technology on a budget
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Technology on a Budget. Mandy Nycz Assistant Director, Career Services St. Norbert College. Agenda. A bit about who’s in the room A bit about me Blogs Podcasts IM Videocasts Voice Over Social Networking Sites SNC Misc. A Bit About Who’s in the Room. Blogs Podcasts IM - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Technology on a BudgetMandy NyczAssistant Director, Career ServicesSt. Norbert College
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Agenda• A bit about who’s in the room• A bit about me• Blogs• Podcasts• IM• Videocasts• Voice Over• Social Networking Sites• SNC Misc.
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A Bit About Who’s in the Room• Blogs• Podcasts• IM• Videos/YouTube• Social Networking
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A Bit About Me
SmartArt Graphic, Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
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Did You Know?• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=jpEnFwiqdx8
• So What Does It All Mean?
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Key Partners• Technology Support Services• Office of Communications• Others?
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BLOGS
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Blogs• Wikipedia
– A blog (a contraction of the term "Web log") is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.
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Blogs Pop Quiz• What percent of internet users
read blogs?– Answer: 33%
• What percent of internet users create their own blog?– Answer: 12%
Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project
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Career Services Blogs• 2 Options
– Written by professionals: Advice vs. Announcements• http://www.onedayonejob.com/blog/top
-10-college-career-services-blogs/• http://careers.washington.edu/blog• http://career.uoregon.edu/blog• http://www.career.umkc.edu/?p=blog
– Written by students• http://www.snc.edu/career/blog.html
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Blog How-To• FREE!
– http://b2evolution.net/: runs on your very own domain and website - you can install it as an extension to a website you already own.
– http://wordpress.org/– https://www.blogger.com/start– http://wordpress.com/
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SNC Blog: How I Did It
• Recruit students via online announcements
• Explain expectations (see Student Blog Instructions handout)
• Sign waiver• Set up account with Technology
Support Services• Start writing!
Career Services Office www.snc.edu/career
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SNC Blog: How I Did It• Moderator Instructions
– Login: https://blog.snc.edu/blogs/htsrv/login.php– Click on the Posts tab. – Click on the bloggers name (all the names of the
bloggers for our office will be listed for the moderator).
– Click on the title of the blog to be published.– Click Edit– Click Published (under Visibility/Sharing on right)
and click Save! • As soon as you click Save, the post will be live
on the site• http://www.snc.edu/career/blog.html
Career Services Office www.snc.edu/career
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Other Career Blogs of Interest• http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/ • http://www.brazencareerist.com/• http://www.employeeevolution.com/• http://lindseypollak.com/blog/• http://alexandralevit.typepad.com/wc
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PODCAST
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Podcast• Wikipedia
– A podcast is a series of audio or video digital media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds, to portable media players and personal computers.
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Podcast Pop Quiz• What percent of internet users
say they have downloaded a Podcast?– Answer: 19%
Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project
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SNC Podcast: How I Did It
• Purchase audio recording device (I use Olympus DS-40), cost ~$100– OR borrow from campus Media Services Office (FREE!)
• Develop list of topics• Interview + General information• Podcasts may only be published in
MP3 format
Career Services Office www.snc.edu/career
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SNC Podcast: How I Did It1. Record interview – keep short <5 min.2. Download to computer3. Convert from WMA to MP3 (go to
www.download.com to get FREE MP3 WMA converter)
4. Edit using Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) (FREE audio editor/recorder) – Be sure to also install the LAME MP3 encoder, which will allow you to save your recordings in the MP3 format
5. Add Intro Music – pod safe music: http://creativecommons.org/
6. Export to save
Career Services Office www.snc.edu/career
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SNC Podcast: How I Did It6. Edit the MP3 tags – Download and install MP3tag (
http://www.mp3tag.de/en) – Set the following tags for each episode MP3 file: title,
artist, album, year, track, genre, commentEXAMPLE:Title: Employer - KiewitArtist: St. Norbert College Career ServicesAlbum: Career Services PodcastYear: 2008Track: <blank>Genre: PodcastComment: Company information from Kiewit,
Construction, Engineering, Mining Services7. Talk to your IT staff to determine how to put
podcasts on your website
Career Services Office www.snc.edu/career
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Podcast Examples• Georgia Tech:
http://www.career.gatech.edu/podcast/
• Webster University: http://www.webster.edu/homecampus/homes/careertalk.html
• Miami University: http://www.units.muohio.edu/careers/students/podcast/
• SNC: http://www.snc.edu/career/podcast.html
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INSTANT MESSAGING (IM)
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IM• Wikipedia
– Instant messaging(IM) is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via devices connected over a network such as the Internet.
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IM• What percent of online
Americans use instant messaging?– Answer: 42%
Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project
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IM• Set up accounts with IM services• Most common (FREE!)
– AIM (http://dashboard.aim.com/aim )– MSN (http://webmessenger.msn.com/)– Yahoo Messenger (
http://messenger.yahoo.com/)
• Determine if you want individual screen names or one screen name for entire office– Example: SNCMandy vs.
SNCCareers
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IM• Go to www.download.com and
enter Trillian into the search. • Download Trillian (FREE!). • Be sure to set your away
message to instruct users what to do if you are unavailable
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SNC IM: How I Did It• One screen name for the entire office:
SNCCareer• Each counselor was assigned a day to sign in
to IM• Set hours that IM was available – posted on
website• Tracked usage using Excel spreadsheet• Not successful for our office, discontinued
after one year - VERY successful for our admissions office (http://www.snc.edu/futurestudents/contactus.html)
Career Services Office www.snc.edu/career
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VIDEOCAST
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Videocast• Wikipedia
– Video podcast (sometimes shortened to vidcast or vodcast) is a term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content
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Videocast Pop Quiz• What percent of internet users say they
have ever visited a video-sharing site such as YouTube– Answer: 48%
Source: Pew Internet and American Life Project
• Digital Ethnography Studies at Kansas State University – Total videos uploaded as of March 17th 2008:
78.3 Million– Videos uploaded per day: over 200,000– Average Video Length: 2 minutes 46.17
seconds– Average Age of Active Uploader: 26.57
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Videocast Examples• 2 Options: Information vs. Interviews• Information
– http://careers.unc.edu/events/videos.html– http://www1.cpcc.edu/career/studentsgrads
/arts_pres– http://www.ub-careers.buffalo.edu/olworksh
ops.php– http://harvest.cals.ncsu.edu/career/index.cf
m?pageID=772
– Career TV (http://www.careertv.com/v2/FrontDoor.aspx)
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Videocast Examples• Student/Alum Interviews
– http://www.ub-careers.buffalo.edu/alumvideos.shtml
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SNC Videocast: How I Plan to Do It
• Work in Progress!• Start simple• Check out video camera from Media Services (FREE!)• Plan to focus on alumni interviews – starting with young
alums• Have completed 4 interviews with young alums
employed by SNC• Record ~10 minutes of video – will edit down to be
about 3 minutes• Will edit in Media Services using Mac – iMovie (FREE!)• Goal is to have 5 videos live on site by end of spring
break (March 23)Career Services Office www.snc.edu/career
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VOICE OVER
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Voice Over• Add audio narration to
PowerPoint presentation• SlideShare:
http://www.slideshare.net/ – FREE!– Share and find presentations– Share publicly or privately– Add audio to make a webinar
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Voice Over• SlideShare How To:
– Sign up for a new account– Upload PowerPoint presentation– Upload audio MP3 file (edit and
convert to MP3 using Audacity) to a server or to a podcasting service. The MP3 should be streamable (downloadable from server). Find the URL for your audio file – recommend using http://www.archive.org
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Voice Over• SlideShare How To Continued:
– Add audio url to slideshow — Go to Edit slideshow>edit Slidecast. Enter the audio URL (or copy/paste it) and click the "Link mp3 to slideshow" button.
– Synchronize audio and slides: There are three ways to do the synching. (a) You can leave the audio unsynchronzied. (b) Or you can do a quick synch using the divide audio equally (suited to musical slideshows). (c) Or you can synch each slide to a particular point in the audio file.
– Save and Publish (can share publicly or privately)
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SNC Workshops on Demand: How I Plan to Do It
• 2 workshops complete (http://www.slideshare.net/) – Interviewing Skills– Resume & Cover Letter Writing
• Plan to change current Handouts and Guides on website to Handouts and Media Resources
Career Services Office www.snc.edu/career
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SOCIAL NETWORKING
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Social Networking• Wikipedia
– A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.
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Social Networking Pop Quiz• Percent of college students who actively
use Facebook– Answer: 83%
• Percent of college students who actively use MySpace– Answer: 65%
• Percent of college students who actively use LinkedIn– Answer: 21%
Source: eROI (e-mail marketing agency), http://www.eroi.com/
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Social Networking• Personal use vs. professional
use of networks• Most, but not all adult social
network users are privacy conscious:– 60% of adult social network users
restrict access to their profiles so that only their friends can see it
– 58% of adult social network users restrict access to certain content within their profile.
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Career Services Social Networking• Examples:
– http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cullowhee/WCU-Career-Services/25283173720
– http://www.facebook.com/pages/Philadelphia-PA/University-of-Pennsylvania-Career-Services/51104130787
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Career Services Social Networking
• If you choose to create a Career Service group on Facebook, consider the following:– Actual traffic of such pages is low– Exposure to liability?
• Are we liable for ignoring the negative things we see on these websites?
• Currently not aware of legal cases, but could we be blamed?
– Some students regard these websites as their personal domain
• Using this medium can be a double-edged sword
Source: Bridgewater State College: www.mymcpa.net/FacebookinCareerServices.ppt
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SNC Misc.
• ALL FREE!• Newsletter:
http://www.snc.edu/career/newsletter/ • Resources for K-12 Educators:
http://www.snc.edu/career/education/ • Alumni Profiles:
http://www.snc.edu/career/alumni/profiles/• Intern Profiles:
http://www.snc.edu/career/students/profiles/
Career Services Office www.snc.edu/career
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Parting Thoughts• Listen to your constituents • Make nice with your Technology
Support Services staff• Research! Check out what other
schools are doing• Don’t be afraid to ask questions• Be forewarned – knowledge can be a
double edged sword• Have faith in yourself – You CAN do
this!
GOOD LUCK!
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Questions?• Contact Info:
Mandy NyczAssistant Director, Career Services
St. Norbert CollegeDe Pere, WI
[email protected](920) 403-3040
http://www.snc.edu/career/