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.

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.

Podcasting: Using video to reach prospective students

I could assume a lot of things about what you might have available to you in the resources department, but I’ll just start with where I started and hope that I reach a broad audience.
I started with nothing
Ok this isnt true. I had a laptop with video editing software. But that was it. I [...]

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 [...]

Lowering Your Standards: Leaving the fancy schmancy out of YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook

And Again I Say, “Lower Your Standards.”
Today’s post may be a breath of fresh air to some (one out of two readers). No joke: YouTube is meant to host unprofessional videos. Getting a custom made myspace background for your admission counselor pages takes away their souls. Facebook is meant to not have layouts and too [...]