Here are a list of proposals I’m pulling together for
HighEdWebDev 2007: COLLABORATE • PARTICIPATE • INNOVATE, a web developer conference specifically for people in HigherEd.

Title: Head Toward the Bright Light: You too can setup a LAMP server
Type: 1-hour Track Session or 1/2 day workshop
Technical Difficulty: 3
Track: Technical or Applications

Title: Who Doesn’t like Free? How to Choose and Transition to Open Source Apps
Type: 1-hour Track Session
Technical Difficulty: 2
Track: Applications

Title: Skim the Bloat: Use Wordpress as a Mini-CMS in Your Next Project
Type: 1-hour Track Session
Technical Difficulty: 3
Track: Content, Design, Management, or Applications

I’m thinking about a few more, and Drew still needs to chime in.

There are things that are easier to point people to than to try to explain several different times to different people in different circumstances. And there are somethings that people might want to know about, but might not. For these times a blog makes more sense than email.

/enter this blog.

I’m not a professor, so I don’t get a cool faculty blog. But anyone at CSP can get a blog, so here’s my contribution to transparency and better communication at Concordia.