Archive for the ‘Research’ Category

How are IT leaders doing more with less in higher education

January 23rd, 2009 Karine Joly No Comments

Unless you’ve been on a very, very long vacation (or are one of the lucky few), you are currently facing budget cuts at your institution. I know I wrote a lot about this lately, but I’m trying to find ways to help you weather that storm. In a few days, my next University Business column […]

Mobiles, Cloud Computing, Geo-Tagging and the Personal Web will be widely adopted on campuses within 3 years

January 21st, 2009 Karine Joly No Comments

According to the 2009 Horizon report, while mobiles and cloud computing are already well established on many campuses across the world, geo-tagging and the personal web should be widely used in higher education by 2012. Released yesterday by The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE program, this report is definitely […]

Facebook and other social networking websites now reach 35% of all online adults

January 16th, 2009 Karine Joly 3 Comments

Our good friends from the Pew Internet and American Life Project have just released a very interesting 17-page report about adults and social networks websites. The big news in this report is the increased interest shown by online adults for Facebook and Co according to the results of two different surveys done in May and […]

Catch-up Date with Karine: Admissions – Special post NACAC conference

September 29th, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

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 […]

Catch-up Date with Karine: Video, Online Sharing, Gaming, Adult Students & Web Accessibility

September 22nd, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

I’m a bit late this week, but here’s the fourth 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. Mobile video social networking might happen sooner than we thought Penn State […]

Catch-up Date with Karine: YouTube Contest, Twitter, Web Style Guide, Cloud Computing Use & Homepage Data

September 14th, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

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 […]

Catch up-Date with Karine: High School Student Survey, Alumni Emails, Social Networking Survey, Twitter Clone & Chrome

September 7th, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

Here’s the second 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. Get in the mind of US high school students with “The 2008-2009 State Of Our Nation’s Youth,” a survey […]

Meet the Parents: Get an exclusive look at Noel-Levitz’s survey results about Parents’ E-expectations

September 3rd, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Last July at the eduWeb conference, Stephanie Geyer, Associate VP for E-communications and Web Strategy at Noel-Levitz, presented the results of a recent online survey her company conducted in June 2008 with 454 parents. At that time in a blog post titled “Live blogging from eduWeb 2008 – Circling Over Enrollment: The E-Expectations of Parents […]

Live blogging from eduWeb 2008 – Circling Over Enrollment: The E-Expectations of Parents by Stephanie Geyer from Noel-Levitz

July 22nd, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Stephanie Geyer, Associate VP for E-communications and Web Strategy at Noel-Levitz, presented the results of a recent online survey her company conducted just last month with 454 (helicopter) parents. Results were just released last Saturday, so this is fresh from the oven. What she said confirms what most of the people working in admissions have […]

Get the report about the state of advertising and sponsorship in print and electronic higher ed publications

June 3rd, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

Some of you might remember that a few weeks ago I conducted an online survey to find out if and how paid advertising and sponsorship are used in magazines and newsletters published by universities and colleges. A total of 110 professionals working in institutions representing more than 1.5 million students completed this online survey between […]

Admissions Offices spend twice more of their budget on print than on electronic student recruitment methods

May 2nd, 2008 Karine Joly 16 Comments

Exactly 10.6% on Web site and other electronic formats (e.g., e-mail, text messaging) and 24.1% on printed materials (e.g., viewbooks, brochures, letters) according to The Chronicle Survey of Undergraduate Admissions Officers published in its May 2 issue. The survey results which are only available to subscribers of the print or digital versions (but if you […]

Interested in the state of paid advertising in print and electronic publications from higher ed institutions? Take the online survey now to receive the results with an executive summary highlighting best practices!

April 22nd, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

I’ve put together a short online survey to find out if and how paid advertising and sponsorship are used in magazines and newsletters published by universities and colleges. The results of this survey will be used for a study I’m conducting on this topic and a future article. This online survey should take you 3 […]

Targeting the prospective student of the future? Add a strong Web component to your TV mix

March 13th, 2008 Karine Joly 9 Comments

Today’s kids are tomorrow’s prospective college students, right? That’s why “The Kids’ Social Networking Study,” a study conducted by Grunwald Associates LLC and released earlier this week, could be particularly interesting as higher ed institutions start to work on their next marketing strategy to face the upcoming decrease in the prospective student pool. The study […]

Need some backup to explain why you can’t afford to ignore Facebook or YouTube?

February 27th, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Just forward this article published yesterday in the eMarketer newsletter (but hurry, these are usually only accessible for a limited-time only): “Student Noses Buried in Facebooks”. According to Youth Trends’ February 2008 “Top Ten List Report,” Facebook and YouTube are included in the top 3 picks for favorite websites – ahead of Google – named […]

eduStyle will keep you updated about the state of higher ed web (re)designs

November 2nd, 2007 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Benchmarking is the name of the game in higher education. No matter the type of projects you plan to work on, you (or your boss) will always need to see what’s done in others institutions. Website (re)designs are no exception to this rule, and that’s why eduStyle, the website that aims to provide inspiration for […]

Live from HighEdWebDev 2007: Designing Compelling User Experiences

October 17th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Yesterday morning, Beck Tench of Duke University lead an engaging presentation on new alternatives in strategic planning for the web. The session was covered by Jonathan Steffens. This is his third post. Beck begins the presentation posing a question: “what makes a user experience compelling” and humbly admits that she does not have the answer, […]