Admissions

Facebook for Enrollment Marketing: Where Email and Facebook Intertwine

by Tony Zanders
Feb 9, 2010
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According to a poll recently conducted by Intelliworks, Facebook is the most preferred method to receive College Admissions communications from an institution. This probably won’t come as a surprise to most with Facebook surpassing the 350 million user mark last before the end of 2009.

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Facebook and Higher Ed: Problems, Needs

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Accepted Student Social Networks: 9 Questions to Ask

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Student Engagement

RESEARCH: Using Social Networking to Increase Student Retention

by Tony Zanders
Feb 9, 2010
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Selected Research on Social Networking from Emily Dalton Smith (Director of Student Engagement at ASU Online), and Michael Staton (CEO and Co-Founder of Inigral, Inc.). This was derived from a poster presentation that ASU and Inigral presented at Educause 2009.

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Facebook and Higher Ed: Problems, Needs

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Social Networks in Higher Ed: Go Big or Go Home

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Alumni Development

Facebook and Higher Ed: Problems, Needs

by Michael Staton
Feb 9, 2010
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Frustrations can be summarized by the following argument: Facebook has one goal – to increase the number of their users and the money they make from ads per user; thus, Facebook Pages & Groups is not a “whole product” – a product with a set of capabilities that solve for an interrelated set of needs for a particular customer type – in Higher Education.

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Twitter to Release ‘Contributors’ Feature

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Engaging Alumni Using Social Media

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Company Updates

Facebook Turns Six and Launches a New Homepage

by Tony Zanders
Feb 8, 2010
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Yesterday, Facebook rolled out a new way to navigate around the site to a subset of it’s users. Like previous updates to major sections of the site, the new layout may have caught some people off guard, despite them announcing these changes at one of their developer roadmap sessions last year.

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From Our Developers

Getting Started with Schools on Facebook

by Tony Zanders
Jan 17, 2010
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This is a step-by-step guide to adding your institution’s Schools on Facebook app to your profile. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Kyle Langdon at klangdon@inigral.com.
Step 1: Log in to Facebook.
Visit http://facebook.com in your browser, and log in. If you don’t have a Facebook account, it takes less than a minute to [...]

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