History of the eduWeb Conference

While the conference is new, its history, background and leadership are not.  The original conference started in 2000, under a different name and location.  The current eduWeb Conference's director headed up the former conference for four years to great success.  Under Shelley Wetzel's leadership, the conference grew to incorporate educational institutions around the country and attendees and presenters from around the world!

Shelley, having seen the need to continue the conference and make many needed improvements, turned to other educational leaders and companies working in the field of educational web marketing to form the eduWeb Conference in 2005.  The conference generated immediate press and had a record number of proposals.

The conference continues to focus on "both sides of the fence" (front end and back end) regarding a website's development. 

• The "front end" includes marketing, communications, advancement, admissions - it includes any non-IT office that now has a website and knows that part of its strategy is to communicate to internal and external audiences.  

• The "back end" includes information technology, database development, applications, instructional design, mobile technology, RSS and more.

The core to having a conference like this was to bring these sides together...to learn from the other side, to learn to talk each other's language and hopefully bring a better working relationship among the personnel that now create the Web.

The eduWeb Conference is privately owned by two companies.