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[Results] Higher Ed CMS Usage

At the end of February, .eduGuru set out to begin another round of research on a trend in higher ed web development. This time, we took a look at the CMSs being used from school to school. Which CMS to use for a university is a question that lingers in forums and on mailing lists [...]

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Digital Tattoos? Who Gives a Shit?

I cursed on the Internet.  My professional career is over.  Let this be a lesson to all those little snots on social media that “everything you say and do on the Interwebs can be used against you in the nebulous future”.

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Introducing New Guru’s @jesskry & @mikepetroff!

It’s that time again and I’m happy to announce that we have two new writers joining the guru team!  Many of you probably know these two individuals from the contributions to the higher ed web industry.  They have both been guest bloggers here in the past, and they each add a unique area of expertise [...]

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Is Social Media A Fad? Social Media Revolution Video

The questions around what exactly social media is and its long term impact aren’t exactly new.  Personally I’m a data junkie and I feel data always helps make very compelling arguments.  What we have here is a great data driven case around what is really happening with social media and the impacts on everything that [...]

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Why Do I Tweet? I Do It for You

A good friend of mine, @jeffswain, over at the five-4-six blog, posed a really tough question and I’ve been asking myself ever since:

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[Guru Survey] Higher Ed CMS Usage

If there is one question that serves as the elephant in the room for higher education web development, it’s: “What CMS should I use?” The question is common, but not at all simple, and research data is not easy to come by. We would like to provide some helpful information in this area, and have [...]

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Managing Tip: Three Questions You Should Ask Direct Reports

I was recently promoted at HubSpot from an inbound marketing consultant to managing our senior consultant team.  With any direct promotion like that, it is definitely a challenge when your previous equals now report to you. Lately,  I’ve been thinking a lot about managing people and many of the challenges that go with that.  Down [...]

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Multiple Templates on a Website – Ask a Guru

So the first of our Ask a Guru questions that we wanted to feature comes from Michael Render at North Carolina Central University.  Michael writes in:

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Why Social Media Comes Last – Presentation from #edSocialMedia

It has been over a year since I first made the argument that social media comes last.  Today at the edSocialMedia Summit in Boston I dug a little more in actually explaining WHY.  This whole conference being on social media it was a little bit of a bold mood to explain why this is the [...]

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What would a College Super Bowl Commercial Look Like?

Maybe you saw Mike Richwalsky’s post earlier this week about Google’s Super Bowl Ad and the local commercial for The University of Akron that me mentioned?  This got me thinking and let’s be honest, who doesn’t like to talk about Super Bowl Commercials?  This post doesn’t really have any practical purpose, but it’s fun to [...]

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