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Navigating the Higher Ed Enrollment Cliff: How Social Media Managers Can Position Their Institutions for Success

Social Media Strategies Summit

She shared her findings with an audience at our 2023 Social Media Strategies Summit Higher Education Virtual Conference. To understand why , you must rewind the 2007 – 2008 financial crisis. For those groups of students that are going to be increasing, chances are their culture has a very strong family focus.

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Nine Social Media Marketing Stats You Can Use

Webbiquity SMM

Twitter emerged at the SXSW conference in March 2007. The phase “social media marketing” first appeared in searches back in March 2007, but the first spike in interest came in January 2009, when search volume more than doubled from the previous month. Facebook was opened up to the public in 2006. MarketingSherpa ).

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Email Dashboard: Information Overload Research Group news wrapup

Buzz Marketing for Technology

« Information Overload Research Group launches | Main. Information Overload Research Group news wrapup. " And on a related note: Maggie Jackson , the author of Distracted and a featured speaker at the IORG Conference , writes in BusinessWeek about distractions and interruptions. December 2007. November 2007.

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SXSW 2011: Strong on Networking; Less on Content

Dave Fleet

Given that my voice has pretty much deserted me after numerous days trying to have conversations in overly noisy places, I thought I’d get some of my thoughts on the conference down on “paper&# for you. Twitter got its big break-through at SXSW in 2007. Networking Mecca. Content varies in quality. Conclusion: Worth it.

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Top 3 takeaway posts from #SxSW

SocialFish

So as I am sure you know, we were busy bees at ASAE’s Great Ideas conference and at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference which occurred back-to-back a few days ago, so we did not (and have not yet been able to) attend SxSW, yet again. See what you think. Did you go to “southby&# ?

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Open Community Case Study – American Library Association

SocialFish

In 2007 the Library Society of the World (LSW) was created as a reaction to ALA’s institutional characteristics. Groups like the LSW are a new challenge for associations: people feel disenfranchised, frustrated or not interested in the association, or they can’t afford to pay the dues, so they use the web to organize in an ad hoc way.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here are some random thoughts from a collection of these experiences and feedback from conference speeches: 1) Features are NOT user experiences: Warning…if you ask someone about desired user experience and they say wiki or forum, you have work to do. December 2007. November 2007. October 2007. September 2007.