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Links of the Week May 30th, 2008

I’m still trying to catch up from my previous five day weekend, but still lots of good links to share. Also wanted to shoot another plug out for eduWEB Conference 2008! I just found out this week that I’ve been bumped up to a session slot and will be presenting on Email Marketing, basically walking [...]

Marketing Lessons Learned from Indy 500

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So any of you who are regular readers know that I went to the Indy 500 last weekend and you probably also know I broke my regular tradition of attending the Coca Cola 600 to do such. Now having perspective of both events I think it might be worthwhile to take a comparative analysis of [...]

Unplugging for the Weekend

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So tomorrow is going to be the first “Links of the Week” I’ll miss since this blog was started five months ago but I’m fully unplugging for the weekend and heading to the Indy 500 for Memorial Day Weekend. Usually I’m more of a Coca Cola 600 person as this is going to be only [...]

Blog Upgrade: Student Video Blogger

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Starting in January we tried something a little different with our First Year Student blogs. As I’ve reported before I had a hunch that prospective students care more about videos, where their parents are more likely to read the student blogs. In a creative effort and some good collaboration we were able to combine the [...]

Reminder: Email Marketing Webcast Tomorrow at 2PM EDT

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This is just a quick reminder to make sure that you sign up for the Email Marketing Webcast that I’m doing tomorrow afternoon with DJ Waldow from Bronto. It promises to be an insightful look into an element of Wofford’s marketing campaign that has become a very important piece of the puzzle in a short [...]

Links of the Week May 16th, 2008

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Wofford’s commencement is this weekend and Phillip Stone’s From the Archive blog has posted quite a few interesting posts about commencement over the last week. One that I found really interesting was one about Commencement at Wofford in 1858. Man things have changed over the last 150 years, but what an interesting look at how [...]

Quick Post: Heat Mapping and Monthly Blog Data

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I just wanted to share some quick data from a board of trustee’s committee presentation that I made yesterday. Two specific slides stood out as something I thought would be neat to share. (Click on the images for larger versions)

Upcoming Bronto E-mail Marketing Webcast with this guy!

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Just a quick heads up to inform people about an upcoming webcast that I’m doing next week with the awesome people at Bronto. Sign-up for the webcast next Tuesday, May 20th at 2pm EDT.

Happy Mother’s Day!

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Hopefully everyone spent time with loved ones today and let their mom know how much they love her?

Links of the Week (Remix) May 9th, 2008

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So in tribute to a certain blog who’s traditionally known for their “Friday Five” series and who’s very hit or miss these days I’m going to attempt to cut down on the amount of links that I force feed my loyal readers. Some reason you keep coming back and that’s pretty cool, so thanks. The [...]