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 […]
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June 2007 University Business column: “A Second Life for Higher Education?”
My third UB column for 2007 is now available in the June issue as well as online: “A Second Life for Higher Education?” If you are a University Business reader who has just discovered collegewebeditor.com, welcome! Don’t forget to subscribe to this blog via RSS or email. If you have any questions or feedback about […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education goes 2.0 with online video reports by Jeffrey Young
In a previous post titled “Professor Wesch from KSU featured in a great video report from The Chronicle,” I raved about the first online video report produced by Jeffrey Young, Web Editor at The Chronicle: Produced by Jeffrey R. Young, the video report does an excellent job presenting Professor Wesch’s work at KSU as well […]
Register now for “Admissions Blogging 360,” a 3-webinar series on July 18, 25 & 31 featuring Nancy Prater (Ball State University), Ben Jones (MIT) and Sam Jackson
I knew admissions-sponsored blogging was a hot topic when I originally asked Nancy Prater and Ben Jones if they would present a webinar to share their experience and know-how. What I didn’t know is that both would be quoted extensively in an Associated Press story written by Andrew Welsh-Huggins and published in many newspapers and […]
Straight from flickr to uvic.ca: The University of Victoria features student photos selected by a panel of faculty members on its website homepage
I’m currently doing some research for an upcoming feature article to be published in the Canadian publication, University Affairs, which explains why I’ve spent some quality time lately with the websites of a few Canadian institutions. As I was looking for contact information, I noticed a photo at the bottom of the right column of […]
Professor Wesch from KSU featured in a great video report from The Chronicle
The Chronicle of Higher Education offers a great video report this morning on his blog as part of a post titled “An Anthropologist Explores Video Blogging.” Produced by Jeffrey R. Young, the video report does an excellent job presenting Professor Wesch’s work at KSU as well as his famous YouTube video about Web 2.0. Too […]
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, […]
Higher Ed TV: “We are Virginia Tech” and “What does it mean to be a Hokie” from Bryce Carter, VT student and blogger
For “Hokie Hope,” an alumni-led declaration of a national “Orange and Maroon Effect” day, I added a few touch of maroon to this blog’s emblematic orange (removed after April 20). As regular readers know, I started to review higher ed YouTube videos a few months ago. Before the Virginia Tech Tragedy, the university had started […]
Virginia Tech Tragedy: Evaluating VT Web crisis communication plan
Inside Higher Ed is running this morning a must-read piece for communication professionals titled “Evaluating the Response.” Written by Andy Guess, this article reviews the tragic events from a crisis communication standpoint, provides a link to the University Relations crisis communication plan (last updated in February 2002) used Monday, and offers some light on the […]
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 […]
UAB puts a human face on research with its Antarctica 2.0 website
Spring might be upon us, but some folks at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have really their mind more focused on ice, snow and Web 2.0. To promote their research team’s expedition at Palmer Station Antarctica, they launched, earlier this month, a dedicated website called “UAB in Antarctica” that uses a lot of Web […]
How higher ed journalists use the Web: Peggy Berkowitz, editor of University Affairs
While I tend to focus my posts on US higher ed institutions, I know that more and more readers actually work at Canadian universities and colleges. That’s why I’ve decided to interview for this series about higher ed media Peggy Berkowitz, the editor of University Affairs published in print and online by the Association of […]
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