Social Networks

Future trend: crowdsourcing content In higher education

Nice video, huh? Watch it in HD, it’s even cooler.
That’s a clip of “Terrible Lie” by Nine Inch Nails. His album “The Downward Spiral” pretty much defines being 18 and that weird, strange and wonderful time between high school and college. Anyways, Trent Reznor (who attended the college I currently work at for 1 year) [...]

Marketing, Social Networks, social media

What are people sharing from your site?

It’s become very easy to add sharing tools to just about any page on your website, and I’d recommend you do that.
Our goal as web shepherds is to make it easy for our users to not only find information on our sites, but share that information with others.
At my college, we’ve been using the AddThis [...]

Social Networks, usability

Are We Failing To Properly Educate Our Students About Social Media?

As colleges and universities, I think we’ve done a great job embracing social media as a tool to communicate with different groups of people. We’re cranking out Twitter updates, Facebook wall posts and YouTube videos.
Our current and prospective students are as well. They’re chronicling their lives and being social, which is the whole point of [...]

Social Networks, facebook, social media