Who's running your Class of 2013 Facebook groups?


Prospective students want to connect with their future classmates. Marketers want access to contact lists of prospective customers. In the digital free market of Facebook, these interests are colliding - and universities may be getting caught in the middle.

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Meet a "new media officer"


Ryan McNutt, new media officer with Dalhousie University, explains how social media ended up in his job description and what it means for how his university communicates with key audiences.

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Report from the AMA "MPlanet" Conference


January 26-28, 2009, the American Marketing Association is hosting the "MPlanet" Conference in Orlando Florida. David Sovka, Associate Director of College and Community Relations at Camosun College in Victoria BC, is attending the conference, and has generously offered to provide a daily Guest Blog for Academica readers.

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SEO for Facebook


If you have a lovely new official Facebook Page, obviously you want it up there on the first page of results.

Chances are, however, that if you have a lovely new anything, it probably will not have the "social capital" to merit a first page listing on Facebook. Let's search for:

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Report from the “Blueprint for the Future”


Mark Solomon, Manager of Aboriginal Student Services at Seneca College, shares in this guest blog his observations of "Blueprint for the Future," a career fair targeting Aboriginal youth, which took place January 14 in Winnipeg.

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Report from the Canadian Aboriginal Festival


Mark Solomon, Manager of Aboriginal Student Services at Seneca College, shares in this guest blog his observations of Canadian Aboriginal Festival in Toronto, which ran November 28-30, 2008.

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Facebook Announces New Ad Insights


Just got this little update from Facebook regarding 3 new report types for your Facebook Social Ad campaigns:

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Introducing Grouply - where we connect in a grouply way


Melissa blogs about Grouply, a new niche social network service that seems to be making the rounds. Linked to Yahoo! Groups, a well established list serv platform, Grouply will have an enormous pool of users to pull in.

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Dan Seneker on international student recruitment fairs


Dan Seneker, Associate Director of Student Recruitment at the University of Calgary, shares in this guest blog his observations of a recruitment fair in Korea...

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Edward Fenner -- "Should I Stay or Should I Go?"


This is the time of year that students young and old have The Clash song "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" bouncing around their heads. They have experienced a few weeks of classes, professors, students, line-ups, and all the rest.

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