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		<title>Is Social Isolation a Problem on Today&#8217;s Campus?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Croke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve seen any of our presentations, we often quote the statistic &#8220;3 out of the top 5 reasons students drop out are social in nature&#8221; from the ACT 2004 study on What Works in Student Retention. Although statistics like these are important, they lack the personal story that affects students every year. Yesterday, I was shocked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Networking for Engagement and Retention</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Croke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the recent talk about using social networking to increase student engagement on college campuses, schools are scrambling to find data to support spending time, money, and effort on implementing new strategies that involve tools such as Facebook and Twitter. Here is a collection of recent research.]]></description>
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		<title>Admissions Marketing &#8211; What&#8217;s Here vs. What&#8217;s Next</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Croke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve been summarizing the 2011 Noel-Levitz marketing and student recruitment research that is extremely important to the higher ed market. After reviewing their reports last weeks our CEO, Michael Staton, pointed out something: Focusing on what is true today is not going to help schools position themselves to take advantage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inigral Receives Program-Related Investment from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Staton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inigral Inc. announced today that the Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation has made a $2 million program-related investment (PRI) in the education technology company.   Students use the application to obtain and share information about the academic and social environment at their school, as well as to find other students with similar interests, experiences or course loads and to organize face-to-face meetings.]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Hook&#8221; of Social Networks and Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Staton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Networks in Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People that post things on the internet for others to see are subject to the extraordinarily powerful force of positive, negative, or no feedback at all for an indefinite and infinite amount of time.  This is the first time in human history that this is so, and frankly, our neurons are not wired to handle this kind of uncertainty.  In fact, humans are highly motivated to seek out certainty and security in regards to social acceptance, inclusion, and praise.   ]]></description>
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