With the social media landscape becoming increasingly dependent on visuals, it’s no surprise that Twitter’s recent social video sharing app, Vine, is exploding onto the scene.

Vine, which only reached its 100th day in existence last week, lets users create six-second looping videos that can be shared through the app itself, or on Facebook and Twitter.

Unruly, a video technology company, found that on average five tweets per second contained a Vine link and branded Vines were four times more likely to be shared than branded videos.

Although the app is still in its infancy, we have seen major

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Open up a newspaper – turn on the nightly news – check out the chatter on twitter – it doesn’t matter where you look, there is simply a lot of ugly, sad, tragic news in our world. I recently met someone you won’t recognize or hear about in the news, but he’s the kind of person who reminds me that the world isn’t going to hell. So interpret the following as a “feel-good” blurb, a business case study, a story about leadership, or all of the above – I just think you should get to know Craig Yerly.

Craig recently took over the lease

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In my previous post, I discussed the changing landscape of university engagement. Whether you are a university president, a junior level alumni engagement staff member or somewhere in between, here are a few thought starters to help spark a dialogue about what can be done to refocus university engagement:

1) Think of a university as a media company - I tell university and foundation leaders that I view colleges as holding companies. You have several businesses that the university “owns” – the education business, the business incubator business (R&D), the real estate business, the financial service business (ex – your investment strategy) and the

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I can’t seem to avoid media stories proclaiming that we’ve crossed the disruption threshold in the state of higher education. Perhaps it is because I have a heightened antenna for the issue or perhaps it is because a seemingly ever increasing amount of social media platforms arm us with mounting opinions, facts and figures on the topic. Northwestern University president, Morty Schapiro, has written more than 100 articles and five books on the economics of higher education with a particular focus on the question of affordability. Morty happens to be a friend and I know he’ll be quick to

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