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BlogHighEd welcomes Paul Redfern to the BHE Blogroll. Paul writes High Ed Web Marketing, and he is the Director of Web Communications and Electronic Media at Gettysburg College.Social media and sustainability
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing 5 hours 38 minutes ago.
This is not some wild-eyed screed about saving Mother Earth by harnessing the networking power of Twitter or Facebook. No, I’m talking here about another kind of sustainability: the care and feeding of your social media presence. In most of the pres...
Why Do I Tweet I Do It for You
Posted by .eduGuru 15 hours 18 minutes ago.
A good friend of mine, @jeffswain, over at the five-4-six blog, posed a really tough question and I’ve been asking myself ever since:Back in the 80s in a railroad town with a declining population, all we had was a top-40 station, (eventually) classi...
Facebook Whining Gets Prof Grounded
Posted by The Higher Ed Marketing Blog A post with three observations. Gloria Gadsden, a sociology professor at East Stroudsburg University decided to vent her frustrations with some students on her Facebook. At one point she asked: “Does anyone know where to find a very discreet hitm...
XpertTip No. 145: An html basic
Posted by TargetX iThink Online At the risk of alienating our more advanced clients, today I wanted to offer a little html tidbit that you should be using (so if you’re the html guru in the office, might want to bail out now. What follows is gonna be a snoozefest for you;) I̵...
The social media cheat sheet
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing Social media superstar Chris Brogan recently shared via Google Reader this link to a terrific, color-coded social media cheat sheet that is well worth downloading (PDF). Here’s a screenshot:The cheat sheet was originally published by CMO.com as A CM...
New Staffing Models in Alumni Relations
Posted by Alumni Futures [Alumni Futures is partnering with Charlie Melichar's Intermedia blog this week, to share some views on the changing landscape of institutional advancement in education. Read Charlie's interview with Andrew Gossen, Cornell University's new senior director...
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Posted by Mark Greenfield - Higher Ed Web Consulting Price Points Customer & Influencer Research in Social Media Voluntarily onto the Digital Leash - role of data in mobile future Should anonymous comments be allowed in an online community Ning Networks 101: A Guide to Creating a Thriving Online Socia...
EDU Checkup: Saint Michaels College, University of Notre Dame, Northwestern College
Posted by EduStyle Blog 2 days 5 hours ago.
What a great week, the first site Saint Michael’s College really felt dated. The site was designed for an 800px wide screen which makes it feel constricted. There is some movement on the homepage right as the page loads which is really distracting....
TargetX Tweets for the Week of 2010-03-07
Posted by TargetX iThink Online 2 days 8 hours ago.
Live from TEDxNYED today! http://www.tedxnyed.com/live/ #tedxnyed # News: Student Recruiting Firm TargetX Launches Bold Consulting Division http://bit.ly/czPUfa #
How Millennial Are You
Posted by TargetX iThink Online 2 days 11 hours ago.
Brian Niles, TargetX CEO sent me this Pew Internet Quiz - shockingly as a bitter GenXer I scored 92 out of 100! So take the quick survey and find out “How Millennial Are You” and post your score if you’re brave. And don’t worry y...
Quote of the moment: social networks, human interaction and Pringles
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing 2 days 14 hours ago.
Here’s an item that’s been in my “draft” folder for far too long. It’s time to unfetter this snippet, nearly two years after its capture. Tell me: Is this thought still relevant The internet is to human interaction as Pringl...
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Posted by Mark Greenfield - Higher Ed Web Consulting 2 days 20 hours ago.
The 'Web Squared' Era PolicyTool - Policy for the Masses
Is any publicity good publicity
Posted by Higher Ed Web Marketing 3 days 10 hours ago.
This was the week of Jon Stewart at Gettysburg College. On Thursday Feb 25 I walked into work and had an email that said check out the Daily Show lots of mentions of Gettysburg last night. And so it began. Here was the clip: http://www.thedailyshow.com/f...
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Posted by Mark Greenfield - Higher Ed Web Consulting 3 days 20 hours ago.
Two New Surveys Validate Companies Adoption of Social Media 7 Things You Should Know About Mobile IT | EDUCAUSE College students today: overconfident or just assured Regardless, they are our future 2 Services for DIY Mobile Social Networks YouTube - Ubi...
Friday Links
Posted by Ron Bronson 4 days 4 hours ago.
Here are some random links that I felt like sharing: Nomenclature: Product Hierarchies (brandsinger)First Twitter sample clearance (Mashable)Twitter as a teaching tool (Tim Nekritz)1920s proposal to ban women drivers (Sociological Images) The album of th...
Florida International University, Miami, FL
Posted by FJ Gaylor Photography 4 days 8 hours ago.
We spent the last couple of days in Sunny South Florida at Florida International University, can't think of a better place to start our busy Spring semester. :)Here's some images from FIU: FJ GAYLOR FIUIt felt great to get back in the swing of things the...
WOM for Higher Ed
Posted by TargetX iThink Online 4 days 11 hours ago.
Fueled by the social web, Word of Mouth has become a billion dollar marketing engine. It even has its own professional organization — the Word of Mouth Marketing Association — with conferences, webinars, tutorials and a strong emphasis on ethi...
Top 5 speaking venues to share your expertise with the higher ed community
Posted by College Web Editor 4 days 11 hours ago.
It’s “submit-your-proposal” season in higher ed with a few call for proposals recently launched or closing soon. If you’ve never presented at a conference, why not try this year It would be nice to see new faces (nothing wrong wit...
Europe 2020: what are the implications of Europes new economic strategy for global higher ed & research
Posted by GlobalHigherEd 4 days 20 hours ago.
This week marks the launch of the EU’s EUROPE 2020: A European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. As noted in EurActiv (‘Brussels unveils 2020 economic roadmap for Europe‘) on 3 March: The EU’s new strategy for s...
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Posted by Mark Greenfield - Higher Ed Web Consulting 4 days 20 hours ago.
Google: Desktops Will Be Irrelevant in Three Years’ Time More referrals from social media than from search It’s Time to Engage Getting the Most Out of Twitter, No Posting Necessary
