I’ll be at EduWeb in Baltimore for a brief time on Monday around lunch time. I’ll have my video camera, of course. I’ll be looking for a few people who would like to appear on camera and share their thoughts about new media and higher ed marketing, to be posted on this blog and possibly elsewhere. If you’re interested, please contact me at dan dot karleen at thomson dot com.
See you Monday!
In a few minutes I’m giving a brief presentation about new media for the Council of Graduate Schools New Dean’s Institute and Summer Workshop here in Cambridge. Peterson’s is hosting a breakfast, and they gave me the podium. 
Here are a few of the links I’m going to mention.
Peterson’s RSS feeds of graduate program information
Peterson’s Directory of College and University RSS Feeds
HigherEd BlogCon, the virtual conference on new media in higher education
Society for New Communications Research
MySpace.com
YouTube video sharing
OurMedia video sharing
Technorati a blog search engine
LinkedIn.com a popular professional networking site
Second Life a 3-d virtual online world
Along with Pete Johnson from UC Berkeley Haas School (who do an admissions podcast), I’ll be part of a panel on podcasting at the GMAC annual conference June 16.
The Spring 2006 CONFCHEM, a free online conference covering the impact of the Web in chemistry education, gets underway later this week. Jean-Claude Bradley is presenting on the chemistry teacher’s changing role in the age of blogs, podcasts, screencasts, wikis, and games.
I wonder if anyone is keeping a list of free online conferences in higher education.
Despite the early timeslot, we had a hearty turnout this morning at NAGAP for the talk on blogs, podcasts, and RSS, and how they are and can be used in graduate recruiting. There was a considerable amount of excitement about these tools, and much of the time was spent in conversation with those in the audience who had questions, or who had something to share about their own school’s efforts. It was very much the dialogue I had hoped would transpire. If you were in the session, thank you very much for being so engaged and enthusiastic. Below I’m providing a set of links to many of the free resources I mentioned in the talk. I also provide a link to the screencast, which is a movie of the presentation, complete with slides and audio. All you’ll need to do is click on the link for the screencast, and the movie will play in your browser. In an earlier post I talk about the main points I make in the presentation.
View the screencast (click to play the movie in your browser, 65:00)
Get the slides (.ppt slides in a .zip file; 7MB).
Links mentioned in the talk:
Petersons.com, the search portal covering more than 4,000 accredited institutions and 30,000 accredited graduate programs
Oregon State University Admissions Blog
Wordpress.org free open source blogging platform
Definition of a blog
Definition of a podcast
Definition of RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
Johns Hopkins Public Health News Center RSS page
Pew Internet and American Life project
iTunes podcatcher
iPodder podcatcher
FireAnt podcatcher
Technorati.com blog search engine
College and University RSS Feed Directory
Sitemeter.com free web stats site
University of Utah RSS feed page
HigherEd BlogCon, a free online conference on new media in Higher Education
New Communications Review
Naked Conversations, a book on business blogging by Shel Israel and Robert Scoble
Ourmedia.org, a site where you can host video for free
The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross’s blog
Rocketboom.com, daily video podcast
Harvard Law School Admissions Blog
UC Berkeley Haas School podcast
Destination B School 2006, a prospective student blog
Blog of student at Indian School of Business
Blog of French student hoping to get into business school in the US
Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute profile on Petersons.com, showing RPI’s news headlines being published dynamically to Petersons.com via RSS
This morning I’m headed to Las Vegas to lead a talk on blogs, podcasts, and RSS in graduate recruiting at the NAGAP conference. The preliminary program (pdf) is up. Looks like my session is the only having to do with any of those subjects. This is surprising, since quite a few schools have started blogs or podcasts for admissions or recruiting. People may also be surprised–or perhaps not–by how many prospective students are blogging about the admission process. If you’re in admissions or recruiting at any level, you need to realize what’s going on in the blogosphere, and you need to understand and use the tools to help you keep informed. Here is a draft of the slides (.ppt; 10 MB).
Some conference updates hitting the radar…..
First off, congrats to Paul Baker for landing a roundtable facilitator role for a session on blogging and podcasting at the UW Distance Learning Conference.
Next, two conferences where I’ll be presenting:
April 23-26: National Association of Graduate Admission Professionals, on the role of blogs, podcasts, and RSS.
June 15-17: Graduate Management Admissions Council, with Pete Johnson of Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, on podcasting.
And together with Rob Pongsajapan, who did a super presentation on higher ed admissions blogging at last year’s conference, I’ve submitted a proposal to present at eduWEB in Baltimore, July 31. We’re hoping to present on findings from a survey of blogging in higher education that we’ll be launching in a few weeks.
Meanwhile, HigherEd BlogCon, which I’m helping produce, concludes a week of presentations and dialogue on new communications and social technologies in teaching and learning. Week two looks at these tools from the librarian’s perspective.
The New Communications Forum spring 2006 event has ended, and it was a fantastic success. The weather in Palo Alto was exceedingly cooperative, the people friendly and energetic, the keynotes and sessions a helpful mix of theory, dialogue, and example. The program covered topics from basic blogging, podcasting, and wiki techniques to advertising strategies, search engine optimization, the changing world of mainstream media and journalism, and new challenges and opportunities for the corportate communicator.
It was the ideal setting in which to meet many with whom I’ve been working on Society for New Communications Research projects over the last several months, and to continue the discussions we’ve been having online. In particular, John Cass (another SNCR member) and I had a chance to discuss the next steps in advancing work he’s begun on assessing the state of corporate blogging policies. (John was also a panelist in a session covering blogs and SEO.)
It was also an opportunity to meet and speak with many whose work I’ve admired, including Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson, hosts of the For Immediate Release podcast, and the Forrester analyst and blogger Charlene Li, who was a keynoter. (I wasn’t able to attend Shel and Neville’s workshop on podcasting, but I’m told it was a huge success.)
There were also a few in attendance connected with the world of higher education, and I hope to post interviews with some of them in the coming weeks.
I’ve podcast conferences before, but never have I been as involved in live blogging as deeply as I was in blogging the Forum, something I did as part of my work with SNCR, which, it was announced last week, will assume ownership of the conference. Live blogging turns out to be a memory enhancer. I’m sure I’ll recall the sessions I live blogged much more effectively than those I didn’t. With the rapid pace of an event like this one, it’s a challenge to make live blogging rise above mere note-taking, but I hope I was successful in at least a few cases.
I’ve nearly concluded my assignment as a live blogger for the event. Here is a link to live posts from NewComm (my posts and a handful of others)–altogether more than twelve posts. In the coming days I’ll be posting video interviews I did with Nicole Simon, Shel Israel, Dan Forbush, and others during the event. You’ll be able to get them on this feed for NewComm posts.
According to the organizers, attendance at this year’s Forum doubled last year’s–an indication of the exploding interest in the use of blogs, podcasts, wikis, and other new media in communications. There’s a fall Forum being planned, most likely for Washington, DC.
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The New Communications Forum begins this morning in Palo Alto, CA, with live blogging here on the New Communications Review.
Here’s a feed to subscribe to live blogging from the conference: http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewCommunicationsForumLive.
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