Colorado Mesa University Episode #317
Posted by EDU Checkup 05-17-2012 12:30 pm
Nick DeNardis reviews the Colorado Mesa University website and gives it a 0-100 score based on their visual design, information architecture and code quality.
International Consortia of Universities and the Mission/Activities Question
Posted by GlobalHigherEd 05-17-2012 11:53 am
On May 10th 2012 Universitas 21 heaved itself into the higher ed rankings world with the first ranking of countries which are the best at providing higher education. As this international consortia of universities noted: The Universitas 21 ranking of ...
On Facebook, touchy-feely is out of touch
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing 05-17-2012 9:04 am
The findings or a recent study on how brands use Facebook should cause all of us in higher ed to rethink how we use the social media giant for our marketing efforts. The study, conducted by Facebook itself and recently reported in Ad Age, suggests that th...
Facebook Advertising: Was GM Was Doing it Wrong
Posted by Alaina Wiens 05-16-2012 5:02 pm
Everywhere I look today, people are talking about General Motors’ decision to pull its paid advertisements from Facebook. Indeed, $10 million in lost ad revenue sounds like a pretty big deal. And when a corporate giant like General Motors decides th...
RESS: An Evolution of Responsive Web Design
Posted by Mobile in Higher Ed 05-16-2012 11:49 am
I gave a talk at RefreshPittsburgh (@refreshpitt) last night that hopefully served as an introduction to RESS and Detector. I believe RESS can help developers address some of the realities of deploying Responsive Web Design-based sites so it was awesome ...
Theres a lot of great content at Confab 2012.
Posted by Susan Talbert Evans Blog 05-16-2012 10:11 am
I am at Confab and loving it. This conference has a singular focus: content strategy. What’s cool is that everyone here is from everywhere – corporate, government, agency, higher ed, non-profits, and more. We all come together around content r...
New Class of 2016 Facebook Page and Group Analysis
Posted by .eduGuru 05-16-2012 10:06 am
The following is a guest post by Gabe Sanchez at Inigral. If you would like to go deeper into this Facebook data be sure to check out the upcoming webinar the State of Facebook in Admissions Tuesday May 22nd. –Kyle James Over the last 8 years, Faceb...
Workplaces Revealed: Jaime Hunt
Posted by Link: The Journal of Higher Education Web Professionals 05-15-2012 3:00 pm
If I am going to spend 40 (or, lets face it, close to 50) hour a week in a space, I want it to feel like home.
Foursquare @ WKU: Using 4sqonCampus for event promotion
Posted by Link: The Journal of Higher Education Web Professionals 05-15-2012 3:00 pm
When we got to thinking about cool, new, free things we could do on campus for our students, Foursquare made a lot of sense.
Meetups and Photo Booths and Deals, Oh My! Using Social Media to Create Hybrid Events on Your Campus
Posted by Link: The Journal of Higher Education Web Professionals 05-15-2012 3:00 pm
In the age of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, FourSquare and SCVNGR, there are new ways to engage your audience that are inexpensive and interactive, without sacrificing impact.
