By Mike McCready on November 24, 2009
It’s kind of ironic that I’m writing a blog post about unplugging from technology, but this has been on my mind lately, so I thought I would share it.
This has been a year of transformation and growth for our web department and for myself. We are tapping into new technologies and methods that we haven’t [...]
Posted in Marketing, Social Media, Tips & Tricks, Web Strategy | Tagged Business, Communication, HigherEd Web, Internet marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, strategy, unplug, Web Design and Development
By Mike McCready on October 22, 2009
I came across a campaign website for Lakehead University and at the very top of the website is the call-to-action, ‘Enter to win an Apple MacBook.’ At first glance all it appears that I need to do is supply an e-mail address. Upon submitting, I needed to provide more personal information like birth date, address, [...]
Posted in Marketing, Web Strategy | Tagged Academia, Communication, Contests, Higher education, HigherEd Web, honesty, Internet marketing, Lakehead University, MacBook, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, recruitment, strategy, Website
By Mike McCready on October 21, 2009
In my role as Web Services Manager at a higher education institution, I lead a web team of three (including myself). For a large institution, that is a small team. No matter the size of your web team, you’ve probably asked yourself, ‘What should our web team do?’ I’ve been wondering that myself. I’ve been [...]
Posted in Web Strategy | Tagged competencies, Internet marketing, Online advertising, Promotion, Search Engine Optimization, Social Network, Web Strategy, web team, World Wide Web
By Mike McCready on October 6, 2009
The idea for this post came to me as I was driving to work this morning. I heard a radio jingle for a local mall. The jingle sung about how the mall had lots of shopping and lots of fun. If you had ever been to this mall, you would most likely disagree with the claim in the jingle.
Posted in Marketing | Tagged Advertising, Brand, Business, Higher education, HigherEd Web, Internet marketing, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising
By Mike McCready on September 21, 2009
Where I work, we are embarking on a web realignment (redesign) project for our main web presence. From the very beginning we’ve had the mindset that this approach had to be strategic in nature. I remember back in the day when designing websites it was enough to be cool and eye-catching and was very creative [...]
Posted in Marketing, Redesign, Web Strategy | Tagged Advertising, Communication, Internet marketing, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Redesign, Search Engine Optimization, strategy, Web Design and Development, Web Strategy, Website
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