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 [...]
This morning, I received two emails asking if it was still possible to register for the May 7 webinar about crisis/emergency websites presented by Mike Dame from Virginia Tech (the initial registration deadline was yesterday).
As a result, I decided to postpone the registration deadline until this Friday (May 2) at 9PM ET. If you want [...]
At Virginia Tech, Mike Dame and his team have been working on this day of remembrance on the Web for a while and the result is another beautiful piece of Web design on the homepage:
A dedicated website has also been created for the event at www.remembrance.vt.edu:
.
This is how Virginia Tech remembers, how do you? Share [...]
My second UB column for 2008 is now available in the April issue as well as online: “It’s 2008: Is Your 911 Website Ready?”
When I wrote this article, my goal was to give you a good piece of third-party validation (hey, you can even print the article so it looks like it was xeroxed from [...]
Would you share your crisis ‘lite’ website homepage with your colleagues in higher education?
Since the Virginia Tech Tragedy, we all have been building/updating the web template to be used in case of a crisis or an emergency.
By nature, these web templates can’t be easily shared among different institutions. You don’t want the general public [...]
Even if you don’t take the time to read my last article about crisis communication (although you should), don’t ignore these 5 basic tips and share them with folks in charge of crisis communication at your institution:
Make sure the chief communication officer of your institution is part of your emergency team.
Include in your crisis plan [...]
September isn’t over yet, but the month has already seen 2 shooting-related crises:
Yesterday at St. John’s University in Queens, NY (the campus was locked down after a masked gunman was found on campus)
Last Friday, 2 students were shot at Delaware State University.
The good news is that lessons learned after the tragedy at Virginia Tech last [...]
Lately, I’ve read more and more negative comments about SecondLife. Many inside and outside of higher education have questioned the return on investment of SL campuses for universities and colleges as Jeff Young from the Chronicle of Higher Ed wrote a few days ago in the Campus Wired Blog:
More than 100 colleges have set up [...]
Just a quick post to let everybody know that I’ve made a $4,300 online donation to the Virginia Tech Hokie Spirit Scholarship Fund in the name of the higher ed community.
The funds were raised via a $100-per-attendee donation made by people who attended Crisis Communication 2.0 Week a few weeks ago.
Attendees paid $250 instead [...]
Are you going to the 2007 EduWeb Conference in Baltimore on July 22-24?
Well, you’re lucky, because you’ll get a chance to listen to Mike Dame, director of web communications at Virginia Tech, presenting a shorter version of the webinar he presented for Higher Ed Experts: From the Inside Out — Lessons Learned in Web [...]
