Archive for the ‘President and VPs’ Category

Live from HighEdWebDev 2007: Making the case for resources for web services

October 15th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Martine Lafleur, one of this year’s guest bloggers, covered the session presented by Doug Ruschman from Xavier University: “Making the Case for Resources for Web Services. This is Martine’s first post. Doug Ruschman from Xavier University made a solid case for resources for web services in his presentation this afternoon. Drawing from his own experience: […]

5 tips to be better prepared for a campus emergency or crisis

September 28th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Even if you don’t take the time to read my last article about crisis communication (although you should), don’t ignore these 5 basic tips and share them with folks in charge of crisis communication at your institution: Make sure the chief communication officer of your institution is part of your emergency team. Include in your […]

A good primer about crisis communications 2.0 you can print

September 27th, 2007 Karine Joly 1 Comment

September isn’t over yet, but the month has already seen 2 shooting-related crises: Yesterday at St. John’s University in Queens, NY (the campus was locked down after a masked gunman was found on campus) Last Friday, 2 students were shot at Delaware State University. The good news is that lessons learned after the tragedy at […]

Higher Ed Experts Update: The registration deadline for Social Networking Websites Week, the 5-webinar series has been postponed to Thursday September 27, 2007 at 1PM ET.

September 25th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

After the registration deadline expired yesterday evening, I received a few emails asking if I could give people a bit more time to register for the October 1-5 webinar series about social networking websites: Social Networking Websites Week – All You Ever Wanted to Know about MySpace, Facebook and Co: October 1-5 2007 Social networking […]

CASE offers public and free access until October 31, 2007 to “Fear and Loathing in Web 2.0,” a great article about the Web 2.0 Denial Syndrome

September 19th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

As I mentioned in this previous post, “Don’t think the conversation is the message? Just look at how higher ed media have been going 2.0 lately,” I was interviewed last June by Andrea Jarrell: Anyway, “the conversation is the message” has come back at me this week in an email exchange with Andrea Jarrell. She’s […]

Find out about the state of print and electronic publications in more than 200 institutions

September 18th, 2007 Karine Joly 2 Comments

Last July, I launched an online survey about the state of print and electronic publications in higher education to help me with two projects of mine: my column scheduled for the October issue of University Business a study I conducted for a big public university over the summer. When I asked you to take part […]

Higher Ed Experts Update: Fred Stutzman quoted in this week’s cover story of Newsweek, “Facebook Grows Up”

August 22nd, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

After interviewing Fred Stutzman for my UB column about social networking websites, I invited him to present the first session of Social Networking Websites Week, the 5-webinar series I designed for Higher Ed Experts: October 1st, 2007 1PM-2PM ET Visa for MySpace and Facebook: do’s and don’t’s for higher ed institutions exploring the new social […]

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 […]

Live from EduWeb 2007 in Baltimore: How to delineate and implement a successful Web strategic plan

July 24th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Earlier today, Alberto Fernandez, Director of Web Strategy at Lynn University presented a session titled “It Can be Done: How to delineate and implement a successful Web strategic plan.” This is Lacey Updegraff’s third and last scheduled post. Alberto began by showing a video about how we are living in exponential times. You can get […]

Does your institution put its advertising money where prospective students are?

June 21st, 2007 Karine Joly 4 Comments

If most of your advertising budget is spent on newspaper and magazine ads, probably not. That is if JupiterResearch, an independent firm providing research to the online industry, is right. According to one of its recent reports, published last week, “Media Consumption Patterns: Online Vies with TV As Primary Medium,” online users spend as much […]

How to build your own social networking website for your institution? Follow Elon University’s example

June 11th, 2007 Karine Joly 9 Comments

While more and more universities and colleges are looking into the opportunities offered by the third-party social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook or by private social networking applications offered by vendors, Elon University has chosen a DIY approach. Over the course of 4 months, a team of four built what now looks like […]

4 questions to U.S. News & World Report about Morse Code, Robert Morse’s new blog about the college rankings

June 11th, 2007 Karine Joly 3 Comments

I first read about Morse Code, the new blog authored by Robert Morse, the director of data research for U.S. News & World Report behind the methodologies and surveys for the America’s Best Colleges annual rankings, on Andrew Careaga’s blog last Thursday. It appears that the blog was launched on May 15. As regular readers […]

Register now for “Crisis Communication 2.0 Week,” a 3-webinar series on June 26, 27 & 28 featuring Michael Dame (Virginia Tech), Joe Hice (UF) and Andrew Careaga(UMR)

May 2nd, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Some of you might remember the words of Michael Dame, Director of Web Communications at Virginia Tech, in his letter to his higher ed colleagues (that would be you) he asked me to publish a couple of weeks ago: I hope that in the near future, we’ll have the opportunity to discuss our experiences to […]

Higher Ed Experts Update: Already more than 100 registered members in 24 hours

April 25th, 2007 Karine Joly No Comments

Here’s a quick update about Higher Ed Experts, the new community-oriented website I’ve just launched. First, let me thank you all for your interest and support: more than 100 registered members in 24 hours… This has already expected my wildest dreams. I would also like to apologize to the dozen of vendors, consultants and other […]

Join Higher Ed Experts to access free info and resources, network online with your peers in other institutions and get a great deal on professional development webinars

April 23rd, 2007 Karine Joly 1 Comment

I was supposed to make this announcement last Tuesday. As you can understand, given the tragedy that struck Virginia Tech, I decided to postpone. I’m launching a new website, Higher Ed Experts, to provide professional development and social networking online opportunities to higher ed professionals working in Web, marketing, PR and admissions. Higher Ed Experts […]

Virginia Tech Web Team wants to thank you all

April 19th, 2007 Karine Joly 3 Comments

Just a quick post to share this message that Michael Dame, Director of Web Communications at Virginia Tech, asked me to pass to all of you: To our higher education colleagues, Words cannot adequately express our gratitude for your response to our tragedy here at Virginia Tech. Our web team has been overwhelmed by the […]