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Here’s a question from the Educational Marketing Group:  Do you know someone who has achieved awesome things in higher education branding this past year? Now’s your chance to give them the attention and honor they so richly deserve.  http://bit.ly/bUBhxV

Nominate your pick for the prestigious International Brand Master Award 2010.  Individuals are able to nominate themselves. [Read more →]

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MDC, a nonprofit organization
dedicated to expanding opportunity and reducing poverty, today announced
that Raleigh has been selected as one of four cities to participate in
the Partners for Postsecondary Success (PPS) initiative as part of a
Gates-funded national effort to improve postsecondary completion rates
among low-income young adults. [Read more →]

From mashable.com.

With 500 million people using Facebook and Twitter seeing more than two billion tweets per month, one would assume that social media usage is skyrocketing. New research from Forrester suggests that while participation is on the rise, actual content creation may not be.  Well, ya know what they say; never mistake knowledge for wisdom.

These are probably the same guys who said everything that can be discovered has been discovered and everything that can be written has been written.  These are also the people who said corporations should not use Foursquare in their marketing efforts because not enough people use Foursquare. http://bit.ly/bU6SRm.   Gotta love their take on wisdom.

Forrester’s Social Technographics Profile analyzes consumer social behaviors and trends on an annual basis. Forrester classifies social network users by type: Creators, Conversationalists, Critics, Collectors, Joiners, Spectators and Inactives. In the past year, their research shows no measurable growth in the Creators category — the audience that creates social content. [Read more →]

David Hiscoe, NCSU Libraries,  (919) 513-3425

(Raleigh, N.C.)—To salute the bedrock American freedom to read what we choose, the North Carolina State University Libraries today released “Banned Books SoundWave”—a website filled with selections from banned books read by a broad spectrum of members of the university community.  The site is being launched in conjunction with the American Library Association’s (ALA) traditional “Banned Books Week,” an annual event celebrating the open access to information and the importance of the First Amendment in our society.

Running the last week in September, the ALA program is designed to remind us all of the benefits of intellectual freedom and to highlight the dangers of censorship by spotlighting the history of actual or attempted book bannings across the United States.  To support this nationwide celebration of the free access to information, the NCSU Libraries has recorded a range of campus champions reading from books that have been suppressed in the sometimes troubled history of protecting the fundamental right to read what we please. [Read more →]

Circus Dogs perform.  Now that’s what I’m talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlJODYBLKs&feature=player_embedded#!

Passion Rules!

Author: Dave Pond | Web Communications

NC State and other large state universities scored highest with job recruiters looking to hire the best trained and well prepared graduates to fill vacancies in today’s improving job market, say respondents to a recent survey by The Wall Street Journal.

“This story is a testimony to the real-world learning that takes place at great universities like NC State,” said NC State chancellor Randy Woodson. “Our students learn practical skills while maintaining a well-rounded approach to serving their state, their country, and the world, placing them among the nation’s most prepared university graduates.”

NC State ranked 19^th overall (15^th in engineering) by recruiters for some of the largest public and private corporations, non-profits and federal agencies in the nation. Schools had to have a minimum of 60 companies who recruited at the institution to be considered for inclusion – in the final rankings, NC State finished ahead of UNC, Duke, Notre Dame and MIT, among others.

“NC State is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s best values in higher education, but this ranking is different,” said Dr. Louis Hunt, vice provost and university registrar at NC State. “This ranking encompasses the entire educational process – it acknowledges the quality of our faculty and students as well as the excellence and appropriateness of our curriculum.”

The university’s reputation in the workplace is no surprise to Morgan Donnelly (‘10), who graduated in May and now works as a digital journalist/reporter with NBC affiliate WSLS 10 in Roanoke, Virginia.

After being told by a number of future broadcast colleagues that it could take up to a year to land a solid position, Donnelly was offered two jobs on the same day less than a month after graduation – a credit not only to her efforts, but also those of NC State faculty and staff in helping Donnelly prepare to succeed beyond the borders of campus. [Read more →]

More than a decade of brainstorming, planning and construction will come to a close Sept. 25 as NC State helps celebrate the dedication of an improved Hillsborough Street corridor that frames the north border of our campus.

“For 123 years, Hillsborough Street has been the front door for NC State,” NC State chancellor Randy Woodson said. “As a result, we have had a strong partnership with the City of Raleigh and our Hillsborough Street merchants and neighbors, working closely to consider the future of Hillsborough Street and its vitality.

Live It Up! activities will begin at 12:30 p.m., with a marathon run of entertainment options – on four stages – suitable for visitors of all ages. The schedule highlights performances from a dozen bands, bellydancers and international dance troupes, as well as a fraternity/sorority Pig-N-Pie cookoff, an “Iron Chef” challenge and a beer garden for attendees over 21 years old.

“This project, which has improved the safety and aesthetic appeal of the street, has been a stride toward that end,” Woodson said. “We are grateful for the partnerships that have made this change possible.”

Over the last 16 months, construction efforts have led to increased and more-accessible parking along the historic downtown connector, while making both pedestrian and bicyclist safety a top priority. A pair of roundabouts – one on Hillsborough Street and another nearby on Oberlin Road – has virtually eliminated the traffic jams and travel difficulties that were so prevalent in years past. [Read more →]

Recruiters rate NC State No. 1 in North Carolina, No. 19 in nation, for job recruitment. http://tinyurl.com/3xycn9u

The study supports findings last month that NC State was the top school in the Research Triangle for job recruitment.  According to Triangle Business Journal, NC State out polled Duke and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill for the top spot when it comes to job recruitment.

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Passion Rules!

Another classic finding from the world of “pop research.”  More like pop monkey if you ask me.  I guess the same was  said about people who created their own web sites, built their own companies, or put their family portrait on the holiday card.  Just classic.

Reminds me of when the guru’s from Forrester Research told the magazine Public Relations Tactics  that marketers shouldn’t use Foursquare as a promotion tool because the research shows it’s too new — no, too small –  to be effective.   http://www.hiceschool.com/1-of-many/omg-did-that-analyst-really-just-tell-marketers-to-hang-back-and-avoid-innovation/ God forbid you’d want to be the first one to do anything.  The one who created a trend. The one who discovered a new way to do things.