Yes, you’ve read my headline correctly: bloggers editing and fact checking the main media outlet covering higher education in the US.
So, what do I mean exactly?
In the past weeks, two posts from two different higher ed bloggers have questioned some of the facts reported in two different articles published by the Chronicle.
Andy Shaindlin from […]
With the increasing popularity of this niche blog (and it’s not just my ego speaking, the web stats and Feedburner tell me that its readership has been increasing steadily) as well as my regular gig at University Business, I’ve started to receive more and more press releases and pitches from PR professionals.
While a few are […]
Last week I read 3 interesting posts written by 3 different higher ed bloggers, but couldn’t find the time to post about these.
Paul Baker (Education PR) shares a great story that shows the power of Web 2.0. A year ago, while he was attending a conference in New Orleans, he took some great photos […]
A while ago, LinkedIn, the social networking website targeted to professionals, launched a feature allowing members to ask open questions to the members of their network (their direct connections as well as the connections of their connections).
On several occasions, I’ve seen questions from reporters or freelancers looking for sources pop up in this section of […]
In a previous post titled “Professor Wesch from KSU featured in a great video report from The Chronicle,” I raved about the first online video report produced by Jeffrey Young, Web Editor at The Chronicle:
Produced by Jeffrey R. Young, the video report does an excellent job presenting Professor Wesch’s work at KSU as well as […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education offers a great video report this morning on his blog as part of a post titled “An Anthropologist Explores Video Blogging.”
Produced by Jeffrey R. Young, the video report does an excellent job presenting Professor Wesch’s work at KSU as well as his famous YouTube video about Web 2.0.
Too bad […]
While your institution might not be ready to get its profile on MySpace, the popular social networking website, you should consider trying to get your news in front of its millions of members.
MySpace has just launched the beta version of its news service: MySpace News.
The FAQ of the news service explains that, “MySpace News aggregates […]
Inside Higher Ed is running this morning a must-read piece for communication professionals titled “Evaluating the Response.”
Written by Andy Guess, this article reviews the tragic events from a crisis communication standpoint, provides a link to the University Relations crisis communication plan (last updated in February 2002) used Monday, and offers some light on the challenges […]
While I tend to focus my posts on US higher ed institutions, I know that more and more readers actually work at Canadian universities and colleges. That’s why I’ve decided to interview for this series about higher ed media Peggy Berkowitz, the editor of University Affairs published in print and online by the Association of […]
Don’t worry, I don’t plan to run a five-part series on RealNebraska, the video show produced by the admission office of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. But, I HAD to tell you about this.
David Burge, the host of the show and the associate director for admissions at UNL, posted a comment to my previous […]
