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 […]
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Higher Ed TV: Yale’s “Senior Gift in a Box” – Fundraising YouTube-style
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 […]
Why should university alumni associations blog? Because… it works
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!
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
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 […]