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BlogHighEd welcomes Toby Keeping to the BHE Blogroll. Toby writes Keeping on Top of Higher Ed, and he is the Senior Accounts Director with Azorus, a CRM provider for higher education.Thanks for the pieces of paper, I guess
Posted by The Old College Try 1 hour 22 minutes ago.
DW is faced with another problem today that should not happen since most are educated about computers.I received a printout of a project we are working on from a client today. And taped to it are paragraphs of text a department head wants inserted.OK, tha...
Links for 2009-01-06 [del.icio.us]
Posted by Mark Greenfield - Higher Ed Web Consulting 10 hours 49 minutes ago.
Context Is King Baby! Go Get Your Own. | Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik The future of social web for Forrester About My Twitter Hiatus Diagram: How the Air Force Response to Blogs Updated: Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accounts Hac...
Taking a Twitter List To the Next Level
Posted by HighEdWebTech 16 hours 26 minutes ago.
I love the idea of having a master list of higher ed web people who use Twitter. Chances are, most of us already follow quite a lot of people on the list, but it got me thinking that there’s an opportunity here to really take that idea to the next l...
Using social media to create winning moments
Posted by Ron Bronson The Washington Post’s blog on the Obama transition made a really good point today, explaining why for instance, Team Obama decided to post photos of his daughters’ first day of school in Washington D.C. on Flickr.It may sound counterintuitive...
User Experience and target=_blank
Posted by .eduGuru Despite how much people don’t want it to be true, using target="_blank" when coding pages is becoming less and less of an accepted practice. But don’t take my word for it. There’s a reason that strict (X)HTML has dropped the target att...
Master Higher Ed Twitter List
Posted by Karlyn Morissette.com Everytime I talk to a new higher ed person about twitter, I wish I had a list of people to follow to point them to. Without further ado… Note: I’m sure I left people off this and I apologize in advance. It was not intentional. Please commen...
The role of the university in city/regional development: a view from a Vice-Chancellor in Bristol
Posted by GlobalHigherEd The entry has been kindly prepared for us by Professor Eric Thomas, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol. Eric has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol since 2001. Prior to that he was Head of the School of Medicine, and later D...
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Posted by College Web Editor Unless you were already on vacations or enjoying your office holiday party, you’ve probably heard about what some (and according to my sources, Andrew Careaga was the first to coin that term) have called “FacebookGate” A few days before ...
Immediacy Works!
Posted by The Old College Try Quick anecdote: We have a Facebook ad campaign running, counting down the weeks until spring semester starts.Our target is transfer students.We're now 1 week out.We've had more click-throughs in the one day it's been running (with the "1 week left until c...
Should You Twitter in 2009
Posted by College Web Editor 2 days 1 hour ago.
Happy New Year my dear regular readers (and casual browsers)! My first UB column for 2009 (actually it’s the one that was scheduled for the December 2008 issue) is now available in the January issue as well as online: “Should You Twitter Rea...
Take this survey about Twitter usage (even if you dont know what Twitter is)
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing 2 days 2 hours ago.
Andy Shaindlin of Alumni Futures is starting his new year with some research on how colleges and universities use Twitter, and he’s looking for our help. So, please take a few minutes to complete Andy’s short, anonymous survey about Twitter. I...
Facebook: Marketing AND Customer Service
Posted by Keeping on Top of Higher Ed 2 days 2 hours ago.
Before the holidays I shared with you a story that was gaining momentum regarding Facebook use at colleges. Therein, Brad J. Ward at Butler University had found that a firm was creating and managing university class of 2013 groups, likely with the inten...
Talking about Technology vs USING Technology
Posted by College Web Guy 2 days 5 hours ago.
Dave Johnston goes on a rant about people obsessed with tools. A large section of the internet today reminds me of the guy at your high school in 1984, out in the student parking lot, talking endlessly about the awesome new stereo in his red Camaro Z28. H...
Inefficiency: The Biggest Problem in Higher Education
Posted by Karlyn Morissette.com 2 days 6 hours ago.
I’m more convinced than ever that the greatest challenge facing higher education isn’t the economy - it’s the inefficient way of operation that is engrained in the culture of the industry. Hierarchy: The Greatest Enemy of Efficiency I...
A Brief Survey About Twitter for Higher Ed Advancement
Posted by Alumni Futures 2 days 7 hours ago.
Before diving in to a new year of all-out blogging, I invite you to participate in a short, anonymous survey about Twitter.Even if you don't know what Twitter is or you do know what it is, but you do...
Entry-level boredom
Posted by Ron Bronson 2 days 19 hours ago.
Whenever I have to give my more competent student workers assignments that are best described as “busy work,” I often feel the need to provide caveats to them that it’s a temporary thing and communicate how much I value their dedication ...
What will you do with your year
Posted by Ron Bronson 2 days 20 hours ago.
For days, Ive been trying to write the opening salvo to initiate (to myself) this year is different than the others. But then I realized they’re always different. (No, this isnt another one of those Im turning 30 in a few months posts where I s...
Serious Conversations about Content Development
Posted by College Web Guy 4 days 5 hours ago.
Nice Q&A about the William & Mary web presence overhaul at the mStonerblog: Highlights for me: How did you manage internal communications “In a nutshell, we had a philosophy of transparency and a communication plan (we wrote it down!). R...
10 Songs ~ 1.2.09
Posted by Ron Bronson 4 days 19 hours ago.
As I sit and contemplate how to start the year with actual words that mean something, I decided that music was a lot easier to provide you with. Alas, here’s a set of tracks largely from the albums I was introduced to or discovered during the last f...
It's Your Job to Make it Exciting
Posted by The Old College Try 5 days 2 hours ago.
Here's a neat story from a coworker about looking at a situation with a different perspective -- something I want to try to do in 2009.OK, so my coworker is being tasked -- like many of us are -- with making an informational TV spot about something that i...
