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We are a couple of months into a sustained social media campaign with a dedicated part time person and we have actually had a prospective student ask about admissions using facebook. I guess it’s working? […]

Seems like the commenters on this Chronicle article tear the survey apart for validity, but it still makes the point that Facebook is being used by (some) schools for the direct purpose of recruiting.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/more-colleges-use-facebook-to-recruit-students/29366

Interesting article in the Chronicle about a University deleting content from their facebook page. Is this censorship if it’s technically the Universities page? http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/comments-are-censored-on-southern-illinois-u-facebook-page/34138?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en We haven’t had too many people post to our page,…[Read more]

In looking to develop some “best practices” on social media use for Higher Ed, I’ve come across the following resources that you may also be interested in. http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2011/jun/01/universities-social-media-internal-communications https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/socialmedia/Guidelines…[Read more]

Anyone else following “CUNYfail” on twitter? If you haven’t seen it, someone uses that account to aggregate all the comments that are on twitter from people complaining (often very bluntly and with a great deal of profanity) about CUNY. Thankfully, i haven’t seen GC specifically mentioned, but i’m sure it’s out there somewhere.

Can’t help but thinking this is worth posting. It’s definitely the way we are “trying” to go. So, far though, we haven’t been able to get a dedicated student worker.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/social-media-efforts-are-hindered-by-inadequate-staffing-colleges-say/30970?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

Staffing is holding colleges back from social media? Wouldn’t this be the perfect student employment opportunity?

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/social-media-efforts-are-hindered-by-inadequate-staffing-colleges-say/30970?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

And

four colleges who are using social media well. …[Read more]

Here is an interesting article about aggregating all the different avenues of your social media presence. Could we be further behind on this issue? I mean we have no sanctioned social media presence at all. What a waste of free resources.

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Colleges-Build-Hubs-to-Track/27284/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

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