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 […]
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 […]
I’ve put together a short online survey to find out if and how paid advertising and sponsorship are used in magazines and newsletters published by universities and colleges.
The results of this survey will be used for a study I’m conducting on this topic and a future article.
This online survey should take you 3 […]
Sorry for my light blogging, but I have been working on a few projects lately… and something had to give.
One of these projects is a feature-long article for the August issue of University Business (it’s due June 1st - it’s a magazine, not a blog ;-) about email outsourcing in higher education.
If you don’t have […]
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 […]
Posted in Current Students, Facebook, Marketing Strategy, MySpace, President and VPs, Research, Social Networking, Target Audiences, Video, YouTube on February 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
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 […]
By now, you’ve heard the news: a gun man shot 22 people yesterday at Northern Illinois University. Seven Six - including the gunman - died.
All my prayers go to the families and friends of the victims as well as to the whole campus community at Northern Illinois University.
There are some blog posts I would rather […]
Website redesigns can be very, very scary projects.
People don’t like change, especially on “their” homepage.
That’s why you should prepare as much as possible before jumping into a website redesign (whether it’s for a university, college, department or even an office).
You can find some tips in a column I wrote for University Business in […]
Since the Virginia Tech Tragedy, higher ed institutions all over the US, Canada and even Australia have been revisiting their emergency preparedness and crisis communication plans.
While planning is very important, a plan is as good as its testing. That’s why many institutions went through emergency drills and other tests lately.
Back in September 2007, I blogged […]
While UMR will officially become MST on January 1st, the new website has just been launched and is now live at www.mst.edu (read my previous post about the topic).
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AFTER
This morning, I asked Andrew Careaga, director of communications at Missouri S&T, why they decided to do the switch today, just before the holiday break and how […]
