Category: Friday Five

Friday Five: not that you asked, but…

The Internet is full of unsolicited advice. Some of it is even useful. Here are five bits of counsel that may interest you:

  1. For writers: Five easy steps to editing your own work, by Anna Goldsmith of The Hired Pens, guest blogging at CopyBlogger.
  2. For marketers struggling with ROI of social media: Valeria Maltoni of Conversation Agent offers some ideas about measurement as part of a marketing meme making the rounds.
  3. For communicators, marketers, history buffs and closet socialists: FutureLab offers a lesson in mass communications with Soviet Propaganda – The Art of Mass Persuasion. Posted by Ilya Vedrashko on Thursday, the 90th anniversary of Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution, it features Vedrashko’s slide show of images that “showcase some of the tools and techniques used by the Soviet AgitProp (agitation and propaganda) as well as other governments, democratic and otherwise, and how some of the imagery was borrowed by brand marketers.” Makes you wonder who really won the cold war.
  4. For web designers and managers: Sam Jackson’s take on why college and university web sites don’t make the grade.
  5. For alumni relations folks: Andy Shaindlin (alumni futures) introduces a new Facebook group just for you.

Bonus link: discovered later but for everyone — be they writers, editors, designers, marketers, bosses, bureaucrats, teachers, students … anyone and everyone: 10 Simple, Sure-fire Ways to Make Today Your Best Day Ever. Just gloss over the metaphysical portions if you like (although I recommend reading the whole thing). If you don’t read it today, read it before you go to work on Monday.

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Now playing: The New Pornographers – Adventures In Solitude
via FoxyTunes

Friday Five: a little link love

Passing along a little higher ed link love today:

  1. MizzouWire is my alma mater‘s shiny, relaunched new news site. It’s even got an editor’s blog.
  2. templatedata is a recent addition to the blogroll and RSS. Written by four members of the University of Sydney‘s web services team, it’s chock full of thoughtful ideas and links from around the net.
  3. The Old College Try continues to inform and entertain.
  4. Michael Stoner’s mStoner Blog is another fave. A recent post there about strategic planning of all things isn’t the yawner you’d think, given its subject matter. My only gripe about Stoner’s blog is that a login is required to comment.
  5. EducationPR shares an interesting graph showing the differences in how students at the University of Wisconsin use technology versus faculty and staff.

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Now playing: Wilco – Either Way
via FoxyTunes