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Coming attractions: AACRAO, AMA

This Sunday, I’ll be in Dallas to talk about social media at one of the pre-conference workshops offered prior to the AACRAO Strategic Enrollment Management Conference. I hope to see some of you there although I won’t be able to attend the full conference.

Then later this month, I’ll be in Boston for the American Marketing Association’s Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education. I won’t be presenting, but our chancellor, John F. Carney III, is one of the keynote presenters. Hope to see some of you there, too.

Coolest university website ever?

Web designers, the gauntlet has been thrown.

<i>Screen shot from Zokei University's web campaign, via Adverblog.</i> — *Screen shot from Zokei University's web campaign, via Adverblog.*

According to Adverblog, this website — part of a recruitment campaign for Tokyo’s Zokei University, an art and design school — is the coolest university website ever. (Hat tip to @ConversationAge for the link.)

Quoth Adverblog:

The website looks exactly like a[n] 8-bit videogame, and I can’t imagine a better way to drive recruitment for an art and design school. If the website is so fresh and “brave”, you can definitely expect their approach to education to be as fresh and open.

It’s interesting, no doubt. But is it cool? It may be big in Japan, but would it work in the West?

What do you think?