Archive for the ‘Surveys & Metrics’ Category

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 […]

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: How undergraduate and graduate prospective students use the Web in their school search

November 18th, 2008 Karine Joly 4 Comments

This session is presented by Young Shin, President of Princeton Review Marketing Services. 3rd annual national survey of webite use in undergraduate and graduate school search. Survey made during the active search (3hr/week) phase 20,000 students over past 3 years during winter. When did you start your search? Before 28% in junior year of HS […]

eduStyle/Uwebd/Higher Ed Experts/Collegewebeditor.com Survey: Answer a few questions and get a chance to win one of 6 cool prizes

October 1st, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Mark Greenfield, the driving force of the Uwebd social networking website, Stewart Foss, the owner of eduStyle and myself (I’m the Higher Ed Experts/Collegewebeditor.com person) have been working on a very special community initiative. Instead of polling our respective members in our own little corners of the Web, we agreed to launch a grouped survey […]

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 […]

Trying to make your case to start an online video initiative at your institution? 70% of young adults have visited video-sharing websites like YouTube

January 14th, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Ok, I know, my headlines are horribly long (and as a result so are my post URLS – hint: use tinyurl.com if you want to share a post with coworkers), but I promise there is a reason to this madness ;-) Anyway, I’m a bit late to the party as the survey report I’m writing […]

Check out the results from a survey about CMS in higher education

October 23rd, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

A couple of months ago, Elliot Lopez, Project Manager for University Communications at the University of California, Davis created a survey about CMS (as in Content Management System) in higher education. Elliot just emailed me to let me know that the results including answers from 129 institutions have just been published on his team blog: […]