Comments on: Higher Ed Bloggers edit and fact check the Chronicle of Higher Education http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/05/07/higher-ed-bloggers-edit-and-fact-check-the-chronicle-of-higher-education/ Web, Marketing and PR in Higher Ed Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:31:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Tom Williams http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/05/07/higher-ed-bloggers-edit-and-fact-check-the-chronicle-of-higher-education/comment-page-1/#comment-397866 Tom Williams Thu, 08 May 2008 13:38:07 +0000 http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/?p=675#comment-397866 Karine - thank you so much for sharing this information. I too was very "surprised" and skeptical on the email stat, since it is such a foundational piece of the recruiting effort. I am very glad one of your readers took the time to dig up the anomaly and bring the gross misrepresentation to light. Thanks so much to you for pushing this information out. Karine – thank you so much for sharing this information. I too was very “surprised” and skeptical on the email stat, since it is such a foundational piece of the recruiting effort. I am very glad one of your readers took the time to dig up the anomaly and bring the gross misrepresentation to light. Thanks so much to you for pushing this information out.

]]> By: Karine Joly http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/05/07/higher-ed-bloggers-edit-and-fact-check-the-chronicle-of-higher-education/comment-page-1/#comment-397847 Karine Joly Wed, 07 May 2008 21:11:10 +0000 http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/?p=675#comment-397847 Well, Andy, yeah... is it THAT bad? I meant it was a hot topic in alum associations - everybody seems to want to get a social networking website lately. When asked about why alum associations were willing to spend 10 to 30 K to buy a solution, I also said that there was a tendency to throw money at problems one doesn't understand - i.e social media in that case (but, I think I asked not to be quoted on this one ;-) and that the solutions currently available on the market were all about tools, but there was little done in terms of strategy. BTW, I also asked the reporter if he had talked to you Andy(because you're definitely the *hot* source to interview on that topic;-) -- which he had at that point. Well, Andy, yeah… is it THAT bad?

I meant it was a hot topic in alum associations – everybody seems to want to get a social networking website lately.

When asked about why alum associations were willing to spend 10 to 30 K to buy a solution, I also said that there was a tendency to throw money at problems one doesn’t understand – i.e social media in that case (but, I think I asked not to be quoted on this one ;-) and that the solutions currently available on the market were all about tools, but there was little done in terms of strategy.

BTW, I also asked the reporter if he had talked to you Andy(because you’re definitely the *hot* source to interview on that topic;-) — which he had at that point.

]]> By: Andy Shaindlin http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/05/07/higher-ed-bloggers-edit-and-fact-check-the-chronicle-of-higher-education/comment-page-1/#comment-397839 Andy Shaindlin Wed, 07 May 2008 18:06:09 +0000 http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/?p=675#comment-397839 So Karine, do you mean that you're the one who said social networking is "definitely hot"? As for the surveys, Brad's point is a good one. Part of the reason that companies are delivering research, I think, is that there is no well-established, productive academic discipline doing research in areas that impact our profession directly. If we had independent faculty in schools of education doing more of this, there would be a less biased source of data. And that data would be useful to us working in advancement. So Karine, do you mean that you’re the one who said social networking is “definitely hot”?

As for the surveys, Brad’s point is a good one. Part of the reason that companies are delivering research, I think, is that there is no well-established, productive academic discipline doing research in areas that impact our profession directly. If we had independent faculty in schools of education doing more of this, there would be a less biased source of data. And that data would be useful to us working in advancement.

]]> By: Bradjward http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2008/05/07/higher-ed-bloggers-edit-and-fact-check-the-chronicle-of-higher-education/comment-page-1/#comment-397830 Bradjward Wed, 07 May 2008 14:35:12 +0000 http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/?p=675#comment-397830 I definitely feel strongly about these surveys being put out by companies. They always seem to be skewed towards how they want the article to shape, and the sad thing is most of the VP's and Admins in this world read those things like the holy grail. I definitely feel strongly about these surveys being put out by companies. They always seem to be skewed towards how they want the article to shape, and the sad thing is most of the VP’s and Admins in this world read those things like the holy grail.

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