Last week Noel-Levitz released their 2010 edition on the E-Expectations Report about what college-bound students are looking for in terms of online engagement during the admissions process. To create their report they surveyed more than 1,000 high school students about their online behavior and expectations. I’m not going to rehash the complete report here, but if you are looking for that, Karlyn over at .eduGuru wrote a nice summary or simply go download the report for yourself. What I would like to do is present a few very interesting data points and discuss exactly how we address those points.
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When we say we know higher education web, we mean it. This year we have two members of our management team who will be giving three presentations at HighEdWeb 2010. HighEdWeb is one of the better, and arguably the best, conference for higher education web developers and marketers.
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Cars.com recently put together an interesting interactive map of towns across America that are addicted to American muscle cars. The Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger’s popularity is shown based on search volume in towns. As Cars.com specifically explains it to us:
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One of the first things we realized when starting nuCloud is that our map tools can be used for so much more than just campus maps. Any sort of virtual tour that can be accomplished through a map is a possible use of the software. Because we have a strong background in higher education it makes sense for us to start with that market, but it is by no means the only viable solution. Part of demonstrating these different uses is giving examples. By clicking on the image below you can see an example of our mapping tool used to explore historic Fenway Park in Boston, MA.
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After months (okay, years) of development and going back and forth many times we have finally launched eduRank! eduRank is a traffic ranking service for .edu domains. Essentially what we have been able to do is to take a list of over 1,500 college and university websites, and by collecting multiple data points and running these through our own algorithm, we have been able to rank the traffic and authority of these websites. Because we take multiple data points we feel our ranking is more exact than any of the individual rankings on their own.
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Have you caught World Cup fever yet? With the World Cup starting in less than a day it’s important to know when your favorite teams are playing and who.
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For almost a month now a deep-water oil well has been gushing over 200,000 gallons of oil a day. This catastrophic event has essentially shut down fishing in much of the gulf coast and is another reminder of why the US and whole world must find other forms of energy beyond oil. With this epic event there has been no lack of media coverage and many news outlets have looked to interactive maps to help tell the story. Here are six such maps:
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Last week our friend Mike Richwalsky over at HighEdWebTech blogged about a student produced video that doubles as a campus tour. I think the video says it all so I’m also going to embed it here.
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We have been working hard on the back end of our interactive campus map software solution. At the end of the day you shouldn’t need to pay someone $100+ per hour in order make updates to an existing map that you have. Also as we have talked about in the past the ability to upload your map to your Facebook fan page is sort of a big deal we are excited about! Take a look at the video below and let us know what you think of the user interface to make changes to your map. We ill be launching a demo portal and trial accounts soon.
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For anyone who has been to the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC, the 250 room mansion is only part of the experience. There are hundreds of acres of gardens, a winery, farm and even a pond that was in a scene in Last of the Mohicans. To really see the whole estate either you need a full weekend or a really good interactive map to make the tour. Take a look at the Biltmore Estate Interactive Map.
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