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UPDATED: The 2012 State of the Mobile Web in #highered Survey Report

February 21st, 2012 Karine Joly 4 Comments

UPDATE (9:30AM – Feb 21): An important typo in the % of existing mobile solutions was fixed in the report. A few weeks ago I conducted the second survey about the State of Mobile Web in Higher Ed to provide the community with some insights on the mobile web in our industry. The first survey […]

The University of Denver is going the #Infographics way to help promote a new #highered degree

February 9th, 2012 Karine Joly 1 Comment

The lead-generation websites for for-profits have used infographics to increase the number of links and social shares as part of their marketing strategy for several months. And, this is “linkbait” strategy has been VERY successful with many mentions in Mashable (including this recent article on how higher ed institutions use social media). I’ve already said […]

Take the Survey about the 2012 State of the Mobile Web in #highered to get the report!

January 10th, 2012 Karine Joly No Comments

Since the first edition of my survey about the State of the Mobile Web in higher education last year, more research about the topic has been conducted by vendors (Inigral & Stamats), organizations (Educause) and the Mobile evangelist in our industry, Dave Olsen. As you probably know if you are a regular reader of this […]

Analytics: The Holy Grail of Social Media in #highered?

June 6th, 2011 Karine Joly No Comments

My latest University Business column is now available in the June issue as well as online: “Analytics: The Holy Grail of Social Media? A year of growth for measuring social media activity” In this column, I take a look at how some institutions use web analytics to inform their website redesign projects and share 3 […]

Interested in the state of print and electronic publications in higher ed? Take the survey, get the results!

October 6th, 2010 Karine Joly No Comments

In 2007 and 2009, I created a survey about the state of print and electronic publications in higher education. Each time, more than 200 institutions took the time to answer my questions. Over the past 3 years, the budget crisis seems to have accelerated the shift from print to electronic when it comes to higher […]

Today Virginia Tech remembers – so does its website

April 16th, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

At Virginia Tech, Mike Dame and his team have been working on this day of remembrance on the Web for a while and the result is another beautiful piece of Web design on the homepage: A dedicated website has also been created for the event at www.remembrance.vt.edu: . This is how Virginia Tech remembers, how […]

CASE offers public and free access until October 31, 2007 to “Fear and Loathing in Web 2.0,” a great article about the Web 2.0 Denial Syndrome

September 19th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

As I mentioned in this previous post, “Don’t think the conversation is the message? Just look at how higher ed media have been going 2.0 lately,” I was interviewed last June by Andrea Jarrell: Anyway, “the conversation is the message” has come back at me this week in an email exchange with Andrea Jarrell. She’s […]

One Year Later: Mansfield University’s Podcasting Initiative

December 12th, 2006 Karine Joly 5 Comments

If you’ve taken my 2006 Survey (if you haven’t, you’re passing a chance to win a $30 gift certificate from Amazon), you know that I asked readers to suggest how I can improve this blog in 2007. One of the suggestions I have received makes a lot of sense: to revisit some of the initiatives […]