Archive for the ‘Around the world’ Category

Not Your Regular #highered Annual Report: Michigan State Goes Real-Time and Social

February 27th, 2013 Karine Joly 6 Comments

Do you remember your school’s last annual report? Unless you spent countless hours working on it for several months, chances are you didn’t read or even open it. The annual report (or the President’s report depending on how it’s called at your institution) is a very important staple of the advancement toolkit in higher education. […]

Not your usual #highered Admissions Video: Beer, Blood and Applications?

March 15th, 2012 Karine Joly 4 Comments

In the latest issue of LINK published on Tuesday a video caught my eyes. Not the new (and quite unconventional) admissions video by the University of Rochester – although I totally love it and share the love on Twitter last week. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/karinejoly/status/177784123648258048″] No, what caught my attention in Dave Tyler’s Link Boxers column this […]

Rolling through the Campus Tour Video – and its budget: EM Strasbourg Business School

April 14th, 2011 Karine Joly 2 Comments

I’ve featured a good number of campus tour videos on this blog, but this one is a first. Not because it’s from a Business School based in France (I don’t get pitched stories often by European institutions, but I’m interested in any good examples no matter where they come from), but because this campus tour […]

LipDubbed Campus Tours: Suffolk University and Texas State University did it

November 17th, 2009 Karine Joly 5 Comments

It looks like the incredible success of the lipdub produced by students from UQAM in Montreal, QC (more than 2.5 million views as of this writing) has pushed some institutions in the US to finally join the university lipdub movement. Texas State University in San Marcos did its lipdub on November 8th in the LBJ […]

Around the (Higher Ed) World in 4 Questions: Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus at UKOLN

September 5th, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

Even if we (I?) tend to focus on our little corner of the higher ed Web on a daily basis, that world is flat too. That’s why I’ve recently decided to open more this blog to initiatives, news and happenings taking place all around the world and not just in the US and Canada. Without […]