Links from the presentation:

Articles/Presentations:

• Death of the Relaunch
• Incremental Redesign – A More Manageable Approach to Improving Your Website
• Agile Manifesto
• Site evolution
• The Three Hundred Million Dollar Button
• Tweak of the Week
• Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign

Books/Resources:

• The eduStyle Guide to Usable Higher-Ed Homepage Design
• Homepage Usability – 50 Homepages Deconstructed
• Don’t Make Me Think & Rocket Surgery Made Easy
  • 3 Free Chapters from the 1st Edition on User Testing

Services:

• Higher-Ed Website Reviews by eduStyle

Software:

• Silverback
• Techsmith – Camtasia & Morae
• Userfly

Podcasts

• EDU Checkup
• Unmatched Style

Things to see:

• The New Yorker covers
• Archive of Google.com

Ok, so we’re not losers. But I do feel a little left out listening to all the buzz and chatter on Twitter (and a little afraid that we’ll have a bunch of HighEdWebbers launching XSS attacks on the competition. see and here and here .

So if you are like me and sitting at home or office wishing you could be there, you may want to head over to our friends over at .eduGuru who seem to be doing an amazing job at covering it all. And if you want to see what your missing check out the Flickr group.

Now what I need you all to do is give me some rock solid reasons that I can use to convince the budgeting committee (my wife) that I need to go next year. Ready, set, comment.

The organizers of the 2008 HighEdWeb conference are having a competition to design the 2008 conference website. They have just released the details of the competition. The theme for this year’s conference is Infinite Solutions.

The winning individual or team will be awarded a $200 prize at the conference and get recognition in the program and on the website. This is a great opportunity to showcase your talent. You can read more of the details and submission requirements on the conference website.

The organizers have decided to have a competition to design the 2008 conference website. I think it is a great idea considering the talent out there in the higher-ed web design community. The website indicates that the details of the competition will be posted in early December. I look forward to some of the designs that will come out. It would be cool if they took some inspiration from the CSS Zen Garden and let us all get creative with the CSS. I’ll try and keep you posted of any updates on the contest.

via Karine at CollegeWebEditor

I am just working out the final details, but if all goes well you’ll see me in Rochester. Let’s just hope the passport office sticks to their 10 business day rule. Next time I should plan ahead better.