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A round up of my key points and more on some issues I touched on at Chamtech09: Google Analytics discrepancies, link tagging, and defining your website goals.

Earlier this month, I was invited by CASE Europe to present a session on International Student Recruitment at the Beyond the Hype seminar. Delegate feedback has shone a light on how I can improve the content I present and enhance my presentation style to serve the higher education community better.

Chameleon Net held a seminar on Digital Student Recruitment for the higher education sector yesterday, Tuesday 24th February 2009. "Stimulating & Exciting"; "Very well organised & professional"

Highlights of CASE Europe’s excellent “Introduction to Higher Education” one-day seminar giving insights into what’s hot and what’s not in higher education now and in the near future, how to maximise on the various types of donors, reaching out to “Generation Y” alumni, which factors and roles have the greatest influence on student choice when selecting the right university, and overcoming key challenges as a senior marketer at an HEI.

As an Account Manager at Chameleon Net, my primary role is to spend time with Higher Education professionals to establish their digital needs and see where there is a match with the services we offer.

This week at the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Chameleon Net hosted a digital marketing educational seminar for some of the UK’s most dedicated marketing, communications, student recruitment, alumni relations and web professionals.

This month has shown that Chameleon’s work is becoming more widely recognised for its innovation and creativity, and that the company has climbed a long way in a decade.

In the process of planning for Chameleon Net's 10th bday celebration (today's the actual day, by the way), it occurred to me that I'm celebrating my own anniversary of sorts - October marks 5 years of my being here at Chameleon.

Time has flown by and a lot has happened, that's for sure. So in the spirit of the both Chameleon being 10, and me notching up 5 years service, here are my highlights of the past semi-decade working in web with Chameleon.

When Alumni, Communications, Development and Marketing professionals get together to talk about the Higher Education sector, some interesting common issues begin to emerge.

In August, Vicky (our MD) and I spent an afternoon at the CASE Europe Annual Conference in Brighton. The sessions I had the opportunity to attend centred around the topic of reputation management.

Well it's nearly upon us. We knew it was coming, but here it is. On 31st October this year Chameleon will be 10 years old, and we're embarking on a whole bunch of fun to celebrate over the coming weeks. (Not least by behaving like 10 year olds on our temporarily kid-like blog ) In '98 the web was a different kettle of fish to what we see today. To kick of our 10th anniversary blogging, I thought I'd have a quick look at the web world circa 1998...

In my ongoing mission to become the David Dimbleby of the Web Industry (and beyond?) I recently spent an afternoon chairing a “Question Time” style event for movers and shakers in the UK publishing industry: “Digitise or Die” was the inaugural annual event run by The Bookseller, the leading trade publication for the book industry, with the sole intention of focusing on the issues facing the book business in the digital age.

When Chameleon Net asked me if I’d like a regular ‘blog spot’ on their site, I was chuffed but a little nervous. Surrounded by the creative and technical insight provided by the blindingly bright Chameleon Net team, how would my PR perspective of the company and their work fare?

So we have made it to Africa! We have had a very eventful journey so far...

As many of you may know I am taking part in the Plymouth to Dakar rally. A colleague and I will be setting off tonight, to drive to Portsmouth to catch a ferry bound for France. The plan is that we will then drive through France, Spain, take a ferry over to northern Morocco and then on through Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal and finally arrive in The Gambia in about three weeks time.

I thought it'd be worth outlining three particular areas discussed in conversations at breaks and during the Q&A slots at the end of each session at the recent seminar.

In short: Creating a corporate Facebook; AdSense - useful or not; Allowing and handling negative UGC.

Just a quick thank you to all who attended the latest in our series of free educational seminars on Thursday 11th October at The Groucho Club in Soho.

The event was titled: Debunking New Web Myths - The Realities of Commercial Success with Web 2.0

Last weekend the Chameleon Net crew were at large in Brighton dressed as pirates, disturbing locals and passers-by alike on a charity treasure hunt in aid of UNICEF.