Archive for the ‘Target Audiences’ Category

Best Advice Ever for #HigherEd Web Pros

May 9th, 2018 Karine Joly No Comments

Creating, designing, developing, managing — and fixing higher ed websites is NOT an easy job. So, good advice is always welcome in the high ed web community. :-) That’s why I asked the 12 higher ed web professionals speaking at the 2018 Higher Ed WEBSITES Conference to share with us the best advice they’ve ever […]

2015 Students E-Expectations Ruffalo Noel-Levitz Report: Top insights for #highered & #hesm

July 1st, 2015 Karine Joly 51 Comments

The results of the brand new Ruffalo Noel-Levitz report on the E-expectations of college bound seniors and juniors (n=3,052) will be officially released next Wednesday in Boston. But, I managed this year again to get a preview of these results – before anybody else – courtesy of Stephanie Geyer from RNL who will present the […]

Anatomy of the Perfect #highered Email Pitch: @USC #SelfieClass News Release

May 5th, 2015 Karine Joly 8 Comments

Most Email Press Releases S*ck Pitching stories to editors, reporters or bloggers is a difficult art. I know, because, as many news professionals, hundreds of bad examples end up in my email box every month. So, when a press release actually manages to get me to explore the story it pitches, that’s not only an […]

Millennials, Generation Z and Getting Ready for Generation A+ in #highered

February 11th, 2015 Karine Joly 14 Comments

This post is #7 in a series of 10 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this blog while looking back at the past decade in higher ed digital marketing and communications. Millennials, Generation Y or Net Generation No matter how you call them, when they arrived on campus a bit more than 10 years, the […]

Using Social Media to Connect with #highered International Students: Lessons Learned & Tips from UCA

November 14th, 2014 Karine Joly 8 Comments

Social rhymes with International While working on the program of the 2nd Higher Ed Social Media Conference (now available on-demand), I had the chance of seeing some very cool social media initiatives – including Jon Stansel’s great work. Jon Stansel (@jsstansel), International Communication Manager at the University of Central Arkansas, has used social media to […]

How to use graduation ceremony to attract more #highered students: @SNHU newest TV ad campaign

June 24th, 2014 Karine Joly 10 Comments

Graduation: that’s why they all sign up for, right? Most institutions of higher education have focused on the college experience and the associated value they provide to students in their recruitment and branding efforts. For traditional college-aged students, it makes sense to sell the experience: the beautiful campus, the state-of-the-art gym, the campus life, the […]

Suffolk 365: An innovative integrated #hesm campaign to reach out to alums, students & more

February 24th, 2014 Karine Joly 2 Comments

We live in a world of multiple media, channels, audiences, goals, publishers and so on. Unfortunately, it’s very rare to find anything truly unique today – except maybe time, the time you can spend investing on your marketing and communication initiatives. This is probably the only thing that has NOT gone through the multiplication process […]

A new job for your #highered school mascot?

February 20th, 2014 Karine Joly No Comments

Everybody is supposed to multitask now, right? And, it looks like university mascots might also be on this slippery slope… ;-) Has Marquette University started a movement? As reported by Joe Kuffner last month, Marquette University and its official mascot, Golden Eagle, scored big time in January by hand delivering letters of admissions to a […]

2013 E-Expectations NL Report: Top 7 most interesting findings for #highered

July 16th, 2013 Karine Joly No Comments

The brand new Noel-Levitz report on the E-expectations of college bound seniors and juniors has been released this morning. I had the opportunity to review it several times as Stephanie Geyer from Noel-Levitz emailed me a copy of the final report a couple of weeks ago after I promised (crossed my heart and everything) to […]

Is Instagram the new #hesm campus press release platform in #highered?

May 28th, 2013 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Hashtags FTW Ah, the power of hashtags… They made Twitter by allowing total strangers with common interests to connect on the 140-character social media platform. Instagram and Pinterest have used them since day 1, LinkedIn has adopted them and it looks like Facebook should be next. In higher ed, they were front and center in […]

Email marketing for #highered: 3 issues to keep in mind

May 13th, 2013 Karine Joly 1 Comment

In higher ed, we like to think that we’re special, that what applies to other industries doesn’t work for us. Sometimes it’s the case. Sometimes it isn’t. Higher ed has always had a love-hate relationship with email marketing. We use and abuse it without always understanding its core strengths, limits and associated risks. Greg Rubenstein, […]

1-1-1 Book Review: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg

April 5th, 2013 Karine Joly 11 Comments

I read my fair share of books about digital marketing, web design, content strategy, social media, business and communication. If a non-fiction book doesn’t fall into these pre-defined reading buckets, it usually won’t cross my path. But, it’s been impossible to ignore Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, since […]

5 #highered academic program pages that work

March 13th, 2013 Karine Joly 2 Comments

As I explained in a previous post, I truly believe academic program web pages matter more than ever and should be designed as the product pages they are for our industry. The importance of these web pages has been widely recognized when it comes to adult and online students, but academic program pages are also […]

Why your academic program web pages matter more than ever in #highered

February 20th, 2013 Karine Joly 18 Comments

Beyond the Homepage If you take care of websites in higher education, you’ve noticed we’ve had an unhealthy fascination for the past few years with website homepages (and their sliders or banners ;-), content management systems, a myriad of social media channels, mobile websites and more recently the wonderful world of responsive design. No surprise […]

The ultimate social endorsement platform for #highered programs?

December 14th, 2012 Karine Joly No Comments

Universities and colleges have always relied on alums and current students to show prospective students the value of the education to be received. As a result, alums and current students are often invited to help their alma mater by talking to prospective students at special events, profiled on the institutional website or in admissions publications, […]

Register for your #highered Halloween treat: a FREE presentation of #heweb12 best of conference session by @amandaesque

October 23rd, 2012 Karine Joly No Comments

Working with Faculty and the Web 101 Unless you’ve been living under a rock or burried in a pile of work, you’ve probably heard that Amanda Costello (@amandaesque), Web Content Strategist at the University of Minnesota, won this year’s the “best of conference” award at the heweb12 conference in Milwaukee, WI. Amanda gave her talk,”I […]