Postmortem Notes: The Foursquare/Plancast Experiment
Last month, we announced we were conducting an experiment using Plancast and Foursquare to add a social layer to the 2010 Noel Levitz’ National Conference on Student Recruitment, Marketing and Retention and the 2010 eduWEB conference. A few weeks later, we’ve been able to digest the results and get feedback to report on.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Global Education: A New Frontier
Demand for quality, reputable education outstrips supply by a long shot. Entrepreneurs, smell an opportunity? Chris Whittle does.
Developing a Graphic Identity in Higher Ed
Developing a new graphic identity for a university is one of the hardest jobs in graphic design – a successful rebrand must communicate a long past of preparing students for the future. Even if the rebranding manages to be forward thinking, but not trendy AND traditional, but not old fashioned, the design team will probably [...]
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.
Interview with Katie Wartman
Katie Wartman is a graduate student at Boston College and a Resident Advisor at Simmons College. She is the co-author of Online Social Networking on Campus.


















