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The Old College Try - Favorite "Design" Programs

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:35:00 MDT

There are design programs, and then there are "design" programs. The former are used by people who know what they are doing and are in formats that can actually be printed or published to the Web. The latter are used either by people who have no idea what...

GlobalHigherEd - International partnerships: a legal guide for universities

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:59:00 MDT

Greetings mid-July.� Susan and I have been travelling a lot via our respective jobs, so please excuse the slow pace of updates to GlobalHigherEd. My return to Madison a few days ago corresponded with an embargoed (until today) press release from Universit...

.eduGuru - Your Faculty: Do you hide or praise them?

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:30:57 MDT

Something that gets overlooked quite a bit in the web process is the content you don’t control, your faculty. Faculty are an intricate part of every university and essential to any graduate student, especially Ph.D. looking for a program. Promoting ...

College Web Editor - Find out more about MobilEdu and why Blackboard paid $4 million for it

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:50:07 MDT

As reported on the Chronicle’s blog, Campus Wired, the giant of online course management system, Blackboard, has announced yesterday at its user conference BBWorld its acquisition of the start-up Terriblyclever Design LLC specialized in mobile appli...

Mark Greenfield - Higher Ed Web Consulting - Links for 2009-07-14 [del.icio.us]

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:00:00 MDT

I want my cyborg life When Will Twitter Really Go Real Time And What Will Change When it Does Facebook At Work: Helpful or a Hazard Communities Dominate Brands: Lets have some Realism to the Smartphone Hysteria, part 1: Scale The Twitter lifecycle Tee...

Tales from Redesignland - Road to Nowhere

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:41:00 MDT

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...

The Old College Try - Startling Revelations About How Teens Use Media

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:41:00 MDT

*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...

Mark Greenfield - Higher Ed Web Consulting - Links for 2009-07-13 [del.icio.us]

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:00:00 MDT

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...

The Old College Try - Don't Autopilot Social Media Ad Campaigns

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:02:00 MDT

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...

TargetX iThink Online - XpertTip No.116: What the heck is Cloud Computing?

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:04:52 MDT

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...

HighEdWebTech - Are teenagers using Twitter?

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:45:00 MDT

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...

Higher Ed Marketing - Coolest university website ever?

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:25:06 MDT

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...

.eduGuru - Page Titles and Meta Descriptions: You?re Search Calls to Action

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:00:09 MDT

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...

.eduGuru - Page Titles and Meta Descriptions: Your Search Calls to Action

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:00:09 MDT

Higher Ed Marketing - I didn?t win

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:30:06 MDT

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...

Alumni Futures - Caught in the Middle of Social Network Growth

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MDT

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...

Tales from Redesignland - I Don't Like Where This is Going

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:32:00 MDT

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 ...

TargetX iThink Online - FLIP for a better campus visit evaluation

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:07:12 MDT

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...

TargetX iThink Online - How to treat Millennials

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:09:00 MDT

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...

Higher Ed Marketing - Friday Five: Hey, Rittenhouse, I really wanna win that guitar! edition (plus posts about four other things.)

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:25:06 MDT

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 ...