Comments on: (How) Should higher ed institutions use MySpace? Get answers from the higher ed MySpace advocate: Heather Mansfield, Web editor at Drury University http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/03/28/how-should-higher-ed-institutions-use-myspace-get-answers-from-the-higher-ed-myspace-advocate-heather-mansfield-web-editor-at-drury-university/ Web, Marketing and PR in Higher Ed Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:31:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: E Leb http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/03/28/how-should-higher-ed-institutions-use-myspace-get-answers-from-the-higher-ed-myspace-advocate-heather-mansfield-web-editor-at-drury-university/comment-page-1/#comment-400953 E Leb Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:43:12 +0000 http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/03/28/how-should-higher-ed-institutions-use-myspace-get-answers-from-the-higher-ed-myspace-advocate-heather-mansfield-web-editor-at-drury-university/#comment-400953 The NCAA passed legislation last year prohibiting the use of social networking sites (and text messaging and IM) for recruitment communication with prospective student-athletes. This may get changed as the relationship with MySpace, Facebook etc. morphs, but the legislation was intended to prevent high schoolers bearing the cost of receiving numerous text messages and giving coaches undue access to their personal lives. We are seeing that email and phone are not reliable ways to get in touch with prospective athletes because their primary source of communication is through the exact avenues that schools are not allowed to use. The NCAA passed legislation last year prohibiting the use of social networking sites (and text messaging and IM) for recruitment communication with prospective student-athletes. This may get changed as the relationship with MySpace, Facebook etc. morphs, but the legislation was intended to prevent high schoolers bearing the cost of receiving numerous text messages and giving coaches undue access to their personal lives.

We are seeing that email and phone are not reliable ways to get in touch with prospective athletes because their primary source of communication is through the exact avenues that schools are not allowed to use.

]]> By: Karine Joly http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/03/28/how-should-higher-ed-institutions-use-myspace-get-answers-from-the-higher-ed-myspace-advocate-heather-mansfield-web-editor-at-drury-university/comment-page-1/#comment-132371 Karine Joly Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:30:49 +0000 http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/03/28/how-should-higher-ed-institutions-use-myspace-get-answers-from-the-higher-ed-myspace-advocate-heather-mansfield-web-editor-at-drury-university/#comment-132371 Thanks for your comment, Amy. Please let us know about the results of your PR campaign on Facebook when it's done. Sardionerak, you need to get your marketing folks to subscribe to my <a href="http://collegewebeditor.com/list/?p=subscribe&id=1" rel="nofollow">email newsletter</a> (RSS might not be the right tool for them). Send them links, too. I'm sure they will end up joining the conversation -- at some point. Thanks for your comment, Amy. Please let us know about the results of your PR campaign on Facebook when it’s done.

Sardionerak, you need to get your marketing folks to subscribe to my email newsletter (RSS might not be the right tool for them). Send them links, too. I’m sure they will end up joining the conversation — at some point.

]]> By: Sardionerak http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/03/28/how-should-higher-ed-institutions-use-myspace-get-answers-from-the-higher-ed-myspace-advocate-heather-mansfield-web-editor-at-drury-university/comment-page-1/#comment-132265 Sardionerak Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:28:26 +0000 http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/03/28/how-should-higher-ed-institutions-use-myspace-get-answers-from-the-higher-ed-myspace-advocate-heather-mansfield-web-editor-at-drury-university/#comment-132265 Thank you very much for putting up this interview. I only wished that our Marketing department at university had ONE person who understood online social networking... sadly, that is not the case, and we are forced to engage with it on a faculty level. As was pointed out, you need a person constantly dealing with this, otherwise you might as well leave it. We are still trying to convince people to give us the funds for such a positon. Thank you very much for putting up this interview. I only wished that our Marketing department at university had ONE person who understood online social networking… sadly, that is not the case, and we are forced to engage with it on a faculty level. As was pointed out, you need a person constantly dealing with this, otherwise you might as well leave it. We are still trying to convince people to give us the funds for such a positon.

]]> By: Amy http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/03/28/how-should-higher-ed-institutions-use-myspace-get-answers-from-the-higher-ed-myspace-advocate-heather-mansfield-web-editor-at-drury-university/comment-page-1/#comment-132108 Amy Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:23:48 +0000 http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/03/28/how-should-higher-ed-institutions-use-myspace-get-answers-from-the-higher-ed-myspace-advocate-heather-mansfield-web-editor-at-drury-university/#comment-132108 I set up <a href="http://www.myspace.com/mcla_nama" rel="nofollow">our MySpace page</a> in September, and wish I could devote more time to developing it. I am about to use it to launch our summer school pr campaign. I set up our MySpace page in September, and wish I could devote more time to developing it. I am about to use it to launch our summer school pr campaign.

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