Digital Collegium

09/29/2026

What can you take away from your first Digital Collegium event?

For Mark Byart and Riley Grittinger, our 2026 Minnesota Regional Conference offered a chance to tackle a familiar higher ed challenge: designing websites around what students need, rather than simply how our institutions are organized.

Their recap shares practical UX lessons from Melanie Lindahl’s keynote, including rethinking navigation with prospective students in mind and the value of connecting directly with peers facing similar challenges.

Read Mark and Riley’s takeaways from their first Digital Collegium event: link.digicol.org

Our Minnesota Regional Conference recap shares some UX best practices—and what it’s like to attend a Digital Collegium event for the first time.

09/25/2026

Just a few days left to register for DigiCol 2026 in Pittsburgh!

In-person registration for the Digital Collegium 2026 Annual Conference closes Monday, Sept. 28, so there's still time to join us in Pittsburgh! Learn how other higher ed teams are tackling similar challenges, share ideas and meet peers you can lean on long after you travel back home.

Register now at https://events.digicol.org/digicol26/registration?utm_source=digicol26&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=reminder_reg

09/21/2026

There's still time to join us for DigiCol 2026 in Pittsburgh!

In-person registration for the Digital Collegium 2026 Annual Conference closes Monday, Sept. 28, so there's still time to join us in Pittsburgh! Learn how other higher ed teams are tackling similar challenges, share ideas and meet peers you can lean on long after you travel back home.

Register now for DigiCol 2026 (https://events.digicol.org/digicol26/registration?utm_source=digicol26&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=reminder_reg )

09/13/2026

There's still time to join us for DigiCol 2026 in Pittsburgh!

In-person registration for the Digital Collegium 2026 Annual Conference closes Monday, Sept. 28, so there's still time to join us in Pittsburgh! Learn how other higher ed teams are tackling similar challenges, share ideas and meet peers you can lean on long after you travel back home.

Register now for DigiCol 2026
https://events.digicol.org/digicol26/registration?utm_source=digicol26&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=reminder_reg

09/12/2026

“I think of content marketing as marketing performed by content creators and, yes, I think a lot of us are content marketers and do not realize it.”

Not sure what to expect from our Content Marketing Summit next Tuesday?

Carlos Ruiz, chair of the Digital Collegium Content Marketing Summit, talked to Link Journal about the big picture of content marketing.

Read the article by Tim Nekritz and join us virtually on Sept. 15 for the Content Marketing Summit!

https://link.digicol.org/2026/09/content-marketing-summit-qa-with-carlos-ruiz/

09/11/2026

Our Content Marketing Summit is on September 15th!

Join us online for access to all live sessions in our Storytelling, AI and Content Strategy Tracks.

Register today events.digicol.org/cmsummit26

09/10/2026

Good content tells a story. Great content makes someone see themselves in it.

Join Andy Fabian of Mighty Citizen for "Storytelling that drives enrollment: Four creative writing techniques to improve your content today." Learn how to elevate your content and create compelling, relatable stories that show prospective students why they should choose your institution.

Part of the Storytelling Track of our Content Marketing Summit coming up on September 15! Read more and learn about other great sessions at https://events.digicol.org/cmsummit26/schedule!

✨ Perfect for marketers, communicators and content creators looking to elevate their storytelling strategy. Register to join us!

09/09/2026

How do you activate your next great content team?

Join Maya Demishkevich of Carroll Community College for "Your storytelling network is already on campus: How to activate creators, advocates and collaborators." You'll leave with a practical framework for moving from a centralized content model to a campus-wide storytelling network. Through three participation models, Campus Creators, Campus Advocates and Campus Collaborators, attendees will learn how to identify the right people, build buy-in, create appropriate guardrails, provide support and measure impact.

Part of the Content Strategy Track of our Content Marketing Summit on September 15. Read more and learn about other great sessions at https://events.digicol.org/cmsummit26/schedule

✨ Perfect for social media, marketing and communications professionals looking to turn data into actionable insights. Register to join us!

09/08/2026

Behind every “simple” webpage is a lot of complicated decision-making.

Join Jean Dion and Tyler Hansen of Oregon State University for "Anatomy of a redesign: Inside Oregon State University’s online program page transformation." See their assessment process and gain key insight into what guided their decision to transition from a multi-page microsite to a hyper-focused, single-page format, including extensive UX considerations, SEO knowledge and a user-testing process.

Part of the AI Track at our Content Marketing Summit coming up on September 15! Read more and learn about other great sessions at https://events.digicol.org/cmsummit26/schedule!

✨ Perfect for web, marketing, communications and digital strategy professionals looking to better understand content reuse and personalization in the AI era. Register to join us!

09/03/2026

Please join us in welcoming Digital Collegium’s newly elected officers!

Shelley Keith-Panulla will serve as vice president, Tiffany Broadbent Beker as secretary, Mark Nakamura as treasurer and Amanda Coltri as parliamentarian.

We’re also grateful to outgoing officers Janice Cheng, Robert Heyser and Eric Sembrat for their dedicated service and contributions to the Digital Collegium community.

Get to know our new officers and learn more about the experience they bring to their roles: https://link.digicol.org/

Two trends from Digital Collegium’s Dev Summit: embracing native capabilities over heavy engineering and prioritizing speed and accessibility as a core user experience.