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Why Do I Tweet? I Do It for You

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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:

Best Admission Uses of Twitter

Monday, January 11, 2010

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For 2010, it is safe to expect that Twitter will not see a diminished roll in university marketing and admissions strategy plans. However, it’s hard to avoid that some people will be coming to the web guys to have them set up their admissions office with Twitter (or will do it themselves), but then will [...]

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

Thursday, October 22, 2009

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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 [...]

Building Your Own Listening Post

Monday, October 19, 2009

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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 [...]

The Great Keynote Meltdown of 2009

Friday, October 9, 2009

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Update 01/11/2010: This post was nominated for the Edublog higher ed Most Influential Blog Post of 2009. Even though we didn’t win, I personally want to thank all of you that voted for us. Thank you for all of your support!

Join Us for a Pre-HighEdWeb Saturday Night Tweetup

Friday, September 25, 2009

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Hey everyone! Are you getting into Milwaukee a little bit early for HighEdWeb this year? Then be sure to join myself and Rachel for a Tweetup at Mo’s Irish Pub Saturday night at 8:00PM. We’ll gather in the hotel lobby of the Hilton about 10 minutes ahead of time and walk down to the pub [...]

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.

Division III Releases Social Networking Rule Change for Communicating with Prospective Student-Athletes

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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Division III Releases Social Networking Rule Change for Communicating with Prospective Student-Athletes

The Division III Management Council just released their newly adopted “noncontroversial change to the Division III electronic transmissions limitations.” They’ve given it a retroactive effective date of August 1, 2008 to match when their original legislation went into effect. They’ve also released this article: “DIII Council opens up use of social-networking media“

eduWeb 2009 Live Blog – Twitter for Higher Ed

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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Billy Adams of SociallyRed.com liveblogging here on .eduGuru from eduWeb 2009.

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 [...]