May 30, 2008

Why not distance learning at community colleges?

I saw this article in USA Today - community colleges, many of which are commuter schools, are cutting classes, typically on Fridays, to help students save money on gas.

Brain Buster

Hat tip to Guy Kawasaki for this one.

May 29, 2008

Spot the terrorist!

After reading this Boston Globe article about Dunkin Donuts pulling an ad because conservatives thought her scarf looked like a keffiyah, I thought I'd make a quick game for you to play. Like this? Please Digg it.

Double shot of coffee today

Check out the best marketing podcast ever made in a doughnut shop, Marketing Over Coffee. Today's a double shot as we try out the Flip Cam.

May 27, 2008

Review: Flip Ultra 2GB

Flip UltraI bought a Flip Ultra today. Lots of positives and negatives about this little camera, and limitations that need to be understood to get the best performance out of it.

May 26, 2008

Food for thought on Memorial Day

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

May 24, 2008

Staycationing

Just added a new article to the Financial Aid Podcast blog - how to staycation properly. In a time of record gas prices, record food prices, record airline prices, record everything, this article will hopefully inspire you to try something different and lighten both your spirits and the load on your wallet.

May 21, 2008

Hope, advisement, and Melissa Rakes

One of the highlights of this past EASFAA conference was not at the conference at all, but in the bar after the Monday sessions. I had the good fortune to sit down with Melissa Rakes, an Ed.D. student looking at how advisement works, and we got to talking about one of my favorite things - marketing, of course. We chatted about her doctoral thesis and a few different ideas and systems that could be applied to academic advisement, which was a lot of fun.

May 19, 2008

Pimping the Financial Aid Podcast

I'm happy to say that the Financial Aid Podcast just hit episode 800. Check out the episode - it's 5 success stories powered by new media, ways in which new media has made a real difference.

May 17, 2008

Ask, ask, ask

I've been looking again at MySpace, as a recent blog post detailed. One of the things I've been looking at is the depth of engagement. Is a friend relationship enough to market on? What is the value of a MySpace friendship?