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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.Road to Nowhere
Posted by Tales from Redesignland I was going to write a post about how fickle you folks are when it comes to commenting on this blog. But I figured that would sound needy, so I'll save that post with it's bar chart and stats for another day.I hope you're not bored with budget woes, becau...
Startling Revelations About How Teens Use Media
Posted by The Old College Try *Note sarcasm in title of this post.A 15 year-old student completing an internship with Morgan Stanley has written a report on how teenagers use media and technology.Likely, not much in there will surprise you if you've talked to anyone under the age of 1...
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Posted by Mark Greenfield - Higher Ed Web Consulting Get Ready As Corporate Sites and Social Networks Start To Connect « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang Barriers To An Effective Web Measurement Strategy [+ Solutions!] | Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik Giraffe Forum » Adding features adds compl...
Don't Autopilot Social Media Ad Campaigns
Posted by The Old College Try 2 days 9 hours ago.
Last week was week 3 or 4 of a Facebook ad campaign I had been running for a group on campus.I normally check the numbers each weekday, just to make sure things are going smoothly and any numbers don't need to be adjusted.Usually, the types of numbers I h...
XpertTip No.116: What the heck is Cloud Computing
Posted by TargetX iThink Online 2 days 10 hours ago.
Have web services like Amazon and Google rocked your online world Welcome to “Cloud Computing” — where the power of the Internet gets unleashed to provide unprecedented access to the information you need and want most. Not familiar with...
Are teenagers using Twitter
Posted by HighEdWebTech 2 days 15 hours ago.
I came across this link in Will Richardson’s twitter stream this morning about Twitter usage by teenagers. According to a 15-year-old intern at Morgan Stanley intern, Matthew Robson, teenagers eschew Twitter, don’t read newspapers and want ad...
Coolest university website ever
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing 2 days 15 hours ago.
Web designers, the gauntlet has been thrown. According to Adverblog, this website — part of a recruitment campaign for Tokyo’s Zokei University, an art and design school — is the coolest university website ever. (Hat tip to @Conversatio...
Page Titles and Meta Descriptions: Youre Search Calls to Action
Posted by .eduGuru 2 days 16 hours ago.
I know that Ive recently covered On-Page SEO, but Im bringing back two of the specific elements. In my job at HubSpot one of the things that I teach people is how to optimize their site for search engines. (Just to be clear, no Im not an SEO consulta...
Page Titles and Meta Descriptions: Your Search Calls to Action
Posted by .eduGuru 2 days 16 hours ago.
I know that Ive recently covered On-Page SEO, but Im bringing back two of the specific elements. In my job at HubSpot one of the things that I teach people is how to optimize their site for search engines. (Just to be clear, no Im not an SEO consulta...
I didnt win
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing 2 days 16 hours ago.
In case you’re wondering, the lucky winner of the Rittenhouse Guitars giveaway was … not me. @AbeRittenhouse Grand prize winner: Jon McMahon from Michigan, entry #367. He is getting a Custom Relic T-model from Rittenhouse Guitars CONGRATULATIO...
Caught in the Middle of Social Network Growth
Posted by Alumni Futures 2 days 21 hours ago.
CASE's hard-working staff members should be resting up this week after pulling off a successful annual CASE Leadership Summit in San Francisco (except now they have to run the Summer Institutes). The conference ran fairly smoothly; here are a couple...
I Don't Like Where This is Going
Posted by Tales from Redesignland 3 days 5 hours ago.
So... this probably isn't all that funny if you don't work in California, and it isn't funny in any way whatsoever if you do work in California, but it's our reality (and trust me, it'll be coming to a reality near you soon enough).The first three panels ...
FLIP for a better campus visit evaluation
Posted by TargetX iThink Online 3 days 15 hours ago.
All campus visits should be evaluated by students and parents. (And each should have different evaluations.) And the data for evaluations should be constantly used towards improvement. The problem is most schools provide detailed, 20+ questions on two-si...
How to treat Millennials
Posted by TargetX iThink Online 5 days 13 hours ago.
Twenty-something Josh Shipp is a phenomenon. Abandoned and abused as a child, he overcame those obstacles to become a successful motivational speaker while still in his teens. He has developed a special affinity with the Millennial generation, who see him...
Friday Five: Hey, Rittenhouse, I really wanna win that guitar! edition (plus posts about four other things.)
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing 5 days 15 hours ago.
Lately I’ve been tweeting this mantra, or some slight variation, every day: I want to win a relic custom guitar from #RittenhouseGuitars at www.RittenhouseGuitars.com I’ve been doing that to meet the requirements of a contest to, well, win a ...
AWS Start-Up Challenge for 2009
Posted by HighEdWebTech 6 days 9 hours ago.
It’s time once again for Amazon’s yearly Start-Up Challenge. Got an idea for a site that uses Amazon’s myriad of web services Already using AWS in your business Tell Amazon and you may win some great prizes, including: We’re look...
Social Media Food for Thought
Posted by The Old College Try 6 days 12 hours ago.
I came across two great articles today about social media.The first, from CNet, talks about the Facebook "fan box" that can be used on external sites to link back to and promote activity on Facebook. I've already spotted a few uses of this online today. I...
The Ghost of student media future
Posted by Ron Bronson 6 days 14 hours ago.
Image via WikipediaCollege newspapers are boring.There, I said it. In an era where professional journalism is going belly up, their subsidized college counterparts are plodding along on a course that lacks any sort of innovation, willingness to experime...
Blogging and Tweeting are Weird
Posted by Karlyn Morissette.com 6 days 17 hours ago.
I just received word that some people I work with think that my blogging and tweeting is “weird”. I’m not offended - in fact, I understand the perception. They don’t use the technology, so they don’t “get it.” ...
Higher Ed Content: Have It Your Way.
Posted by .eduGuru 6 days 17 hours ago.
Eleven years ago, I began my professional career as a high school English teacher. All was right with the world until we introduced gradebook software in our district, and things were never the same again. I would get make-up work on my desk in the morn...
