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. Here’s the question I have: why wouldn’t professors start assigning distance learning opportunities in class? Let’s say you’re taking a course on biology, an intro course.…
Hat tip to Guy Kawasaki for this one. Watch this video from Cisco. Brain buster. This reminds me of the first time I used talk on a Digital VAX, back in 1993. Talk was a UNIX-based synchronous chat client, and a fairly ugly one at that. I remember talking to folks I met on other…
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. How did you do? Come on, Dunkin Donuts. What the hell is wrong with you? I can’t tell…
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.
I 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. Positives AA batteries 2 GB internal memory for 60 minutes of record time Firmware updates Light Portable Stupid simple Negatives Not going to sub for…
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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its…
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.
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 –…
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.
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? Over the last five days, I’ve been sending out 200 messages a day or…
