Facebook Uses Users to Shape the Direction of New Product
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and you work in the tech community, there’s a good chance you’ve been invited to, or know someone who has gone into Google for usability testing. Just recently, Facebook has made it possible recently users to apply contribute to the development of a new feature their releasing called “Questions”.
Toolbox: A Workshop for Startups
If you live in San Diego, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Cincinnati, or Salt Lake City, you were probably watching team USA draw with England in the World Cup. But if you live in Silicon Valley, and you want to learn how pick up the Sharpie to sketch out product designs, you should’ve attended Startup Toolbox, a hands-on workshop for small teams in Product Development, Marketing, and Design.
Universities, Privacy, and Facebook: An Important Dialogue
With all of the talk in the news about Facebook’s privacy policy, it’s important for colleges and universities to understand what’s going on. The Facebook move towards openness with their user data has freaked pragmatic users out, even getting mainstream dialogs about staying off of Facebook, like this one at the economics blog Baseline Scenario.
Deleting vs. Deactivating: A Comparison
“Are you sure you want to deactivate your account?” is the question Facebook asks everyone who is seeking to take a vacation from Facebook. Deactivating is the option Facebook gives users to make their name, photos, and profile invisible to Facebook the Facebook community. For instance, if Jake made comments on Jane’s wall, and later deactivated his account, the comments would still appear, but the author would be “Facebook User, ” instead of “Jake”.
Facebook Restricts Landing Tabs to “Authenticated Pages”
Earlier today, Facebook announced to the developer forum that Facebook Pages must have at least 10,000 fans in order to control which tab visitors see upon visiting their Page. For Colleges and Universities, there aren’t many institutions with over 10,ooo fans (learn more about the statistics of colleges with Facebook Fans here), this has a [...]
An Interview with Ann Zanders from BRCC
This mother’s day weekend, I decided to take the time to interview my mother, Ann Zanders, to learn more about her role in Institutional Advancement at Baton Rouge Community College. Below is the transcript of our chat.
Education Innovation Summit: Arizona State’s Inaugural SkySong Innovation Hub
our CEO Michael Staton jumped on a plane to Arizona State University to speak on a panel at their Inaugural SkySong Education Innovation Summit…. the Summit was the strongest assembly of innovators and investors in Education he’s ever encountered.
Unofficial Facebook Class Groups and Copyright Infringement
Third-party marketers who are hungry for your incoming freshman and their attention can try to hijack your brand on Facebook and other social media sites. That seems obvious; I know, you’re thinking “What can we do about it? It’s inevitable.” It’s worth investigating. Before exploring how we can help, let’s tak about the proliferation of Facebook Pages and Groups that represent your brand, but are not created by you or an official representative of your institution.
According to Pearson, Most Professors Use Social Media. But What Does That Mean?
According to the Pearson Learning Solutions Social Media in Higher Education Survey, “more than four out of every five professors use social media. And more than half of professors use tools like video, blogs, podcasts, and wikis in their classes.” But as the Chronicle mentions in their commentary on the data, the seemingly pervasive numbers should not paint a picture that faculty have fully embraced social media.
The Inigral Blog’s Best of Spring 2010
Hello there! We hope your Spring season has been as productive as ours has. Besides staying healthy from allergies :-), a lot of things have been keeping us busy in San Francisco. Here’s an update on what’s been happening in our market, our company, and with Facebook for colleges this Spring!
Demystifying Your College’s Schools on Facebook application
We’ve gotten a lot of feedback from our clients asking about the different implications of adding the Schools on Facebook application to their personal Facebook accounts. Here are a few reasons for you to rest assured that we’ve thought about you, your concerns, and how our design makes the difference.
Facebook’s f8 2010
We’re front row at this year’s f8 – Facebook’s Annual Developers Conference in San Francisco, CA. We ran into one of our friends at Facebook who’s been up all night to make sure everything runs smoothly today, and she guaranteed that we’re in for a treat. A far cry from higher ed conferences and trade [...]
Admitted Student Social Networks: 8 Questions to Ask
An up-and-coming trend in college admissions is to adopt an Accepted Student Social Network. An Accepted Student Social Network, for those of you just getting on the bandwagon, is a private web community, often white-label, that accepted students enter in hopes of further connecting to their peers and, hopefully, to your institution.
Understanding the Power of Twitter
If you’re a Twitter hater, you might want to read this. I was a hater myself only a few months back. “I don’t have anything to Tweet about and I don’t care what others are Tweeting about” was my mentality. Funny thing is, I had — and still have — so many friends who shared my belief about Twitter’s uselessness.
Admitted Student Online Community
An up-and-coming trend in college admissions is to adopt an Accepted Student Social Network. An Accepted Student Social Network, for those of you just getting on the bandwagon, is a private web community, often white-label, that accepted students enter in hopes of further connecting to their peers and, hopefully, to your institution. If you’re looking [...]
2010 Twitter Facts and Figures
This morning at Chirp, Twitter’s first Developers Conference, their CEO, Ev Williams revealed some interesting facts about Twitter. Some key takeaways are:
Twitter has 105,779,710 registered users (didn’t disclose how many of those users are active though)
Every day, 300,000 people register (also didn’t comment on the fact that the average life span of a user is less than a month)
Social Media for College Admissions Professionals: The Beginners Guide
Social Media is one of the most popular trends in higher education today, yet folks are still anxiety ridden. How much time should we be spending on social media? Who is doing it right? Who is doing it wrong? Are we missing something? Should we wait until the dust has settled to allocate budget to [...]
And BTW Higher Ed, Facebook’s Changing Again
Unlike previous major updates to Facebook, they are showing progress in terms of updating users of major changes and releases before they take place to allow people to prepare. This is a practice that every service provider should aspire to master. And at Inigral, we’ve taken some queues from the team at Facebook ourselves in terms of keeping our community up to date.
Social Media Spring Cleaning: Presentations, Guides and Other Goodies from 2009
Our marketing team has been doing some Spring Cleaning. For us, this doesn’t just mean re-organizing our Dropbox folders and directories. But we’re going to be publishing some things that have were only shown to people at conferences or brown bag lunches we’ve sponsored at various universities. Below, find an assortment of resources for you to share with your team on campus.
2010 Facebook Facts and Figures
Uptime Monitoring company website-monitoring.com just released a detailed infographic on where Facebook has come from since 2004. Here are some highlights some highlights.
Meet Inigral’s Student Bloggers
One of my favorite reasons for working with colleges and universities on their Facebook efforts is meeting awesome students, as it wasn’t too long ago that I was in their shoes in the classroom. Because students are the lifeblood of all things education, we’ve taken some time in this post to let you know more about the students on Inigral’s student blogging squad, starting with the fact that they all have the best smiles on either side of the Mississippi river!
Spring Semester in Review: Maricopa, NJIT, Harvey Mudd, Launch Schools on Facebook
Our team is having a great semester on the west coast, with lots of momentum built up from successful deployments of Schools on Facebook at the Maricopa Community College District, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Harvey Mudd College.
Sports on Facebook: A Collegiate Sports Directory
Aggregation seems to be a common theme today, as Facebook just launched Sports on Facebook just in time for March Madness. The Facebook page, co-designed with design firm Involver, boasts a neatly organized (yet not comprehensive) directory of collegiate sports teams with Pages on Facebook.
Facebook Awards Inigral Preferred Developer Consultant Status
Our team is proud to announce that we are now Facebook Preferred Developer Consultants! After a long and hard year of working with our clients to make sure that our applications meet their institutions’ standards, along with ensuring that the user experience of our Facebook applications was no less in quality than that of Facebook’s itself, this is quite a treat to us and our community.
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