Internet Marketing and Web Development in Higher Education and other tidbits…

Trashball: The Game of Champions

Time Icon July 15th, 2008 by Kyle James

The following is a guest post by Craig Sudduth, Senior Student Web Content Editor and Student Writer.  Summer is a time when college web professionals are able and have time to focus on projects while a good portion of campus is off on summer vacation.  Despite this productive streak we still need a little entertainment from time to time to keep sane.  Also a little fun fosters creativity.  This is the first post in the “keeping sanity series” during the summer months.
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The Six Month Post - Revisiting This Blog’s Purpose

Time Icon July 8th, 2008 by Kyle James

.eduGuru was started as a New Year’s resolution and unlike most New Year’s resolutions it is actually still going and quite strongly. I’m almost embarrassed to point back to that inaugural post, Look ma I’m a Blogger, where I attempted to lay a framework for this blog, but it is also a testament to how far I’ve come as a writer, thinker, marketer, and the one I’m most proud of a teacher.

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Links of the Week July 3rd, 2008

Time Icon July 3rd, 2008 by Kyle James

Well tomorrow is the 4th of July so hopefully you won’t be waiting for my Friday links of the week because I’ll be off having a merry time down in Charleston, SC for the weekend.  Last Friday’s day trip to New York City and the Subway Series was incredible and I don’t know if I ever fully caught up this week.  We actually ended up hitting up games in both Yankee and Shea Stadiums on Friday.  Me not really being a fan of either team, ok I hate them both, enjoyed the fact that each team was blown out at home.  You probably don’t care, but if you’re interested here’s a link to the pictures from the New York City Subway Series trip.

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Links of the Week June 13th, 2008

Time Icon June 13th, 2008 by Kyle James

It’s been one of those wild weeks. I’m not really sure why or how, just seems like drama has made it to new levels on so many fronts. Summer school has been plugging away nicely and to think I only have three classes and in a week and a half will be finished with another class. This weekend has way to much craziness going on, besides being Friday the 13th, tomorrow is my Mom’s birthday. Last year for her 60th birthday she wanted to go to a Cubs game which they won, but kind of ironic a year later that those same Cubbies just completed a sweep of our beloved Bravos.

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Marketing Lessons Learned from Indy 500

Time Icon May 29th, 2008 by Kyle James

So any of you who are regular readers know that I went to the Indy 500 last weekend and you probably also know I broke my regular tradition of attending the Coca Cola 600 to do such. Now having perspective of both events I think it might be worthwhile to take a comparative analysis of the two events and see if I can’t tie it back to Higher Education marketing. So… please bare with me here.

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Unplugging for the Weekend

Time Icon May 22nd, 2008 by Kyle James

So tomorrow is going to be the first “Links of the Week” I’ll miss since this blog was started five months ago but I’m fully unplugging for the weekend and heading to the Indy 500 for Memorial Day Weekend. Usually I’m more of a Coca Cola 600 person as this is going to be only the second 600 I’ve missed in the past seven years. I bet you readers didn’t know that did you!? Probably don’t really care either… It’s not that I’m a huge racing fan, but I love to people watch and the atmosphere. For the record I go to ONE NASCAR race a year. Since I’ve already called myself out, I’ll let you fully laugh at my expense with some previous “race” picture. As you can see, I really enjoy getting in character!

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Time Icon May 11th, 2008 by Kyle James

Hopefully everyone spent time with loved ones today and let their mom know how much they love her?

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The Future is Here: Internet TV and Wireless Radio have Arrived

Time Icon April 16th, 2008 by Kyle James

Online Video

Don’t believe me that Internet TV has crossed the threshold to be a viable option? Check out this video that I put together showing the new MLB.TV Mosaic application. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Final Four: College Web Style

Time Icon April 3rd, 2008 by Kyle James

I have an Alexa widget in my Netvibes account that pulls Wofford traffic data along with some of our peer and benchmarking institutions.  One of those trackers comparisons is the Cinderella story of Davidson.  Davidson is only a state away and roughly the same size as Wofford (1,600 to 1,350 college kids) and both are in the Southern Conference and liberal arts institutions.  I knew how good their basketball team was as they dominated us three times this season, the last being a 49-82 drumming in the SoCon tournament.  Knowing that, I predicted them making the sweet sixteen, but that was as far as I saw them rolling.

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Happy Easter: A New Blogger Has Risen, My Father

Time Icon March 23rd, 2008 by Kyle James

I hope that everyone had a great Easter weekend?  I have a little quasi Easter story that I wanted to share.

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