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Building Your Own Listening Post

19. October 2009

The basic concept of the social web and Web 2.0 is one of conversations and user generated content. Engagement. Interaction. My focus today is on the former, with a dab of latter. Universities are much like other big brands, people talk about us in a lot of places, in a lot of ways, both good [...]

Responding to Offending Blog Posts: The Mirror up to Nature

29. May 2009

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Responding to Offending Blog Posts: The Mirror up to Nature

Before you get offended by someone’s blogging, you need to ask yourself three things: 1. Is this post even about me/us?

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14. April 2009

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Today is the last day to submit nominations for the eduStyle awards. If you find value in what Kyle, Rachel, Nick, Michael, Nikki and I offer you on here, I know we would all appreciate it if you took a minute to nominate us. Just click on the banner below:

So you want to start a blog for your admissions office…

19. March 2009

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The other day on DoJo’s blog, I reprimanded staff members who are charged with maintaining blogs on their institutional websites that leave them for months at a time without an update. Since posts on DoJo are extremely short by design, I wanted to elaborate further. We’ve identified a problem, now let’s talk about how to [...]

3 Reasons to Keep Blogging

22. December 2008

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After commenting on colleague’s post reflecting on why he will continue to blog, I realized that both his blog and my comment were worth sharing here.

Help Me, Help You: Keeping your edge in High Ed

20. November 2008

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The following is a guest post by Jonathan Steffens who hails from the University of Missouri where he serves as a Internet Administrator Expert since 2005. Prior to the move to Higher Education he fancied himself a freelancer in Silicon Valley serving clients such as Cisco Systems, IBM, Webmethods as a multimedia and web technologies consultant. Jonathan blogs at Vagabond [...]

Tips for Future Higher Ed Bloggers

10. November 2008

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Last week at Stamats, I was involved in more than a few sidelines conversations about becoming a higher ed blogger. Some people felt intimidated, as if they didn’t have anything valuable to add to the conversation. Others were concerned about backlash from their institutions if other employees (or even worse, their bosses) found out about [...]