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mStoner blog - Make Your YouTube Channel Consistent Across all Devices

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:21:13 EDT

Have you updated your channel on YouTube lately If not, your cover art needs updating, since YouTube switched over to a new layout on June 5. One Channel, a new responsive channel design is now...

HigherEd Live - Higher Ed Live ? SUNYCUAD Recap

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:42:05 EDT

Fran Zablocki, Strategist at mStoner, hosts a recap discussion of the 2013 SUNYCUAD conference�with Tim Nekritz, Director of Web Communications at SUNY Oswego and Jennifer Connally, Customer Marketing Leader at readMedia. Taken from the live broadcast Jun...

GlobalHigherEd - European MOOCs in Global Context Workshop (19-20 June 2013 @ UW-Madison)

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:20:21 EDT

Schedule Summary When: 19-20 June 2013 Wednesday 19 June,� 5:00-6:30 pm — Introductions and Keynote kickoff with George Siemens (open reception to follow 6:30-7:30 pm on 3rd floor Rooftop Terrace (Common Area on 1st floor in case of rain)) Thursday ...

CKSyme.org - How to Use Social Media to Manage a Crisis

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:48:30 EDT

This is the third in a series on how to use social media to prevent a crisis, manage a crisis, and recover from a crisis. Parts one and two on crisis prevention can be found here. If youve been using social media strategies to create loyal followers, you...

mStoner blog - Now Through Friday: 20% Discount on Social Works eBook

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:37:22 EDT

Havent bought your copy of our book Social Works: How #Highered Uses #SocialMedia to Raise Money, Build Awareness, Recruit Students, and Get Results Thats all right: You couldnt have waited for a better week. Today...

Geoff Campbell - Community Relations at the University of Virginia

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:23:06 EDT

Hi Everyone, As I mentioned I’m not going to be posting on here as often as I’d like to but I’d like to provide a bit of an update. I’m currently working as a Community Relations Intern in the Office of University Communications at...

Susan Talbert Evans Blog - Honoring my Dad ? John H. Talbert ? on Father?s Day

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:12:48 EDT

Im 53. This means I can use my personal blog for whatever purpose I choose. Before I was a contributor to the mStoner blog, I used this space for only professionally-oriented content. Ill still lean in that direction. But, occasionally, Ive decided to ...

Higher Ed Marketing - The New York Times? ?Choice? cut

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:20:23 EDT

On Friday, I learned via Twitter — specifically from Charlie Melichar (@melicharlie) — that the New York Times was discontinuing its admissions blog, “The Choice,” after a four-year run. I guess it was time for the blog to graduate...

mStoner blog - The Power of WordPress

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:50:42 EDT

Our succeeding with small projects webinar is a toolkit of processes, techniques and platforms that mStoner uses to produce smart solutions for the many smaller sites that weve launched for clients. Today we focus in...

TargetX iThink Online - What?s your business?

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:59:10 EDT

First, let me congratulate you on getting past that subject line and deciding to read on. For many of your colleagues, the word “business” might as well be a four-letter word. Here at the annual UB Tech Conference in Orlando, we’re havin...

Higher Ed Marketing - Friday Five: A pioneer blog turns 10

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:32:32 EDT

When I first started this blog in the fall of 2005, there was plenty of room to grow. It was not a crowded space. You could count on one hand the number of blogs focused on communications, marketing and PR issues related to higher ed. A couple of them I d...

EduStyle Blog - 5 Examples of Responsive Toggle Navigation in Higher Ed

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:36:23 EDT

For the last 2 year’s we’ve been collecting gobs data on navigation in higher ed. We looked at over 2000 college and university homepages over a period of two years, from 2011-2013. That data is foundation which our latest publication is built...

.eduGuru - What are the Technological Advancements in Online Learning?

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:16:39 EDT

Technological advancements in online learning have reshaped the whole education industry. In the past educators had to remain abreast of latest research on pedagogy and new teaching methods, but it has become equally necessary to keep abreast of latest te...

mStoner blog - mStoner?s blog turns 10

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:30:22 EDT

Ah, spring 2003. In those days, we used dumb phones: there was no iPhone or iPad or Android. No Instagram. No YouTube. No Twitter. And Mark Zuckerberg was still in high school. But there...

Higher Ed Marketing - Not exactly tumblrin? for ya

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:37:41 EDT

Have you ever created a thing in the social media space, more or less on a whim, or just because you thought it was the thing to do, and then promptly forget all about it That’s what happened with me and my tumblr account. I had completely forgotte...

InsideTimsHead - Top SUNYCUAD takeaway: When nobody?s job is everybody?s job.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:21:02 EDT

If you work in social media for any organization and you’re passionate about it, you die a little inside when you read a tweet or a post by somebody who had a poor experience with your business. Much like having … Continue reading →

mStoner blog - Our #PSUWEB13 Storify and Slides

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:15:12 EDT

The Web Conference at Penn State last week was an amazing event, packed with excellent knowledge, networking, and really fun times. We’ve captured the Web Conference experience in a Storify describing the sessions, speakers, and...

CKSyme.org - Three Social Media Strategies That Will Help Prevent a Crisis

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:55:32 EDT

This is the second in a series of four on how to use social media strategies to prevent a crisis, manage a crisis, and recover from a crisis. Read part one here. The majority of social media crises can be prevented. According to Altimeter, as many as 76 p...

mStoner blog - Free Webinar: Breaking Down Silos: Lifetime Engagement

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:35:04 EDT

Breaking Down Silos: Lifetime Engagement From the very first day that a prospect opens your admissions materials, they have a relationship with you. This is a one-to-one, lifelong relationship between the university and an individual,...

Meet Content - Higher Ed Takeaways From Confab Minneapolis 2013

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:30:31 EDT

Last week, I attended Confab Minneapolis 2013. And it rocked. I was joined by an international community of content professionals to challenge our thinking and help advance the evolving discipline of content strategy. We also enjoyed a lot of cake. As in ...