Archives for 2010
Three Years of Facebook Forgery
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
Update – 12/8/10, 9:45 PM – According to a new post on the New York Times Choice Blog, many of the deceptive RoomSurf initiated groups have added language to identify their affiliation with the company. In addition, the fake profile of Justin Blackwell appears to have been removed.
We’re now entering our third admission cycle with [...]
The Value of Stories
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Only a few short comments here before I pass you off to Georgy Cohen’s thoughts on this subject. Her post came about after a recent episode of Higher Ed Live where a number of us, in higher ed marketing and communications, chimed in on the Twitter backchannel.
In particular, I believe these few sentences by Georgy [...]
A Video I Love and Why: The Machine is Us/ing Us
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
After reading through Tim, Andrew and Todd’s posts on this subject, I felt compelled to jump in too.
The video I love is The Machine is Us/ing Us by Michael Wesch, professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. And if I had to pick a second video, it would be Information R/evolution also by Wesch.
It’s over [...]
Social Media in Your Campus Emergency Plan
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Yesterday’s horrific shooting incident at the University of Texas at Austin underscored the need to include your campus social media presences in your emergency/disaster communications plans.
While the University did an excellent job of updating their main home page and emergency web site, they left one of their most important channels completely dark – their institutional [...]
Linking to a single Facebook wall post
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
This is an easy thing to do, but not so easy to find the link. Facebook has hidden it in the post’s time stamp. Just click on the time stamp, and the post will open on a new page – copy the URL of this page from your browser’s address bar, and you’re all set!