Category: conferences

Loads of links: March 13, 2008

So it’s St. Pat’s Week here at Missouri S&T, where we’ve been caught up in all manner of revelry and enjoyed a beautiful spring day yesterday to welcome the Patron Saint of Engineers’ arrival into our fair city. Not only is it St. Pat’s Week, but it’s the 100th Annual St. Pat’s Celebration, and that makes it extra special and extra busy for us. Ergo, not much time to blog. But the RSS feeds are running over with good stuff to share. Here’s some of it. More in my shared items.

  • Facebook? Not in our house! A nice rant about student recruitment in the era of social networking, with great discussion in the comments. Chime in.
  • Data like a drug. Why do we love to web-surf for data so much? Because it triggers a feel-good opiate-like chemical in our brains.
  • Worst. Mascots. Ever.
  • Yet another blog to feed our data jones: Measurement Matters, a new social media/PR measurement blog. Hat tip: @kdpaine via Twitter.
  • Dennis Miller’s Observations from CUPRAP and how the times for higher ed PR they are a-changin’.
  • How to influence the eduStyle awards.
  • Roger von Oech on avoiding arrogance. “This [arrogance] is devastating to the creative process; in a world that is continually changing, every right idea is eventually the wrong one.”
  • Faculty members should learn to dance, and their students should teach them. A psych professor’s modest proposal.
  • Experimenting with the social media release.
  • Sproutbuilder is a site where you can create all kinds of multimedia content — or “sprouts.” “Sprouts are interactive and portable chunks of web content. Some people call them widgets, mashups or mini-sites but we just call them sprouts.” Gotta check this out. Hat tip to @JeremyWilburn via Twitter.
  • 20 free ebooks or white papers on web design.
  • The unexpected trap of writing for social media, wherein Copyblogger cautions us to “always remember that the quality of the content is paramount and be vigilant not to sacrifice that quality upon the altar of optimization.” (Keywords: content, writing, search engine optimization, SEO.)
  • 25 marketing ideas from the SXSW swag bag. Good stuff. (Note to self: Metanotes.) But the swag would be nice, too.

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    SXSW

    A lot of the folks I follow on Twitter are at SXSW Interactive as I blog this, and they’ve been tweeting up a storm over the past 24 hours. All the social media superstars are there, I think, along with a gaggle of microblogging groupies (and I mean that in the nicest way, for that is what I would be were I present). The best part — the SXSW music event — hasn’t even gotten started yet. Anyway, if you’re among the masses who are not at SXSW but want to follow along, but don’t want to sort through the Twitter clutter, here are a few resources:

    • The BFG Communications blog is doing a nice job of wrapping up the early sessions. BFG posted a summary of Forrester guru Charlene Li‘s presentation, Social Strategies for Revolutionaries, and linked to her presentation on SlideShare.
    • SXSW in pictures. If you’d rather look at a picture than read, ClickZ points to the work of Sunni Brown and Marilyn Martin, who “graphically record the proceedings – quickly, compellingly and more succinctly than many of the journalists or bloggers in the vast session rooms.” Cool stuff.
    • Coverage of today’s big event, an interview with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, which apparently turned truly interactive. Jeff Jarvis (BuzzMachine) reports on the event, as does Mashable’s Kristen Nicole.
    • Perhaps some of the higher ed bloggers who went to the SXSW Higher Ed Web Meetup last Friday will also be posting. It would be nice to get a higher ed perspective on some of the discussion.

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