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.
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!
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 [...]
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.
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.
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 :)
Marketing in Higher Ed: When Everybody Comes
Last week, we learned that it’s too early to celebrate before you follow through, and that achieving your marketing goal is not just gaining a sizable audience but whether or not you develop relationships when you have one.”
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 [...]
Our Year in Review
It’s hard to imagine we kicked off 2009 with a pilot at Michigan State University. At that point, our product and team was worlds away from where it is now.
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 [...]
Top 10 Links of the Week (1/8/10)
At Inigral, we hope the first week of the decade was good for everyone! Here are our top 10 links for the week of January 8, 2010.
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 [...]
Call for Innovation Partners – Winter 2009
Inigral has been fortunate enough to have great Founding Partners. These are schools that bought into the vision of meeting their students where they spend their time online – on Facebook. They helped us mold that vision into something palatable – our Lifecycle Engagement Platform – with a coherent set of capabilities that would extend the power of Facebook and Social Media for Higher Education. We’ve learned a lot, and we’ve built almost as much. We haven’t been perfect. But we’ve been faster and more responsive than any vendor we’ve heard about.
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.
Facebook Facebooks About Schools on Facebook
For the past few months, Facebook has focused marketing efforts on the education community. And since that shift, they have spent time identifying the real movers and shakers using Facebook to add practical value to educators around the world. We were interviewed by their marketing team to learn more about how our application, Schools, benefits [...]
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 [...]
