Here’s your chance to tell the boss what you think…

…about social media, that is.

Michael Stoner and Liz Allen are working on a presentation about what your boss needs to know about social media, and they’re looking for your input. They’ll be speaking this July at the CASE Summit for Advancement Leaders, which means they’ll have the ear of many higher-ups. If you ever wanted to tell the boss what you think about social media, now’s your chance.

“Our assumption,” Michael writes in a recent blog post, “is that many institutional leaders think social media/social networking is important but don’t know what to do, who to listen to, or where to invest staff time and (perhaps) money. I hear this all the time from presidents and VPs at our client institutions.

“So we thought we’d ask people who know best what their bosses should know. You.”

Michael and Liz are looking for input on these three questions:

  1. What misconceptions do senior leaders at your institution have about social networking/social media?
  2. What should they know that would help them to help you to do your job more effectively?
  3. Can you offer us examples of successful instances in which social media or social networks (we’re most interested in Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter) have been used to meet specific, measured goals? We’d like to do case studies and need some really good examples.

Please share your input on Michael’s mStoner blog, or catch up with him and Liz on Twitter (@mStonerblog and @lizallen, respectively).

Wednesday morning catch-up: Edu blogger winners, #CASECMT,

A little middle-of-the-week catchup on news higher ed folks should know about:

Congratulations to The Old College Try (aka DW) for winning the grand prize in the Edu Blogger Scholarship competition. DW won for her entry Top Distance Learning Marketing Challenges, and Karine Joly announced the winners today on her blog, CollegeWebEditor.com. Congrats also to Shelley Keith and Heidi Cool for winning the random drawings.

#CASECMT is the hashtag to follow this year’s CASE Conference on Communications, Marketing and Technology, which gets going today. Paul Redfern (@coachfern for you Twitter tweeters) is the chair of this year’s event, and it looks like he’s got a good lineup of faculty.

Today is the final day to nominate a higher ed blogger for the EduStyle higher ed blogger award. Karine Joly offers 10 nominees for your consideration.