Archive for the ‘Website Stakeholders’ Category

Virginia Tech Tragedy: Crisis unfolding on the website homepage

April 17th, 2007 Karine Joly 5 Comments

Yesterday I posted a screenshot of the homepage of the university website when I heard the news — only early in the afternoon as I was working on deadlines far away from any news sources. This morning I was able to retrieve an early version time stamped at 9:58 AM from Google’s cache. I’ll try […]

Virginia Tech Tragedy: Crisis communication on the university website homepage

April 16th, 2007 Karine Joly 2 Comments

I’ve just read about the news… on a listserv. I worked on deadlines all morning and ate lunch in front of my computer far away from any news. In the listserv message, there was just a mention of a crazy event with 22 dead including students (33 according to the latest reports) at Virginia Tech, […]

5 rules to market your university to prospective students using Facebook, MySpace and other social networking websites

April 14th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

As I explain in my April column for University Business, “Facebook, MySpace, and Co.”, a few institutions have started to market themselves on MySpace or Facebook. This can be done, but it’s very important to follow what I call “the five basic rules of engagement:” Know whom you are dealing with. Read the terms of […]

Should higher ed institutions use social networking websites? Answers from Sam Jackson, member of the Yale Class of 2011

April 12th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Earlier this year, I conducted several email interviews to prepare my column about social networking websites for the April 2007 issue of University Business: “Facebook, MySpace, and Co.” Sam Jackson, a high school senior who blogged his college admission process at The Sam Jackson College Experience, was admitted to Yale last December and started to […]

Should higher ed institutions use social networking websites? Answers from Fred Stutzman, Facebook expert

April 9th, 2007 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Earlier this year, I conducted several email interviews to prepare my column about social networking websites for the April 2007 issue of University Business: “Facebook, MySpace, and Co.” Fred Stutzman, a Ph.D. student in Information Science at UNC, is a recognized expert in social networking websites who also blogs at Unit Structure. After reading Fred’s […]

April 2007 University Business column: “Facebook, MySpace, and Co.”

April 4th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

My second UB column for 2007 is now available in the April issue as well as online: “Facebook, MySpace, and Co.” 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 blog […]

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 TV: UNL’s RealNebraska (Part 2), from online videos to the TODAY show

March 29th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Don’t worry, I don’t plan to run a five-part series on RealNebraska, the video show produced by the admission office of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. But, I HAD to tell you about this. David Burge, the host of the show and the associate director for admissions at UNL, posted a comment to my […]

(How) Should higher ed institutions use MySpace? Get answers from the higher ed MySpace advocate: Heather Mansfield, Web editor at Drury University

March 28th, 2007 Karine Joly 4 Comments

My next column about social networking websites will soon be published in the April issue of University Business. I wrote it a couple of months ago before having a chance to discover a very interesting MySpace page (with 883 friends at the time of this posting): the Colleges and Universities MySpace. Heather Mansfield, Web editor […]

Vassar College offers on-demand tours of its SecondLife campus

March 24th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

I’m just back from a short and random tour of campuses in SecondLife. I typed “university” and “colleges” in the search engine of the application to see what any regular visitor will find. My journey took me to a few different places including the SL Island of Vassar College. On Vassar Island, a small but […]

Higher Ed TV: “RealNebraska” from UNL, an entertaining way to communicate with prospective students

March 23rd, 2007 Karine Joly 5 Comments

In November 2005, I wrote about this great show produced by the admission office of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. At that time, the episodes had just been made available as video podcasts a few weeks after the launch of the the video Ipod: It didn’t take too long to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln […]

SecondLife meets Voice Over IP: a promising voice chat test at NMC Campus

March 20th, 2007 Karine Joly 4 Comments

I’ve just spent a few minutes listening to lots of “Can you hear me, now?” at NMC Campus in SecondLife at the beginning of a stress test for SL integrated voice application. It’s supposed to be released in June. And, this was pretty exciting and very… clear. It sounded like a Skype conference call or […]

How universities and colleges communicate with their students’ (helicopter) parents

March 15th, 2007 Karine Joly 1 Comment

I’ve already posted about helicopter parents, this new breed of college parents. It’s difficult to ignore them when you work on a campus. And, we shouldn’t. Never has a generation of parents been so involved in their kids college life, which is why they have become one of our main target audiences (the fact that […]

CASE offers public access to my Currents article about Web 2.0 until April 15, 2007

March 13th, 2007 Karine Joly 6 Comments

I don’t know if Dennis Miller’s last post or Andrew Careaga’s ealier comment about the topic have helped make the case for open access I started when I submitted my final draft a few months ago. But, I’ve just heard from Andrea Gabrick, the CASE editor I worked with on my article about Web 2.0, […]

Campus Technology now offers news updates via RSS

March 6th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

With its new website redesign, Campus Technology has made the leap into the RSS age. The magazine targeted to higher ed IT and Web professionals now offers news and updates via an RSS feed. Go subscribe to it with your favorite RSS reader! Now, if only their newsletters had their own individual RSS feeds as […]

Higher Ed TV: Francis Ford Coppola on Hofstra University

March 5th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Did you know that Francis Ford Coppola graduated from Hofstra University, the largest private university on Long Island, New York? I didn’t. And, I had never studied this institution’s marketing initiatives before I discovered this interview of Francis Ford Coppola on YouTube – as any prospective students or parents (well, anybody actually, but you get […]