Archive for April, 2011
Social Media and the SSAO
Social Media and the Senior Student Affairs Officer (SSAO)
Educate, Engage, and Energize Students
With the rapid growth of social media and accompanying surge in online activity, particularly among university and college students, student affairs staff are using the latest technologies to engage students and forge stronger ties to programs, services, and events. Increasingly, senior student affairs officers (SSAOs) are building their own communities and initiating important conversations through a variety of social media sites. This article provides an overview of social media and how it can help student affairs make and keep vital connections. Read the rest of this entry »
Student Affairs job search advice from Ann Marie Klotz
If you’re looking for a job within student affairs, you really need to listen to this podcast interview from Higher Ed Career Coach.
Ann Marie Klotz, Assistant Director for Selection and Training in Residential Education at DePaul University, shares her thoughts on mentors, finding the right fit, and gives a ton of tips for folks who are conducting a student affairs job search.
Delicious.com still tastes good
Well, Delicious doesn’t really have a taste per se…it’s a website. However, users of the site were pleased to find out this week that Yahoo! had sold Delicious:
“Yahoo! is excited to announce that Delicious has been acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. As creators of the largest online video platform, Hurley and Chen have firsthand expertise enabling millions of consumers to share their experiences with the world. Delicious will become part of their new Internet company, AVOS.”
If you’re wondering why the sale of Delicious is important, feel free to surf over to a blog post that I wrote for Inside Higher Ed. I currently have more than 3,800 bookmarks in Delicious. It is my brain’s external hard drive. I use Delicious to keep track of a variety of sites that I come across.
When it was announced last year that Yahoo! might be closing down Delicious, I was devastated. The news this week is terrific because it means that Delicious should be available for several more years. For users of Delicious, the utility of the site is tremendous. Long live Delicious!
Social Media and Professionalism
Jeff Lail joined me in a vibrant discussion on how social media impacts professionalism.
NASPA Western Regional Conference – Anthology – #NASPAwr11
I’m thrilled to announce that I will be giving the closing keynote at the NASPA Western Regional Conference in San Diego. The title of my talk is “Taking Strategies to Practice: Student Affairs and Social Media“:
We “get” Facebook. Some of us are even on Twitter. Do you YouTube? So what’s next? How do we create community and connections using social media? Student Affairs practitioners are developing amazing ways to use social media to enhance their practice and reach their strategic goals. Let’s tweet, update, and create!
How I Became A Student Affairs Professional
What began as a quick and easy way for me to share my student affairs journey has become a collection of clips from several student affairs professionals.
I posted my “How I became a student affairs professional” video on YouTube at HigherEdLive.com and invited other folks to do the same.
It’s always fascinating to me to hear someone tell the tale of how they got into student affairs. Have you shared your story yet?
If you post a video on YouTube of how you became an SA pro, let me know and I’ll add it to the original collection.
How did you become a student affairs professional?
According to a recent poll from the Student Affairs Collaborative blog, a lot of folks found their way into student affairs via Residence Life, Student Government, and Student Activities involvement.
Share your story in the comments, tweet it to me @EricStoller, or shoot me an email.
Taking the #StollerCoaster on the road
View The #StollerCoaster in a larger map
I’ve spent almost 7 years in Oregon. However, it is now time for me to pack up and take a massive road trip across the entire US. The “Stoller Coaster” comes from a tweet from Chris Conzon. He was suggesting a name for my IHE blog and I’ve used “#StollerCoaster” as a Twitter hashtag to describe my consulting adventures.
I’m moving to Columbia, South Carolina in May. The epic road trip (as seen in the map above) will take several days. Why am I moving? I fell in love!
Student Affairs and Social Media
Ryan Masin, a graduate student in the College Student Development program at OSU (Oklahoma State University), asked me to answer several question about higher education, student affairs, and social media. We spent 45 minutes chatting about everything from the ubiquity of Facebook to how social media will influence student development theory.
Ryan and I first met at the NASPA Annual Conference during my social media unsessions.
Student Affairs Live – Episode 4 – #SAlive
Leslie Dare, Director of Student Affairs Technology Services at NC State University, came on to chat about student affairs technology and higher education graduate programs. Leslie drank her very first Red Bull on the show in my honor! Once again, we had an amazing turnout on Twitter. The #SAlive comments and questions poured in for well over an hour. Leslie and I talked at length about how we can encourage our fellow student affairs practitioners to be bold when it comes to experimenting with technology.
I was tempted to call this post “Episode 4 – A new hope.” 
Student Affairs Live – Episode 3 – #SAlive
Dr. Tom Jackson, Jr., Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of Louisville and former President of ACPA, came on the show to discuss “#NASPACPA.” As many of you already know, I have had a lot to say about the proposed consolidation between ACPA and NASPA.
