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FYI, here's an article on using LinkedIn for alumni groups: http://doteduguru.com/id706-l... Some of the key points are: What are your goals for the group? How will you measure them? How will you market the group? - Kyle James

The Great Galper Fiasco blitzed the blogosphere, but other examples of less dramatic Twitter rudeness and goofing now surface regularly. - Kyle James

It's important to know these sort of facts. - Kyle James

It’s very possible your link juice is leaking. From discontinued products to press releases from years back, below are 7 ways to cork the leak and make the most of your existing site. - Kyle James

I'm talking about the dreaded 404 File Not Found error. When it occurs, users simply abandon their search on that site and go elsewhere. It has been estimated that up to 10% of traffic to large websites on the Web is looking for pages that don't exist, so this is a big problem. - Kyle James

Welcome to another edition of our State of the Mobile Web report. I think this might be our most fascinating report yet. - Kyle James

At least for Google's web search results currently (September 2009), the answer is no. Google doesn't use the "keywords" meta tag in our web search ranking. This video explains more, or see the questions below. - Kyle James

For some context, feel free to click on The Great Keynote Meltdown of 2009. - Kyle James

Do you know how to do SEO for your videos? Do you have a video or two on your site but are unsure how to do search engine optimization for them? - Kyle James

A great introduction and step by step guide for someone really digging into Sitemaps.xml files for the first time. - Kyle James

An interesting post by Michael Fienen about David Galper’s keynote presentation at a recent HighEdWeb conference — and the Twitter backchannel that resulted (it starts at 12pm). - Kyle James

The Intelligent Approach To Customer Intelligence report reveals more than 80% of companies say they use market research, direct marketing, and web analytics, as part of their customer intelligence. - Kyle James

I am going to be taking at look at Kyle Jame’s blog .edu guru! .EduGuru is a blog that specifically centers around web and marketing development for educational institutions. While perusing the site I was happy to see that Emerson’s own Mike Petroff had a guest post on the front page of the site entitled Protecting your College’s Intellectual Property on Facebook: Learning from the Class of 2014 Groups. - Kyle James

However, even with all this, if you don't consistently nurture your Facebook relationships, you'll end up with visitors — potential fans — wondering, "Are they still in business?" - Kyle James

Michael Fienen as “a framework that would allow anyone to get into mobile apps without the expensive cost of development and cumbersome integration processes that schools face now.” Fair enough, that’s enough for me to take a look. - Kyle James

How can we create effective call to action buttons that grab the user’s attention and entice them to click? We’ll try to answer this question in this post by sharing some effective design techniques and exploring some examples. - Kyle James

The Facebook page she created 2 years ago for her university disappeared. Rachel tried everything to get the page back as she explained in a post she wrote last week:Feeling Naked: A Tale of the Disappearing Facebook Fan Page. - Kyle James

This map and the data behind it were compiled by Dr. Henry Niman, a biomedical researcher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, using technology provided by Rhiza Labs and Google. The map is compiled using data from official sources, news reports and user-contributions and updated multiple times per day. - Kyle James

I’ve talked at least a bit with four people who attended the keynote. Michael Fienen’s already discussed it on his own blog, and gives some background suggesting that the choice of speaker was unfortunate. - Kyle James

The Great Keynote Meltdown traces a failed keynote presentation and the response of the audience: “Presentational etiquette is changing along with audience expectations. Twitter is there, and people are going to use it, for good or for bad”. - Kyle James

This week, an audience revolt happened at the Higher Education Conference, you can read about it here, here, here and here. Although I was miles away, I was watching it unfold in real time on Twitter search –I felt horrible for that speaker who likely didn’t even know what was happening till someone posted his phone number on Twitter and people were texting him how horrible he had done. Ouch, the audience was vindictive and felt injured and wanted to get back. - Kyle James

Imagine Googling your business name, and just beneath your company’s #1 ranking is another result, but this one isn’t something you want people to see. Maybe it’s a lawsuit that was brought against your company, maybe it’s the insane rantings of a blogger who happens to hate your company. Maybe the story being told is true, or maybe it’s not. But it doesn’t really matter…you need that result off the first page, and quickly. That could be difficult, but what if you could have prevented it in the first place? I’m gonna show you how… - Kyle James

With a wide range of ways to create online maps, many more news organizations are using these tools to create interesting and unique online maps. Some media companies like the ones featured below are consistently producing good maps that are both visually engaging and educate readers. - Kyle James

The “Secret Menu” of the Campus Visit - Kyle James

"BRILLIANT! That is simply all that you need to say about this article." - Kyle James

Here are 10 useful usability findings and guidelines that may help you improve the user experience on your websites. - Kyle James

A /robots.txt is a very useful tool and, unfortunately, an often overlooked and neglected aspect of web development. - Kyle James

Why is that important? Well, the best answer is that you need to stay on the safe side, because there are different ways servers handle the issue: - Kyle James

Nikki Massaro Kauffman wrote a brilliant article on 3 major assumptions about social media not to make. - Kyle James

The Online Education Game is Changing at eduGuru is an important article every educator should read. An excerpt: - Kyle James