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Top 10 .eduGuru Posts of

6. January

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Here we are closing out another year.  Hard believe that this blog is almost two years old!  Wow, so much has happened in the last two years both in my life and in this blog.  For a tradition started last year here are the top ten posts written inbased on pageviews.  In a [...]

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For Your Consideration…

18. August

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We received some great designs for our Stamats SIM Tech Contest.  Now it’s time for you to vote and decide the winner!  We’ve narrowed it down to our top 5 designs, and now your vote will pick who gets a free registration to SIM Tech in Boston, where Rachel, Founderand I will all be [...]

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eduTweetup: It’s STILL About the Community, Stupid

11. August

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So I’ll be one of many to proclaim our second eduTweetup last Saturday as another major success.  A great time was had by all, especially when the late-night dancing began.  Our community continues to grow and expand as I was able to meet for the first time a handful of individuals who work at local [...]

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T-Shirt Contest Extended! Win a SIMTech registration.

29. July

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We have decided to extend our .eduGuru t-shirt design contest deadline to Friday, August 7! This is your chance to win a free registration to the Stamats SIM Tech conference in November in Boston, where Founder, Director of Web Communication and myself will all be speaking.  Last year’s conference was a blast, and this one is [...]

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eduTweetup in Harvard Square Area (Boston, MA)

28. July

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The last education Tweetup in Boston was a smashing success, so why not do it again and make it bigger and better?  Last time around, it was specifically a Higher Education Tweetup, but this time I’m going to expand and make  it simply an Education Tweetup.  So what does that mean?  It means that everyone [...]

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Division III Releases Social Networking Rule Change for Communicating with Prospective Student-Athletes

22. July

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The Division III Management Council just released their newly adopted “noncontroversial change to the Division III electronic transmissions limitations.” They’ve given it a retroactive effective date of August 1,to match when their original legislation went into effect. They’ve also released this article: “DIII Council opens up use of social-networking media“

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Your Faculty: Do you hide or praise them?

15. July

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Something that gets overlooked quite a bit in the web process is the content you don’t control, your faculty. Faculty are an intricate part of every university and essential to any graduate student, especially Ph.D. looking for a program. Promoting your faculty can be almost as important as promoting your programs.

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Don’t Forget to Vote for the eduStyle Awards!

27. May

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Voting for the second annual eduStyle awards closes in just a couple of days, and we wanted to give you a reminder to drop by and vote!  Not only that, be sure to drop a checkmark down for .eduGuru for the best higher ed blog.  Just in case you need some more convincing though, I [...]

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Come Give Director of Web Communicationa Birthday Present!

Today is Director of Web Communication’s birthday! It’s the big 25! After the fun success of the rest of the team turning my birthday a few months back into a marketing campaign I feel not so shameless to give this another try. So for Rachel’s Birthday this year she REALLY wants you to vote for .eduGuru to [...]

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Captioning your YouTube videos with CaptionTube

20. April

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I’m an accessibility advocate and one thing thats been bothering me for a while was the lack of an easy way to caption videos uploaded to YouTube. They clearly explain they support closed captioning:

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