Posts by David Poteet

College Facebook groups getting hijacked

Brad Ward reported yesterday on his Squaredpeg blog that he's uncovered what looks like rings of people who are creating groups for incoming freshmen classes on Facebook (or getting admin privileges on these groups) for questionable purposes. These people are not actually applying to or planning to attend these schools. They may be developing networks that will allow them to easily target students with marketing campaigns.

Schools need to be aware that their Facebook communities may be…

White Paper: Conducting a Higher Ed Site Audit

In conjunction with our presentations during the summer of 2008 at Eduweb and CASE Europe, we have published a white paper describing a research-based approach to conducting a site audit for higher education web sites.

Here's the abstract:

What if you could find 20 ways to dramatically improve your school's website with only a few hours of work? The answers are hidden in your own site content. The question is how can you, with a limited amount of time and money, determine which…

Skoolpool cool – Facebook connection for students & colleges

I traveled to Eduweb 2008 this week in Atlantic City (Pamela Michael of Imperial College London and I gave a presentation) and saw some cool new ideas for higher education and the web. One of those is SkoolPool. It's a Facebook application that allows:

• Colleges to create profile pages within Facebook, and
• Students to create lists of schools they're considering, and meet other people who are going to the same school.

SkoolPool was created by Academica Group based on extensive research into the…