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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.Facebook Not in Our House! Part 2
Posted by SquaredPeg 2 years ago.
Written by: Chris Potts, Senior Assistant Director of Admission Using technologies like blogs and wikis, YouTube and Facebook, discussion forums and online reviews, your customers are taking charge of their own experience and getting what they need in...
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Posted by The Old College Try 2 years ago.
I raise a pint o' me water to all me readers, wishing you a Happy St. Patrick's Day.And for your enjoyment:Oh Financial Aid (Sung to the tune of Danny Boy)Oh financial aid, the papers, the papers are calling,From home to home, and in the mailbox sideThe w...
Links for 2008-03-16 [del.icio.us]
Posted by Mark Greenfield - Higher Ed Web Consulting 2 years ago.
AOL buys Bebo: What it means for the future of social networks \"Listen\" means more than you may think Wired Campus: Experts vs. Amateurs on the Web - Chronicle.com The Future of the Newspaper The Internet Will End in 30 Years! - ReadWriteWeb Do...
The Changing Face of Public Education
Posted by .eduGuru 2 years ago.
On Friday I had the honor of talking to 7th and 8th graders at Bell Street Middle School in Clinton, SC. Bell Street Middle is your quintessential public school in a regular town in the southern United States. A group of hard working teachers attempting...
The Rest of the Story
Posted by The Old College Try 2 years ago.
So I'm mulling over an interesting conversation we had with a counselor following one of the high school focus groups this past week.Many of the students we interview claim their parents are "not really" that involved in the whole college search process.A...
Sunday Afternoon Thoughts Part 8
Posted by The Higher Ed Marketing Blog 2 years ago.
Hmm. The celebrated 100th post slipped right by me. Just noticed Ive done 102 posts since I started in February 2007. Well toot the horns at 200. * Ive given in. Im beaten. Ive taken the sex out of Lonely Girl. I tried an experiment and entitled...
Portal . . . what is it good for
Last week we attended the Alliance Conference in Las Vegas. One of our presentations prompted a discussion of portals. We all did a show and tell, and after we showed our portal, one attendee asked why we even had it — since we had stripped it down ...
Weekend Maintenance
Posted by Mark Greenfield - Higher Ed Web Consulting 2 years ago.
As regular readers of this site know, for the past two months I have been experiencing issues with my domain names. This weekend I will be trying to resolve these issues once and for all. I am hoping there are no problems, but this site may be down inte...
There is no bleeding edge.
Posted by SquaredPeg 2 years ago.
I just read a great quote: Today I am four years into a profession as a web marketer and designer […] I have since realized that being on-topic was little better than succumbing to the internet echo-chamber called higher ed marketing blogs. Ther...
When personalization backfires
Posted by An Email Minute 2 years ago.
As a Continental Airlines loyalty member, Elaine Fogel welcomed the email promising “continental.com specials for Elaine.” Needing to book a flight for a speaking engagement, she clicked the link in the email, eager to find departures from her...
Links of the Week March 14th, 2008
Posted by .eduGuru 2 years ago.
A couple nice things happened this week. For those that haven’t heard BlogHighEd, which this blog is a member of, was chosen to be syndicated on a new startup site Alltop. You can read some reviews about alltop here, here, and here. I’m pre...
Validated by Seth Godin
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing 2 years ago.
It’s always encouraging to find out that people I admire share some of my tastes in music, books, movies, etc. Especially when they’re famous people whose names I can drop in this blog. So I was especially happy to read a recent blog post by S...
Here is your del.icio.us goodness for 03-14
Posted by MattHerzberger.com 2 years ago.
My links for 2008-03-14
Wake Forest University students blog their alternative spring break in New Orleans
Posted by College Web Editor 2 years ago.
Earlier this week, Reader Kimberly McGrath, Web Content Editor at Wake Forest University, emailed about an interesting blogging experience taking place at her institution: This week we have seventeen students on a service trip to New Orleans. Thought you ...
Worst blogpost ever
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing 2 years ago.
This morning’s data dump included mention of DW’s post to the worst mascots ever. But I was in such a rush I failed to link to the post. My bad. It’s all better now. —————- Now playing: Maceo Parker - Track ...
Twitters big day
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing 2 years ago.
It’s been more than 24 hours since I’ve written anything about Twitter, so I thought I’d pass along this item about Twitter’s busiest day ever, thanks to SXSW Interactive. Twitter founder Blaine Cook talked about the heavy traffic ...
How to Get Your School Dugg
Posted by EduStyle Blog 2 years ago.
As soon as the latest greatest web technology takes the web world by storm we in the higher-ed web community are pretty quick to try and figure out how we can use it to reach out to our communities. Pretty soon we have a higher up asking if we have heard ...
List-less in Cyberspace
Posted by The Old College Try 2 years ago.
For years, I've been singing the praises of CASE list-servs. You can sign up for e-mails in every area imaginable and learn from the great and mighty brains of your higher ed colleagues.Well, while I was out last week, I temporarily signed off of them to ...
Tomcat SSL Performance
Posted by Institutional Knowledge 2 years ago.
We run a number of applications in Tomcat (both 5.0.x and 5.5.x) and for the most part we’re very happy with the performance we get. There is one time of the year where our CAS (Central Authentication Service) gets killed though, and it’s bec...
UWEBD - 500 Members and Growing
Posted by Mark Greenfield - Higher Ed Web Consulting 2 years ago.
Yesterday marked a major milestone for the uwebd social network when we reached 500 members. Activity on the site continues to grow. I set up Google analytics back in late December and here are some statistics as we approach 3 months of activity:2,238 uni...
