June 11, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
Beloved readers, I will be away for a week on a Backroads trip with my mom to Bryce, Zion, and Grand Canyon national parks. I will be back on the 20th. If I am not responding to your e-mails during this time very promptly, now you know why. Feel free to leave comments about things [...]
May 1, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
Karine Joly, who writes the must-read CollegeWebEditor blog about higher education marketing and PR, interviewed me a few months ago about my experience with Facebook and other social networking sites for an April 2007 piece she wrote in University Business titled “Facebook, MySpace, and Co.” Karine and I were talking about my experience using social networking tools to socialize online with the other 2011 prefrosh early actions kids and that led into the interview where I formally answered some of her questions on the topic.
February 11, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
I know that wanton mass linking is a bad, evil thing which destroys the internet (and boosts my Technorati ranking!) but all the same I'm inclined to send out a quick pointer to Karine Joly's website, CollegeWebEditor.com, since it is her birthday! Assuming that, like boats, we give feminine pronouns to blogs. Her blog celebrates [...]
August 27, 2006
Posted by Sam Jackson
Karine Joly of College Web Editor interviewed me about the site last week; I would say I had some interesting responses! She asked three questions, and I took about 2000 words to answer. Lot's of fun! Here were the questions: 1) Why did you decide to blog about this in the first place? Why did [...]
August 17, 2006
Posted by Sam Jackson
Obsessive-compulsive readers of my blog will have noticed that there is a link to Karine Joly's blog on web, marketing, and PR in higher ed, collegewebeditor.com. She describes the site as "News, tips and, hopefully, some good ideas for people taking care of websites and online marketing in colleges and universities." Why am I reading [...]
I'm currently a rising senior at Yale University and I've been blogging about college admissions and higher education marketing trends since I began my college application process in 2005. I now also write about my experience here at Yale. Click here to read my extended 'about' page.I'm currently a junior at Yale University and I've been blogging about college admissions and higher education marketing trends since I began my college application process in 2005. I now also write about my experience here at Yale. I just got back from studying abroad at Peking University this past Fall 2009 in Beijing, China! Click here to read my 'about' page.