Archive for the ‘YouTube’ Category

Higher Ed TV: Holiday Card YouTube-style starring the President by Red River College

Since my post about the holiday card of the University of Maryland got picked up by the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Campus Wired blog last week, I’ve received a few interesting pitches and links from universities and colleges (please, keep the good stuff coming) related to their web videos. This morning, Colin Fast, Communications Coordinator […]

Higher Ed TV: Holiday Card YouTube-style by the University of Maryland

‘Tis the season to be jolly and… to send/email Holidays cards. This year, the University of Maryland has put a refreshing spin on the tradition with a 2-minute video featuring many students, staff and faculty members – and even Alum Connie Chung – gathering for a group holiday photo. Available on YouTube, the video can […]

Higher Ed TV: “I’m Missouri S&T” user-generated campaign, a great idea to get UMR students, alums, faculty and staff on board with the upcoming name change of the institution

The University of Missouri-Rolla will change its name in 2 months, on January 1st, 2008. Officially started in January this year and supported by a dedicated blog, the transition to the new name, Missouri S&T, starts a new stage today with the launch of a new website “Hello, My Name is Missouri S&T” as announced […]

Joost: another delivery channel for the videos produced at your institution?

Everybody is talking about online videos lately (well, the fact that it’s Day 2 of the Higher Ed Experts’ series about online videos might explain some of the chatter in my virtual neighborhood ;-) A recent report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project confirms that online videos have become a must-have web features […]

Higher Ed Experts Update: The registration deadline for the online video webinar series has been postponed to Thursday September 6, 2007 at 8PM ET.

During this long Labor Day weekend I got a few emails asking if it was still possible to register for the September 11-13 webinar series about online videos (the initial registration deadline was Sept. 1st). As a result, I decided to postpone the registration deadline until this Thursday (Sept. 6) at 8PM ET. If you […]

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”

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

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 […]

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

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! Donâ€™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

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!

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?

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

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

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 […]