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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 [...]

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Last 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 [...]

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Here’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 [...]

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No, 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 [...]

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These past few weeks, I’ve seen many questions around branded YouTube channels (via the non-profit or the partner program) as well as the frustration building up in the higher community around the lack of transparency surrounding YouTube’s decision to decline either status to some institutions.

YouTube - Partner Program

I’ve been thinking about writing an upcoming column [...]

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Up until today, the best way to get a branded university YouTube channel was still a mystery for many (including yours truly).
Since a few months several institutions (Duke University, UC Berkeley, Vanderbilt, among others) have rolled out branded YouTube channel without the ads displayed on the regular YouTube accounts.
However, there were no clear guidelines made [...]

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Yesterday morning, I spent a couple of hours reviewing the 3 nominated websites for the eduStyle Awards in the “Best Use of Video” category: Boston University, NJIT and University of Notre Dame.
I watched all the videos accessible from the 3 websites and even checked out the YouTube channels of these 3 institutions.
After spending some [...]

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Commencement season is upon (or behind) us, and this Youtube video produced by UCLA Newsroom is very timely.

I got the tip in an email sent by Seth Odell from UCLA Newsroom starting with “Hello higher ed friends” (Geez, and I thought I was special — Next time, how about just “Hi” or “Hello,” so [...]

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It looks like higher ed Youtube videos are really starting to become a genre.
This new video series I’m posting about today really reminds me of Real Nebraska - presented by David Burge - with a twist. Here, the host isn’t a bald funny guy (no offense, David), but Veronica, a student whose long brown [...]

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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 [...]

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