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Rob Chappell speaking in front of a crowd at CX Café in Raleigh, NC.

Taming Fragmentation: How Red Hat Is Building a Unified Digital Experience Ready for an AI-Driven Future

Featured Guest: Rob Chappell Sr. Director of Digital UX, Red Hat Recently, in partnership with Adobe, we had the pleasure of hosting enterprise CX…

Getting to the Heart of Pain Takes the Right People, Reasons, and Discussions

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve spent a lot of time negotiating pain. Nothing personal, mind you, but working professionally to help both clients…

Finding the Right Digital Solution? Make Sure You Get the Horse Before the Cart

Whether you're talking about web design, digital marketing, or traditional bricks-and-mortar-based communication, companies often fall victim to…

How To Optimize Your Website Speed For Mobile: Google Speed Update Is Coming

It’s now been a few months since Google announced that, as of this July, page speed will be a ranking factor in mobile searches. Essentially, slower…

The Path to Enrollment: How Guided Pathways Drives Higher Ed Success

Need to Know Higher education institutions have been adopting the Guided Pathways model to enhance enrollment amidst growing competition. The Guided…

A collage of images from events attended by Northern's Jay Ménard.

From AI to Accessibility: Reflections from the Higher Education Conference Circuit

Author Jay Ménard One of the great things about travel is the understanding that, while we may come from different backgrounds and have different…

A 1.0 World versus a 2.0 World

I recently attended a Communications Workshop where I had the pleasure of listening to Ira Basen of CBC, speak about the differences between a 1.0 and…

WatITis About Learning, Collaboration, and Opportunity

What it is is an opportunity. What it is is a chance to learn. What it is is a chance to meet some of the top information technology leaders in their…

We Have the Power -- and Responsibility -- to Ensure the Web We’ve Always Wanted is Open to All

We can create the web we want -- but, to quote Stan Lee, with great power comes great responsibility. It’s one thing to create the web in our own…

Make Sure Your Source is the Right One

Proxies, advocates, and representatives are all welcome to participate, but when you want the best quality of information upon which to build the…