tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742Sat, 24 May 2025 11:14:44 +0000Random musings from the world of college administration from a person who freely admits to the label: You've got way too much time on your hands.http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger1648125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-4036357098831962661Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:52:00 +00002018-03-22T08:52:58.863-05:00 Once upon a time in America . . . I ran a blog. (Hey, that's this blog -- OK -- sorry, been busy in the last year.) In that blog, well, I told you all so. "Facebook is the greatest intelligence gathering operation in the history of mankind, and you volunteered for it." Funny, this 2006 entry . . . and many others in the years since . . . haven't popped up as a "Your Memories on Facebook" http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2018/03/long-time-poster.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-3175389091724906103Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:24:00 +00002017-03-31T08:24:06.228-05:00For more than a decade, I've advised students, friends and clients with a simple phrase: Digital assets are extremely portable, and once posted, can live forever. That relates to you, and your future.  Whether we like it or not, people will judge us, often out of context, for what you have posted. And, that enters into hiring. Read this article from Diverse Education about the pitfalls http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2017/03/social-in-hiring.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-1783982275486613630Sat, 25 Mar 2017 14:15:00 +00002017-03-25T09:15:34.729-05:00(Finally, my regulars say.  He's not ranting about bikes and talking about digital issues again.  Well ... . sort of.) Engagement is a powerful tool. The engaged electorate makes changes. Notice there is no value judgment there - they can make changes for the better and worse. Engagement comes in many forms, and the most prevalent type is behind a mobile device touch screen. http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-values-of-engagement-types.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-1039662348206365084Fri, 10 Mar 2017 04:34:00 +00002017-03-11T16:22:12.270-06:00Over the course of the last week, I've had the opportunity to sample three of the major providers of urban bike share. Two were epic fails, and the third, initially wonderful, . . . well . . . read on. Zagster's less than outstanding fleet at Maryland First up is Zagster, who has been pursuing our institution. A meeting at University of Maryland provided a chance to test drive it. "Just load http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2017/03/anyone-got-brompton-for-sale-pitfalls.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-6603969405885651019Sun, 05 Mar 2017 23:07:00 +00002017-03-11T16:24:03.572-06:00 Mark Twain and I share a book in the park This morning, I visited Trinity Episcopal in Fort Worth.  Google said it was close to downtown where I'm at for a conference, and it was near an old stomping ground, TCU. Many a trip was spent in the SWC days, including a very memorable one - the night Desert Storm began, Another trip, another church. Yawn. The rector, Carlye Hughes, launched http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2017/03/do-what-you-treasure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-3654806797997788235Wed, 29 Jun 2016 19:36:00 +00002016-06-29T14:36:47.396-05:00Get ready social media friends . . . your views are about to tank, courtesy of the usual source -- a change by a provider. This time, it's Facebook.  Read more here. The key quote:  As part of the change, Facebook says it anticipates “this update may cause reach and referral traffic to decline for some Pages.” There is lots more in the article on the "hidden" parts of the http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-great-disappearance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-7281643493101954121Mon, 20 Jun 2016 00:01:00 +00002016-06-19T19:01:14.983-05:00None other than Nieman Labs - more US journalists work for pure online publications. http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/06/there-are-now-more-americans-working-for-online-only-outlets-than-newspapers/ http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2016/06/online-only-marks-milestone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-5066877136968011448Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:42:00 +00002016-06-15T15:42:50.064-05:00This is a great piece from the Chronicle today, and it supports something I've said for some time about commenting in social media.  When the angry believe they are talking to a faceless entity, they are a heck of a lot more rude. The key line from Marney White's column: Perhaps online trolling and less extreme forms of public criticisms are just that: a failure to recognize that there http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2016/06/trolling-is-different-to-your-face.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-1769802432714253666Thu, 12 May 2016 20:25:00 +00002016-05-12T15:40:37.104-05:00Harped upon to the point of you not listening in this space, but another report today with up-to-date 2016 numbers that you must respond to your fans and customers.  I've preached and preached that the Golden Hour is literally that -- at best -- on social. (Couple past blogs for links: It comes fast | Earlier basics) The shocking new takeaway: A total of 90 percent of the 1,000 consumers http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2016/05/your-golden-hour-is-just-that.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-7491555578544965408Tue, 19 Apr 2016 12:58:00 +00002016-04-19T07:58:03.103-05:00In my talks with social media users, I use the early Facebook era story of a varsity athletic team at a major university (no, not UA or A-State) where the players had a private group in which they shared, well, everything.  All the pics of pre-season parties, opinions of the coaches, etc.  It was all fun until the one walk-on, non-scholarship team member walked off the team.  And http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2016/04/once-digital-always-available.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-7286870931801947547Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:09:00 +00002016-03-24T12:09:46.557-05:00Friends, would you share if you are seeing this problem.  In the past month, the number of followers shared images with text is running an order of magnitude below photos on most of our Facebook pages.  Similar content, similar times of day -- an infographic is doing several hundred; the straight photo several thousand. What concerns here is this:  everyone in athletics is http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2016/03/algorithms-vs-words.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-5133967936741059516Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:21:00 +00002016-02-25T12:23:46.352-06:00Since the beginning of this blog, I have warned students, friends, faculty and staff of the impact of their social media upon their future employment.  Again, I do not care what laws may or may not be in place in various states -- we deal in reality here.  Whether legal or not, it happens. Here's a reminder from the New York Times today in case you forgot. The key quote is the last http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2016/02/social-media-and-hiring-process.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-5866072822077856109Sat, 09 Jan 2016 15:30:00 +00002016-01-09T09:30:29.860-06:00Active shooters, bowl game and holidays . . . apologies my dear friends for the dearth of posts. Today, I've got one to ask you all about.  Have any of you experienced the following: Yesterday, for the first time ever, I had the opportunity to send three emails to Elle Mohs at KTHV in Little Rock. All related to a story she was working on about A-State's hover board policy. I've http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-big-brother-new-year.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-7202374966400730895Thu, 05 Nov 2015 16:15:00 +00002015-11-05T10:15:57.905-06:00An essay in today's Chronicle email belaboring the lack of "journalism" training for the masses reminds me of the work of one of this blog's patron saints, Dan Gillmor. Dan predicted the technology shift that would force closed door events like the Olympics to open up in the face of what would become social media.  His last book, We The Media, covered what Jennifer Brannock Cox found http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2015/11/where-for-art-thou-dan-gillmor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-8801834793977323803Fri, 30 Oct 2015 13:57:00 +00002015-10-30T08:57:09.742-05:00In a ruling that should catch the attention of all employees of state agencies, a federal appeals court upheld a ruling that former Georgia State psychologists didn't have a case against their employer over a memo they wrote critical of a policy change and reorganization of their student services clinic.  Inside Higher Ed's story has this key passage: A district court found, and the appealshttp://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2015/10/is-social-media-commentary-next.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-7177672062040821320Thu, 22 Oct 2015 20:40:00 +00002015-10-22T15:40:08.230-05:00The Chronicle notes today the petition of over 70 groups to require colleges and universities to address the anonymous harassment from sites such as YikYak. The key in the story:  failure to monitor anonymous social media and to pursue online harassers as a violation of federal civil-rights laws guaranteeing equal educational access. YikYak in particular, and most social websites in http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2015/10/well-intentioned-but-dangerous.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-5830198183532604789Fri, 02 Oct 2015 14:30:00 +00002015-10-02T09:30:02.039-05:00One last bit of data from the Pew Research Center's report on where generations get and from whom they trust their political news.  The graphic says it all: http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2015/10/soak-it-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-7716917908765691366Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:09:00 +00002015-10-01T14:09:00.521-05:00So why do we strategically spend time placing our news in social media formats?  Because studies continue to show that millennials find their news in social media, and contrary to the Twitterati's over-attachment with their platform and news, more millennials find news in Facebook. You can read the Pew Research Center report that is behind this and many traditional news stories recently at http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2015/10/because-thats-where-recruits-are.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-399211933966108373Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:54:00 +00002015-10-01T07:54:39.925-05:00Regardless of where you land on the spectrum of what is protected speech, today's Chronicle article is a solid primer in the recent cases where professors got into trouble.  Pay special attention to the case of a student who recorded a classroom exchange.http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2015/10/limits-of-academic-freedom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-1458740303676201706Wed, 30 Sep 2015 19:01:00 +00002015-09-30T14:27:20.681-05:00Tip of the hat once again to PRSA's daily Issues email for this one, an interesting study reported in TIME about the news habits of millennials.  One could argue, that's a bit self-serving - a news organization that says counter to stereotype that millennials are into news. In some ways, its generational biased, both ways.  Of course a minority of any group is keenly aware of the news http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2015/09/they-do-read-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-7951526439099197820Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:47:00 +00002015-09-10T15:47:05.276-05:00The Chronicle has a nicely sourced story about the perils of when your school is in the cross hairs of national negativity. This line echoed in my head as we approach the one-year anniversary of the great helmet cross event here at A-State.  The person quoted is from Kansas, during the Mark Roth NRA tweet episode: "We had talking points," recalls Timothy C. Caboni, vice chancellor for http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2015/09/crisis-social-must-read.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-6277220765733430578Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:43:00 +00002015-08-11T08:44:28.577-05:00The double delete.  The gmail account.  The personal phone.  All methods used to keep discussions out of FOIA, and today we see a pretty graphic example of the results from the University of Illinois investigation.  To quote from Inside Higher Ed this AM . . . In one email, Phyllis M. Wise, chancellor of the Urbana-Champaign campus, said she and others had been warned by http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2015/08/illinois-revelations.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-8000613135421546732Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:39:00 +00002015-08-10T12:39:02.115-05:00The recent resignation of Illinois includes details about that university's policy that ALL email is subject to FOIA, state issued or private.  As you notice in the link, her holding back private emails may or may not have been a key in her departure. It reminds me of the case years ago in Louisiana where private emails used by administrators to circumvent public discussion and disclosure http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2015/08/private-email-not-safe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-8736142580504646041Tue, 28 Jul 2015 16:55:00 +00002015-07-28T11:55:53.425-05:00The rumblings of a "rights" bubble, ESPN's inability to sustain growth and other things that should shake university administrators to their core found in this speculative article in the WSJ. The Mothership is considering direct to customer. Bonus points if you get the blog title reference.http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2015/07/cue-up-rem.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29084742.post-8275168039326042270Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:00:00 +00002015-06-10T18:00:01.869-05:00The Justice Department just took unsealing the details/IP addresses to another level by asking Reason.com to give up who made comments that could be seen as threatening. No surprise in the world of Oh-No-You're-Not-Anonymous YikYak. What I do wonder about, however, is how this will align with the Supreme Court's ruling regarding the Anthony Elonis case?  If threatening bodily harm to your http://doctorbs.blogspot.com/2015/06/you-are-not-anonymous.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0