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May 03, 2012 | Sarah Deutsch: BREAKING NEWS FROM THE CDC: How to Tweet

Great Social Media advice from an unexpected source - the CDC.

March 20, 2012 | Craig Isakson: Underdog

This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend Mobile March in the Twin Cities.  During the conference, I attended a four hour long Microsoft Windows Phone training session.  My reasoning for attending this session was to learn more about a platform I have little experience in.

February 28, 2012 | Damie Berkey: How To Mitigate Google’s Panda Content Filter

Much has been made of the Panda search algorithm update, implemented by Google in February 2011, with several additional updates over the past year. Panda was created to devalue low quality content in search rankings. 

September 01, 2010 | Brent Teiken: A World Series Run or a Basement Dweller?

As with any great sports program or any great company, a winning tradition is built over time and developing leaders isn’t something that happens by accident.

July 29, 2010 | Greg Ness: How To Prevent Marketing Irrelevancy

Pedal to the metal – that’s the speed of marketing change over the last five years. Anyone in marketing, who doesn’t spend a considerable amount of time each day, week, and month learning and applying how marketing is changing, is planning an exit strategy whether they know it or not.

June 01, 2010 | Greg Ness: The World Needs More Creativity

The physical world and business world face increasingly complex problems, and it is going to take a creativity revolution to solve them. But how do we change the status quo to engender this critically needed transformation. Maybe Sir Ken Robinson has the key by suggesting a fundamental rework of our whole educational system with an emphasis on personalized learning. The technology is in place for such a restructuring.

Check Ken Robinson’s TED talk above to learn more about his bold prescription for reshaping education.

January 04, 2010 | Lee Schwartz: School Alumni Foundations vs. Facebook

Alumni foundations used to have it good. Sure, it wasn’t always easy keeping track of alumni through their various moves and careers, but for a long time foundations were able to control their “brand” and messages through the traditional vehicles: newsletters, school magazines, email newsletters, and direct mail. The only source of information (and the only way to contact their former classmates) was through the school itself.

Then along came Facebook.

August 11, 2008 | Sara Litton: E-Textbooks Coming To A College Laptop Near You

The class of 2012 appears to be the largest class of students to hit the college scene. This fall, they will be making their presence known nationwide at 13.6 million students strong. Estimates show that these four-year college students will spend around $4,000 on books throughout their college career. But now, a new eBook service from CafeScribe claims to be a new, easier, greener and less expensive service with which to buy textbooks.

February 10, 2008 | Greg Ness: You’ve Been Accepted To MIT, the University of Notre Dame, and Tokyo Institute of Technology

Over a year ago I posted here about an outstanding free public educational resource called the Open Courseware Consortium. A story on Wise Bread recently made me realize how much this program has grown.

The Open Courseware Consortium offers free access to thousands of classes at over 100 world universities. MIT alone offers 1800 courses!

There’s nothing like a little Quantum Physics to get your Sunday off to a good cerebral start.

November 06, 2007 | Sarah VanNevel: FEMA News Conference Disaster Teaches Valuable PR Lesson

Unless you’ve been out of the country recently, chances are you’ve heard about the fake news conference held by the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) public affairs department about the wildfires in California. While a lot of governmental affairs are beyond my understanding, this PR misstep is one that will be dissected for years to come.

October 29, 2007 | Greg Ness: SCADshorts Featured Content On YouTube

Here’s a reminder to visit SCADshorts and enter to win an iPod. I’ve posted about SCADshorts before, so I’ll let the site do the talkin’. SCADshorts was featured content on YouTube’s home page yesterday and this morning. SCADshorts involves the efforts of Matt Charpentier (et al.) on our staff and some of his colleagues from the Savannah School of Art and Design.

I noticed the site was moving a little slow this morning. Hey, that’s what happens when you get famous!

September 10, 2007 | Sarah VanNevel: Colleges Get Creative with Recruiting Ads

Now that Labor Day has passed, students across the nation are back in school, cracking open new (and expensive) textbooks. Classes at the University of Minnesota (where I’m a student) started Tuesday. With the fourth largest student body in the nation, the U of M Twin Cities boasts 50,000 students alone. What made all these people want to enroll here? What made me decide to attend the U of M? Come to think of it, what makes any student want to attend any particular school? The answer to that is simple—college recruiting ads.