Earlier this week Noel-Levitz released their series of e-expectation reports this one titlted “Mobile Browsing Behaviors and Expectations of College-Bound High School Students.” I thought I’d give a summary and some personal commentary on their key findings in regards to mobile/social behaviors. Mobile Browsing Behaviors Only 4% of high-school students report using a tablet device such [...]
It seems like Mobile is the new marketing buzzword this year in Higher Ed. While social isn’t going away (and is nowhere close to being over), Higher Ed has rightfully begun perking up at new ideas to engage with today’s “Sobile” student. (hats off to Corie Martin for coining the Mobile + Social = “Sobile”) [...]
Here are some summaries of presentations we attended at Noel-Levitz NCSRM 2011.
Texas A&M set out to bring divergent social media platforms together to build a brand through their Scavenger Hunt.
In the Higher-Ed Community, we get a lot of feedback questioning the relevance of telling the world where you are. Even moreso than status-updating service Twitter, it can seem pointless, vain, and unsafe to someone who doesn’t understand the value it adds. On our blog, we’ve been documenting the dialogue between those who believe location-based services have value in higher education, and those who don’t. And the verdict is still out.
Imagine if you could see check-ins to libraries and student activity centers; imagine if you could see trends in social habits. The campus is a natural place for mobile-device mediated friend making. People freely friend on Facebook and all of these services. Increasing the frequency that students bump into one another in virtual spaces (which double as real ones with location-based services) drives how connected they feel to one another, even in real life.