MAKE 2018 THE YEAR YOU REALLY OWN YOUR SITE AND ENSURE THE CONTENT AND DESIGN REFLECT THE QUALITY OF YOUR INSTITUTION.
In this webinar, we cover the six things you need to know to set up your redesign project for success. You’ll learn how to:
1. Use insights from data to justify a website redesign, and what to do while you’re waiting for budgetary approval.
2. Set your priorities by determining goals and success metrics around engagement, conversion, brand building, and internal efficiency and collaboration.
3. Identify blind spots. (Spoiler alert: We have a list of top 10 mistakes that institutions usually make, and how to avoid them.)
4. Create a strong RFP that great firms will want to respond to, and choose the best-fit partner for your needs.
5. Create realistic expectations internally around cost, process, and community engagement.
6. Move your website from a capital project to an ongoing process.
Have you ever wondered what prospective teens are thinking when they receive and read — or ignore —your institution's recruitment marketing?
Prospective teen students are the prime audience for many higher education marketers. To reach them, we rely on a set of best practices targeted to teen needs and interests when building marketing and recruitment plans.
This third study in the Mythbusting series is the first to focus on the complete enrollment marketing mix.
In partnership with NRCCUA® (National Research Center for College & University Admissions), we designed a survey asking prospective teens to share their frank opinions of tactics institutions use to reach and engage them. We administered an identical survey to higher ed enrollment and marketing professionals to find out what they know (or think they know) about what teens want.
The resulting presentation explores where these perspectives converge — and differ — and how marketers can leverage this knowledge. We uncover the best channels for boosting visibility among prospective teen students and identify what encourages them to apply to your institution.
Mythbusting Websites: What Prospects Value About #HigherEd Websites (and What...mStoner, Inc.
Prospective students — especially teens — are a prime audience for a college website. But do we really know what teens are looking for when they visit your .edu? We designed, in partnership with mStoner, Inc. and Higher Ed Live, a survey asking teens to share their frank opinions of the college websites they’ve visited.
We asked them to tell us what they looked for on websites when they were researching colleges, choosing where to apply, and deciding which to attend. What did they like about the sites they visited? What was the most important content — and when was it important? What were the frustrations they experienced? What were the best sites they looked at? And they didn’t hold back.
Next, we sent the same survey to admission staff, web developers, designers, and marketers at colleges who were designing and redesigning websites for this key audience. We wanted to find out what they knew (or thought they knew) about what teens wanted.
The resulting presentation will explore where their perspectives converge — and where they differ — and how marketers can leverage this knowledge.
What You Will Learn
• What’s important, when. Knowing what kind of content students value and when in their college search and choice process they particularly value it helps college and university staff tune up websites and informs content strategy and storytelling.
• Where the problems are on .edu websites. Identifying typical problems on college websites helps colleges to ensure that they address those issues on their own sites.
• Where to invest your time and resources. You’ll learn what kinds of content prospects value so you can create more of it: If prospects don’t value alumni profiles, why create them?
• What college web, marketing, and admissions professionals don’t understand about what teens do on their sites. We’ll highlight significant disconnects between what on-campus professionals think they know about what teens do, and what they actually do.
This year's study, in partnership with Chegg, reveals where perspectives from teens using college websites and higher ed marketing professionals converge and differ — and how marketers can leverage this knowledge.
Based on research conducted in 2016 by Chegg and mStoner, this presentation explores:
- Seven common myths about what prospective students like and don’t like about college websites.
- Perspectives from prospective teen students and college marketing professionals — where they converge, where they differ — and how marketers can leverage this knowledge.
- Website content that best influences prospective students’ admission journeys.
- Best practices for website organization and strategy.
Mythbusting Admissions: Where Prospects and Professionals Agree, and Disagree...mStoner, Inc.
Download this webinar for free: http://mstnr.me/2bMtwrb
We know that teens are connected, that they love their devices, and that they look at our websites on their smartphones. But does that mean that they want to be texted by a college? Are they creeped out when they’re followed on Facebook or Instagram by an admissions officer? What, exactly, are they looking for on your website: cool images or simple information about your majors?
Using data from surveys of teens engaged in the college search and choice process collected by Chegg and data from enrollment professionals collected by mStoner Inc., we’ll explore where the perspectives of these two groups converge — and where they differ. Then, we’ll discuss how marketers can leverage this knowledge in engaging with this critical audience.
What You Will Learn:
• What teens consider to be the top sources of information about colleges
• Effective ways to get in touch with teens
• Where to focus your time and energy in marketing to teens
NACAC 2015 - Findings from the 2015 Social Admissions ReportTargetX
Students today are part of a changing digital ecosystem. Their natural instinct is to travel online to find information, using social media and mobile technology as an extension of themselves. The fifth installment of the Social Admissions Report focuses on the changing perspectives of Millennials, including how new mobile trends influence the different phases of their college search. The survey takes an in-depth look at how admissions can use social and mobile channels to reach students with the right information at the right time.
Not Your Mamma’s Admissions: Creating a Better Experience for Applicants and ...TargetX
Most institutions today are experiencing unprecedented growth in applications for admission. With a larger population seeking higher education, relatively “easy” ways to apply to multiple schools, and increased stress of finding the “right” college, it’s no wonder admission offices have more applications to process and review each year. But the days of clumsy, desktop-dependent applications that require significant integration to a CRM are over. Reading and reviewing applications and making admissions decisions can now be as seamless as ever. This workshop will discuss the pitfalls of today’s admissions applications and processes. You’ll learn how to utilize the power of the Salesforce Community to provide a better experience—both for your applicants and your staff. This is a hands-on experience, so bring your laptop and smartphone to participate. Time to roll back the clock to your days as a 17 year-old applying to college. And even if you’ve never worked a day in an admissions office, you’ll be the one deciding who gets in, who gets “wait-listed,” and who is denied.
Have you ever wondered what prospective teens are thinking when they receive and read — or ignore —your institution's recruitment marketing?
Prospective teen students are the prime audience for many higher education marketers. To reach them, we rely on a set of best practices targeted to teen needs and interests when building marketing and recruitment plans.
This third study in the Mythbusting series is the first to focus on the complete enrollment marketing mix.
In partnership with NRCCUA® (National Research Center for College & University Admissions), we designed a survey asking prospective teens to share their frank opinions of tactics institutions use to reach and engage them. We administered an identical survey to higher ed enrollment and marketing professionals to find out what they know (or think they know) about what teens want.
The resulting presentation explores where these perspectives converge — and differ — and how marketers can leverage this knowledge. We uncover the best channels for boosting visibility among prospective teen students and identify what encourages them to apply to your institution.
Mythbusting Websites: What Prospects Value About #HigherEd Websites (and What...mStoner, Inc.
Prospective students — especially teens — are a prime audience for a college website. But do we really know what teens are looking for when they visit your .edu? We designed, in partnership with mStoner, Inc. and Higher Ed Live, a survey asking teens to share their frank opinions of the college websites they’ve visited.
We asked them to tell us what they looked for on websites when they were researching colleges, choosing where to apply, and deciding which to attend. What did they like about the sites they visited? What was the most important content — and when was it important? What were the frustrations they experienced? What were the best sites they looked at? And they didn’t hold back.
Next, we sent the same survey to admission staff, web developers, designers, and marketers at colleges who were designing and redesigning websites for this key audience. We wanted to find out what they knew (or thought they knew) about what teens wanted.
The resulting presentation will explore where their perspectives converge — and where they differ — and how marketers can leverage this knowledge.
What You Will Learn
• What’s important, when. Knowing what kind of content students value and when in their college search and choice process they particularly value it helps college and university staff tune up websites and informs content strategy and storytelling.
• Where the problems are on .edu websites. Identifying typical problems on college websites helps colleges to ensure that they address those issues on their own sites.
• Where to invest your time and resources. You’ll learn what kinds of content prospects value so you can create more of it: If prospects don’t value alumni profiles, why create them?
• What college web, marketing, and admissions professionals don’t understand about what teens do on their sites. We’ll highlight significant disconnects between what on-campus professionals think they know about what teens do, and what they actually do.
This year's study, in partnership with Chegg, reveals where perspectives from teens using college websites and higher ed marketing professionals converge and differ — and how marketers can leverage this knowledge.
Based on research conducted in 2016 by Chegg and mStoner, this presentation explores:
- Seven common myths about what prospective students like and don’t like about college websites.
- Perspectives from prospective teen students and college marketing professionals — where they converge, where they differ — and how marketers can leverage this knowledge.
- Website content that best influences prospective students’ admission journeys.
- Best practices for website organization and strategy.
Mythbusting Admissions: Where Prospects and Professionals Agree, and Disagree...mStoner, Inc.
Download this webinar for free: http://mstnr.me/2bMtwrb
We know that teens are connected, that they love their devices, and that they look at our websites on their smartphones. But does that mean that they want to be texted by a college? Are they creeped out when they’re followed on Facebook or Instagram by an admissions officer? What, exactly, are they looking for on your website: cool images or simple information about your majors?
Using data from surveys of teens engaged in the college search and choice process collected by Chegg and data from enrollment professionals collected by mStoner Inc., we’ll explore where the perspectives of these two groups converge — and where they differ. Then, we’ll discuss how marketers can leverage this knowledge in engaging with this critical audience.
What You Will Learn:
• What teens consider to be the top sources of information about colleges
• Effective ways to get in touch with teens
• Where to focus your time and energy in marketing to teens
NACAC 2015 - Findings from the 2015 Social Admissions ReportTargetX
Students today are part of a changing digital ecosystem. Their natural instinct is to travel online to find information, using social media and mobile technology as an extension of themselves. The fifth installment of the Social Admissions Report focuses on the changing perspectives of Millennials, including how new mobile trends influence the different phases of their college search. The survey takes an in-depth look at how admissions can use social and mobile channels to reach students with the right information at the right time.
Not Your Mamma’s Admissions: Creating a Better Experience for Applicants and ...TargetX
Most institutions today are experiencing unprecedented growth in applications for admission. With a larger population seeking higher education, relatively “easy” ways to apply to multiple schools, and increased stress of finding the “right” college, it’s no wonder admission offices have more applications to process and review each year. But the days of clumsy, desktop-dependent applications that require significant integration to a CRM are over. Reading and reviewing applications and making admissions decisions can now be as seamless as ever. This workshop will discuss the pitfalls of today’s admissions applications and processes. You’ll learn how to utilize the power of the Salesforce Community to provide a better experience—both for your applicants and your staff. This is a hands-on experience, so bring your laptop and smartphone to participate. Time to roll back the clock to your days as a 17 year-old applying to college. And even if you’ve never worked a day in an admissions office, you’ll be the one deciding who gets in, who gets “wait-listed,” and who is denied.
For some lawyers, especially litigators, social media is a tool that helps them provide better representation to their clients. Whether it’s mining social media for evidence or researching jurors online, social media is helping them to make their clients’ cases in court. Learn about Lawyers and Social Media in 2016 in this MyCase Legal Infographic.
Design for Learning: The Future of the Web (Well, for 5 Years)Andrew Boardman
Over the next few years, websites will change from validation tools to learning platforms. Through your website, people will want to learn from your business, connect with your ideas, and develop strong relationships. Remarkable content, coupled with smart design, will help make those connections. The best communication professionals will help drive those connections and must be prepared for the changes immediately ahead. The talk will discuss a brief history of the web, how content is changing online, why we talk about learning, and where design and communications will be most impactful in the next few years.
Webinar: Why Earned Media Overpowers Social Media in Student RecruitmentEarthbound Media Group
This webinar defines the facets of earned media as well as its relevance to social media and emerging technologies in driving student recruitment and admissions strategies for institutions of every size.
EMG Webinar: Beyond the Demographic: Using Psychographic and Ethnographic Dat...Earthbound Media Group
For decades, marketers and advertisers have used demographic profiling to target consumers. But focusing solely on this traditional targeting tactic may be a waste of precious time, money, energy and opportunities for meaningful engagement. By considering how the social and mobile landscapes have impacted the consumer’s ability to commune in new and personal ways we can discover how demographic profiling alone is ineffective. The webinar will explore EMG’s hand- crafted methodologies in collecting, measuring and responding to new data sets, live behaviors and critical brand sentiment that have allowed us to target and personalize campaigns and web experiences within a diversity of industries including higher education, healthcare and entertainment.
Join us as we introduce and explore how you can evolve your approach to profiling and segmenting audiences to increase impressions, shares, adoptions and conversions.
In this webinar you will learn how to:
1. Think beyond demographic profiling and why it is fiscally beneficial to do so
2. Acquire more specific data sets and ways to measure
3. Use those data sets to get started on targeting consumers on more specific levels
4. Craft engaging and personalized web features and experiences
5. Measure the success and efficiencies of your new marketing tactics
EMG’s expert online marketing analyst Jessica Liu discusses the importance and application of social media intelligence in an adaptive marketing strategy along with a few best practices and real life case studies in this hour long webinar.
Generation z, Digital and What it means to all of usSimon Sear
Generation Z are those kids born after 1995. The older ones are just about to enter the workforce, whilst the younger ones are learning coding at school! They have lived their lives on the internet, are the champions of snack media and shun email. This presentation looks at some of their characteristics and emerging digital trends and considers what it means to the rest of us.
Open Brands: How Social Media is Pushing Radical Transparency on Brand Manage...Earthsite
Learn how Social Media is pushing radical transparency in brand management. Includes new research on Social Media Policy and calculating Social Media ROI. Social Media case studies of The North Face and Drugstore.com.
Data-driven decisions for the visual social web, presented by Chad ParizmanSocialMedia.org
In his Brands-Only Summit presentation, Scripps Networks Interactive's Director of Mobile and Social, Chad Parizman, explains how to use data to help make strategic social media decisions.
Chad goes into detail about HGTV's Pinterest strategy and shares best practices that helped them create an engaging social platform.
Break Up With Your Homepage, 'Cause I'm Bored: Moving Beyond the Universal Un...mStoner, Inc.
Two rows of navigation, a carousel, three news items, three events, three alumni profiles, a social media aggregator, and a fat footer. Look familiar? Ever hear someone say that you could take the logo off your website and it would look like every other institution out there? If you’re cringing or laughing nervously, this webinar is for you. (Ariana Grande said it best.)
We'll arm you with the tools you need to make your next website redesign, starting with your homepage, distinct and compelling.
What You'll Learn:
Why the universal university homepage phenomenon happens.
Five strategies for avoiding the “regression to the mean”.
The most important research and data to leverage in defending your decisions, educating your stakeholders, and dispelling popular myths about user experience (three-click rule, anyone?).
Key steps to take in between redesigns to set yourself up for longterm success.
Software Development Better, Faster, Stronger with Feature PrioritizationMentorMate
A guide to save time and align your stakeholders
How can a group of stakeholders with different priorities agree which features of a product are the most important? The answer is feature prioritization.
For some lawyers, especially litigators, social media is a tool that helps them provide better representation to their clients. Whether it’s mining social media for evidence or researching jurors online, social media is helping them to make their clients’ cases in court. Learn about Lawyers and Social Media in 2016 in this MyCase Legal Infographic.
Design for Learning: The Future of the Web (Well, for 5 Years)Andrew Boardman
Over the next few years, websites will change from validation tools to learning platforms. Through your website, people will want to learn from your business, connect with your ideas, and develop strong relationships. Remarkable content, coupled with smart design, will help make those connections. The best communication professionals will help drive those connections and must be prepared for the changes immediately ahead. The talk will discuss a brief history of the web, how content is changing online, why we talk about learning, and where design and communications will be most impactful in the next few years.
Webinar: Why Earned Media Overpowers Social Media in Student RecruitmentEarthbound Media Group
This webinar defines the facets of earned media as well as its relevance to social media and emerging technologies in driving student recruitment and admissions strategies for institutions of every size.
EMG Webinar: Beyond the Demographic: Using Psychographic and Ethnographic Dat...Earthbound Media Group
For decades, marketers and advertisers have used demographic profiling to target consumers. But focusing solely on this traditional targeting tactic may be a waste of precious time, money, energy and opportunities for meaningful engagement. By considering how the social and mobile landscapes have impacted the consumer’s ability to commune in new and personal ways we can discover how demographic profiling alone is ineffective. The webinar will explore EMG’s hand- crafted methodologies in collecting, measuring and responding to new data sets, live behaviors and critical brand sentiment that have allowed us to target and personalize campaigns and web experiences within a diversity of industries including higher education, healthcare and entertainment.
Join us as we introduce and explore how you can evolve your approach to profiling and segmenting audiences to increase impressions, shares, adoptions and conversions.
In this webinar you will learn how to:
1. Think beyond demographic profiling and why it is fiscally beneficial to do so
2. Acquire more specific data sets and ways to measure
3. Use those data sets to get started on targeting consumers on more specific levels
4. Craft engaging and personalized web features and experiences
5. Measure the success and efficiencies of your new marketing tactics
EMG’s expert online marketing analyst Jessica Liu discusses the importance and application of social media intelligence in an adaptive marketing strategy along with a few best practices and real life case studies in this hour long webinar.
Generation z, Digital and What it means to all of usSimon Sear
Generation Z are those kids born after 1995. The older ones are just about to enter the workforce, whilst the younger ones are learning coding at school! They have lived their lives on the internet, are the champions of snack media and shun email. This presentation looks at some of their characteristics and emerging digital trends and considers what it means to the rest of us.
Open Brands: How Social Media is Pushing Radical Transparency on Brand Manage...Earthsite
Learn how Social Media is pushing radical transparency in brand management. Includes new research on Social Media Policy and calculating Social Media ROI. Social Media case studies of The North Face and Drugstore.com.
Data-driven decisions for the visual social web, presented by Chad ParizmanSocialMedia.org
In his Brands-Only Summit presentation, Scripps Networks Interactive's Director of Mobile and Social, Chad Parizman, explains how to use data to help make strategic social media decisions.
Chad goes into detail about HGTV's Pinterest strategy and shares best practices that helped them create an engaging social platform.
Break Up With Your Homepage, 'Cause I'm Bored: Moving Beyond the Universal Un...mStoner, Inc.
Two rows of navigation, a carousel, three news items, three events, three alumni profiles, a social media aggregator, and a fat footer. Look familiar? Ever hear someone say that you could take the logo off your website and it would look like every other institution out there? If you’re cringing or laughing nervously, this webinar is for you. (Ariana Grande said it best.)
We'll arm you with the tools you need to make your next website redesign, starting with your homepage, distinct and compelling.
What You'll Learn:
Why the universal university homepage phenomenon happens.
Five strategies for avoiding the “regression to the mean”.
The most important research and data to leverage in defending your decisions, educating your stakeholders, and dispelling popular myths about user experience (three-click rule, anyone?).
Key steps to take in between redesigns to set yourself up for longterm success.
Software Development Better, Faster, Stronger with Feature PrioritizationMentorMate
A guide to save time and align your stakeholders
How can a group of stakeholders with different priorities agree which features of a product are the most important? The answer is feature prioritization.
Marketing for Where You WANT TO BE: 3 Proven Ways to Get Leads & GrowClearEdge Marketing
Presented by ClearEdge Marketing CEO & Founder, Leslie Vickrey, at the New York Staffing Association (NYSA) Webinar on September 22, 2014.
Topics covered:
- Connecting with new buyers with a target account program
- Ensuring your website is effective, regardless of the device
- Launching referral campaigns that drive connections
Successful organizations line up the right people, process and technology to support sales reps, sales teams and/or channel teams; without this support, organizations cannot be successful. Watch this presentation to hear Rick’s continuing journey to align sales teams to productivity targets, and how Citrix came together to support these goals.
More important than a website, Twitter account, PPC campaign or LinkedIn profile is a web strategy. Your web strategy is what defines what you're trying to accomplish on the web -- and until you set your eyes on your goal, you're not liable to get it. This webinar discusses the questions you should ask yourself when creating a strategy and the tools you can use to make it happen.
Proven Strategies for increasing Adoption and EngagementChristian Buckley
While Office 365 continues to grow at a rapid rate, adoption can be slow and difficult without a strategy in place. This presentation covers a number of different topics that all have an impact on end user adoption and engagement. This presentation shares: a "go to market" strategy for a successful Office 365 deployment; productivity features that will enhance adoption; strategies for keeping end users engaged; how to track usage and activity so you can measure your success; and touches on many of the productivity features (Groups, Delve, Yammer, co-editing, etc). The primary focus, however, is on the management/ongoing educational aspects of a successful deployment.
Democratization and Decisions through Data: Scaling Search at the Enterprise ...Keith Goode
Presented on Thursday, September 19th, 2019 at the W Hotel in Washington D.C. for Advanced Search Summit D.C. If you want to build an army of minions for your SEO efforts, you'll find quite quickly that scaling with industry pros isn't always practical or possible. In this session, Keith Goode, Sr. SEO Strategist at IBM will discuss how enterprise organizations are building centers of excellence focused on democratizing best search practices, instilling a Decisions through Data mindset, and making the entire digital experience practice Agile. Learn how to establish a solid framework, break that framework into actionable efforts, and enable the entire organization to move your search experience forward.
How UXD Can Provide Leadership Skills for Complex Software Projects: A 4-Day ...Greg Laugero
This presentation was given at the Usability Professionals Association 2008 Conference. It is for UXD professionals who are ready to take their next career step and move into a leadership role for complex projects. We'll discuss practical techniques, along with hard-earned lessons, for bringing order to the often overwhelming chaos of difficult projects.
In this webinar, Leslie Vickrey, CEO & Founder of ClearEdge Marketing, shares 3 marketing strategies for driving your growth. She focuses on website optimization, target account programs (sales campaigns) and social media marketing.
It may be easier than ever today to collect data, but many marketers still find themselves scratching their heads when trying to decide how best to sift through it to uncover the gems. What’s often even more difficult, however, is developing reports that incite action and encourage future investment in the right strategies and optimizations – especially when findings challenge the status quo.
In this session, Ben Magnuson, Senior Data Strategist at One North, explore how to deliver reports that your stakeholders will actually care to read. Specifically, he dives into how you can shift your reporting strategy to ensure you are:
* Establishing the right baselines and goals to help you more accurately benchmark your progress towards KPIs
* Moving beyond simply showing your work to provide the right level of context around data trends that matter
* Including stakeholders in the development of metrics to prevent surrogation, or the confusion of strategic intent with the metrics meant to represent it
* Creating an influential narrative around your results that helps you overcome bias, combat conventional thought and improve decision making
In this presentation we will explore 4 ways to overcome your workflow challenges:
1. Rethink Creative Workflow
2. Find Efficiency Leaks
3. Create Workflows that Work
4. Show ROI
A Mile in Their Shoes: Building Empathy Through Experience Maps and PersonasmStoner, Inc.
The process is highly emotional, fraught with anxiety, and influenced by many sources of information. As marketing and enrollment professionals, we must understand the factors that drive this important choice — as well as the thoughts and emotions our target audiences experience — in order to develop empathy for the groups that we serve.
mStoner and TargetX designed a survey focusing on how prospective teen students use a range of digital tools — social media, websites, email, and digital ads — during their college search and selection process, and what information is most helpful at each stage of the journey.
mStoner's 2019 Digital Admissions research with TargetX offers rich insights into the nuanced behavior of prospective teen students as they begin their college search and selection process
A Mile in Their Shoes: Building Empathy Through Experience MapsmStoner, Inc.
The college choice process is highly emotional, fraught with anxiety, and influenced by many sources of information. As marketing and enrollment professionals, we must understand the factors that drive this important choice — as well as the thoughts and emotions our target audiences experience — in order to develop empathy for the groups that we serve.
Would you like a tool to help navigate these challenges?
Enter the experience map — a powerful tool that: represents your, audience’s story, draws key stakeholders together, uncovers major process gaps, and guides your priorities and activities.
During this webinar, you’ll understand the basics of experience mapping, learn the seven benefits of an experience map, and discover how it can impact your enrollment and marketing strategy.
We’ll showcase examples from institutions that uncovered major process and content gaps as a result of experience mapping, causing them to lose their top applicants. We promise — the results will shock you.
Download the on demand presentation: http://offers.mstoner.com/a-mile-in-their-shoes-building-empathy-through-experience-maps
Making Your Mark: Unforgettable BrandingmStoner, Inc.
You know what you stand for. You feel it in your heart. Now what?
What’s the secret to building a bold brand that connects with your key audiences? Tune into this free webinar co-hosted by mStoner, a digital agency focused on higher education marketing and communications, and Zehno, a strategic branding and marketing firm for educational organizations.
Voltaire Santos Miran, mStoner’s CEO and Head of Client Experience and Shane Shanks, Zehno’s Senior Strategist and Editorial Director, team up to show you how to bring your institution’s brand to life. From smart strategy and bold creative to a beautiful web presence — we’ll use best-practice examples that deliver meaningful results.
Learn how to transform your message platform into compelling and captivating creative and how to make your website an integral part of your branding.
You will learn how to:
Translate brand messages into brilliant communications
Capture the heart and soul of an institution
Define the look, feel, and voice of your brand
Communicate a school's strengths and distinctions through its website
Create an optimal website structure for your target audiences
Marketing and Advancement: Colleagues and Partners or Direct ReportsmStoner, Inc.
This was presented at the 2018 AMA Higher Education Conference by Michael Stoner, co-founder and co-owner at mStoner, Inc. and Rob Zinkan, associate vice president, marketing, at Indiana University.
In this presentation, based on insights from the 2018 Benchmarking Digital Advancement research by CASE and mStoner, Inc., and interviews with senior advancement and marketing professionals, we explore the current relationship between the CMO and chief advancement officer. Are they colleagues and partners? And, more importantly, what
lies ahead for the CMO/CAO relationship as institutions seek to implement more effective engagement strategies with the entire range of an institution’s stakeholders?
Five reasons why the universal homepage happensmStoner, Inc.
Navigation, a carousel, request information, visit, apply, three news items, three event items, three profiles, a social media aggregator, and a fat footer. We know what you're thinking: That sounds awfully familiar.
You might be wondering why this happens. A lot.
mStoner identifies five roadblocks to watch out for so you can ensure your next homepage refresh or website redesign goes beyond the universal homepage template.
The University of North Dakota has always been ahead of its time. But like many schools, UND initially built and grew its website piece by piece, without a unified vision. Without centralized management, the site eventually ballooned to more than 30,000 pages that varied in accuracy, timeliness, and presentation.
When it hired mStoner, UND’s needs were clear: create a cohesive site that could serve at least 13,000 students in more than 250 academic programs. Most important, UND wanted to reach an audience it hadn’t expressly prioritized before: prospective students. A major upgrade for UND’s new site was moving to a powerful search technology, powered by Funnelback.
Improving the Search Experience in Higher Ed: What's Next?mStoner, Inc.
Recent changes to website search are disrupting the way colleges and universities provide a fundamental website feature that impacts every key audience.
In this webinar, we will:
Review how the website search landscape has changed.
Discuss opportunities institutions have to use search to improve visitor experiences.
Examine how a major University tackled replacement of their former search solution, Google Search Appliance.
Look to the future at how search may unfold for colleges and universities.
In this five minute lightening talk, you'll get a crash course on the five step IMC (integrated marketing communications) process and learn ways education can leverage the model to integrate internal and external communications and accurately measure results.
Content Planning and Delivery for higher edmStoner, Inc.
Planning, organizing, and maintaining college and university web content is challenging. Competing priorities, resource limitations and siloed departments all have the potential to derail content projects.
Whether you’re preparing for a large-scale website redesign, a capital campaign microsite, or just refreshing a few key pages, you want to get the right content to the right audience on time and on budget.
During the webinar, we'll share practical examples and techniques that you can use to avoid common pitfalls of content delivery for your next project. You'll learn:
Which content questions to ask early in your project
What roles you need to consistently produce quality content
The pros and cons of centralized and decentralized content creation
How to prioritize when you have large amounts of content to create or review
How to plan for a workflow that incorporates faculty review
Storytelling and Integrated Marketing CommunicationsmStoner, Inc.
Storytelling is imperative if you want to build an enduring brand for your college or university.
The truth is, we could all be better at articulating who we are, what we’ve experienced, and why it matters. In order to tell better stories, institutions must first develop a true understanding of and empathy for target audiences, clarify brand messaging, and then develop staffing and skill sets to infuse storytelling into robust integrated marketing campaigns.
The digital space allows storytellers to immerse audiences even more fully in our stories with the opportunity to integrate and weave video, photography, user-generated content, and other rich media throughout the marketing campaign.
Are your readers at the heart of your institution’s story? Join mStoner and our branding partner BVK for the third webinar in our summer series. We’ll arm you with the knowledge you need — storytelling principles, concrete planning steps, and best-practice examples — to ensure storytelling is at the heart of your integrated marketing communication.
What You Will Learn:
How to develop an on-brand storytelling strategy
How to structure your stories
Traits of successful stories and how to measure impact
Ways to weave storytelling in your next integrated marketing campaign
Brand Architecture: Building an Enduring BrandmStoner, Inc.
Most brand efforts start with a bang, then soon fade away. Why? Because too many institutions continue to focus on features and benefits to tell their story. In today’s hypercompetitive environment, colleges and universities need to do more.
Institutions need to discover — or, for many, rediscover — their core values. Once that happens, there is an enormous opportunity for elevating your message beyond the statistics, beyond the rankings, and beyond the athletic accomplishments.
In part two of the Summer Webinar Series, we’ll provide you with important insights that can help transform your institution from enrollment to endowment.
What You’ll Learn:
What values-based marketing is.
How this approach (based on 10 years and 50,000 brands studied) has created incredible success both inside and outside of the higher education category.
The neuroscience of infusing emotion into your university’s brand messaging, leading to differentiation and increased engagement.
Insights into the Masterbrand approach and the necessary steps required to create brand consistency across the entire university.
How to discover, unite, inspire and unleash the power of your brand at each of your university’s touch points.
Higher Education Brand and Website Case StudiesmStoner, Inc.
What is one way you can help get senior leaders at your institution to understand and buy into the time and resources necessary for a branding initiative and website redesign done right?
Invoke the success of others.
Download six micro case studies from mStoner and BVK, our branding partner, to showcase successful higher education brand and web projects.
Pitch Perfect: How to Gain Internal Buy-InmStoner, Inc.
You know that what your institution calls a brand is actually a logo and a worn tagline. It’s time to get serious about your brand positioning. You need research, critical thinking, creative brilliance, and a digital-first strategy. And you need a website that serves as the flagship for your newly articulated brand.
How do you get your senior leadership to understand and buy into the time and resources necessary for a branding initiative and website redesign done right?
In this webinar, mStoner and our branding partner BVK arm you with the tools — the data, the stories, presentation approach and techniques — you’ll need to build and deliver a persuasive pitch to your decision-makers.
What You'll Learn:
The process, timeline, and potential costs involved in a brand-to-website project.
Options and alternatives for sequencing work, particularly in the face of institutional milestones or strategic planning process.
Ways to justify a large investment using data and information that will resonate with your institution’s decision-makers.
Map It Out: The Path to Better Digital Engagement with ProspectsmStoner, Inc.
No matter the size of your institution, digital enrollment marketing and communications comes with challenges: competing priorities, schedule and budget limitations, an abundance of (good and bad) ideas for digital next steps, and a variety of stakeholders and subject-matter experts who all want a say in what ends up on the website.
Wouldn’t it be great if there was one tool that could help you navigate all of these challenges? One living artifact you could point to and say: That’s why we’re doing it this way!
Enter the experience map.
Experience maps are graphical representations of the interactions individuals have with a product or service. They’re effective tools for developing empathy and understanding for your target audience by highlighting their thoughts, feelings, and actions as they seek to accomplish a task, such as applying to your institution.
The path to better digital engagement with your prospective student audience starts with an experience map. When you understand what information your target audience is looking for, when they’re looking for it, how they’re searching, and why, you’re able to identify areas needing improvement in engagement, content creation, and so much more.
Your website is your institution’s No. 1 recruiting tool and marketing channel. When it comes to planning a site redesign or implementing changes and enhancements to your site, an experience map will be your most valuable tool.
During the webinar, we’ll show you seven ways an experience map can improve engagement with prospective students. You’ll learn how to use an experience map to:
Create stakeholder alignment.
Develop user-centered content.
Capture institutional knowledge.
Prioritize your efforts.
People are wired for stories.
Digital media allows us to bring life to those stories through words, images, sounds, and moving pictures. Exploring the guiding philosophy, lifecycle, and elements of a digital story, this webinar reviews pace-setting examples drawn from news media, colleges, and universities.
If you’re looking for ways to become a better storyteller and extend the reach and impact of communications that you already produce, don’t miss this webinar.
What You Will Learn
• Why storytelling matters
• How excellent digital stories are constructed
• What roles are necessary for a story team
• How to create a smart, sustainable solution for digital story content
Personalization on Higher Education Websites – The New Competitive AdvantagemStoner, Inc.
Visitors increasingly expect a personalized experience from the website they interact with. This webinar explores personalization opportunities to help elevate your brand experience, increase key conversions, and provide specific content to your different audience segments. We’ll take a practical approach to planning for web personalization and identify the important prerequisites for getting it right.
What You Will Learn
• The connections between web personalization, content strategy, information architecture, and analytics.
• The benefits, opportunities, challenges, and risks of web personalization for education institutions.
• The technical infrastructure necessary to support web personalization.
• How to begin planning for web personalization on your website.
Storytelling is one of the most effective ways to communicate and connect. Faculty members — their research, scholarship, and teaching — offer some of the richest stories for an institution to share. Join mStoner CEO Voltaire Santos Miran and ExpertFile Director Deanne Taenzer as they talk about the use of story to engage mind and heart and the role of technology in managing and measuring that content.
What You Will Learn
• What makes the difference between a faculty CV and a compelling story.
• How to motivate faculty to engage with you on an ongoing basis.
• How to use ExpertFile tools to better engage and reach a wider audience
• Important things to measure in terms of content and audience engagement that generate actionable insights.
Download this webinar for free: http://mstnr.me/2hDaQwW
One of the greatest benefits of digital storytelling is the ability to create an immersive experience for your audiences. Beautiful images, exciting and inspirational videos, motion and microinteractions, and audio all work together to bring a story alive. How do we create a captivating experience for people who are using screen readers and other assistive devices? Join us for this webinar to learn more about accessibility and storytelling.
What You Will Learn
• Accessibility requirements you must consider
• Challenges and solutions for creating accessible digital stories
• Tools, techniques, and best practices for accessible design and multimedia
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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5. As We Get Started
My Goal
To provide you with useful and actionable information and ideas for
your upcoming redesign project.
To affirm what you think you know and to remind you of what you
might have forgotten.
6. Today’s
Topics
1. Justifying a Redesign
2. Setting Goals
3. Identifying Blind Spots
4. Crafting a Killer RFP
5. Managing Internal
Expectations
6. Moving From Project to
Process
Agenda
7. Poll
(We’re all friends here.)
What’s the biggest issue
you’re facing in redesigning
your website?
11. What the Research Says: Mythbusting Websites 2016
The website is the
single most influential
resource …
… that a college or university provides that teens use throughout
the search and selection process.
Resources: mstnr.me/RedesignResources
12.
13. What the Research Says: Mythbusting Websites 2016
Academic programs,
visiting, costs and aid,
and student life are the
big four …
… types of information that prospectives look for in the research
phase of their process.
14. What the Research Says: Mythbusting Websites 2016
Intuitive navigation and
the ability to easily find
information are
paramount.
Prospects ranked these two attributes most highly among
criteria for a great college website.
15. What the Research Says: Mythbusting Websites 2016
Pictures of campus are
as important as
program rankings.
Actually, prospects reported that pictures are slightly more
important than rankings in the early part of the process.
17. Key Reason #1 for a Redesign
Your application or yield
numbers need a boost.
Usability issues? Process issues? Content issues?
Visual interface issues? Possibly all of the above.
19. Key Reason #2 for a Redesign
Your academic program
page traffic is relatively low.
Low traffic indicates that you have significant opportunities to
showcase this vital information.
21. Key Reason #3 for a Redesign
It’s been five years or more
since your last relaunch.
Your visual interface may be showing its age. Your mobile design is likely
a retrofit. Your CMS may be a version (or two) behind the current.
23. Key Reason #4 for a Redesign
It’s been three years or more
since your last content audit.
Organic sprawl. This is the term we use to describe
the result of a decentralized publishing environment without
proper governance.
25. Key Reason #5 for a Redesign
Your page load performance
times are poor.
• Performance impacts search engine optimization.
• Performance matters to site visitors, especially on mobile.
27. Key Reason #6 for a Redesign
Your pages aren’t compliant
with accessibility standards.
Complaints and lawsuits surrounding accessibility on education
websites have risen steeply in the last year.
29. In the Meantime …
Four Worthy Efforts
+ Firsthand feedback
+ Small footprint
+ Actionable information
+ Broader view across
multiple facets
+ Immediate wins
+ Roadmap for larger
redesign
+ Identification of
specific issues
+ Foundation for training
+ Input for larger
redesign
+ Baseline
+ Meaningful metrics
dashboard
+ Beginning of data-
driven decision-making
Do a usability study. Conduct a site check-up. Perform an accessibility
audit.
Get your analytics in order.
42. #10
Treating the project as
primarily a technology effort.
Technology is a key component of a redesign, but technology
should not drive decisions or limit ideas.
43. #9
Viewing the project primarily
as a design endeavor.
beautiful design + usability + content + technology + governance = winning
46. #6
Not having the proper
leadership in place.
You need support from the president to make this a priority.
You also need a champion for this initiative that has
authority, visibility, credibility, and a high degree of trust in
you and your team.
47. #5
Neglecting analytics (again).
“We’re really flexing our data muscles and using insight from
unified analytics on a daily basis to drive our decision-making
and our priorities.”
Said almost no one ever.
48. #4
(Still) avoiding your
governance pain points.
Deciding who gets to decide is … ultimately easier than avoiding
the conversation altogether.
50. #2
Expecting photography to
come cheap and easy.
Painful reality: most of the photos in your DAM aren’t as usable for
your website project as you think they are.
51. #1
Disregarding the need for
content strategy up front.
Leaving the words for later is the best possible way
to ensure a hot mess.
53. Choose me. Pick me. Love me.
Meridith Grey, Season 2, Episode 5, Bring the Pain
“
54. True Story
Agencies hate RFPs.
RFPs that communicate
“vendor” instead of
“partner.”
RFPs that state a scope of
work that doesn’t match
the rest of details and
deliverables in the
document.
RFPs that don’t allow
conversation or provide
clarification.
Litigious Language Suspect Scope Zero Visibility
And many agencies are responding to fewer and fewer of them.
RFPs that stipulate
unnecessarily restrictive
requirements.
Implausible Requirements
55. Learning from History
Gettysburg Great
Engaging the campus
community before the
selection process began.
Workshops to align
expectations and map out
the committee’s vision for
the project.
Four pages.
Preliminary
Groundwork
Project Committee
Engagement
Clear, Concise
RFP
Each chosen for a specific
set of skills and
demonstrated success.
Limited Number of
Prospective Partners
Resources: mstnr.me/RedesignResources
56. Elements of a Great RFP
Clear scope of work
without being prescriptive
Indication of priorities
and flexibilities
Institution stakeholders:
RFP process contact
Specific evaluation
points in ranked order
Budget range and
timeline expectations
Third-party systems
requiring integration
Summary of
institutional landscape
Web properties not
included in the project
Required information/
proposal sections
58. Every single person you will ever meet
shares a common desire: ‘Do you see
me? Do you hear me? Does what I say
mean anything to you?
Oprah Winfrey, The Final Show
“
59. Avenues for Engagement
Discovery
sessions
Experience mapping
workshops
Strategy review
presentations
Card-sorting, labeling
studies, usability sessions
Town hall meetings for
project milestones
Pre-launch education
communications
Internal launch
feedback
Regular communications
about progress
Post-launch stakeholder
celebration
61. We are the gardeners of a vast,
evolving ecosystem during a hot,
persistent summer, and our gardens
need tending to.
Ben Bilow, Three Things You Can Do In Between Redesigns
“
62. Paradigm Shift
Continuous Improvement
Establish a regular rhythm
of implementing changes
and enhancements to
your site.
Create and test variants of
key page elements.
Figure out the why behind
the what.
Base decisions what will
best engage and serve your
target audiences.
Ongoing Improvements Experiment-Based Fueled by Analytics User-Focused