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 [...]

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 [...]

Second Life College Fair Ends and My Thoughts on Online Learning

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 [...]

End of Second LIfe College fair Day 1

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 [...]

Second Life College Fair in Full Swing

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.

Gearing up for a Second Life College 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 [...]

Germs and YouTube: Viral Marketing and Recruiting

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 [...]

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 [...]

Putting Spin on the Inappropriate in Myspace and Facebook

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 [...]