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I'm going to watch this one for a while...

http://collegewebeditor.com/

Will let you know if it's any good...

I can't possibly keep up with all of the "web 2.0" -- I hate that expression -- innovations that are flying out of the www into my browser at lightspeed. There's just too much going on, I'd have to spend all day every day reading and browsing to have any hope of keeping up with it all, and even then it'd be futile. I'd have to change my title to "Web Trends Analyst" -- ooh, I like the sounds of that.

So, my strategy, at least for now, is this: watch Google like a hawk. Google is rolling out cool new stuff literally every day. To experienced bloggers and web jockeys this will seem obvious, but to some of my audience it won't: Google ain't a just a search engine anymore.

Duh! GoogleEarth, Maps.Google.com, Gmail, Picasa, Blogger, SketchUp, and that's the least of it. Just go to Google and click "more" to see what I mean. From there, to see the really cool stuff click the GoogleLabs link. That's where you'll find the new Google Reader, a stunning, AJAX heavy RSS aggregator that I'm using to great affect to, uh, among other things, subscribe to my own blog. That's sick.

No, really, what's really cool that you can pull a lot of these Google tools into one place via the Google personalized homepage. I'm using this to good effect as follows: Using the Google Reader I subscribe to an RSS feed of Google News results for "Goucher College", for example. I've added the Google Reader Google Gadget to my personalized homepage and then, of course, I've set the personalized homepage as the default start page for my browser. I've got a bunch of other feeds in the reader too, miscellaneous stuff that I'm interested in, like the Velux 5 Oceans race, Woot, and some other stuff. Now, whenever I fire up my browser, I see all the feeds. It keeps me very up to date. Too up to date.

I've posted our homemade Ingeniux documentation to the website. Thanks to Donna Lummis of the CTLT for putting this together. Note, this is not Ingeniux's official documentation. This is our own. I posted Ingeniux's to the site a while ago Ingeniux requested that I keep it internal so I pulled it down.

Hope this helps!

http://www.goucher.edu/documents/webmaster/ingeniux_author.pdf

Andrew Careaga's Higher-Ed Marketing blog and Guy Kawasaki's Signum sine tinnitu blog.

Andrew is the director of marketing at the University of Missouri-Rolla. He seems to be doing a good job of aggregating higher-ed marketing trends and reports. I'm new to his blog so I can't comment yet on the long term value of this blog. Will watch it for a while and let you know...

Similarly, I'm new to the whole Guy Kawasaki cult of personality but his credentials are superalitve. Author of "The Art of the Start", guy was an early Apple marketing executive who has gone on to start software companies and he is now CEO of an angel venture capital firm called Garage. Learn more about Guy here.

It was Andrew's mention of Guy's post on what students should learn this year that sparked my interest in both blogs and their respective bloggers.

I've been using SharpReader as my RSS aggregator for a while now but I've decided to scrap it in favor of Google Lab's Reader. SharpReader ran in the system tray and seemed to slow down my machine's boot time significantly. I suspect it was also a drain on system resources as it monitored the feeds I'd subscribed to on a continual basis. Why not use Google's processor instead of my own?

My Aunt Beth, a software instructor, master weaver, and contra dance caller, turned me on to Woot, a website that sells one item per day. I've become hooked on checking in with the site to see the current day's item.