Archive for the ‘Ning’ Category

Social Networks: Should you go private or stick with Facebook?

October 12th, 2009 Karine Joly 3 Comments

A frightening and yet interesting thing happened to Rachel Reuben from SUNY New Paltz a few days ago. The Facebook page she created 2 years ago for her university disappeared. Rachel tried everything to get the page back as she explained in a post she wrote last week: Feeling Naked: A Tale of the Disappearing […]

More with Less: 7 ways to survive the budget crunch in higher education

January 28th, 2009 Karine Joly No Comments

My second UB column for 2009 is now available in the February issue as well as online (featured on the homepage of University Business today): “More with Less: 7 Ways to Survive the Budget Crunch” Here are the 7 ways/tips in a condensed form: Look more closely at your print publication budget Embrace (free) social […]

The registration deadline for the “Saving Big” webinars has been postponed to Friday January 30, 2009 at 9PM ET

January 27th, 2009 Karine Joly No Comments

Once again I found in my inbox this morning a message from someone who wanted to register for the upcoming webinar series: “Saving Big″ (the initial registration deadline was yesterday at 9PM). As a result, I decided to postpone the registration deadline until next Friday (January 30, 2009) at 9PM ET. Register for Saving Big […]

Higher Ed Experts in 2009: Social Networks MBA, Saving Big, Stop the Presses and Analytics 360

December 16th, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

And, that’s just the program for the months of January, February and March 2009. I’ve just wrapped up the upcoming webinar series for the first quarter of 2009, and I hope you’ll like the result. With the tougher budget times we’re all facing in higher education, I’ve decided to focus the next webinar series I […]

Need help to jump start or improve your NING social networking website? Register for the “Social Networks MBA” 3-webinar series by December 19

December 10th, 2008 Karine Joly

Do you Ning? If you’re not familiar with Ning, here’s what I wrote about it in University Business a couple of months ago: Launched in October 2004, Ning is a social networking platform aimed at giving anyone the opportunity to create social networks for anything. Offered as a free web service-with some premium options for […]