Archive for the ‘Admission Office’ Category

Want a fresh take on the campus tour online video? Have a look at the University LipDub Project!

This is one of these posts I have to write as soon as possible. I was working on my weekly newsletter when I checked very quickly Twitter and saw this tweet from Mike Richwalsky about an online video: Twitter / Mike Richwalsky: Great 1-take video from UQAM. Great coordination + shooting. Mike knows online videos, […]

Find out how closed captioning can make a big difference for your online videos

Two days ago, I had the chance to attend the rehearsal of the webinar Glenda Sims will present on September 16: ADA-Compliant Web Videos 101: How to produce and publish online videos accessible to people with disabilities Glenda is a true accessibility champion. Her presentation does a great job at providing the reasons why accessible […]

Higher Ed TV: How to promote academic programs with online videos

Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business has used online videos to promote its Graduate Program in Business Administration with great success. I stumbled upon this mini-series composed of 4 different YouTube videos last week and found it very compelling. What I like about these videos is their punch, simple call-to-action (go to the website) […]

What to expect for the 2009 eduWeb Conference in Chicago

The 2009 eduWeb Conference will take place from July 20 to July 22 in Chicago, IL. Shelley Wetzel, the eduWeb conference founder and director, accepted to answer a few questions about this yearâ€™s conference (as she did in 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2005 – it’s a tradition. 1) Last year was the third edition of […]

Higher Ed TV: How the University of Minnesota got more than 1.5 million views in less than 2 months with one of their YouTube videos

I stumbled upon this YouTube blockbuster, the Science of Watchmen, just 2 days ago as I was browsing YouTube EDU. It’s not the most viewed university video of all time (Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture from Carnegie Mellon is with more than 9.5 million views), but this YouTube video produced by the University of Minnesota has […]

The registration deadline for the â€œAnalytics 360â€ webinars has been postponed to Friday March 20, 2009 at 9PM ET

Once again I found in my inbox a message from someone who wanted to register for the upcoming webinar series: â€œAnalytics 360â€³ (the initial registration deadline was yesterday at 9PM). As a result, I decided to postpone the registration deadline until next Friday (March 20, 2009) at 9PM ET. If you are trying to make […]

It’s the Community, Stupid! Take 2 at the CUPRAP Conference in Hersey, PA

I’m giving this presentation (an updated version of the keynote speech I gave at the eduWeb conference in July 2008) today (in about 30 minutes) at the CUPRAP conference. It’s the first part of a workshop about social media. Mike Richwalsky presents the second part. Here are my slides available on Slideshare: It’s the Community, […]

1-1-1 Express Book Review: The eduStyle Guide to Usable Higher Ed Homepage Design by Stewart, Cody and Andy Foss

First, let me start with a disclaimer: I’ve just received and browsed my electronic review copy of The eduStyle Guide to Usable Higher Ed Homepage Design (email arrived a bit before 6AM this morning). I knew it was supposed to be released any day now, but I had no clue when it would hit my […]

Try MyCollegeBlogger free for 4 months and without any custom set-up fee

This is the third installment of my new series dedicated to vendor deals and other bargains to help you survive and thrive with tighter budgets. After a very interesting offer to send up to 10,000 email per month for free for institutions with non-profit status and a discount on a conference fee for the next […]

More with Less: 7 ways to survive the budget crunch in higher education

My second UB column for 2009 is now available in the February issue as well as online (featured on the homepage of University Business today): “More with Less: 7 Ways to Survive the Budget Crunch” Here are the 7 ways/tips in a condensed form: Look more closely at your print publication budget Embrace (free) social […]

Go to the Xpert Summit in Las Vegas on February 26 & 27, 2009 for free

This is the second installment of my new series dedicated to vendor deals and other bargains to help you survive and thrive with tighter budgets. After the first installment about a very interesting offer to send up to 10,000 email per month for free for institutions with non-profit status, this time we’re talking about a […]

The registration deadline for the â€œSaving Bigâ€ webinars has been postponed to Friday January 30, 2009 at 9PM ET

Once again I found in my inbox this morning a message from someone who wanted to register for the upcoming webinar series: â€œSaving Bigâ€³ (the initial registration deadline was yesterday at 9PM). As a result, I decided to postpone the registration deadline until next Friday (January 30, 2009) at 9PM ET. Register for Saving Big […]

Facebook and other social networking websites now reach 35% of all online adults

Our good friends from the Pew Internet and American Life Project have just released a very interesting 17-page report about adults and social networks websites. The big news in this report is the increased interest shown by online adults for Facebook and Co according to the results of two different surveys done in May and […]

What strategies have you implemented to “save big” – or small – at your institution?

I’ll be hosting a 2-webinar series for Higher Ed Experts about this topic early next month presented by Joe Hice, AVP at the University of Florida and Rachel Reuben, Director of Web Communications at SUNY – New Paltz: Saving Big: Winning strategies to get better results even with a crunched budget: February 4 & 5, […]