Archive for the ‘Video’ Category

Need help to launch your online video initiative this Fall (or later)? Register by Friday for “Lights, Camera, Action – How to Add Online Videos to Your Marketing Mix”

August 29th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

I’ve already posted a couple of times about this 3-webinar series about online videos scheduled on September 11, 12 and 13 (with the 50% discount for HEE members, the total price for the webinars is just $150 – more information is available at www.higheredexperts.com/onlinevideos) I designed for Higher Ed Experts, so this is just a […]

Higher Ed TV: Dickinson President on the record about the US News and World Report College Rankings… on YouTube

August 16th, 2007 Karine Joly 2 Comments

I’ve already written about college presidents who blogged. I even interviewed Michael Crow, ASU president, when he started his blog: The President Post. However, this is the first time I stumbled upon a president vlogging (or video blogging) on YouTube… and Dickinson College‘s President Durden does a pretty good job at it in “Dickinson takes […]

NCSU launches its redesigned-by-the-book website

August 14th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Well, the official switch to the new redesign is scheduled for tomorrow, but Jason Simon, Director of Creative Services at NC State University, sent an email to share the good news. I wanted to make you aware because it encompasses a lot of the things you have been talking about lately. In particular, we have […]

3 questions to a higher ed blogger: Drew Stephens, Web designer at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, from “College Web Guy”

August 13th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Web designer at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Drew Stephens was one of my guest bloggers at EduWeb in Baltimore last month. Since his blog, “College Web Guy,” showed up on my technorati radar a couple of months ago, I enjoyed his great posts. I even gave Drew a few tips to help […]

August 2007 University Business column: “Lights, Camera, YouTube, Action!”

August 6th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

My fourth UB column for 2007 is now available in the August issue as well as online: “Lights, Camera, YouTube, Action!” 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. You might also be interested in an upcoming 3-webinar series […]

Higher Ed TV: “College Scene Investigation” from USC Aiken, a great way to promote student life activities

August 5th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

It looks like The University of South Carolina Aiken has given the keys to some of its current students to produce a very good series of YouTube videos. I don’t plan to attend college soon, but I got hooked watching the first 4 episodes of “CSI at USC Aiken” – aka College Scene Investigation – […]

Take the Higher Ed Experts’ “I-can-get-my-institution-to-the-top” Challenge!

August 3rd, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

So, it’s Friday, and I got one of those crazy ideas after posting Higher Ed Experts’ Preliminary College Rankings this morning. Find out more about the challenge by watching this 37-second video (more like a slide show with music, actually) I’ve just put togehter: Let’s have some fun for a change!

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

July 25th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

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 […]

Almost Live from EduWeb 2007 in Baltimore: Flash Video for your Institution

July 25th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Webmaster at Mars Hill College, Andy Mrozkowski presented a session titled “Flash video for Your Institution” yesterday in Baltimore. Andy will actually present at ” Lights, Camera, Action – How to Add Online Videos to Your Marketing Mix, ” a 3-webinar series in September I designed for Higher Ed Experts (For more info, go to […]

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 […]

Higher Ed Experts: 3 new professional development series – a total of 11 webinars – are open for registration

July 18th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

I’ve been working on these 3 new webinar series for a while now, and I hope you’ll find these 3 programs (11 webinars in total) by Higher Ed Experts interesting and useful for you, your team and your institution: Lights, Camera, Action – How to Add Online Videos to Your Marketing Mix September 11, 12, […]

Higher Ed TV: Great and funny YouTube video to promote BlackBoard Conference to SecondLife aficionados

July 5th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

I usually don’t cover vendor-related news, but BlackBoard has really done a nice job using YouTube to promote an upcoming conference to a specific audience while surfing on a very popular phenomenon, i.e. the growing popularity of Second Life in academic technology circles. I came across this video titled “Adventures in First Life Redux” on […]

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

July 4th, 2007 Karine Joly 1 Comment

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 […]

Not enough budget to run an ad campaign on TV? Google pay-per-view video ads might be the answer

June 6th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

I’m currently working on a Google Ad campaign for my institution. The last Google ad campaign for the college’s adult education programs was run in 2005. It was really successful for some programs (accelerated certification for teachers), less for others. As a result, it has been a while since I spend some quality time in […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education goes 2.0 with online video reports by Jeffrey Young

May 17th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

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 […]

Professor Wesch from KSU featured in a great video report from The Chronicle

May 8th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

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 […]