Archive for July, 2009
10 things you want your CSAO to know…
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Online Branding Quick Tip – Is Your School’s User Name Available?
Here’s a handy tool that can be useful for students, higher ed professionals and student affairs offices alike. It’s namechk.com. What this convenient little web tool does is allow you to check the availability of “vanity” profile names on more than 50 social media sites at once (not that you intrinsically would want to be involved in that many sites), including facebook, twitter, linkedin, and many others.
Is your office starting a facebook page or maybe you’ve been thinking about opening a twitter account? Enter the profile name you hope to use into namechk.com and find out if it’s available across a variety of platforms before you begin setting up profiles. Doing so will help you be consistent with your profile names, thus more effectively branding you or your office.
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Online branding quick tip
Here’s a handy tool that can be useful for students, higher ed professionals and student affairs offices alike. It’s namechk.com. What this convenient little web tool does is allow you to check the availability of “vanity” profile names on more than 50 social media sites at once (not that you intrinsically would want to be involved in that many sites), including facebook, twitter, linkedin, and many others.
Is your office starting a facebook page or maybe you’ve been thinking about opening a twitter account? Enter the profile name you hope to use into namechk.com and find out if it’s available across a variety of platforms before you begin setting up profiles. Doing so will help you be consistent with your profile names, thus more effectively branding you or your office.
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Over the Hedge?
As the father of a 3 ½ year old, I have found myself increasingly taking life lessons from children’s movies. The 300 or so times I have watched Cars have taught me that if you go fast and turn right hard enough, you’ll start going left, and that it’s better not to be a “one man show.” Up reminded me to value my family and to never give up on my dreams. Then there’s Over the Hedge…
This movie offers some simple lessons that can be enjoyed by viewers of any age. But, reading between the lines, it offers a hidden lesson. What can you learn about others, about yourselves, and about how the world works, by taking a peek over the proverbial hedge and seeing how others live, think and interact?
Student Affairs professionals are sometimes rightfully criticized for living inside their bubbles, and understanding a lot about campus life and not enough about “the real world.” We can easily fall into this, if we only seek wisdom from like-minded people who spend their time thinking about the same things we think about, and may approach them from similar perspectives. I try to expand my worldview as much as possible by learning what people in other fields are talking about. Here are a few articles and sites that have offered me new perspectives.
Unsung Innovative Leaders, by Rich Karlgaard on Forbes.com.
The POST Method: A systematic approach to social strategy, by Josh Bernoff at Forrester.com
How to Decide in a Time of Confusion by Kim Girard at BNet.com
Leadership: The Bathtub Model, At the Whiteboard Video on Bnet.com
Lifehacker.com: Tips and Downloads for Getting Things Done
Take a look at these sites and enjoy. If you have a favorite non-Student Affairs site you visit frequently for new perspectives, please consider sharing the URL by posting a comment.
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