Author Archive | Jesse Bardo

About the Author

Jesse Bardo is the Director of Sales & Marketing at EverTrue, a leading provider of mobile apps designed to support Independent School Alumni Relations. Jesse previously served as Director at edSocialMedia and Admission Counselor & Communications Coordinator at Northfield Mount Hermon School. As a leading practitioner of social media in the independent school world, Jesse worked with NMH’s communication team to weave facebook, blogging, twitter, Youtube & flickr into NMHBook- a cutting edge social media & communications aggregator site that greatly enhanced the school’s admission outreach and contributed to record admission yields. Jesse is a graduate of Phillips Andover Academy and Wesleyan University.

edSocialMedia and Whipplehill CASE-NAIS 2011 Tweetup!

Posted January 24, 2011

Join edSocialMedia and Whipplehill for a CASE NAIS Tweetup! It's a terrific opportunity for educators and administrators at the conference to talk social media and schools.

Making Facebook Pay Dividends: From Inquiry to Alum (Boston)

Posted January 13, 2011

Join edSocialMedia for Making Facebook Pay Dividends (Boston), a two hour seminar showcasing examples of proven Facebook strategies in independent schools.

edSocialMedia Boston Tweetup!

Posted January 12, 2011

Note: Due to weather, the 1/12/11 edSocialMedia Tweetup at John Harvards Brew House is cancelled. We hope to reschedule & host the event in the very near future. Send any questions to info@edsocialmedia.com. Join edSocialMedia for a Boston Area Tweetup! It's a terrific opportunity for educators and administrators in and around Boston to talk social media and schools.

edSocialMedia at EdCamp NYC

Posted December 04, 2010

Join Blogger-in-Chief Bill Stites for this great event. edSocialMedia is proud to sponsor EdCamp NYC this year and we hope you will come out and enjoy the day.

TABS & edSocialMedia Clinic

Posted December 04, 2010

The Doctors are in! From a broken Twitter hashtag to a Facebook page content infusion, no problem is too big or too small. Stop by the Clinic at The Association of Boarding Schools Conference for 30 seconds — or 30 minutes — and receive free advice from social media experts and practitioners.

NYC Bootcamp! November 13, 2010

Posted November 13, 2010

edSocialMedia Bootcamp A Hands-on Social Media Workshop for School Administrators and Teachers. Join us on November 13th, 2010 at The Dwight School, New York, NY for a social media bootcamp experience. Learn how social media can help you strengthen relationships with the constituents that matter most- your students, parents, faculty & alumni. Who should attend: K-12 [...]

Favorite Independent School Facebook Pages

Posted October 29, 2010

After reading Patrick Powers’ (@patrickjpowers on twitter) great blog post on best university Facebook Pages, I thought I would do something similar with regards to the independent schools I am familiar with. Patrick points out different things about each page that he likes and sees as useful for a variety of reasons. I attempt to [...]

edSocialMedia Sponsoring TSETC!

Posted October 02, 2010

Mashable’s Case for Social Media in Schools

Posted September 30, 2010

Sarah Kessler’s (@sarahfkessler) article for Mashable on social media in schools is a must read. Kessler presents six arguments that are worthy of any school’s consideration- 1. Social Media is not going away 2. When kids are engaged, they learn better 3. Safe social media tools are available and they’re free 4. (my favorite) Replace [...]

Geo-location Podcast with SCVNGR’s Jeff Kirchick

Posted September 22, 2010

SCVNGR interview- Click to hear podcast. Jeff Kirchick is a Universities & Independent Schools Specialist at SCVNGR, a Google-funded mobile gaming platform. In his role at SCVNGR, Jeff works with some of the company’s 350+ university clients and all of its recent independent school clients to build location-based games that encourage interaction with places on [...]