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College Admissions Offices Using Facebook as Recruiting Tool
03 October 08 02:39 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A growing number of graduate school admissions and college officers are turning to Facebook for recruiting, communicating with potential students and providing up-to-date news on the school through the social networking site, instead of relying on more Read More...

Filed under: Alison Damast, Business Week, Center for Marketing Research, Cheryl Millington, college, college financial aid, college loans, FaceBook, financial aid, MySpace, NextStudent, Nora Barnes, Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, paying for college, Rotman School of Management, San Diego State University, Scott Minto, Sports Business Management MBA Program, student loans, tuition, U.S. Open of Surfing, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, University of Toronto

Wilkes University Puts Freshman Recruits Front and Center and Billboard-Size
04 May 08 03:56 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Wilkes University, a small, private school in northeastern Pennsylvania, is using a quirky new in-your-face $120,000 ad campaign to get the attention of today’s media- and marketing-savvy students. The university is plastering personalized messages on billboards, pizza boxes, gas pumps, and even on MTV, VH1, and Comedy Central to students it wants to make a part of its freshman class. Read More...

Filed under: 160over90, admissions, advertising, AMA, American Marketing Association, AP, Associated Press, call a Colonel, Central Catholic, college, college loans, FaceBook, financial aid, Freshmen, grants, Greg Heindel, Jack Chielli, Kristen Pecka, marketing, media, Michael Rubinkam, MySpace, Nancy Costopulos, NextStudent, Nicole Pollock, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, recruiting, recruits, Scholarships, Scranton High, student loans, trends, undergraduate admissions, undergraduates, Wilkes, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, YouTube

Can’t Find Your Friends? Check the Library
17 January 08 08:26 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Libraries aren’t what they used to be. No more stuffy, hair-bun-bearing librarians, no more thumbing through cumbersome card catalogs, and no more getting lost in aisles of endless Encyclopedia Britannicas. Libraries are now high-tech, high-speed information Read More...

Filed under: ALA, American Library Association, Anick Jesdanun, Benton Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Books, bookworms, card catalogs, college, Dewey Decimal System, FaceBook, Gen X, Gen Y, high-speed, Internet access, Julie Vorman, libraries, library, Loriene Roy, Microsoft, MySpace, nerds, NextStudent, online, Pew, Pew Internet & American Life Project, reading, Reuters, Second Life, stacks, student life, student loans, Students, stumble, StumbleUpon, technological revolution, technology, teenagers, teens, trends, USA Today

Not Just Your Virtual Diary Anymore, Blogging Is Big Business
09 January 08 11:23 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A decade ago, blogging was a way for anyone with a computer to get a high from posting their personal ramblings to the Web and sharing their now-published thoughts with the online world. Narcissistic? Maybe. Therapeutic? Definitely. Profitable? Questionable. Read More...

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Say Goodbye to Town Hall and Hello to the World of E-Mediacy
29 August 07 06:37 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

First, there was Cindy Sheehan, the suburban mother turned political activist after her son died in Iraq. Then there was the CNN and YouTube joint foray into the presidential debates, with CNN televising all eight Democratic candidates debating questions Read More...

Filed under: Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, CNN, Duncan Hunger, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mitt Romney, MTV, MySpace, NextStudent, political campaign, politics, presidential candidates, presidential debates, presidential race, Rock the Vote, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani, Sam Brownback, webcast, YouTube

‘MyNews’ for MySpace Coming Soon
02 April 07 09:57 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Forget that Rupert Murdoch’s multimedia acquisitions involve ownership of social media properties like MySpace and may be an attempt to transition old school newspaper content into relevant content for a new generation. Instead, focus on the millions Read More...

Filed under: MySpace, MySpace News, NextStudent

Social Networking: Hip, Cool and Fun … But Be Smart
02 February 07 06:19 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

There now is little doubt about social networking becoming an integral part of our culture. It almost is a foregone conclusion. I know you and your friends for years have been into MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, and many other such networks. But mom and Read More...

Filed under: Blogging, College Funding, Consolidation, FaceBook, financial aid, MySpace, Next Student, NextStudent, Social Networking, Social Networks, student loan consolidation, student loans, YouTube

CIA Socializes: Getting a Job through FaceBook, MySpace, Whatever
26 January 07 08:18 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Could it be that social networks are becoming an embedded piece of our culture, no longer just limited to college geeks, party mongers, and those who are hip and in the know? That would appear to be the case. Just last month the CIA, that is, the Central Read More...

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