Archive for the ‘Facebook’ Category

How to scale community management at a university: FIU Community Manager’s Weekly Videos

July 14th, 2011 Karine Joly No Comments

I’ve tweeted on several occasion about Betsy Soler’s YouTube videos. Betsy is the community manager in charge of social media at FIU and she hosts this video series. [blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/karinejoly/status/90758051757424640″] These weekly videos offer a review of FIU latest news and feature comments from students and other members of the community, comments posted during the […]

What can social media analytics do for #highered?

May 10th, 2011 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Measuring the return on investment (ROI) of social media initiatives isn’t easy – definitely far more difficult than using Facebook, Twitter and the likes. However, while 68% of the respondents to the second CASE survey on social media practices in higher education think measuring the ROI of their social media initiatives is tough, it’s not […]

Top 4 findings on the State of Social Media in #highered

April 19th, 2011 Karine Joly 1 Comment

Everybody wants to know how social media is doing in higher education lately (unless it is how higher ed is doing social media ;-) Slover Linett Strategies Inc., mStoner and CASE have just released the high-level results of their Second Comprehensive Study of Social Media Use by Schools, Colleges and Universities (you can find more […]

Share your favorite #highered facebook page to get a chance to win a $995 conference pass

March 15th, 2011 Karine Joly 16 Comments

UPDATE: Congratulations to Shane Donaldson from the University of Rhode Island! It’s Christmas in March (and not just because of the late snow some of us have seen last week)! You might not know it, but I always try to use the leverage I have in higher ed to get some cool prizes for you […]

Social Media Success Tip #1: Don’t toss the TOS

March 8th, 2011 Karine Joly 1 Comment

Have you ever read Facebook Terms of Services or promotion guidelines, Twitter Rules or LinkedIn User Dos and Don’ts? If you have, congratulations! You are among the (happy?) few. How can I be so sure? I regularly come across examples of institutions (and companies) conducting social media initiatives on these platforms in breach with these […]

Why #highered institutions should give infographics a second look

March 1st, 2011 Karine Joly 9 Comments

A picture is worth a thousand words. But, what about an infographic? Rumor has they might be worth millions of dollars – which is probably why they have multiplied like crazy for the past few months. A good one can get you featured on Mashable, the Holy Grail of online PR. It can result in […]

Lessons learned from Texas A&M University Social Media Scavenger Hunt

February 9th, 2011 Karine Joly 3 Comments

A couple of weeks ago, Texas A&M University ran an integrated (mashed up?) social media campaign on campus using not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 of the most popular social media platforms, namely Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Foursquare. When I watched the YouTube video announcing the campaign (on Patrick Powers’ blog), I was […]

What #highered can learn from the #MBteamS and @tsand social media win

February 5th, 2011 Karine Joly 11 Comments

Unless you haven’t been checking twitter this past few days, you must have heard about the MB Tweet Race that just took place. As I explained a couple of weeks ago on this blog, Todd Sanders (@tsand) from UW Green Bay took part in a social media campaign orchestrated by an automaker, a real race […]

Let’s show the power of the higher ed community!

January 25th, 2011 Karine Joly 8 Comments

Don’t think we can do it? Well, yes, we can. Thanks to Todd Sanders who works at the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay, we have a unique opportunity to do it very simply. We just need to rally this great community behind Todd and another member of our higher ed family, John Pederson, and […]

1-1-1 Express Book Review: “the facebook marketing book” by Dan and Alison Zarrella

January 21st, 2011 Karine Joly No Comments

It’s been awhile since my last 1-1-1 Express Book Review (see what it is in this post). Not that I stopped reading books all together, but something else always came in the way of writing these reviews. Anyway, I’m back at it. O’Reilly’s PR person sent me a pitch about the facebook marketing book by […]

Higher Ed Live: 30 minutes of weekly live streaming about the latest higher ed news and trends

September 13th, 2010 Karine Joly 3 Comments

Our little world of higher ed has finally its cable TV talk show – except it’s not on cable TV and it’s pretty good. It looks like Seth Odell (who works at UCLA and blogs at As Media Change) did it. After weeks of preparation Seth has launched a great new project: Higher Ed Live, […]

Higher Ed TV: Not your average library video tour by Juniata College

September 7th, 2010 Karine Joly 3 Comments

Last week Rick Stutz, Coordinator of E-Communications at Juniata College, emailed me to share the video tour that was created for his college’s library. This funny 4-minute video piqued my interest, so I decided to find out how it had been done. Rick Stutz, Nathan Wagoner, Director of the Digital Media Studio and John Mumford, […]

Trying to connect with high school students? Think mail, email, websites and Facebook!

July 14th, 2010 Karine Joly 6 Comments

The good folks of Noel-Levitz have just released their E-Expectations 2010 Report presenting the results of their latest survey of 1,005 college-bound high school students. This 12-page report is full of really great findings that should help you fine tune your student recruitment strategy. So, make sure you download the PDF file who is made […]

Get a chance to listen to the smartest academic in tech according to Fortune. Register for Dr. danah boyd’s master class by tomorrow!

July 12th, 2010 Karine Joly No Comments

I know this is a very long title for a short post, but what I can say… Last week Fortune released its list of the smartest people in tech in several categories. Dr danah boyd, who will present an online master class about the social media practices of young adults this Thursday for Higher Ed […]

Find out what the new Facebook Analytics Dashboard can do by watching 15 minutes of this video

June 8th, 2010 Karine Joly 1 Comment

You might have heard about it after Facebook developer conference, F8, back in April but the new Facebook Analytics dashboard was officially rolled out on all accounts a few hours ago. You can access it from www.facebook.com/insights. One of the really cool new feature is the possibility to add a bit of code to your […]

Want to learn more about the social media practices of young adults? Register your institution for Dr. danah boyd’s Master Class on July 15

June 2nd, 2010 Karine Joly No Comments

With all the current buzz around the professional use of Twitter, Facebook or YouTube in admissions, alum offices or institutions at large, it’s hard to believe that social media has been around in higher ed for 5 years or so. While MySpace isn’t the talk of the (campus) town anymore, it played an important role […]