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  • I'm attending #NASPA11. Are you?

    By Eric Stoller March 4, 2011 4:30 am EST

    I leave for Philadelphia next Saturday to attend the 2011 NASPA Annual Conference. Thousands of student affairs practitioners and higher education vendors will be in attendance at one of the largest student affairs conferences in the U.S.

    I'll be writing for Inside Higher Ed, interviewing attendees for Higher Ed Live, and facilitating two social media unsessions. I hope they have Red Bull in Philly!

    NASPA is doing a terrific job of getting attendees primed to participate via the conference backchannel. I've written in the past that the best backchannels are active before, during, and after a conference, and I think that this event has had a fabulous amount of pre-conference tweets.

    In addition to the backchannel, the folks at NASPA have partnered with the #SAchat to offer up an official #NASPA11 #SAchat tweetup during the conference.

    Two additional highlights that I really appreciate for this year's annual conference are the inclusion of a new multi-platform mobile conference app as well as a major push for a more accessible conference.

    There are going to be several sessions that will be relevant to the readers of this blog. I've been perusing the conference schedule and this is my first round list of potential sessions:

    Student Affairs Technology

    • SSAOs: Tweeting and Educating With Purpose
    • Tracking the Social Footprint in the Hiring Process
    • Social Media, Enriched Professional Development and the Future of Student Affairs
    • Wired for Life: Engaging the Mobile Generation
    • OMG, Is Anyone Else Like Me? Incoming Student Facebook Group Use
    • @Twitter: Is Facebook Really MySpace?
    • Don't Fence Me In: Skill Sets of Highly Effective SSAOs (While this one isn't specifically listed as tech session, I hope that technology is one of the SSAO skills...)

    ACPA / NASPA Consolidation

    • At What Price Unification? Senior Student Affairs Officers’ Perspectives
    • NASPA/ACPA Consolidation – A Facilitated Conversation
    • NASPA/ACPA Consolidation Town Hall Meeting

    Which sessions are you most excited about? Will you be tweeting during the conference?

    Do you tweet? Let's connect. Follow me on Twitter.

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  • App is inconsistent
  • Posted by Laura on March 4, 2011 at 6:45am EST
  • When I got word about the NASPA iPad App I was thrilled and downloaded immediately. I became immersed in the schedule, toured around the convention site via the maps, and then saved my schedule.

    I showed colleagues who were also attending the awesome app, and some downloaded right then and there. Then, 3 days later, went to my schedule as I was making a plan with a fellow conference attendee to meet up, and there it was ... Blank. No schedule. and what was more discouraging, sessions that I knew were there when I set up my schedule were now missing (like the opening!).

    I sent an email to the developer, and no response (4 days later). This morning, I saw that schedule was up (so it seems), but unfortunately the one I saved as still gone. I had such high hopes.
  • Ill be there
  • Posted by Lulu kaliher , Asst. Director at Temple on March 4, 2011 at 8:30am EST
  • Cant wait to meet you and go to sessons
  • Posted by Nathan at NASPA on March 7, 2011 at 3:30am EST
  • @Laura,

    Let us know if you still have those problems. That is completely unacceptable, and I'm hopeful we can get the conference app straightened out so this problem doesn't happen to anyone else. Let us know!


    Nathan from NASPA

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