Patrick Powers

Colleges and universities struggling to find ways to pull together a comprehensive social media campaign should pay attention to Texas A&M University. TAMU last week announced a social media scavenger hunt that utilizes YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare. It’s a creative way to increase student engagement and give away some sweet swag in the process. [...]

I love the end-of-the year show Oprah puts together, the one when she starts screaming at the audience: “You get a car! You get a car! You get a car!” The idea is that the multimedia mogul spends the year collecting a list of her favorite things. She unveils the list at the end of [...]

A few months ago I wrote a post highlighting a handful of university Facebook pages I thought worth noting. Those pages were — and for the most part remain — great examples of Facebook’s potential in higher education. But times keep on a changin’. There are scores of universities out there doing some pretty cool [...]