Warren Wilson College recently underwent a change in leadership with a new President. At the same time, the exciting changes happening all over the internet have finally managed to trickle into higher ed. The many projects underway made Karine Joly, in her University Business article, declare 2006 “the year of the redesign.” [...]
There’s three new blogs in the Higher Ed Marketing links section below. Go check them out!
Fuzzy Content
University Web Marketing and Usability
Mistaken Goal (actually a Student Affairs and technology blog–very interesting)
Added 12/8: U Marketing Guru
Added 12/11: Intermedia (PR & New Media)
I’ve also got my student work crew in a fishbowl for you. Watch them on [...]
My Podcasting post has stirred up some discussion, which is wonderful. I wanted to take a moment to respond to a few things from comments that warranted a closer look.
Dan Karleen wrote:
First, who is hawking podcasting as a singular cure for enrollment woes?
I’m guilty of trying to be provocative over precise here. Mostly [...]
Before you go to your next marketing conference and listen to the trend prospectors hawking Podcasting as a holy balm for your enrollment woes, make sure it’s not snake oil!
Michael Stoner pointed out that the PEW Internet & American Life Project has released a new study that throws some doubt onto the efficacy of the [...]
I’ve returned from a fantastic month in the trenches of novel writing. I’ve got a lot of fun things to share in the world of higher ed web as we head into winter. Learning DOM scripting, a redesign, rebuilding a custom CMS from scratch–it’s going to be a fun couple months.
But in the [...]
It’s out now and will be all over the world in less than a month. Go grab it.
Internet Explorer 7 will be delivered through Automatic Updates – customers should complete preparations by November 1
To help customers become more secure and up-to-date, Microsoft will distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates and the Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites. Internet Explorer 7 will be available for users of genuine [...]
Time for a little late night blogging. I just got done watching Saw on Showtime, so I figured it would be a great time to delve into higher ed marketing!
Future Web
Today’s keynote speaker was Nick Fink, founder of Digital Web Magazine, and Director of User Experience for new media company Blue Flavor. Nick [...]
There is an argument made against privacy that says someone who isn’t engaged in criminal behavior has nothing to hide. This method of thinking allowed the US government to slowly sap away our civil liberties in the wake of the 9/11 attacks–many have just accepted that trading privacy for security is acceptable and used the “nothing to hide” argument to rationalize what was, essentially, a decision based on fear. However, limiting the government’s ability to intrude in our private lives is easy compared with attempting to control how personal information spreads on the internet via gossip. Rather than spies or wiretaps, gossip is often gathered by those we trust and spread online by people who don’t understand or appreciate the potential for the damage it can do. In reality, privacy is about much more than concealing wrongdoing.
Internet-based abuse (‘cyberbullying’) and privacy / relationship issues are still massively misunderstood. The complexities of online sociality are probably the biggest ‘generational divide’ between modern teens and adults. To help put it in perspective a bit, here are some numbers…
