HE Comms

For communications professionals working in and with the UK Higher Education sector: share experience, best practice and resources.

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Welcome to HE Comms

Welcome to HE Comms, the social network for communications professionals working in and with the UK higher education sector. This network is designed to enable marketing, PR and other communications practitioners and consultants working in and with the HE sector to discuss and share ideas, best practice, useful resources and case studies. The events tab will also notify you of forthcoming events relevant to you and your organisation. If you have an event to advertise, don't forget to let us know. Go ahead and create your own groups too (see left) - you're in the driving seat!

Latest Activity

James Mellor added a discussion to the group Web Editors

Outsourcing web server provision

Hi, I have posted this on JISCMAIL so apologies if you have already seen it: We are investigating various options for a highly available web server provision for the main University of Portsmouth website. As part of this we are looking at getting...

July 2

Tracy Playle added a blog post

How social media is revolutionising the role of the PR professional in higher education

I delivered a couple of workshops at the EUPRIO conference in Portugal yesterday on the theme of how social media is impacting on universities and the role of the PR professional within them. The session seemed to go down pretty well, so I've shar...

June 28

Tracy Playle added a blog post

The Edgeless University

For anyone who hasn't yet seen The Edgeless University report published yesterday, you can download it here. Makes for interesting reading and I think drums home the point about how e-learning and marketing-communications are clearly beginning to,...

June 24

Jane Embley added a discussion

Director of Communications at Northumbria University

Please click the following link to see details of the exciting role of Director of Communications at Northumbria University. If you, or colleagues, are interested to know more please send me a message via this site or contact me at my email addre...

June 23

We've just confirmed our 250th member of HE Comms. Keep spreading the word, inviting your colleagues and contributing to the site.

June 23

Tracy Playle added a discussion

Which social media monitoring tools are you using

Last week I presented a session at the CASE Beyond the Hype conference in which I listed a range of well established and emerging tools for monitoring social/online media (slides available under events>resources section of this site). I was a litt...

May 21

Tracy Playle added an event

Online Technology Update at Tower 42

June 18, 2009 from 9:30am to 12:30pm

Chameleon Net's latest free educational seminar takes a distilled look at the technology trends that will shape how you plan and deliver your digital strategy. A strategy-oriented technology trends seminar Business decisions always come first, a...

May 18

Tracy Playle added a blog post

More presentations available from Beyond the Hype conference

Thanks to Suraj Shah, James Mellor and Jeremy Speller for allowing us to also include their slides from this CASE seminar on HE Comms. You can now find their slides alongside mine here. (Under events > resources tab - hover over events tab to see ...

May 15