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Using Social Networks in…
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Ronald Agrella joined Karlyn Morissette's group
eMarketing in Higher Education
A place to discuss marketing tactics for admissions or development on the web in higher education, whether it be features on your website, blogs, boards, chat, email marketing, social networks, etc...
Ronald Agrella left a comment for Karine Joly"Karine, great calendar. I saw this conference that you may want to note. It's not specific to higher ed but it has some amazing Web 2.0 lectures.
http://www.web2expo.com/"
Ronald Agrella replied to Jake McGowan's discussion SEO Best Practices for University Magazine in the group SEO"Jake: A couple other tips that were adopted by major publications:
1) First, Karine is right about funny and creative headlines: Avoid them if you can. If it is an article by an author and you can't change the headline on the page itself,…"
Ronald Agrella left a comment for Georgiana Cohen"Hi Georgiana, I work out of the President's Office in Shrewsbury but I'm a UMass Amherst alum. The Amherst Campus does some nice Web work there."
Ronald Agrella left a comment for Sara Brennen"Thank you Sara - Nice to be here. I'm doing some research now on possible video platform vendors - and it's great to have you all as a resource."
Sara Brennen left a comment for Ronald Agrella"Hi Ron:
Hello from University Park, PA! Welcome to the multimedia group!
Best,
Sara"
Georgiana Cohen left a comment for Ronald Agrella"I was there from 2001-2004, and then I left to come to Tufts.
Are you at UMass-Boston or Amherst?"
Georgiana Cohen left a comment for Ronald Agrella"Hi Ron,
Welcome to higher ed! Our time at B.com didn't overlap but I hope to meet you at a #highered event around town someday.
--Georgy"
Ronald Agrella joined Shelley Wetzel's group
eduWeb Conference
annual conference for higher education professionals who are involved in any step of the strategy, design or development of an institution's/department's website
Profile Information
- Employer?
- University of Massachusetts President's Office
- Website:
- http://www.massachusetts.edu
- List three areas of expertise or specialization.
- Content Management, Social Media/Networking, Multimedia
- What CMS are you using?
- Proprietary
- What department or office are you in?
- External Communications
- Primary Job Responsibility
- As director of Web communications, I oversee the growth and development of the University of Massachusetts System Web site. I joined the office recently, and spent most of my career working at major newspaper and media web operations, including most recently The Boston Globe's Boston.com.
- Number of students at your institution
- 65,000
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 2:15pm on April 8, 2010, Sara Brennen said…
- Hi Ron:
Hello from University Park, PA! Welcome to the multimedia group!
Best,
Sara
- At 1:23pm on April 8, 2010, Georgiana Cohen said…
- I was there from 2001-2004, and then I left to come to Tufts.
Are you at UMass-Boston or Amherst?
- At 1:14pm on April 8, 2010, Georgiana Cohen said…
- Hi Ron,
Welcome to higher ed! Our time at B.com didn't overlap but I hope to meet you at a #highered event around town someday.
--Georgy
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