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BlogHighEd welcomes our newest member, Karlyn Morissette. She is a Web Producer in the Development office at Dartmouth College. She considers her blog "my brain dump for things relating to integrating the web into the overall business process of your institution."Our "It's Not Too Late" Campaign
Posted by The Old College Try 2 hours 25 minutes ago.
It would probably amaze people if they knew how many last-minute walk-ins we get to our admissions office the week before classes start.It can range from high school students who change their minds about where they want to go, to adults who suddenly feel ...
Ode To Twitter
Posted by Karlyn Morissette.com 7 hours 48 minutes ago.
The Use of Social Media in Higher Education for Marketing and Communications: A Guide for Professionals in Higher Education
Posted by .eduGuru 7 hours 52 minutes ago.
The following is a guest post by Rachel Ruben the Director of Web Communication & Strategic Projects in the Office of Public Affairs at State University of New York at New Paltz. Rachel was kind enough to share her recent completed report. You can c...
Slowest time of the year Not in higher ed
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing 8 hours 50 minutes ago.
Marketer par excellence Seth Godin recently advised his readers to resist the urge to slack off this week and next and instead “focus like your hair is on fire” to complete a project that has been languishing. In the US, the next two weeks are...
Stop watching the clock
Posted by Ron Bronson 21 hours 55 minutes ago.
I like to have time to do particular projects I set out to do in a day. So when I look up at the clock and see that its later than Id like, I sometimes get discouraged. I usually start a mental loop of all of the things I wanted to do, how I didnt [......
Blogging imitiates reality
Posted by Ron Bronson So I write this post and then a few weeks later, magically, I get notice that Web Editor and I are being moved to a newly created area within the IT department on campus, called Web and New Media Services. It’s actually a really good change and no, ...
5 [More] Higher Ed Web Blogs You Probably Havent Heard of Worth Reading
Posted by SquaredPeg To extend the .eduGuru’s list of 5 Higher Ed Web Blogs You Probably Havent Heard of Worth Reading, here are is my addition of 5 blogs you should probably check out. Higher Education BlogsAdmittedly Dutch - I met Andrew Meyers at the Innovative Educ...
Feedback on Facebook Ads
Posted by The Old College Try I don't know if any of you dear readers have been trying Facebook ads, but here's another kernal of knowledge to add to your silo.If you're like me, you probably ignore those Facebook ads that appear in boxes around the page as you're navigating through t...
E-mails, E-mails Everywhere and Not a One to Spam.
Posted by .eduGuru It was brought to my attention the other day that there are some concerns about e-mail addresses published on our college’s web site and the effect it has on spam. It turns out the filters here run through about 10,000,000 emails a day, about 7% of...
What Web 2.0 means to me
Posted by Karlyn Morissette.com
Multimedia/Flash Screenreader Tango
Posted by College Web Guy I’m very impressed with Xavier’s new site. And there’s more information about the “updated” homepage from the Web Services Department at Xavier. (”Updated” is a much safer term than “redesigned”, don...
Manga madness in the Twitterverse
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing Manga avatars are all over Twitter these days, thus combining two Eastern cultural influences — Hinduism and Japanese cartoons. I joined the bandwagon earlier today after reading all about it on Mashable.
Microsoft Surface - coming to a visitor center near you
Posted by The Experience Evangelist Last week the TargetX Interactive Recruiting Workshop was held in Downtown Chicago at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Gleacher Center. The host hotel was the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers. The Sheraton had three Microsoft Surfa...
Sweetening Canadas offer in the race for global talent: a new immigration class eases the route to permanent residency for foreign students in Canada
Posted by GlobalHigherEd 3 days 19 hours ago.
International students are the focus of front-page news in Canada this week with the launch of the long-anticipated new immigration scheme, the Canadian experience class. Intended to fast-track foreign students and skilled workers currently in Canada fr...
Sweetening Canadas offer in the race for global talent: a new immigration class eases the route to permanent residency for foreign students
Posted by GlobalHigherEd 3 days 19 hours ago.
International students are the focus of front-page news in Canada this week with the launch of the long-anticipated new immigration scheme, the Canadian experience class. Intended to fast-track foreign students and skilled workers currently in Canada fr...
Love In The Time of Twitter
Posted by Ron Bronson 4 days 1 hour ago.
The post has nothing really to do with romantic love, unless you consider loving what you do to be romantic. It can be so hard, in this post-millennial, winner-take-all, credit-crunched society to really take the time to stop and assess exactly what you w...
Various Data Points
Posted by Institutional Knowledge 4 days 4 hours ago.
The end of year reports are being written and various folks have come to WEBD looking for what really happened on various systems. These numbers are based on our fiscal year which is from July 1st to June 30th.University Home Page2007/08 - 9,289,385 visi...
Lets Kick It Up a Notch
Posted by SquaredPeg 4 days 6 hours ago.
It’s finally Friday, and here’s my thought of the week. In Higher Ed, mediocrity is embraced and accepted way too much. I’ve only worked in higher ed, but I can’t imagine this cutting it in other workplaces. We all know that higher...
Random Stuff for Friday
Posted by College Web Guy 4 days 6 hours ago.
A few months back I posted an incoherent rambling string of thoughts called “other duties as assigned” that sparked an interesting conversation. Hat tip to whoever made this nice chart:Moving on… Ok watch this video, Then watch this one....
Borg Reorg
Posted by Tales from Redesignland 4 days 7 hours ago.
We just found out yesterday that our small little Web development group is going to become part of another organization on campus.OK, in reality the "Binary Operations Resource Group" is neither as big or as scary as the Borg (so chill out you guys over t...
