Category: higher education

2 resources for higher ed tweeters and their schools

Via Karine Joly‘s enewsletter, I learned about a project to list all the higher ed tweeters and college/university Twitter accounts. It’s called higheredtweeters.com and is the project of Marie Howell, who works at the University of California-Santa Barbara.

There’s another resource for anyone interested in higher ed Twitter usage: the @higheredu Twitter account put together by DIOSA Communications (Heather Mansfield).

If your university has a Twitter account, be sure to get on both of these lists. But if you’re a higher ed tweep whose school doesn’t have a Twitter account, then sign up for Marie’s new site.

Top edu marketing challenges: survey says…

[E]ven in hard economic times, the challenges for marketing communications people on campuses of all kinds are not that different than they are in flush times.

That’s the conclusion Michael Stoner draws from his recent survey of higher ed marketers. Michael worked with Slover Linett Strategies on the survey (which I posted about back in December). On Tuesday, Michael posted a summary of the survey results and a link to the full report (PDF).

So, in these tough economic times, what are the biggest challenges? Tell ’em, Richard!

The survey says:

  1. Branding and messaging
  2. Rethinking and expanding communication outreach approaches and formats
  3. Incoporating new media and/or technology strategies.

“What’s different now, of course,” Michael adds, “is that tactics and solutions are very much dependent on the economy (this was the fourth challenge marketers identified).”

More detail in the full report.