Introducing a New Face to the Higher Ed Community
With much enthusiasm I announce that, as of October 19th, 2011 we have hired a new CEO, Jamie, Glenn.
Summary of Advanced Trends in Mobile and Social Media
Here are some summaries of presentations we attended at Noel-Levitz NCSRM 2011.
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.
Rally: Start Up Weekend for Education by the Kauffman Foundation!
We’re honored to help out the Kauffman Foundation round up entrepreneurs, hackers, and technologists for it’s Startup Weekend focused on Education.
Inigral to Present at 3rd Annual Sloan Consortium Symposium
For the past year, Inigral has been working with the Maricopa Community Colleges District through deploying Schools on Facebook across their 10 campuses. What began with a pilot test at Estrella Mountain Community College and Scottsdale Community College has now expanded to three other colleges within the MCC district.
Meet One of Higher Ed’s Social Media Mavens, Mark Greenfield
This year’s National Conference on Student Recruitment and Retention sponsored by Noel Levitz is gonna be a blast. Our team wanted to take some time out to highlight one of the 15 speakers focusing on social media topics (can you believe there’s 15 experts teaching about social media?! We’ve come a long way!)
Mark Greenfield is one of Higher Education’s most prolific students of social media. He can’t be described as a “bystander” or an “observer,” because he has had several hands in the pot since the inception of social media almost a decade ago.
Introducing Genjuice: Where Gen-Y Meets Power Networking
Besides being the birthdays of several star-studded celebrities including NBA All-Star Dirk Nowitski, Actress Zoe Saldana, and Pop Star Paula Abdul, today also marks the debut of the Gen-Y focused power networking tour, GenJuice. Founded by Danielle Leslie (Cal ‘07), Virgilia Singh (ASU ‘09), and Arielle Patrice Scott (Cal ‘11), the organization sets out to create a vehicle for like-minded, entrepreneurial, young go-getters to network and use one another as resources for professional growth.
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.
Inigral Helps Facebook Stay Secure
The Inigral CTO accidentally made worldwide headlines when he found a bug in Facebook’s Instant Personalization. Facebook immediately fixed it, and the world was saved from potentially evil hackers…. We’re so proud, our George is a superhero.
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.
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 [...]
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.
Facebook Patents Newsfeed, Good Thing We’re on Platform
Good thing we’re on Facebook Platform. We’ll get to focus on our product success while others have to hire more lawyers :)
Social Media Week Comes to San Francisco
This week, Social Media Week came to our neck of the woods to educate, evangelize, and advance the use of social media with the help of San Francisco Bay Area executives and companies. Each day presented several opportunities to hear talks, meet people, and geek out about all things social media.
Inigral Co-Founder Wins 2010 UC Berkeley Hackathon
Inigral Co-Founder and CTO George Deglin joined forces with Causes engineer Okay Zed this past weekend to compete in the 2010 UC Berkeley Hackathon, sponsored by Zynga (creators of Farmville). Their team of four came in second place for converting a website mockup to HTML/CSS with OCR and computer vision.
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.
Inigral President Mark Triest Presents at Eduventures Roundtable Event
Next week, on January 26, 2010, our President, Mark Triest will be joining the President and COO of Cappex for Eduventures’ Roundtable on “Social Media and Online Higher Education – Making Sense of the Hype”. The roundtable is designed to help Eduventures’ Online Higher Education members to wrap their head around the necessary world of [...]
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 [...]
Facebook Developers Garage Comes to Inigral HQ
Last week, members from Facebook’s engineering team came out to our Berkeley offices for the inaugural Facebook Developers Garage. We had an awesome turnout, with over 200 people hacking away at their apps. The team at Causes hosted the event, while our CTO, George Deglin presented on an open source javascript library that Inigral has [...]
It’s Conference Season!
The leaves are changing. Hotels are booked. Extra business cards are printed. Yup, you guessed it. It’s conference season! All over the US right now are this year’s Higher Ed leaders converging to discuss the latest trends and technologies in our markets. Though the ROI isn’t the most quantifiable for college administrators attending these events, I think we could all agree on the amount of learning that’s done when we get there.
Interoperability in Higher Ed: IMS Global Announces 800lb Gorillas All Aboard
SunGard is now willing to publicly and proudly stand with Oracle and tout the advantages of cooperating with the Open Standards movement.
Facebook Developer Garage: Roadmap Edition
This week’s Facebook Developer Garage was special. It was the first “Roadmap Edition,” where Mark Zuckerberg (Founder and CEO) and Ethan Beard (Director of Facebook Developer Network) took an unprecedented step in terms of laying out Facebook’s near future plans upcoming changes to the platform. This is great for developers because since we’ve wrapped our [...]
2009 Eduventures Online Higher Education Learning Collaborative Annual Member Meeting
Eduventures, a leading research and consulting firm for higher education institutions, hosted their Online Higher Education Learning Collaborative Annual Member Meeting this morning, where over 80 representatives from higher ed online programs gathered to discuss the effects that technology will have on online learning. Amongst the members, approximately 25% were for-profit institutions, while the other [...]
Execution is Everything: Start Up Bootcamp
Columbus Day had to offer a bay area style event at MIT, Start Up Bootcamp – #sb. You can check the videos on YouTube here. Now, I’ve been to these things so much I can almost lip sync their presentations, but I hadn’t seen cool folks like Alex Ohanion of Reddit, Adam Smith of Xobni, [...]
