SIM Tech Is Coming!!!
Okay, I admit it: SIM Tech is my favorite conference for obvious and not so obvious reasons. Here are 5 reasons why you can’t afford to miss it this year:
- Google evangelist and internationally recognized analytics guru Avanish Kaushik is our keynote speaker, best-selling author of Web Analytics 2.0 and Web Analytics: An Hour a Day…NO OTHER HIGHER ED WEB CONFERENCE THIS YEAR HAS A KEYNOTE AT THIS LEVEL. Avanish speaks at globally known conferences like Web 2.0 (the leading conference of its kind in the world and where the term “2.0” was coined), teaches at Stanford, is on the board of advisors for UC Irvine, and his clients include Toyota, Dell,and Time Warner. If analytics is the wave of the future, Avanish will teach us how to ride it.
- In the “That’s Not All” category, we also have:
- Susan Weinschenk, author of Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click?, with over 30 years experience as a consultant worldwide and chief of UX strategy, Americas at Human Factors International
- Karine Joly, one of the leading social media and content gurus in higher education, the web editor behind www.CollegeWebEditor.com, the founder of www.HigherEdExperts.com, a social networking and professional development community with more than 2,000 registered members working in higher ed institutions around the world
- This is the marketing and web conference in higher education—it balances both technology with marketing and speaks directly to college and university recruiters and marketers. It regularly attracts higher ed web and new media experts from institutions across the country, like Tim Nekritz from SUNY Oswego, Jessica Kryowsa from Suffolk University, and Dave Olsen from West Virginia University, all of whom will be speaking this year.
- Did we mention it’s in Las Vegas? You’ll have a room at the Paris, access to some of the best restaurants in the world (try the Joël Robuchon at the Mansion), shows like Cirque du Soleil and Jersey Boys, golf, the Hoover Dam, and so much more (and cheap flights if you book right now!).
- The conference is about what’s important to higher ed marketers right now: up to the minute thinking on analytics, content strategy, social media, and mroi—this conference is about where we are and where we are going.
Okay, I’m shilling for SIM Tech…I admit it. But let me tell you my number-one reason why I love this conference: for the past several years, a core group of SIM Tech regulars has been loyally attending—people like Rachel Reuben, Lougan Bishop, Karlyn Morrisette, Kyle James, and many more—and their ranks are growing each year. They—and all of our attendees—are the ones who make this a very special, one-of-a-kind event…and I’m always happy to see them.
So join us this year for the best conversation you’ll find on where higher education web marketing is going.
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