This new list from Mashable mentions some websites that we have discussed here before and a few we haven’t yet seen. They suggest taking a look at:
Cramster
InternshipRatings.com
Zimride
Box.net
Twitter
Remember the Milk
Gradefund
Evernote
Zumeo
CampusBooks
Read the rest of the article on Mashable to see what they say about each one of these sites.
UPDATE (3/17/2009): EDU Checkup reviewed the WVU College of Human Resources and Education website last week. Listen/watch here: West Virginia University – College of Human Resources and Education – Epsiode #61
Our cadre of communicators regularly attend the WVU Key Communicators meetings every month. Last week was the February 2009 meeting. During that meeting, three colleges [...]
Many of us are familiar with social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. They are both very intriguing on a personal level because you can share your information with lots of people. You can also join groups with common interests. Facebook and MySpace groups are great for getting messages out, but they can be limiting. [...]
WVU “Twitterers” need to be aware of a new phishing scam. Chris Pirillo posted on Jan. 3 about the problem.
Phishing Scam Spreading on Twitter
A few minutes ago, I received a direct message from one of my twitter followers:
hey! check out this funny blog about you… jannawalitax . blogspot . com
And there’s another one:
Hey, i found [...]
In light of the recent controversy about fraudulent Facebook groups connected to the class of 2013, we thought it might be a good idea to keep up with which groups *are* the official groups connected to WVU.
If you haven’t seen it already, take a look at facebook.wvu.edu a website set up by WVU Web Services. [...]
Paying tuition is a costly endeavor no matter how you look at it. One new website, GradeFund, offers tools to help you raise money for tuition on your own. The catch? You have to get good grades.
According to the website, to get started you:
Create your account
Invite your sponsors
Use our invitation template or craft your own. [...]
Here is our end-of-the-month November Roundup of free web-based tools that we’ve been exploring. Let us know what you think! – Alisha Myers & Sarah Barnes
SlideShare brings social networking to presentations. You can upload, create and share presentations with anyone. I was going to write more on this, but thought – heck, I’ll just post [...]
Twitter is often referred to as “microblogging.” Basically Twitter and services like it (Jaiku, Pownce, Plurk and others) allow you to broadcast what you are doing, thinking about, reading, watching, listening to, etc. to the world (or to just those you allow to follow your updates).
Wondering why you might want to Twitter? Here is yet [...]
In catching up on my RSS feed reading, I found a post at .eduGuru about a study of Social Media in Higher Education. I thought this information would be interesting and useful to the WVU community as well. Here it is:
The Use of Social Media in Higher Education for Marketing and Communications: A Guide for [...]
We recently set up a WVU OIT page on Facebook. Now every one of you can “Become a Fan” of OIT! At first we were just testing out the concept of pages on Facebook, but we soon realized this was a really handy tool.
It imports news from our OIT news feed directly. So while it [...]
