http://eduwebbuzz.com/blog the "buzz" on marketing and web development in higher education and beyond Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:29:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome fellow e-marketers, bloggers and readers. I’m Carmella Manges, E-marketing Director, St. Edward’s University and your EduWeb guest blogger for the month of July. This is my first post (ever) and I look forward to hearing from you throughout the month. Here’s a little bit about my background and how web ... http://eduwebbuzz.com/blog/2008/06/30/puzzling-over-web-analytics/ Thank you! I have really enjoyed my month as an eduWEB blogger, and hope that those readers coming to the conference in 3 weeks will knock me on the shoulder and say hello in Atlantic City! (Also, I'll be presenting 9:45am sharp on the 3rd day of the conference - ... http://eduwebbuzz.com/blog/2008/06/27/its-time-to-let-go/ Just a quick note/addendum to my post on Facebook Pages and Groups... The main reason that I argue so strongly for Groups when community is your goal is that ability to broadcast personal messages in the inboxes of all your group members.  (Spellcheck tells me that inboxes is not a ... http://eduwebbuzz.com/blog/2008/06/26/facebook-group-messaging-limits-on-the-up/ In his presentation at the 2008 AARAO Conference earlier this month, Academica Group's Ken Steele pointed out the benefits of utilizing social media in student recruitment. Web 2.0 is not about technology, but its use to fulfill people's desire to connect and be heard. At the bare minimum, PSE institutions ... http://eduwebbuzz.com/blog/2008/06/20/connecting-with-the-facebook-generation-2/ What do you do when someone else walks their dog on your yard? Twice in just the last week, I've been presented with situations where a competitor school is promoting themselves on another school's web/social media. They were both very different situations, and both took a bit of sitting back ... http://eduwebbuzz.com/blog/2008/06/20/when-competitors-post-on-your-blog/ I have been watching Facebook for about 3 years now, from back when it was a duplicate MySpace that only my university friends used (and I glared at them for finally joining the networking revolution but on a different network). In the last 18 months, I have been watching Facebook ... http://eduwebbuzz.com/blog/2008/06/16/pages-are-for-browsing-groups-are-for-relationships/ EDIT: With all my talking about how to moderate appropriately, I seem to have forgotten to point out that I am almost always against moderation.  That said, we don't always get our way - and that's where moderating "appropriately" comes into play. M. When it comes to social media & content ... http://eduwebbuzz.com/blog/2008/06/10/moderating-with-a-gentle-hand/ Greetings eduWEBians and other blog readers! It is my great pleasure to be your guest blogger this month, after a great experience at last year's conference and as a fervent reader of the buzz blog. I am Melissa Cheater, and I am a Senior Consultant in Social Media & Web ... http://eduwebbuzz.com/blog/2008/06/03/its-finally-here-summer-the-iphone-or-my-intro-blog/ In my final post as May guest blogger, I wanted to say "thanks" to all of you who work so hard on your websites, especially the web content managers. In an earlier post I said that your website is your institution's most valuable asset. Well, I'd like to correct that ... http://eduwebbuzz.com/blog/2008/05/30/your-institutions-most-valuable-asset/ I've gotten some emails from attendees who are flying into Philly and would like to share expenses in driving (thru a rental car or a shuttle) to Atlantic City. I will post the first request, from Terri Vaughn, at Clemson University: Her itinerary ... Arrive: Sunday, July 20, 2008 Philadelphia Intl ... http://eduwebbuzz.com/blog/2008/05/29/looking-for-buddies-flying-into-philly-to-atlantic-city/