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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.XpertTip No. 167: Whats on your To-Dont list
Posted by TargetX iThink Online 2 weeks 11 hours ago.
Love him or hate him — the name Tom Peters rarely invokes feelings of neutrality. As business’ bad boy of management consulting, he’s spent years inspiring boardroom’s top brass to quit being blasé and start being exceptional (oh, ...
You Have Workflow!
Posted by Tales from Redesignland 2 weeks 14 hours ago.
Workflow. People still ask for it occasionally. We pretend to ignore them in almost every case. "Workflow What's that" "Ohhh, the CMS doesn't do that. Sounds cool, though. Sorry!"The fact of the matter is that workflow sounds wonderful to anal retentive...
An in-house new redesign for Macalester College website
Posted by College Web Editor 2 weeks 15 hours ago.
This is just a quick post about a newly redesigned website: Macalester College’s. Nick Balcom Raleigh, Online Communications Coordinator at Macalester, emailed me a couple of weeks ago about the redesign – so it’s about time I share it w...
Security Concerns with Google Analytics: Q&A with the Gurus
Posted by .eduGuru 2 weeks 16 hours ago.
We recently received the following question from a reader: I recently joined the Advancement/University Marketing team as the person to lead the way regarding the web. I am being tasked with improving college & department websites, and I am taking it ...
Innovation & International Education: THINK Global School
Posted by Alumni Futures 2 weeks 21 hours ago.
Alumni Futures is teaming up with EdSocialMedia today to host related articles about different aspects of the same story. In a post titled Traveling the World with Social Media, Liz Allen writes about deploying social technology to connect students intern...
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Posted by Mark Greenfield - Higher Ed Web Consulting 2 weeks 1 day ago.
Brand You: Engage Your Brain The man who saw tomorrow (Don Tapscott) Tummeling 5 Huge Trends in Social Media Right Now
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Posted by Mark Greenfield - Higher Ed Web Consulting 2 weeks 2 days ago.
Books of The Times - ‘Higher Education’ by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus - NYTimes.com Finally unveiled:Beloit College Mindset List 2010 On being wrong SCVNGR hunt: using geosocial gaming for orientation and education. « InsideTims...
College website is still #1
Posted by TargetX iThink Online 2 weeks 3 days ago.
Online recruitment tools have become a critical aspect of the enrollment efforts at colleges and universities. What are the student’s needs What areas should we focus on Which tools are highly valued by college-bound students These are all questi...
Friday Five: We dont need no stinking U.S. News badges
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing 2 weeks 3 days ago.
Continuing on the U.S. News & World Report college rankings theme: You may have heard some of the uproar among higher ed types caused by U.S. News‘ decision to sell universities the right to post the magazine’s rankings “seal of app...
College rankings do matter (just not to us)
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing 2 weeks 4 days ago.
The annual U.S. News & World Report college rankings are out, and as usual, the occasion is the cause of a lot of cognitive dissonance for many of us in the higher ed marketing and PR business. On the one hand, we claim to loathe the rankings for all...
Content Strategy Roles and You
Posted by .eduGuru 2 weeks 4 days ago.
For all of the web shops out there that are already set up with eight different people devoted to the content strategy process for your university – see you later. You probably don’t need to worry about today’s post. For the rest of you ...
A Columbia University/Millenium Promise response to A question (about universities, global challenges, and an organizational-ethical dilemma)
Posted by GlobalHigherEd 2 weeks 4 days ago.
Editors’ note: today’s guest entry has been developed by Dr. Lucia Rodriguez, director of the Global Masters in Development Practice Secretariat, Columbia University. For the past 20 years Dr. Rodriguez (pictured to the right) has been involv...
A Columbia University/Millennium Promise response to A question (about universities, global challenges, and an organizational-ethical dilemma)
Posted by GlobalHigherEd 2 weeks 4 days ago.
Editors’ note: today’s guest entry has been developed by Dr. Lucia Rodriguez, director of the Global Masters in Development Practice Secretariat, Columbia University. For the past 20 years Dr. Rodriguez (pictured to the right) has been involv...
Job Postings in Advancement: jobs.alumnifutures.com
Posted by Alumni Futures 2 weeks 4 days ago.
Viewing Job Listings [Updated: August, 2010] The single most popular search that brings readers to Alumni Futures is "alumni director job." With increasing traffic from job seekers, I now list educational advancement positions in a more systematic way. Ra...
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Posted by Mark Greenfield - Higher Ed Web Consulting 2 weeks 4 days ago.
The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet
The future of the internet - we seem to get it wrong
Posted by TargetX iThink Online 2 weeks 5 days ago.
Working for TargetX, college administrators seem to think that we have a crystal ball into the future of the internet and everyone is always asking us what’s next. Be it Facebook, MySpace, twitter, or ning. it seems that our industry and society has...
CASE joins the social media blogosphere
Posted by Higher Ed Marketing 2 weeks 5 days ago.
The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) has launched a new blog devoted to “exploring trends and best practices in the use of social media in educational advancement,” according to the blog’s inaugural post. The C...
Adobe joins TypeKit to offer very nice web fonts
Posted by HighEdWebTech 2 weeks 6 days ago.
The web type war heats up.
U.S. News Starts Charging for Best Colleges Logo for Web, Print and more
Posted by HighEdWebTech 3 weeks 9 hours ago.
Today, the US News & World Report college and university rankings were released to schools around the country.
XpertTip No.166: Consultants at large
Posted by TargetX iThink Online 3 weeks 10 hours ago.
Today I’m coming to you “on location” from the illustrious TargetX headquarters in Atlanta! I’m here for a mini think-tank with Brian Niles and my colleagues from TargetX’s “Experience Team” — Jeff Kallay, ...
