So you are like most people, most people meaning a techie who reads this blog, and have more than one Instant Messaging client that you use to stay connected with your network.  Maybe if you have a good long term memory you remember the post I wrote about ping.fm being your master status update service for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.?  Wouldn’t it be nice that instead of having to login to AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, GTalk, and the list goes on, if you could just login to one client to communicate with all your favorite people?  Guess what?  You Can!

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So I’m having a little fun waiting out a Blizzard in Boston.  Enjoy!

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There has been A LOT of discussion on Higher Education Blogs and at Higher Education conferences lately about this thing called Social Media. First of all Social Media isn’t all that complicated, in fact it’s the simplest and oldest form of marketing called relationship building.  As I’ve said many times before “social media = building relationships”.  After reading a recent post on SEOmoz about The SEO Fundamentals Pyramid and participating in a panel discussion at CASE V I think it’s important to make sure that people understand that social media comes last.  I know I’ve preached “just do it” when it comes to social media, but unless you have the rest of your eggs in a basket then quite frankly you aren’t ready for social media.

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First, I would like to welcome any new visitors that Case V was your first introduction to .eduGuru.  I hope you will subscribe to our RSS feed or sign up for email updates on the right side navigation.  There is a lot to learn and good engagment and discussion that takes place on this blog.  I hope that you will also join the conversation? Read the rest of this entry »

The CASE V conference is in Chicago next week and I’ll be there, for part of the conference.  If you are attending I would love to meet you.  As I said I’ll only be in town for part of the conference but it promises to be an eventful first.  If you haven’t already planned out your schedule I have two events I would encourage you to attend, ok I admit I have personal reasons for wanting you to attend.  Both of these events are part of the Web Track of the conference. Read the rest of this entry »

Today is my last day at Wofford.  Kind of surreal, but I wanted to take the time to give you four tips that apply to internet marketing and web development, but if you take a step back they actually apply to life in general rather well.  So take it as development, social media, personal branding or whatever I hope you are able to get some value from these rules I strive to live by.  So here we go: Read the rest of this entry »

I know D.W. wrote about her student workers over on The Old College Try a while back (Update: Thanks D.W. for finding the post A Marketer in Need Deserves a Student Indeed), but I can’t seem to find the post.  Also Mike at HighEdWebTech even went so far as creating a Hall of Fame for retired student workers.  Do you have student workers that support your web office?  I sure hope so!

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Well I announced it on the twitter wire this morning so it is only fitting that I explain in a little more detail. I have officially put in my resignation to Wofford and accepted a full time position at HubSpot. For those of you who don’t know about HubSpot maybe you are familiar with Website Grader, Twitter Grader, and Press Release Grader? HubSpot specializes in Inbound Marketing and helping small business get found online. So first of the year this southern boy is taking his flip flops and moving north to Boston. Read the rest of this entry »

The following is a guest post by Jeff Howard. This is an introduction post to a 5 part series on his blog about local search for higher education. Jeff is a SEO consultant, and works independently out of www.catchsearchmarketing.com. He has been involved with various higher education marketing projects touching SEO and Interactive Applications. Jeff writes regularly on SEO topics at his blog and can be contacted best using e-mail, jeff@catchsearchmarketing.com.

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The polls have closed and all votes have been added up and counted. In the end 75 of you blessed us with your vote. We listened. With little to no deliberating by the staff we are pleased to announce that we are adding the three highest vote getters to the staff! We would like to thank all the guest bloggers, readers, and voters for making this contest a wonderful success.

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