Despite being a country where Internet connections are often unreliable, India can usually be seen as an early adopter of new web and social media applications. India’s citizens have so wholly embraced Facebook that they love it almost as much as they love film. Facebook recently announced that it will open its first Asian office [...]
Complete College America is a new nonprofit focused solely on dramatically increasing the nation’s college completion rates. CCA is funded and supported by the Gates, Lumina, Carnegie, Kellogg, and Ford foundations. CCA was launched last week with a national media teleconference and media outreach.
One aspect of CCA’s mission is its Alliance of States. These states’ [...]
What do you get when you combine the increasingly competitive college admissions process with the age of social media? YouTube videos as a college application supplement, of course. At least that is what Tufts University has started to accept this year. In addition to poring through the traditional essays, recommendations and transcripts, this year Tufts [...]
Leading online news source for the marketing and media fields, Advertising Age, launched the first of what is to be weekly installments of a Twitter measuring chart, entitled “Top 10 Most Tweeted Brands.” A collaboration with What the Trend, a social media trend-analytics service, this chart attempts to list the week’s ten most popular brands [...]
University of Miami School of Law has launched its newly re-skinned website. The project, completed with help from Lipman Hearne’s interactive team, brings a fresh new look and engaging animation to the home page, which emphasizes the School’s advantageous location in a world-class city at the crossroads of the Americas.
The launch caps a great year [...]
Lipman Hearne’s new website, launched earlier this week, gives visitors a fresh look at the firm and its work.
Central to the site is Lipman Hearne’s best asset: the staff. Visitors can browse staff stories in the People section, hear staff members’ voices through quotes that float throughout the site, and catch glimpses of them as [...]
Muhlenberg College launched its new institutional site this week to great praise. Focusing on the amazing opportunities to connect to the people, ideas, and experiences that the College provides, the site reflects Muhlenberg’s warmth, vibrancy, and exceptional teaching. Revamped architecture and navigation make the site easier to use, and a new admissions site welcomes prospective [...]
Wired Magazine’s new-ideas issue is great fun, including the cover articles, “Detroit Re-imagined” and “Googlenomics Explained.” But the most fun may be “Socialism Redefined,” which turns socialism (to some a dirty word) inside out— and predicts a “globalist collectivist society.” (This is only partly serious. Notice in the historical timeline feature, Linux 10 is jokingly [...]
University of Detroit Mercy, a longtime Lipman Hearne client, has launched a new online experience aimed at engaging rising high school juniors. Driven to the special site through emails and postcards, these juniors (soon to be seniors) can explore UDM’s teaching, and residential and student life by clicking on photographic hot spots. Fun and sometimes [...]
I had the opportunity to sit on the judging panel for the upcoming AMA Higher Education Symposium – coming up November 15-18 in Boston. Not that I was able to be there the day the selections were made, having been called to a “can’t miss” meeting near Atlanta. So, rather than sitting with my colleagues [...]