November. And the AMA Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education that started Sunday. Not there this year, so a distant hello from Michigan to friends attending. Enjoy. If you’re not in Orlando, review Monday’s tweets and follow along with new ones. Gerry McGovern has a new book: Top Tasks – a How-to Guide. You can read the […]
Pick Your Favorites: 36 Easy-to-Scan Alumni Success Stories from The College of Wooster Most colleges and universities have created content to present success stories about their alumni. And many rely on one or a few “hero” stories as the page opens to get visitors’ attention. From the perspective of marketing to potential students, that’s risky. […]
Video + Student Stories Open Boston University Transfer Admissions Site Enrolling new full-time transfer students is growing in importance as many colleges and universities seek to offset declining enrollment of traditional age students just graduating from high school. Content presentation can be daunting… often beginning with the details of each school’s rules and regulations for […]
Top Tasks Stand Out on Easy-to-Scan International Student Home Page International student recruitment is a core part of enrollment plans at many colleges and universities for reasons that range from diversity to international status to revenue enhancement. Competition is fierce. And the home pages for potential international students often are the first place that competition […]
Realistic Video Helps Recruit Kenan-Flagler Executive MBA Students With demand for traditional MBA programs for full-time, residential students flagging, effective recruitment of working professionals to online programs has gained new importance. One barrier to many potential students is the question of how to adapt their life at work and home to the added weight of […]
March greetings to everyone. And best wishes for success to everyone who is heading into the deposit collection recruitment stretch for your new freshman class in March and April. Today I expect to finish the new recruitment focused edition of my two-day conference on Writing Right for the Web, set for March 27-28 in Denver. Check […]
Video & News Content to Engage Professional School Visitors: Boston University School of Public Health Today’s Link of the Week selection replaces the common top-of-the-page rotating collection of photo or video presentations with introductory images of 2 video and 4 news options when the page opens. Run your cursor over each one for a short […]
Forecasting online tools and policies: J.Boye conference delegates speak Forecasting the future is the theme of the closing Town Hall event each year at a J.Boye conference, a session that’s both fun and informative. Two volunteer experts offer their respective “yes” or “no” opinions on possible future trends on the online world. And then the […]
Social Media Marketing… the new Mass Marketing Platform? At the AMA Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education earlier this week, social media marketing was the hot topic at presentation after presentation. And there was strong interest in how to demonstrate “ROI” from the financial and human investment needed in this area. ROI is a worthy topic […]
Ono of the themes that emerged during questions and discussions at yesterday’s ACT pre-conference workshop was the increasing use of video at college websites to introduce the real people who live and learn at these places. In other words, to humanize them by using the web in a way that goes beyond what student profiles […]
Nancy Schwartz has posted a blog entry with summaries and links to the thoughts of several people involved in online marketing, including yours truly. You’ll find an interesting and valuable variety of thought here that will result in stronger video marketing in your communications mix. The links are in her report on “How to Use Online Video […]