News and Tips for Higher Ed Pros

That’s what I’ve learned this morning by reading “Emergency Alerts via Facebook and MySpace Are New Ways to Reach Students,” an article written by Jeffrey Young from the Chronicle of Higher Education.
A group of researchers at the [University of Maryland at College Park] is also working to build a prototype of a homemade social network [...]

When I was asked to present the closing keynote at eduWeb 2008 last October, I said to myself: “this is great! For the first time in my life, I’m 100% sure I will have the last word ;-)”
Then, when I picked my topic, “It’s the community, Stupid! 7-step plan to raise and nurture any community [...]

Are you responsible for your institution’s social networking website?
Do you manage your university’s Facebook Page or Group?
Are you in charge of the online community targeted to your alums or students?
Keep reading.
I’m currently working on the closing keynote I’ll give on July 23 at the eduWeb conference (as well as an upcoming University Business column [...]

Chances are you’ve already read this article published today in the New York Times: College Alumni Magazines Struggle to Compete With Facebook.
The article written by Cate Doty doesn’t provide any breaking news as higher ed blogger D.W. noted in her post published earlier today: News of the Obvious: Younger Alumni Turn to Facebook Versus Class [...]

Higher Ed Experts was officially launched on April 23, 2007.
It was supposed to go live on April 17, but it just didn’t feel right to do it as scheduled after the tragedy that stroke Virginia Tech. As you can imagine, I had many sleepless nights in April 2007 working on the launch of this new [...]

Just forward this article published yesterday in the eMarketer newsletter (but hurry, these are usually only accessible for a limited-time only): “Student Noses Buried in Facebooks”.
According to Youth Trends’ February 2008 “Top Ten List Report,” Facebook and YouTube are included in the top 3 picks for favorite websites - ahead of Google - named [...]

This has been a busy week in the social networking website world. Last Monday, a few days before the launch of the new Facebook features, Yahoo! launched a new social networking website targeted to college students and alums: Kickstart.
Scott Gatz, Senior Director of Yahoo’s Advanced Products, manages the Kickstart’s team. Despite a busy week, Scott [...]

Mark Heiman from Carleton College presented a session titled “Social Networking Software: Meeting the Expectations of the MySpace Generation.” The presentation was covered by one of this year’s guest blogger. This is Martine Lafleur’s second post.
Mark Heiman’s presentation kept me on my toes with great graphics, just the right touch of cynicism and good [...]

This morning I really wanted to attend two sessions scheduled at the same time: Jay Collier’s presentation and the panel discussion about crisis communications and technology. So, when I saw Josh Tysiachney from Allegheny College in the “Social Applications and Content” room, I asked him if he could do me a big favor and blog [...]

After the registration deadline expired yesterday evening, I received a few emails asking if I could give people a bit more time to register for the October 1-5 webinar series about social networking websites:

Social Networking Websites Week - All You Ever Wanted to Know about MySpace, Facebook and Co: October 1-5 2007
Social networking sites are [...]