Our post on using Twitter for recruiting is being featured in the Carnival of College Admission being hosted by AdmissionsQuest a boarding school website. There is some great content there so be sure to check …

Social media participation by adults 25 and older is growing fast. The case for bringing the school’s message to the places the constituents are spending time is growing along with it.

I was watching this video on the Open Road blog at CNET of a keynote address Clay Shirky from NYU gave at the Web 2.0 Expo in NY last year. His premise was that worrying …

Check out this link to a series of podcasts focusing on using social media in teaching and learning.

Schools must make it a priority to educate students about how to engage with social media, because they will be doing it anyway.

I’m happy to welcome Antonio Viva as a contributor to edSocialMedia. Antonio is the Associate Head of School at Worcester Academy in Worcester, MA, where he previously served as CIO. He is a self described …

Twitter can be a compelling recruiting tool for coaches and for admission offices.

I really enjoyed this post, tantalizing titled “What’s the f-ing point of social media?“  from Caitlin Rosberg at You Ruined my Childhood. It isn’t about marketing or anything (if anything it is a slam of …

Ernest and I have been sharing our thoughts about social media in our blogs at ProofGroup.com for a while now. Now that we have launched edSocialMedia we are going to be doing our social media …

Rachel Reuben wrote a nice post at .eduGuru asking whether colleges really need a social media strategy. To be clear, she isn’t suggesting that it might not be necessary for colleges to invest in social …