Social Networking

The Credibility of College Info from Social Network Sites (or Lack Thereof)

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Last month at NACAC, I got my hands on a copy of the Hobsons Domestic Research Report 2009-2010. It’s a fantastic report that every admissions professional should get their hands on, but one set of numbers specifically stood out to me. Hobsons asked sophomores, juniors and seniors about their perceptions of the credibility of college [...]

eduWEB Takeaway: It’s About the People

Monday, August 3, 2009

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When Robin Smail and I were asked to do our Twitter Me This? presentation for eduWEB, we looked at the schedule. Looked like the talented like Aaron Rester would be covering twitter and Matt Hertzberger would be covering social media until Robin and I got to the after-lunch bunch.

Everything I Wanted to Learn About My Career I Learned From Twitter

Friday, July 17, 2009

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Everything I Wanted to Learn About My Career I Learned From Twitter

Years ago, when I was bored, I’d get sucked into something like Minesweeper and stay up too late playing the damn thing. Then I’d have dreams of flags and bombs where if I woke up in the middle of the dream, I’d have that feeling of quitting before I cleared a board. The same thing [...]

A Friendly Reminder: Social Media Is Social

Friday, April 17, 2009

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A Friendly Reminder: Social Media Is Social

I have made that point before and I’ll make it here again. If you are out there trying to build your social network, don’t engage in behaviors that have the opposite effect. But we all know examples from the worst horror stories of downright nastiness to irksome comments that at best make a poor first [...]

Your Social Network: “Everyone’s a Hero in Their Own Way”

Thursday, January 22, 2009

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Your Social Network: “Everyone’s a Hero in Their Own Way”

I really hate mixing singular and plural pronouns in my title, but if you catch my allusion, well, it was worth it. If you don’t, crawl out from under your rock, take some time out of work-related things, and watch some Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (on iTunes or Hulu or wherever). Last week [...]

Ridiculously Backward Rules for Limiting Your Social Network

Thursday, January 15, 2009

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Ridiculously Backward Rules for Limiting Your Social Network

One of my resolutions is to expand my social network. It’s actually a goal I continued from last year. Sometimes I project my own values onto others, so forgive me if I assume this should be a goal for everyone in higher education. Why wouldn’t you want to connect with more people? Why wouldn’t you [...]

One Guru’s Resolutions…

Thursday, January 1, 2009

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Happy New Year!

Tampa May Not Be World Champions, But We Are Coming Anyway!

Monday, November 3, 2008

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This Wednesday starts the Stamats Integrated Marketing Conference: Technology Collaboration, Results. Wow that’s a mouthful to get out properly. Although this conference is not track heavy, it should more than make up with the quality of the presentation. The BlogHighEd guys are both presenting (Matt Herzberger and Brad J Ward) and Karlyn and I have [...]

Want a .eduGuru T-Shirt? Links of the Week Edition

Friday, October 3, 2008

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Karlyn and I have been throwing around a few crazy ideas for .eduGuru that for some reason just sounded like a lot of fun. Lots of free time and not enough work pretty much describe our current work situation… Doubt it! So in humoring ourself we prentended like we have a cult following of readers, [...]

eduWEB 2008 Reflections Part III

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

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Finally reaching the end of my brain dump from eduWEB 2008. I know your probably tired of hearing me talk about this conference, so this is the last one… I promise! The excitement of being back at the office is setting in and I’m attempting to follow Brad’s Now What advice, but unfortunately I already [...]