echo), | 1/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 36: Apps on Apps on Apps | We took an episode to talk about our tools a little while back. This time we take some time to talk about our favorite apps for our mobile devices (outside of the normal preinstalled ones). What are your favorite iOS or Android apps? | 1/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 35: Don’t Wear Earmuffs Over AirPods | Ken tells us all about his trip to WordCamp Minneapolis. We dig into cloud hosting (mainly for CMS), and get a bit into using Docker. Ken has Apple AirPods (and likes them) Wordcamp Minneapolis (~200 people) Keynote was about technology industry and me. | 12/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 34: He Touched my Fanny! | It’s a random conversation this time, folks. We chat Zime (it’s back!), Dan getting stopped by the TSA, some future conferences, new podcasts we enjoy and Dave’s classes starting this fall. ZIMA IS BACK, BABY! | 12/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 33: Let’s All Take a Moment to Floss | Russian hacking (they’re after Daniel), Admissions Apps, Google Search Appliance, Analytics, Icon Libraries, and more… brought to you today by the letter H (as in HEH, as in High Ed Hangout). Enjoy! Daniel gets hacked (likely Russians) and keeps dro | 11/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 32: Back to the Boob: The Quilt Situation | Scott had a son, and is adjusting to life as a new parent (and the time he took off work). The GVSU guys jump back into accessibility training with a new consultant…. and then somehow the conversation transitions to quilts. Scott had a son, | 11/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 31: Dude! Get away from my Chicken!! | Daniel kicks things off by trying to enjoy some fried chicken, but is foiled by his cats. From there we chat about our design process and making sure it fits the larger university brand. Then we try to figure out the definition of a landing page. | 10/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 30: Happy One Year Anniversary!! | It starts with the weather, moves on to politics, and then to religion (or at least a TV show slightly about religion) before the conversation moves on to discussions about college applications and how to improve their usability. | 9/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 29: Puppets! Puppets! Puppets! | The conversation tonight includes things learned via penetration testing at GVSU, what we know about retention policies at our schools (Internet Archive?) and content update policies. We also learn that GVSU Library has puppets you can check out… like | 9/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 28: We’re doin’ it live!!!! (3 of us anyway) | Daniel is in Iowa City visiting Ken and Scott, so they are podcasting from the same location at the University of Iowa Libraries. Dan and Dave join remotely to discuss personal sites and hosting on campus and focus groups and how the kids use the inter. | 8/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 27: Puddting? | The lost episode. Scott lost his internet connection, so the episode got called off. No internet = no podcast. 🙁 | 8/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 26: Daniel’s Wallet got Poop on it! | How do we handle user tracking and privacy policies for our university? What do we do for retargeting and advertising? What do we all use personally to keep our internet usage private? He got a new one https://www.crabbygear. | 8/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 25: Let’s Get Accessible! | Dan and Dave bring an enlightening report back from the CSUN Accessibility Conference in lovely San Diego, CA. Dan and Dave just got back from CSUN Accessibility Conference “Everyone will have a disability at some point in their life” Accessibility | 8/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 24: How I Learned to Love the (Ginger Beer) Bomb | 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. Ken has an issue with people uploading non-optimized LARGE image. | 8/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 23: Don’t Let Your Dog Eat Poo | 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. What outside vendors do you use? | 7/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 22: Inject this into your SQL! | 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. Possible SQL injection attack on GVSU reported by a student Security of | 7/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 21: I Just Wish It Was Bulbous at One End | 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. What books are we currently reading? What hardware do you use? | 6/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 20: 4 + Joe: The Podcast Podcast | 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. Our Favorite Podcasts Serial Season was waaaaay better than season 2 Re. | 6/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 19: Present-day Screwups and Misspent Youth | 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. Ken destroys his Iowa Library site Testing with the new google tester Used a plugin for compression (w3 total. | 5/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 18: Is This Good for the COMPANY? | 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. What’s 2017 going to be in your area? Strategies? | 5/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 17: Dang It the Cat Threw up… Hold On | 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 othe | 5/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 16: Ken Got Hitched! | 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. Leroyyyy Jenkins! GVSU, | 4/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 15: HighEdWeb Memphis | 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). | 4/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 14: The Conference on Conferences Conference (RIP SXSW) | 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. Daniel at HighEdWeb in Memphis Fienen’s Totally Topical, | 3/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 13: How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? | 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? | 2/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 12: You’ve Got (Custom HTML) Mail! | 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. React. | 1/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 11: Talkin’ About Our Tools | 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. Coding/Development Firebug (Firefox Plugin) Chrome Devel. | 1/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 10: Controlled Release | We talk about languages, which are the most popular, and which ones we like the best (and why). Iowa launches a new admissions website. How we use content types, and ways we could use them better. Why does Dan love (hate?) Cold Fusion? | 12/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 9: The Protein Situation | GVSU launches their new site and get a lot of comments (some good, some not). We talk about what went into the new site, and the process taken to launch. We also discuss how we use our CMS to assign rolls and edit across different audiences. | 12/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 8: FIEEEEEEENNNNNEN!!! | We add our comments to an article criticizing university websites, and then add even more comments to a response from Michael Fienen to the original article. Original Article: University websites: The so-so, the bad, | 11/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 7: All the Link Colors of the Rainbow | School colors and how they’re used on the website. What does that mean for link colors and accessibility? What sort of branding policy is in place? How does it work. The guys take different stances on the best way to brand a university website. | 7/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 6: Apple’s Hush Money Went Towards my Squatty Potty | How we got into tech (and our embarrassing first websites). Some Hangout members purchased the Squatty Potty and they want to talk about it. Plus the first ever HEH topic lightning round. Intros: How we got into web/tech/job (our history with tech) Our. | 7/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 5: I’m Not a Nerd, Nerds are Smart | Page-turn PDF viewers, smartphone apps, virtual tours, and how The University of Waterloo protects its students from geese. Magazine page turning (PDF viewers) Not accessible “If we use it we could be sued” Create dynamic web content as an alternati | 6/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 4: Just Smashing… | Highlights from the Smashing Conference in New York, Custom 404 pages, beautiful calligraphy and more. Smashing Conference Update from Scott and Dan http://smashingconf.com/ny-2016/schedule Design for touch Future input devices (touch+keyboard/mouse, | 6/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 3: Strongly a Booger Head | Learn how the (high ed) hangout got started with the HEH! origin story. Site performance: Dan spills his guts on how he got a 100 on the Google page-speed test. UrbanDictionary Word of the Day: Breastie? Origin Story (SXSW 2007, | 6/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 2: Is your site accessible? | This episode takes a deep dive into accessibility and how we try to keep our sites accessible. Accessibility WCAG 2.0 AA is the rule for all our schools SiteImprove (GVSU, UALR) Compliance Sherif (Iowa) We need a tool that checks on the fly for content. | 5/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 1: Yeesh, who still uses Firefox?!? | Site search options, browsers, computer platform of choice, and more… Site Search (what do you use?) Google Custom search with a Google Appliance at GVSU Library Search (collections vs. website) Firefox or Chrome? | 5/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHEH 0: Take a Ride on the Carousel | OK, here we go… the very first hangout! The geeks talk web carousels, site navigation and how to determine your site audience. Carousels Homepage Audience? Prospective students? Current students? Athletics fans? Alumni? | 5/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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