Speakers and Schedule

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

11:00am – 5:00pm Registration Desk Open
1:00pm – 2:30pm Pre-Conference: Social Media & Web 101
By Melissa Cheater

2:30pm – 3:00pm Break
3:00pm – 4:00pm Pre-Conference Continued

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Churchill Ballroom will be used for meals and keynotes, as well as our “unconference” track.

7:00am – 5:00pm Registration Desk Open

Time

Mountbatten A

Mountbatten B

Churchill Ballroom

8:30am – 9:30am Breakfast
9:00am – 9:30am Opening Remarks
9:30am – 10:15am Starting from Scratch: Redesigning Usask.ca
By Mike Klein & Andy Sargent
Social Media Stories: Lessons for Social Media Strategy at your Institution
By Robin Smail
Social Media Is What Happens While You’re Busy Writing Strategic Plans
By Phil Bliss, Academica Group
10:20am – 11:05am Herding Cats: Web Governance in Higher Education
By Mark Greenfield
Optimizing Your Web Site For Mobile & Tablet Usability
By David Beyer & Mark Barbisan
11:05am – 11:20am Break
11:20am – 12:05pm Developing Social Media Protocols for your University
By Laura D’Amelio
Cutting Through It: Navigating Information Overload
By Nicole Maunsell
TBD
12:05pm – 1:15pm Lunch
1:15pm – 2:00pm The Evolution of a Student Blog
By Chris Garbutt & Andrea Graham
jQuery: Write less Javascript, Do more Animation and Interaction
By James Collins
Stop Wasting Money & Time, Use Open Source: A Case for Drupal as the CMS of Choice in Higher Education
By Jennifer Hols & Chris Geoghegan (ImageX Media)
2:05pm – 2:50pm Using usability testing to make sure your audience gets it
By Bernie Monette
Social Media Demands a Fresh Approach to Content Creation in University Marketing & Communications
By Tracy Playle
Squeezing every drop: Making great integrated campaigns out of your videos
By Mike Leon
2:50pm – 3:05pm Break
3:05pm – 3:50pm Location-Based Social Media, Or You + Where = Foursquare
By Tim Nekritz
Plan it and they will come: lessons learned from planning a post-secondary web redesign
By Chris Wong & Lori Munro
Running an Efficient CMS Evaluation & Procurement Process in 2011
By Piero Tintori, TERMINALFOUR
3:55pm – 5:00pm Keynote: The Road Ahead for Higher Education: Emerging Trends 2011
By Ken Steele
6:30pm – 11:00pm Social Networking: An Evening with TERMINALFOUR Hermann&Audrey CONTACT 2011 at #pseweb 2011Drinks & Tasting Menu
Interactive Art Exhibit 

Gallery 99 (99 Sudbury St)
Transit directions & Map: www.pseweb.ca/terminalfour CONTACT 2011 Mobile App: www.scotiabankcontactphoto.com/app

Friday, May 20, 2011

Time

Mountbatten A

Mountbatten B

Churchil Ballroom

7:30am – 9:00am
9:00am – 9:45am WordPress in a Higher Ed Environment
By Troy Chaplin & Danny Brown
Create compelling video without tearing your hair out
By Elizabeth Monier-Williams & Bob McKenzie
TBD
9:50am – 10:35am Social media: the policies or What you need to know before opening that Facebook account
By Nichole McGill
King Content – Content Generation with Limited Resources
By JP Rains
TBD
10:35am – 10:50am Break
10:50am – 11:35am Going Mobile in WordPress and Drupal
By Nick Valentino
Fire and ice, status updates and tweets: Emergency communications in the social media age
By Ryan McNutt
Are We There Yet? Create, Manage & Measure Your Web Campaign Success By Joel Dixon, Hannon Hill
11:40am – 12:25pm HTML 5—Let’s Make Progress
By Shahab Lashkari
Authentic Social Media: You Can’t Stop the Signal, Mal
By Robin Smail
Campus Mobile Apps: “Ready, Fire … Aim?” By Tavis McKenzie, Campus Current
12:25pm – 1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm – 2:15pm Keynote: Engagement in Education 2.0 By Scott Stratten
2:20pm – 3:05pm Surfing the Wave of Mobile Marketing
By Al Hyland
The Real U: Building Brands that Resonate with Students, Faculty, Staff, and Donors
By Rob Moore
TBD
3:05pm – 3:20pm Break
3:20pm – 4:05pm Building iWestern
By Mathew Hoy
Site Redesigns: Using Analytics Before and After
By Alan Etkin
TBD
4:10pm – 4:55pm They want to do what? Hands on production tips to save your budget and your sanity
By Mike Leon
Canadian Style
By Stewart Foss
TBD