Archive for the ‘Surveys & Metrics’ Category

Higher Ed Publications: Demand Print or Print On-Demand?

My fifth UB column for 2007 is now available in the October issue as well as online: “Demand Print or Print On Demand?” For a reason unknown to me, the online resource box of the column is offered as a graphic file instead of the usual link list. So, here are these links for your […]

Find out about the state of print and electronic publications in more than 200 institutions

Last July, I launched an online survey about the state of print and electronic publications in higher education to help me with two projects of mine: my column scheduled for the October issue of University Business a study I conducted for a big public university over the summer. When I asked you to take part […]

Higher Ed Experts Update: Stats and facts on how admissions offices use social media

I’m glad to introduce the first event of a new series called “30 minutes with a Higher Ed Expert.” The plan is to try to schedule one of those free online events per month. As regular readers might know I signed a yearly contract with WebEx for Higher Ed Experts, and I thought it would […]

Interested in Web CMS adoption in higher ed? Take UC Davis online survey!

Reader and HEE member Elliot Lopez, Project Manager for University Communications at UC Davis, has beaten me to the punch with his online survey about Web CMS in higher ed. This was indeed on my to-do list for September ;-) Anybody contemplating a CMS selection and implementation in higher education will kill for some fresh […]

Got the Internet, a computer and a cell phone? Don’t worry, be happy… like a teen

Just do like today’s teens… “Nearly two-thirds of the young people surveyed said they think that the Internet, instant messaging, cell phones and other technologies make people happier, and 61% said those things make them feel closer to their family,” said eMarketer senior analyst Debra Aho Williamson. But, the relationships between teenagers/young adults and technology […]

Need to make your case to get started with online videos at your institution?

The good folks at the Pew Internet and American Life Project have just made your life a bit easier by releasing today a new 28-page report about online videos. The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates between February 15 to March 7, 2007, among […]

61% of admissions offices use at least one form of social media

That’s one of the findings of “The Game Has Changed: College Admissions Outpace Corporations in Embracing Social Media,” the preliminary executive summary of a study conducted by 2 academics from the Center for Marketing Research of the University of Massachussets at Dartmouth: Nora Barnes, Ph.D. and Eric Mattson. This study is based on detailed interviews […]

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

I’ve put together a short online survey to get a better idea of the state of print and electronic publications in higher education. The results of this survey will be used for my next University Business column to be published in October 2007 and for a study Iâ€™m conducting on this topic. My goal is […]

47% of Internet users have enough bandwidth to watch your online videos at home

Just a quick post today for Independence Day in the US. According to a report about broadband usage released yesterday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 47% of Internet users had a high-speed connection to the Internet at home in March 2007 (vs. 42% in 2006 and 30% in 2005). The survey of […]

Does your institution put its advertising money where prospective students are?

If most of your advertising budget is spent on newspaper and magazine ads, probably not. That is if JupiterResearch, an independent firm providing research to the online industry, is right. According to one of its recent reports, published last week, “Media Consumption Patterns: Online Vies with TV As Primary Medium,” online users spend as much […]

4 questions to U.S. News & World Report about Morse Code, Robert Morse’s new blog about the college rankings

I first read about Morse Code, the new blog authored by Robert Morse, the director of data research for U.S. News & World Report behind the methodologies and surveys for the America’s Best Colleges annual rankings, on Andrew Careaga’s blog last Thursday. It appears that the blog was launched on May 15. As regular readers […]

How do adult Americans like their technology? Pew Internet Life & Project’s Typology of information technology users

The Pew Internet Life & Project has just published its latest report: “A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users.” It is based on the findings of a daily tracking survey on Americans’ use of the Internet, data gathered through telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates between February 15 and April 6, 2006, […]

How universities and colleges communicate with their students’ (helicopter) parents

I’ve already posted about helicopter parents, this new breed of college parents. It’s difficult to ignore them when you work on a campus. And, we shouldn’t. Never has a generation of parents been so involved in their kids college life, which is why they have become one of our main target audiences (the fact that […]

Are Australian freshmen really digital natives?

Georgina Hibberd, the soul of Templatedata, is back from her blog hiatus and writes about a very interesting study done the University of Melbourne in Australia: First year students’ experience with technology: are they really digital natives? This study of 2000 students was conducted in March 2006, during the first two weeks of their first […]