by Mark Greenfield | Nov 18, 2008 | Blog, Social Media
Using Social Media to Enhance Student Services Wednesday, December 3rd- 1:00-3:00 EST Come join Brad Ward, Todd Sanders and I as we explore how higher educational institutions can leverage the full power and potential of social media to enhance student services....
by Mark Greenfield | Sep 23, 2008 | Blog, Social Media, Social Networks, uwebd social site
On November 11, I will be teaching a webinar for Higher Ed Experts as part of the “Social Networks MBA” series. The objective of this series is to help you decide if your institution should launch its own private niche social networking website, and how...
by Mark Greenfield | Jul 24, 2008 | Blog, Conferences, Social Media
Random thoughts from my first trip to the eduWeb conference: First, I’d like to thank Shelley Wetzel for the invitation to speak at the conference. Kudos to Shelley and her staff for the time and effort it takes to run the conference. For those of you...
by Mark Greenfield | Jul 16, 2008 | Conferences, Social Media, Social Networks, Web 2.0
eduWeb is now less than a week away. Brad Ward and I are teaching a workshop called Join the Conversation: Social Media in Higher Education where we will be providing an in depth look at how higher educational institutions can leverage the full power and potential of...
by Mark Greenfield | Jul 14, 2008 | Future, Millennials, Read/Write Web, Social Media, Web 2.0
Over the past month I have returned to Twitter. Previously I had been using Jaiku, mainly because of their channel feature. But with so many of my colleagues using Twitter, it was time to make the switch. I have been amazed at the value Twitter has provided for me...
by Mark Greenfield | Jan 10, 2008 | Blog, Social Media, Social Networks, uwebd social site
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 rather...
