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 [...]
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 [...]
I just received a thank you email from eye4you alliance, the organization that hosted the Second Life college fair on the teen grid. There are a couple of links in the email that I though would be of interest.
Pictures from the fair
An Article by a teen volunteer.
Some thoughts from students who attended the fair
The college [...]
Well, today’s fair is wrapping up. This is a picture from a lecture by a Linden. Linden Labs run second life and their employees have the last name Linden in SL. They’re a pretty big deal. Claudia Linden was lecturing about plans to make a Main Grid area specifically for Professors and students under 18 [...]
So I’ve had a couple of great conversations with students who I’ll be contacting with more information from my institution. They were showning a one of our podcasts in the theater as well. Very Cool stuff. Back to the fair.
Go Ahead! Tell me to get a life… I am nerding out, Admission style. Here’s my story:
History Lesson
So my VP calls me up and he’s all stoked because there’s a college fair in Second Life and he wants our institution in the mix (I’m listening to hip-hop while I type, so if I get soulful [...]
I Obsess Over Restaurants
Come to think of it… I obsess over a lot of things. If you have a couple of conversations with me, you’ll know that I love this restaurant called holé molé, that I got my Macbook Pro for 400 bucks, and that there’s an AAMCO just down the street that won’t rip [...]
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 [...]
Not That We Hunt for This Stuff
I’m not sure that using SNSs for screening is a good thesis for Counselor MySpace pages. It betrays trust, word gets out that your institution befriends students to find out their darkest secrets and your campaign to reach students through MySpace and Facebook takes some damage. Now I’m not [...]
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