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Making it Easy to Enroll
It just occurred to me (maybe because I’m too close to the content of this blog) that I need to make it clearer how people can enroll as SMUG students. So we have a new page, Enroll Now, to simplify the process. You have enrollment options, but now you don’t have to find your way [...]
Posted in Social Media Also tagged Blogging, Colleges, Higher Ed, higher education, Lifelong Learning, online, Postsecondary, SMUG, Social Media, social networking, socialmedia, universities Leave a comment
“Free” and Higher Education = SMUG
Two recent blog posts that are required reading for SMUG students come from Chris Anderson and Jeff Jarvis. They explain why an institution like Social Media University, Global can exist (and much of what makes the rest of the Web work.) Anderson (Editor-in-Chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail) has a link to [...]
Posted in SMUG, Social Media Also tagged Chris Anderson, Education, free, Jeff Jarvis, SMUG, Social Media, socialmedia, Wired Leave a comment
SMUG Facebook Hacker Challenge Update
The SMUG $100 Facebook Hacker Challenge, which I conceived in response to a question during this podcast interview, has attracted some interest. Anthony at AllFacebook put out the all-points-bulletin for hackers to give it a shot. And Goob said Frankly, I think it’s just a great publicity event. Promise some money if people can do [...]
Posted in Facebook, SMUG Also tagged endowment, Facebook, hackers, hacks, PayPal, privacy, research, security, SMUG, Social Media, social networking, socialmedia Leave a comment
Why SMUG?
So how do you choose what to name a new institution of higher learning? Stanford University was named after a former California governor’s son, who had died of typhoid fever at age 15. Yale University, which was founded to train ministers and was called Collegiate School, was eventually named after benefactor Elihu Yale. Harvard University [...]
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SMUG Campus in Summer