Archive for the ‘Alumni’ Category

Live from HighEdWebDev 2007: Social Networking Software – Meeting the Expectations of the MySpace Generation

October 16th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Mark Heiman from Carleton College presented a session titled “Social Networking Software: Meeting the Expectations of the MySpace Generation.” The presentation was covered by one of this year’s guest blogger. This is Martine Lafleur’s second post. Mark Heiman’s presentation kept me on my toes with great graphics, just the right touch of cynicism and good […]

Trying to find out if/how your institution should use Facebook, MySpace or its own social networking application? Register by Monday for Social Networking Websites Week

September 20th, 2007 Karine Joly 1 Comment

I’ve already posted a couple of times about “Social Networking Websites Week – All You Ever Wanted to Know about MySpace, Facebook and Co,” a 5-webinar series scheduled on October 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (with the 50% discount for HEE members, the total price for the webinars is just $250 – more information […]

Higher Ed TV: Yale’s “Senior Gift in a Box” – Fundraising YouTube-style

July 24th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Dori Sonntag, who just started to blog at Inspired Annual Giving, found this pearl. The video is 2 minutes and 37 seconds and was produced by Yale students (Prep-Hop Productions) to promote their senior gift giving drive earlier this year. It’s actually a parody of a Saturday Night Life TV segment that got a lot […]

How to build your own social networking website for your institution? Follow Elon University’s example

June 11th, 2007 Karine Joly 9 Comments

While more and more universities and colleges are looking into the opportunities offered by the third-party social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook or by private social networking applications offered by vendors, Elon University has chosen a DIY approach. Over the course of 4 months, a team of four built what now looks like […]

Why should university alumni associations blog? Because… it works

April 4th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Executive Director of the Caltech Alumni Association at the California Institute of Technology, Andy Shaindlin started a blog, Alumni Futures, targeted to his professional peers last February. In a post titled “Should Alumni Associations Be Blogging?”, Andy dares alumni associations to get in blogging mode, because blogs are great community-building tools: Here’s an idea for […]

Higher Ed Web Developers, Get Ready to Code: Facebook API released!

August 17th, 2006 Karine Joly 5 Comments

As you know, about 110% of our students use Facebook, the social networking website targeted to college students. Students use it all the time and include a lot of information (sometimes too much) about themselves in their profiles. Facebook released its API – its development platform – in beta earlier this week as announced on […]

Live from HigherEdBlogCon: How to use the Facebook to keep in touch with your alumni

April 17th, 2006 Karine Joly No Comments

Thought Facebook was only for current or prospective students? Wrong. In their 43-minute screencast for HigherEdBlogCon, The Teeming Web, Bob Robertson-Boyd from Capital University and Dimitri Glazkov Estrada explain, among other things, how you should use the Facebook to keep in touch with your alums. As you know, most of your current students are already […]