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New Report: 58% of Students Value a Virtual Tour On A College Website

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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Now You Can Embed Your Interactive Campus Map in Facebook!

So this post is more of a transparent pat on our own backs at nuCloud, but we have successfully taken our interactive mapping software and are able to embed it on a Facebook Page!  We are excited because we feel this is a big deal for colleges and universities.  As recent data has shown 99% of 18-24 year olds are on social networks.  As you all know, for most institutes of higher education this is the target audience for at least undergraduates.  Also with Facebook now flaunting over 350 million active users it’s an obvious location in which to place one of your strongest recruiting tools.

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