Archive for the ‘Facebook’ 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 […]

7-step plan to Social Media Measurement for Higher Ed Institutions

October 2nd, 2009 Karine Joly 5 Comments

My new UB column is now available in the October issue as well as online: “Social Media Measurement 101: A seven-step plan to set up (and benefit from) a simple social measurement program “ Here are the 7 steps: 1. Define measurable goals for social media activities. 2. Choose key performance indicators (KPIs) carefully. 3. […]

Higher Ed TV: How to promote academic programs with online videos

September 2nd, 2009 Karine Joly 3 Comments

Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business has used online videos to promote its Graduate Program in Business Administration with great success. I stumbled upon this mini-series composed of 4 different YouTube videos last week and found it very compelling. What I like about these videos is their punch, simple call-to-action (go to the website) […]

Want to learn how to write right for the Web including Blogs, Facebook and Twitter? Register by next Monday for this 2-webinar series

April 20th, 2009 Karine Joly No Comments

The registration deadline for the “Writing Right for the Web” 2-webinar series scheduled on May 5 and 6, 2009 is now approaching fast. For more info and to register, you can visit www.higheredexperts.com/writingright This series features 2 speakers who have mastered the art and craft of Web writing: Tim Nektriz from SUNY Oswego and Mary […]

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 […]

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 […]

Has “FacebookGate” scared your Admissions team? Register by Friday January 9 for Social Networks MBA Webinar Series to learn about social networking alternatives to Facebook

January 5th, 2009 Karine Joly No Comments

Unless you were already on vacations or enjoying your office holiday party, you’ve probably heard about what some (and according to my sources, Andrew Careaga was the first to coin that term) have called “FacebookGate” A few days before Christmas, Brad Ward uncovered, on his blog, a scheme perpetuated by College Prowler and another company […]

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 […]

Top 10 most viewed posts (published in 2008) on collegewebeditor.com

December 15th, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

It’s that time of the year to reflect about what was done (and written) during the last 12 or so months. In the past (in 2005, 2006 but not last year though), I compiled a few lists of blog posts for you. So, here is another one: the list of the top 10 most viewed […]

AMA Symposium: Get the stats on the role of social media in college choice

November 18th, 2008 Karine Joly 4 Comments

This session is presented by Richard Hesel from the Art & Science Group. Why this research? studentPOLL is quarterly survey done since 1994 about different issues with a national sample. Now, sample is done through The College Board and their SAT takers database. 90% of every college-bound students visits social networking websites (97% of African […]

AMA Symposium: Carnegie Mellon University 2.0 with a web redesign, viral videos, blogs, facebook application and the Pausch Effect

November 17th, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

This session is presented by Marilyn Kail, AVP of Marketing and Communications and Jay Brown, Director of Marketing for Web Communications. First, CMU started with web 1.0 by doing a homepage redesign with a content management implementation. The old design was done in the mid-90’s and… it showed. The new design breaks with the traditional […]

Blogs aren’t dead… even in this Twitter age

November 11th, 2008 Karine Joly 14 Comments

For the past few days I’ve been busy wrapping up my presentation for the marathon 4-hour workshop I’ll give this Sunday at the AMA Symposium for Higher Education. And, I can report that blogs aren’t dead or “so 2004” as Paul Boutin would love his readers to believe after scanning his Wired article published on […]

Introducing “Catch up-Date with Karine” – EduWeb, Virtual Visit, Facebook & LinkedIn

September 2nd, 2008 Karine Joly 6 Comments

Lately, I’m suffering from a very bad case of information overload. So many things to read… So many things to comment on… So many things to blog about… It has become more and more difficult to keep up with all the interesting initiatives, discussions and happenings taking place in higher ed. That’s why I’ve decided […]

The University of Maryland is working on a social networking application to be used in case of emergencies

August 25th, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

That’s what I’ve learned this morning by reading “Emergency Alerts via Facebook and MySpace Are New Ways to Reach Students,” an article written by Jeffrey Young from the Chronicle of Higher Education. A group of researchers at the [University of Maryland at College Park] is also working to build a prototype of a homemade social […]

Writing a Facebook Application in 5 days is hard. Can you help the University of Bath Web Services team?

August 20th, 2008 Karine Joly 3 Comments

The University of Bath Web Services team didn’t expressively request any help, but if any higher ed web developer can provide some tips, it looks like it would be more than welcome as Phil Wilson hints in this blog post: So, two days in, and dealing with FBML, the Facebook API and the low quality […]

Share your secret behind your higher ed community success

July 23rd, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

When I was asked to present the closing keynote at eduWeb 2008 last October, I said to myself: “this is great! For the first time in my life, I’m 100% sure I will have the last word ;-)” Then, when I picked my topic, “It’s the community, Stupid! 7-step plan to raise and nurture any […]