Following Matt, Jeremy, and Mark’s introduction posts.  It’s only fitting that I do the same.

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Before I give you the weekly links, I would like to encourage everyone to head on over to alumni futures and participate in their Alumni futures Innovation Award. I know the contest is a week old but it’s not to late to get the word out. There is still plenty of time to participate. The contest doesn’t end until Feb. 14th. All that you have to do is go get your random word and writeup a brief way to use your word to challenge or innovate higher education administration. That’s it! There are even great prizes for Higher Education Gurus!

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Wofford College’s president, Dr. Benjamin Dunlap, was turned into an Internet sensation a few weeks ago when a video of his presentation at the TED conference from back in March 2007 was posted online on January 24th.  You can learn more about Dr. Dunlap on Wikipedia or Wofford’s President page.  Here is the original Wofford press release of the speech.

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Matt Herzberger and Brad Ward are the creators of a nice new website called Blog High Ed.

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This is the second weekly installment of the Social Survey that I’m conducting on Social Networking and Bookmarking sites on the internet.  This week I’ve researched MySpace.  Here are the findings.   

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Here’s the weekly wrap-up of worthly tech news and a few extra tidbits. Lots of great news and articles this week! By far the biggest news of the week just happened this morning with Microsoft agreeing to buy Yahoo (links below). I’ve been telling people for the last month now that Yahoo was the perfect stock to pickup because it’s fallen so far… I just looked and Yahoo’s stock is up 44% today.  Guess I just blew that lottery pick! Read the rest of this entry »