On Tuesday, my main domain name – markagreenfield.com stopped working. It appears that someone has stolen the domain and  I’m not sure if I am going to be able to get it back. The good news is that I did reserve the domain name markgr.com which is up and running. I’ll let you know when  Read more »

The Boston Globe just published an interesting article called Colleges turn to Web tools in hunt for ’08 freshmen. While most of the information is not news to higher education web professionals, it is another arrow in the quiver when convincing admi

The Pareto Principle states, 80% of the results flow from 20% of the activities. In 2006, Jakob Nielsen wrote “Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute”. When studying user behavior in online social networks, most users lurk ra

Over the past three weeks I’ve been involved with the launch of a new social network targeted at higher education web professionals. The uwebd (University Web Developers) mailing list has been around for 10 years and has always been an excellent sou

In 2008, I plan on writing and speaking extensively on Social Networks, with special attention paid to niche or vertical social networks. Here are a few of the blogs that I currently follow on Social Networki