How can you drive enrollment with social media? Seth Odell from Southern New Hampshire University held a session at #casesmc last month that focused on this question. Following Florencia Prada’s blog post on CASE SMC, I’d like to provide you with a handful of key takeaways from this session.
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8 Creative Ways US Universities Use Social Media
I recently wrote a short version of this blog post for swissnex San Francisco’s blog nextrends. If you are interested in reading more about each example with more details than you can think of, than just keep reading. And if you only have five minutes, feel free to move right over to nextrends and read the short cap with a slideshow!
If you hold a university degree, chances are your alma mater didn’t have a Facebook page or Twitter account when you were enrolled. They do now. But before you start to feel old, let me remind you that the Facebook “Like” button just turned four and that Facebook only launched pages for universities in late 2007. Continue Reading →
Social Media at Dodis: Small Team, Big Impact
It is time for another spotlight on some of Switzerland’s social media champions in universities and research. This time I had the pleasure of taking a closer look at Dodis, a research project that maintains a database of Swiss diplomatic documents and publishes books with a relevant selection of these documents. Researchers Christiane Sibille and Ursina Bentele, as well as Dodis director Sacha Zala, kindly answered all my questions about their social media presence.
The Future of Higher Education
What’s in store for the future of our universities? According to one survey, a great deal of change of can be expected.
A majority of respondents said they believe higher education will be quite different in 2020 than it is now.
The Social Media Missing Link in MBA Programs [infographic]
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth interviewed 70 of the nation’s (USA) top MBA schools to learn more about their social media use.