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Sharpening my saw

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” (Closing Time, Semisonic.) I started graduate school with the hope that I could bring greater value to my current position, and someday advance my career in the field of marketing and communication in higher ed. After three and a half years, I earned my MBA in [...]

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Pictures from the first HighEd Tweetup

Last night was the first of hopefully many Higher Education Tweetups.  I believe last night we pledged to start doing these things quarterly?  Not the largest crowd, but definitely an awesome active crowd of attendees.  We talked a little bit about the challenges that face Higher Education Web, but mostly we just hung out like [...]

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One Guru’s Resolutions…

Happy New Year!

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Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow

Well I announced it on the twitter wire this morning so it is only fitting that I explain in a little more detail. I have officially put in my resignation to Wofford and accepted a full time position at HubSpot. For those of you who don’t know about HubSpot maybe you are familiar with Website [...]

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Happy Halloween - Comics Time

No links of the week, sorry.  Instead here are some rather amusing Halloween Comics.  Hopefully you find them more enjoyable?  Also you Higher Education Web people out there don’t forget about the .eduGuru Blogger Search Contest.  We’ll keep accepting applications until November 10th.  I’m glad to say we already have a range of applicants so [...]

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Trashball: The Game of Champions

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 [...]

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The Six Month Post - Revisiting This Blog’s Purpose

.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 [...]

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Links of the Week July 3rd

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 [...]

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Links of the Week June 13th

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 [...]

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Marketing Lessons Learned from Indy 500

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 [...]

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