Archive for the ‘Facebook’ Category
April 12th, 2007
Karine Joly
Earlier this year, I conducted several email interviews to prepare my column about social networking websites for the April 2007 issue of University Business: “Facebook, MySpace, and Co.†Sam Jackson, a high school senior who blogged his college admission process at The Sam Jackson College Experience, was admitted to Yale last December and started to […]
April 9th, 2007
Karine Joly
Earlier this year, I conducted several email interviews to prepare my column about social networking websites for the April 2007 issue of University Business: “Facebook, MySpace, and Co.†Fred Stutzman, a Ph.D. student in Information Science at UNC, is a recognized expert in social networking websites who also blogs at Unit Structure. After reading Fred’s […]
April 4th, 2007
Karine Joly
My second UB column for 2007 is now available in the April issue as well as online: “Facebook, MySpace, and Co.†If you are a University Business reader who has just discovered collegewebeditor.com, welcome! Don’t forget to subscribe to this blog via RSS or email. If you have any questions or feedback about the blog […]
March 24th, 2007
Karine Joly
I’m always looking for innovative practices to showcase on this blog. This past week I exchanged a few emails with Phil de Haan, director of media relations at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. We talked about how we use social networking websites such as Facebook and Linkedin. In his email, Phil explained how he […]
March 21st, 2007
Karine Joly
Chances are you’ve heard about (or suffered from ;-) the dreaded website redesign by committee: a group of stakeholders making life and death decisions on the design created by the Web team or the external agency. With the help of usability advocates like Steve Krug, more and more institutions have tried to balance this approach […]
February 27th, 2007
Karine Joly
After releasing its API – Application Programming Interface – in beta 6 month ago, Facebook has just announced this week the launch of FQL: Facebook Query Language. I’m sure the developers, programmers and database administrators among the readers will have noticed – with reason – the name similarity with the infamous SQL, the Structured Query […]
January 30th, 2007
Karine Joly
As announced earlier this morning, the Division of Student Affairs at NC State held, this afternoon, a very interesting panel discussion titled “The Facebook Phenomenon.” The 2-hour webcast was really good (kudos to the AV, IT and Web teams!) and will be available online later this week. In the meantime, you can have a look […]
January 30th, 2007
Karine Joly
If you have a bit of time this afternoon (or can multi-task in front of your computer), make sure you watch the 2-hour webcast of “The Facebook Phenomenon,” a panel talk organized by the division of Student Affairs at NC State University and scheduled to start at 2PM ET: Facebook. MySpace. Friendster. These social networking […]
January 10th, 2007
Karine Joly
Facebook has just introduced its mobile service: “Facebook was invented to make sharing information with your friends easier and better. Mobile phones were invented for pretty much the same reason. People needed an easier and better way to get in touch with each other, and mobile phones made it happen. We pondered this for a […]
January 8th, 2007
Karine Joly
Long time, no post. So, first let me wish you a happy new year. According to “Social Networking Websites and Teens: An Overview,” the latest Pew Internet Research Project Data Memo published yesterday, it looks like 2007 could be the year of the social networking websites. I know I’ve been saying it for a while, […]
October 31st, 2006
Karine Joly
Facebook has just released a new feature called “Share Links.” This was announced on the Facebook Blog a few hours ago: “Starting today, there are links to share on Facebook planted all across the Internet, from the articles at Time to the videos at Photobucket. The idea is that when you’re reading or watching something […]
September 1st, 2006
Karine Joly
Just saw the news on Sam Jackson‘s blog (who reads religiously TechCrunch, so you don’t have to ;-) YouTube has just launched a “private” channel dedicated to college videos indexed by institutions. “Want to see the highlights of last weekend’s game (or last night’s party)? It’s easier than ever to share videos with friends at […]
August 23rd, 2006
Karine Joly
A few institutions have started to integrate social networking websites in their marketing mix: The University of Florida has started to buy online advertising on the Facebook to promote some of its graduate programs to a targeted audience of undergrads. The Park School of Communication at Ithaca College has launched its myspace page for its […]
Higher Ed Jobs