Archive for the ‘Website Stakeholders’ Category

Should institutions keep printing Alumni Magazines?

June 2nd, 2008 Karine Joly 5 Comments

Chances are you’ve already read this article published today in the New York Times: College Alumni Magazines Struggle to Compete With Facebook. The article written by Cate Doty doesn’t provide any breaking news as higher ed blogger D.W. noted in her post published earlier today: News of the Obvious: Younger Alumni Turn to Facebook Versus […]

Cast your vote for the eduStyle CollegeWebEditor.com Best Institutional and Students Blogs Awards by May 31st

May 26th, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

Have you voted for the best institutional and student blogs eduStyle Collegewebeditor.com awards? Not yet? This (long) post composed of 4 interviews should help. Recently, I’ve contacted the people in charge of the 6 nominated blogs and asked a few questions to help you learn more about these blogs and cast your vote. Out of […]

Higher Ed TV: LonelyGirl15 meets Real Nebraska’s David Burge with “That Bauer Girl” from the CT Bauer College of Business

May 22nd, 2008 Karine Joly 3 Comments

It looks like higher ed Youtube videos are really starting to become a genre. This new video series I’m posting about today really reminds me of Real Nebraska – presented by David Burge – with a twist. Here, the host isn’t a bald funny guy (no offense, David), but Veronica, a student whose long brown […]

Higher Ed Bloggers edit and fact check the Chronicle of Higher Education

May 7th, 2008 Karine Joly 4 Comments

Yes, you’ve read my headline correctly: bloggers editing and fact checking the main media outlet covering higher education in the US. So, what do I mean exactly? In the past weeks, two posts from two different higher ed bloggers have questioned some of the facts reported in two different articles published by the Chronicle. Andy […]

Admissions Offices spend twice more of their budget on print than on electronic student recruitment methods

May 2nd, 2008 Karine Joly 16 Comments

Exactly 10.6% on Web site and other electronic formats (e.g., e-mail, text messaging) and 24.1% on printed materials (e.g., viewbooks, brochures, letters) according to The Chronicle Survey of Undergraduate Admissions Officers published in its May 2 issue. The survey results which are only available to subscribers of the print or digital versions (but if you […]

Higher Ed Experts Update: The registration deadline for the “911 Website” webinar has been postponed to Friday May 2, 2008 at 9PM ET.

April 29th, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

This morning, I received two emails asking if it was still possible to register for the May 7 webinar about crisis/emergency websites presented by Mike Dame from Virginia Tech (the initial registration deadline was yesterday). As a result, I decided to postpone the registration deadline until this Friday (May 2) at 9PM ET. If you […]

Interested in the state of paid advertising in print and electronic publications from higher ed institutions? Take the online survey now to receive the results with an executive summary highlighting best practices!

April 22nd, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

I’ve put together a short online survey to find out if and how paid advertising and sponsorship are used in magazines and newsletters published by universities and colleges. The results of this survey will be used for a study I’m conducting on this topic and a future article. This online survey should take you 3 […]

US News Report launches its Facebook app for students applying to graduate school: Gradzilla

April 18th, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Quick post with some “breaking news.” The US News & World Report has just launched its Facebook application — as announced 2 months ago on this blog. Go have a look and let us know what you think.

Thinking about outsourcing email and other apps at your institution? Submit your questions for the main players, Google and Microsoft

April 14th, 2008 Karine Joly 1 Comment

Sorry for my light blogging, but I have been working on a few projects lately… and something had to give. One of these projects is a feature-long article for the August issue of University Business (it’s due June 1st – it’s a magazine, not a blog ;-) about email outsourcing in higher education. If you […]

It’s 2008 – almost a year after the Virginia Tech Tragedy: Is Your 911 Website Ready?

April 4th, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

My second UB column for 2008 is now available in the April issue as well as online: “It’s 2008: Is Your 911 Website Ready?” When I wrote this article, my goal was to give you a good piece of third-party validation (hey, you can even print the article so it looks like it was xeroxed […]

The State of Higher Ed Podcasting in the US: Thoughts, links and a recording

April 2nd, 2008 Karine Joly 6 Comments

I had a very interesting experience this morning presenting a session about higher ed podcasting in the US to a room full of people at the University of Warwick in the UK. No long flight or dreadful jet lag required (but no nice sightseeing in the UK either :-). I did my presentation using WebEx […]

Targeting the prospective student of the future? Add a strong Web component to your TV mix

March 13th, 2008 Karine Joly 9 Comments

Today’s kids are tomorrow’s prospective college students, right? That’s why “The Kids’ Social Networking Study,” a study conducted by Grunwald Associates LLC and released earlier this week, could be particularly interesting as higher ed institutions start to work on their next marketing strategy to face the upcoming decrease in the prospective student pool. The study […]

Need some backup to explain why you can’t afford to ignore Facebook or YouTube?

February 27th, 2008 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Just forward this article published yesterday in the eMarketer newsletter (but hurry, these are usually only accessible for a limited-time only): “Student Noses Buried in Facebooks”. According to Youth Trends’ February 2008 “Top Ten List Report,” Facebook and YouTube are included in the top 3 picks for favorite websites – ahead of Google – named […]

Higher Ed Experts Update: The registration deadline for the “Facebook Apps 101 and Beyond” webinar series has been postponed to Thursday February 28, 2008 at 8PM ET.

February 26th, 2008 Karine Joly No Comments

This morning, I received a few emails asking if it was still possible to register for the March 4-6 webinar series about Facebook applications (the initial registration deadline was yesterday). As a result, I decided to postpone the registration deadline until this Thursday (Feb 28) at 8PM ET. If you want to learn more on […]

U.S. News & World Report to launch a Facebook application in March

February 18th, 2008 Karine Joly 3 Comments

According to a tip from a reader, I should be able to add a new entry to my higher ed facebook application directory soon. If this email from US News & World Report (that was forwarded to me this morning) is to be believed, this application will be launched along with a Facebook page for […]

Northern Illinois University: Another tragedy unfolding on the website homepage

February 15th, 2008 Karine Joly 5 Comments

By now, you’ve heard the news: a gun man shot 22 people yesterday at Northern Illinois University. Seven Six – including the gunman – died. All my prayers go to the families and friends of the victims as well as to the whole campus community at Northern Illinois University. There are some blog posts I […]