Keynoting ACUI Region IV Conference Today…
I am pleased to be one of the Keynote speakers at this week’s ACUI Region IV Conference. This session finds me discussing student like online and how it can impact their civic and campus engagement. Many thanks to my scholar-colleague Adam Gismondi who is letting me use some of the concepts he developed in his research on this topic. In addition to the keynote address, I will also be presenting a follow up educational session that takes some of the themes from my keynote and goes into further detail about how professionals… Read More
2014 Ranking of the Most Engaged #HigherEd & #StudentAffairs Professional Orgs on Twitter
Having a social media presence is increasingly becoming a requirement for any organization. I was interested in how the professional associations in higher education and student affairs engage online, so I decided to take a look at their Twitter presences and put together a ranking of the “most influential” associations. The metric I chose to use is each organization’s Klout score. Klout is a company that uses a proprietary algorithm in an attempt to quantify the “influence” of an organization. Klout scores range from 1-100, and it becomes exponentially harder to raise one’s… Read More
