I’ve already mentioned an easy — free — way to get you, your boss or your colleagues up-to-speed with new media in a previous post. My offer to get you or anybody else in your institution started with a free Bloglines account loaded with the best higher ed RSS feeds is still on the table […]
Archive for the ‘Blogs & Wikis’ Category
Your students blog about your institution at TheU.com
Got student blogs on your admission website? Well, you might not be the only one… In the latest issue of his Higher Ed Marketing email newsletter, the consultant Bob Johnson reports a very interesting piece of information: “For a powerful lesson in the inability of colleges and universities to control the messages that are out […]
The Brand (Brave?) New World Of Online Public Relations
My second column for University Business is now available in the April issue as well as online: “The Brand (Brave?) New World Of Online Public Relations.†If you are a University Business reader who has just discovered collegewebeditor.com, let me welcome you first. Then, don’t forget to subscribe to this blog via RSS (use one […]
HigherEd BlogCon: time to subscribe to the conference’s RSS feed
The first higher ed online conference about the so-called Web 2.0 technologies, HigherEd BlogCon, will start on April 3 – well, that’s Monday! – on a computer near you, so you’d better hurry up and subscribe to its RSS feed – your free pass to this conference. Want a few good reasons to subscribe now? […]
How to share your press clips with your stakeholders and campus community
For most PR pros, the holy grail consists of a very thick news clip book loaded with lengthy and focused pieces and a couple of TV tapes. When you spend your day pitching journalists and editors with ideas about your institution, it’s natural to be eager to share your own success stories: the resulting articles […]
A new take on admission blogs targeted to prospective students and their parents
I’ve already written a lot about “admission blogs,” blogs maintained by current students hand-picked by Admission offices to provide prospective students and their parents with a glimpse at the college experience. Whether they are maintained by individual bloggers or a group of blogging students, these blogs can provide real insights on the freshman experience while […]
Illinois Institute of Technology President is blogging and… inviting comments
When comments are open and not filtered, blogging isn’t for the faint of heart. That’s what Illinois Institute Technology‘s President, Lew Collens, has probably realized — the hard way? — after a few posts in his 26-day blogging experiment with the new communication channel: the President’s Blog. “This blog, which will be live from now […]
Collegewebeditor.com is one-year old
Yep, I’ve been blogging for a full year. Can you believe it? I published my first post, “It’s a baby blog” on February 12, 2005 at 1:53PM. When I started last year by a sunny afternoon (well, it might have been a rainy one ;-), I didn’t imagine this blog would bring me so much: […]
3 questons to a higher ed blogger: Will Richardson, the K-12 guru blogging at “Weblogg-ed, the read/write web in the classroom”
I know, I know. Technically, Will Richardson isn’t a higher ed blogger, but he has inspired many — among those, yours truly — to start blogging. Blogvangelist and Supervisor of Instructional Technology and Communications at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ, Richardson has been blogging at “Weblogg-ed, the read/write web in the classroom” […]
HigherEdBlogCon: Just 11 days left to submit your proposal
As you probably know by now (after all, isn’t it the third time I’m posting about this event?), a very special conference will be held this April on a computer near you: Higher Ed BlogCon, an online conference focusing on the use of blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, vblogs and other digital tools. I know a […]
3 questions to a higher ed blogger: Dr. Adrian Sannier, University Technology Officer at Arizona State, from “Adrian Sannier’s blog”
An expert in human/computer interaction and three-dimensional visualization, Dr. Adrian Sannier, University Technology Officer at ASU since August 2005, has been blogging for a year and half on his personal blog. A passionate user of Web 2.0 technologies (blogs, wikis and RSS), Sannier has even managed to get his president, Michael Crow, blogging at the […]
Top 3 reasons to get your university/college president blogging
As I wrote in the introduction of an interview with Michael Crow, ASU President, he is one of the first higher ed presidents to see blogging and podcasting as efficient communication channels with his different constituents. President Crow isn’t the first president-blogger, as Lou Anna K. Simon, MSU President, has been blogging since January 2005 […]
3 questions to a higher ed blogger: Michael M. Crow, Arizona State University President, from “The President’s Post”
The Arizona State University President is one of the first higher ed presidents (well, he is probably the first. If you know another, let me know) to blog and podcast on a regular basis. He has been blogging at “The President’s Post” since early December and plans to start podcasting every week this month. With […]
Want to get your university admission officers blogging? Show them these admission blogs by their peers!
Over the past few months, a lot has been written about freshmen blogs initiated by higher ed admission offices to give prospective students a taste of the college experience at their institutions. Whether they are maintained by individual bloggers or group of blogging students, these blogs can provide real insights on the freshman experience while […]
2 examples of student group blogs used by higher ed admission offices
As you know, a lot of admission offices in universities and colleges across the country (and probably the world) have started to use blogs maintained by current students to give to high school students a preview of the college experience at their institutions. At Ball State University and other institutions, admission offices recruited a few […]
Duke University is blogging its website redesign
Following in the footsteps of others institutions such as Cornell University and the Ohio State University, Duke University has been blogging its website redesign for almost three months as initially announced in this post published on September 27, 2005: “Duke is redesigning its home page. The Office of News and Communications, which is leading the […]
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