Student Blog Training Materials, Part 1

I just went through a little bit of training with my newly hired, fresh out of high school student blog team. While preparing for training, I noticed that there was nothing under the large hand of google that was specifically targeted to the training of student bloggers, so I collected a number of posts on [...]

Videos are Bad at Blogging

I look at blogs like I eat a McDonald’s cheeseburger: one bite, throw away the wrapper. Most money-making-tons-of-hits blogs are great at giving the reader bite sized information initially, then allowing them to re-read for the detailed stuff. But before you feel the need to have your bloggers bullet point, embolded headings, write small paragraphs and use italicization let’s talk about why Student Blogs are different.

Give Your Bloggers an Inbox

If you’re into the whole GTD phenomenon, you know the importance of inboxes. I’ve developed my own system based on GTD and the Action Method by Behance (they all have similar elements) that incorporates multiple inboxes into my daily routine. I’ve found that logging my ideas, actions, reminders and events in a consistent place and [...]

Keeping Technology in One Place with Flock

I’ve been using this browser for a while. I’ve heard about it on Attack of the Show! on G4 which is great to watch for a little research tv, plus my friend Flo made their logo.

Flock is a web browser based on Firefox that allows the user to access their facebook, youtube, twitter, flickr etc. while browsing.

One Stop Shop: Linking Students to your Web Presence

Before I go deeper into Social Networking, YouTube, podcasting and the like… I thought it would be a good idea to do a little preventative maintenance.
How to Promote
For a while now, I’ve been plugging our different avenues of communication in four ways

email- it’s good for some things, granted a good percentage of students don’t do [...]

Stickyness: How to make your web presence attractive time and time again.

I’m not a pro at getting heavy traffic and keeping it, so I thought I might link to a post from someone who is.
Tibi over at Lost Art of Blogging gives some tips on Stickifying your blog (making up words here left and right). These are some great tips for student bloggers, but I think [...]

Mobile Technology: Recruiting from your mobile phone

Putting my money where my title is
Ok so I thought that I could at least start this post from my cell
phone. I wouldn’t suggest using your phone to blog tons of text, but
there are some quick and easy things you can do to create stickiness
(keep people coming back to your web sites).
Most phones are equipped [...]

Student Blogs: A different kind of Campus Tour

As an admission counselor, I used to cringe when I heard this from a prospective student. It’s not that I’m controlling (ok, I am controlling) but I want every student to have a consistent positive experience at my institution, or at least a chance at one. This is why we organize campus tours. In my [...]