Archive for September, 2008
No post since the last edition of this series “Catch up-Date with Karine” aiming at fighting the information overload, I guess you can imagine how busy the past week has been. Anyway, here's what I got for you with this special edition about "all things Admissions." With NACAC's 64th national conference taking place last week in Seattle, it's "Admissions applications or websites" fest With so many admissions professionals gathered under one roof, this conference was the theater of several launches in the admissions web market including admissions.com (Monster.com's take on college search) and Unigo.com (launched by a young entrepreneur with connections in...
Read MoreI'm a bit late this week, but here’s the fourth edition of this series “Catch up-Date with Karine” aiming at fighting the information overload. Please let me know if you find it useful by leaving a comment or sending an email at karine@collegewebeditor.com. Mobile video social networking might happen sooner than we thought Penn State and Alcatel-Lucent will work together on a pilot project to create a mobile video social networking application (via Campus Technology). "The increasing demands of mobile phone users require the creation of more sophisticated services such as sharing videos with friends and family through social networks. However, the physical...
Read MoreHighEdWeb 2008 will take place on October 5-8 in Springfield MO. Unfortunately, I'm not going this year. I haven't placed a call for guest bloggers as I did in the past, because many higher ed bloggers/twitterers are scheduled to make the trip. However, if some of you would like to take this opportunity to publish a few posts on collegewebeditor.com, just let me know by emailing me at karine@collegewebeditor.com Whether or not you plan to go to Springfield next month, I’m sure you’ll be interested to read the Conference’s Program Chair Doug Tschopp’s perspective on this big event in the higher...
Read MoreLast night, I received an email asking if it was still possible to register for (I guess, people are getting used to my flexibility when it comes to registration deadlines ;-) next week’s webinar: "Beyond YouTube" (the initial registration deadline was yesterday 9PM). As a result, I decided to postpone the registration deadline until this Friday (September 19) at 9PM ET. If you want to learn more how to host and promote your online videos on the Web, this webinar presented by Mike Richwalsky should help. Institutions registered for this series include: Appalachian State University University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Augusta State...
Read MoreHere’s the third edition of this series “Catch up-Date with Karine” aiming at fighting the information overload. Please let me know if you find it useful by leaving a comment or sending an email at karine@collegewebeditor.com. Looking for some YouTube Love? Why not suggest to your community members to take part in YouTube's first journalism contest in partnership with the Pulitzer Center, Project: Report? This 3-round contest is open to non-professional aspiring journalists to tell stories not covered by traditional media. The first assignment is to profile a community member in 3 minutes or less. The video must be submitted by midnight...
Read MoreNo, it's not another episode of the famous kid show Blue's Clues, but it could be. Butler Blue 2 is the official and furry mascot of Butler University (as all you sports fans probably know) According to Blue's blog (yeah, I know, dog blogs aren't that common, but this puppy even got a greater-than-life statue on campus and his own YouTube channel), the mascot costumes used during games have been missing (or should I say stolen?) With the help of his personal videographer/videoeditor, Brad Ward, this smart bulldog has decided to use the power of social media to find the costumes with this...
Read MoreThe inauguration of John Maeda the 16th president of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) will take place this Friday. Why do I think he is the kind of presidents we have all been dreaming of? First, just look at his inauguration online guest book, created for the campus community to add their thoughts, best wishes, or dreams for RISD. These entries will be projected on the façade of RISD’s Chace Center Friday night. Maeda also blogs, like a real blogger - which is a nice departure from most president blogs, no offense intended to the former - on a group blog...
Read MoreSome of you might know it already, but I've been maintaining the calendar of higher ed conferences and events for a few months now. It's a Google calendar that I update on a regular basis. A quick glance at the rest of 2008 on this calendar has revealed many interesting events, so I thought I would highlight in this quick post some of these great opportunities for professional development. September 24 - online “Beyond YouTube: how to host and promote your online videos on the Web,” 1 hour webinar presented by Mike Richwalsky. ($120 - Register by September 15 at www.higheredexperts.com/beyondyoutube) September 24-27...
Read MoreHere's the second edition of this series "Catch up-Date with Karine" aiming at fighting the information overload. Please let me know if you find it useful by leaving a comment or sending an email at karine@collegewebeditor.com. Get in the mind of US high school students with "The 2008-2009 State Of Our Nation’s Youth," a survey report published by Horatio Alger Association in August 2008 (via mStoner blog) Here are a couple of interesting points I found in the 8-page report summary (PDF) and the full 80-page report (PDF) Today’s teenagers spend an average of 11.6 hours a week using the Internet more time...
Read MoreEven if we (I?) tend to focus on our little corner of the higher ed Web on a daily basis, that world is flat too. That's why I've recently decided to open more this blog to initiatives, news and happenings taking place all around the world and not just in the US and Canada. Without people, the Web wouldn't be the great place it has become. As a result, the first step I'd like to take in that truly worldwide direction is a series of interviews with higher ed professionals: "Around the (Higher Ed) World in 4 Questions." So, let's start this...
Read MoreDo you Twitter? I do (feel free to follow me @karinejoly) as more and more people in the web and PR higher ed world. But, what about our prospective students or their parents? Do they? We'll probably find out in a few months by measuring the success of an initiative Colgate University has just launched, as Charlie Melichar, VP for PR & Communications, mentioned in an exchange via Facebook (and when I get contacted by a university VP via Facebook, it's probably a good indicator that he will be a good source of interesting new initiatives): We just launched a twitter stream on...
Read MoreLast July at the eduWeb conference, Stephanie Geyer, Associate VP for E-communications and Web Strategy at Noel-Levitz, presented the results of a recent online survey her company conducted in June 2008 with 454 parents. At that time in a blog post titled "Live blogging from eduWeb 2008 - Circling Over Enrollment: The E-Expectations of Parents by Stephanie Geyer from Noel-Levitz," I shared the (incomplete) notes I had been able to take during the presentation. Even though I interviewed Ms. Geyer a couple of times about her other surveys in the past, this was the first time I met her in person....
Read MoreLately, I'm suffering from a very bad case of information overload. So many things to read... So many things to comment on... So many things to blog about... It has become more and more difficult to keep up with all the interesting initiatives, discussions and happenings taking place in higher ed. That's why I've decided to try something different and challenge myself to act as a better editor by providing a regular (I'll shoot for weekly) selection of the information you can't afford to miss if you're working in web, marketing and PR in higher education: "Catch up-Date with Karine." Published early in the...
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