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by Whitney Anderson on April 5, 2011
Roanoke has several Facebook groups for prospective students and a very active group for accepted students. We have current students help answer questions in these groups. Lately, there have been lots of questions and my intern was spending lots of time writing lengthy replies. So, we decided to do video responses to their questions. We [...]
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by Whitney Anderson on April 4, 2011
Roanoke College was named to the Top 100 Social Media Colleges list, published by Student Advisor. We were ranked #22 to be exact and were the only school from Virginia in the top 25. We are in good company with Duke at #18, Brown at #20, Yale at #24 and Dartmouth at #25. Their comments [...]
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by Michael Santoroski on June 3, 2010
We have been working on making several updates to our homepage to make it more “social media” aware. We have integrated Facebook, added links to all our social media sites, and made a few other tweaks. Our final step was to add stories from the RC News Blog to the the “Campus News” section of [...]
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by Michael Santoroski on May 10, 2010
Step 1: Grab your status feed as a JSON Object: http://graph.facebook.com/{YourFacebookID}/feed Make sure you find your Facebook ID and replace it in the URL Above. Step 2: We used some Coldfusion magic to parse the JSON to XML, you can see below what the result is. We choose to strip out all the unnecessary data [...]
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by Michael Santoroski on April 28, 2010
Recently I blogged about how other Virginia colleges were using Social Media on their homepages, since then we have been trying to figure out the best way to get social media on the Roanoke College homepage. After doing some internal mock-ups and and asking New City (our design partners) to do some mock-ups, we came [...]
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by Michael Santoroski on February 16, 2010
I have been thinking about when it will be time to put social media on the home page for Roanoke College. This is a big change for me, since for a long time it was “if,” now it is “when.” I have followed University of Richmond’s and Washington & Lee’s use of Twitter and Facebook [...]
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by Michael Santoroski on July 22, 2009
At the eduWeb conference Twitter has reached total penetration. Nearly everyone raised their hand when asked if they were on Twitter in a session I went to (of course, it was a session about Twitter). Many of my peers still report that upper management and other stake holders don’t “get it.” And 70% of higher [...]
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by Michael Santoroski on June 14, 2009
Starting with the June issue we are introducing a new simpler design for the monthly Roanoke College eNews. We will be reduce eNews from five versions to one.
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by Michael Santoroski on January 22, 2009
We have been working on our 2009 PSAT Search strategy. And while we still expect to get a huge response from this year’s email, we also recognize that long term this will not be a viable way to get recruits. As more top institutions turn away from requiring the SAT, less and less students will [...]
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We're the web development team for Roanoke College. Whitney focuses on design, content and social media. Michael specializes in web programming and creating custom applications. More info
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