Facebook is a Serial “Feature Killer.”
We need to stay committed to the EdTech ecosystem, and shouldn’t let ourselves get lost in the hype of the next great iteration of Pinterest or whatever other consumer technology is raising eyebrows.
Startups vs Big Companies as Vendors
If the challenge is to invent a new product line or to solve a problem not yet solved, the Startup will likely win. A small team of smart people completely focused is more likely to succeed than a large company with many competing interests.
Does Social Media Affect Student Diversity?
“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.” – Mark Twain In the fall of 2011 there was a New York Times Editorial bashing Roommate Matching technology (like RoomSync) as one of the many new technologies that take the randomness [...]
Introducing “Startup Alley” for Educause 2011
Educause 2011 has decided to create a Startup Alley on their Exhibition Floor from October 18 – 21st in Philadelphia. This marks the first time the biggest conference in Higher Education has carved out a special area and created a unique deal for startups. Download the flier and the guidelines. If you have any questions, [...]
Online Expectations of Prospective College Students
Noel-Levitz just published more research on the current state of online expectations of prospective students and parents. We already covered a summary of best practices in recruitment and marketing trends here, but wanted to update a new blog to dive deeper into the digital aspects of the recruitment experience.
Dear Canada: Better Recruitment This Year, Better Data Next Year
“We are excited to integrate our higher education research expertise into Inigral’s innovative and highly successful social community product and add thoughtful research data and analysis to Inigral’s product,” said Philip Bliss, Chief Innovation Officer at Academica Group.
Mentoring Seedcamp
One of my favorite activities every year is mentoring at Seedcamp, an international start-up incubator based out of London with strong companies coming from Europe.
Facebook is Changing the Internet with Instant Personalization
Facebook is changing the way we interact with the internet by allowing websites to know who you are before you ever fill out any information on that site. It’s called Instant Personalization, and while it’s not taking the web by storm thanks to Facebook learning from previous poorly-planned product launches, it is surely a representation of the future of the web.
Experimenting with Social Media at Noel Levitz’ NCSRMR 2010
At Inigral, we’re so excited about what the teams at Foursquare and Plancast are doing that we’ve thought long and hard about how Higher Ed can gain practical application out of these two game changers. So for this year’s National Conference on Student Recruitment, Marketing and Retention by Noel Levitz, we decided to conduct an experiment using Check-ins and Plans.
How Facebook Platform Works and Why We Like It
At Inigral, I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to build an application that integrates with Facebook, perhaps the most advanced and interesting platform ever created.
Got Questions? The Social Web Has Answers.
Maybe the San Francisco 49ers settling in Northern California was a foreshadowing. Because in Silicon Valley today, gold rushes are taking place everytime we turn around. This time, the dust seems to be brewing up around a peculiar product: questions and answers.
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”.
What Does Your Admitted Student Community Look Like?
Does yours look like this? Ours looks like this
5 Reasons Higher Ed Can Forget about Location-Based Services
Location-based services are all the rage. Whether it’s Foursquare, Gowalla or MyTown, tech blogs are bombarding us with every reason imaginable for why these mobile tools are the future of marketing. But before you buy into the hype and sign up for all the geo-focused social networks you can find, here are my five reasons why higher ed can, for now, forget about location based services.
Transmit 4 Disks: A Tiny Tutorial
Transmit 3 has been my ftp client of choice since I started using it earlier this year. (I’m late to the game- Transmit 3 has around since 2005 but it hasn’t aged a bit). Earlier this week Panic launched Transmit 4 with a lovely announcement e-mail, and we’ve spent the last few days playing with [...]
The Battle of the Adaptive, Social Tutoring Systems: Knewton vs. Grockit
Another fun takeaway from the convergence of thought leaders in education at SkySong, ASU: Knewton and Grockit are going to battle. The good news: the consumer/student will benefit, and the market is big enough for several players.
How will the digital revolution change the way teachers teach?
Often we hear about how the revolution in digital media is affecting our youth; the way they learn, they way the speak, and the way they spend their time whether it be in leisure or academic settings. But what is not so frequently discussed is how this shift in social standards and realities is affecting the adults of this country, and in my opinion it is important to reflect specifically on those who teach.
How Facebook is Eating the Internet
Inigral was at f8, the Facebook Developer Conference, and my friends previous assessment that “Facebook is Eating the Internet” finally became a reality. Here’s how they’re doing it:
In the community: Speaking at Gates Foundation Meeting
During the week of March 22, I’ll be traveling to Washington D.C. to represent Inigral at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Postsecondary Business Convening. The conversation will be an important step in understanding how the business community can play a catalytic role to help dramatically increase the number of young adults who earn a degree at a reasonable cost in a reasonable time.
Social Software in Higher Education: Reflections on Predictions
At Inigral, we have to execute against our predictions of the future. With Gartner announcing five key predictions in a press release today, we wanted to provide some color commentary on their projections.
Mentoring at SeedCamp
I was honored to be a part of the mentor team at SeedCamp, Europe’s answer to Y Combinator on Friday, January 22, 2010. I spent most of my advisory time focused on early stage customer development, lean startup practices, and iterative inbound marketing.
Getting Started on Quora: A step-by-step guide
After last week’s Quora invite giveaway, dozens of our friends in the tech community and in higher ed have joined, and may still be trying to wrap their head around the tool. So, we’re doing two things to help you do that, as we’re that confident in this new question and answer community being a [...]
Location Based Gaming in Higher Ed: Harvard and Foursquare
As we recently covered, the location-based gaming for Higher Ed battle is just beginning. Gowalla has started “featured trips” at a few universities, including University of Texas at Austin. But after announcing a partnership with Intel for the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and winning the annual crunchies award for best Mobile Application, [...]
Openness in Higher Education: Municipal Data as Inspiration for Openness
I want to see a school that puts their course catalog and offerings up on their website in XML format that’s easy to scrape and crawl, then make an App Challenge for their students to make something cool out of it.
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