The Campus Tech Connection (#CTCX) had a great chat with the CEO of GoingOn, Jon Corshen, on Monday (5/7/12). For those of you who may remember, GoingOn was a sponsor for the inaugural #NASPAtech conference in 2011.

GoingOn Networks is a San Francisco based education technology company that has created an Academic Social Network to enable colleges and universities to streamline communications, foster connections, and simplify collaboration across the extended campus.

Here are a few thoughts from Jon that is cross-posted on the GoingOn blog:

New social technologies provide powerful tools for creating a “connected campus” where students and faculty can more effectively engage in all aspects of their academic life, far beyond the confines of the course.

Schools have invested millions of dollars deploying institution-wide portals with good reason: they do several things very well. Most importantly, they provide users with a central place for accessing a myriad of disparate back-end systems, including the LMS and SIS. More advanced portals also provide easy access to transactional processes, such as registration, grades, and financial aid. But the other core vision for the portal was to provide a central way for students, faculty and administrators to access school-wide information and to connect with the people and resources that help them succeed. In this area, portals have been a dismal failure.

As CEO of GoingOn, I have talked to hundreds of universities about what is essentially a communication problem: how to get the right information to the right people at the right time. Today’s students (and increasingly the faculty as well) are not willing to go to portals and navigate a maze of menus and pages to try to find information. They want relevant and timely information “pushed” to them in simple and actionable chunks. Short of having an effective way to do this, most schools have resorted to “institutionalized” spam. My sister-in-law, a professor at a California state university, told me that she gets over a hundred emails a day from a myriad of generic list servers and email groups. She reads about 15% of them.

So where do we go from here? To find the answer, you simply need to look as far as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. These companies have done in five years what major companies like IBM, Oracle and Datatel could not accomplish in the prior twenty years: crack the code on collaborative modalities. These solutions have been so effective as to spawn global revolutions. The key reason for these product successes lies in the core design tenants on which they are based, including “push-based” activity streams, sharing, liking, following, in-line commenting, and, increasingly, intelligent recommendations. Take a look across the current academic technology stack (LMS, SIS, Portals, etc.) and you will not find a single system that effectively utilizes these essential concepts. How can we possibly engage today’s students if we do not adopt these new online models for facilitating communication, connections and collaboration?

GoingOn and a handful of other early innovators are developing a new generation of Academic Social Networks. These private institution-wide networks allow schools to extend their current systems and to apply social models to the critical goal of student engagement and faculty empowerment. The result is higher retention, integrated curriculum, and most importantly, a more rewarding academic life experience.

If you were not able tune in live be sure to check out the podcast here:

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Have you ever wanted to give back to you alma mater in a meaningful way? Be sure to check out this week’s Campus Tech Connection podcast as we welcomed  @tomkrieglstein back to the show to learn how alumni can contribute to the crowdsourcing student potential with @AlumniChoose.

 Tom is a passionate education entrepreneur who’s journey of re-inventing higher ed started seven years ago when he co-founded Swift Kick as an educational training company to help colleges and universities increase student engagement outside the classroom, in the informal learning spaces, as a key element to student retention, graduation, and alumni giving. His company worked with over 250 schools, and their training was recognized as the top college training program for three years in a row.

Since then, Tom went on to co-founded Red Rover as a tool to help student connect together around shared interests and build informal learning groups and mentor/mentee matching. Currently, Tom is working on AlumniChoose which is what we will be talking about on the #CTCX show this week.

AlumniChoose is an online fundraising tool for colleges and universities that leverages social media, crowdfunding, and mass-personalization. The mission of AlumniChoose is to help student leaders realize their full potential by spending less time fundraising and more time doing.

Three by-products of the AlumniChoose mission include:

• Empowered student affairs professionals who can easily say yes to projects they, and their students, are excited about by taking the hard work of resource gathering off their plate.
• Increased total donations and donor pool for development/alumni departments and at a cheaper institutional cost.
• Individual donors’ $25 feels like a million dollar donation by linking them to projects most exciting to them and sharing in the project’s success.

The AlumniChoose Core Values:

1. Lead With Why: Always think about our mission and lead with that when making decisions.
2. Chase Butterflies: Think big. Chase after what scares you. Keep growing.
3. D.A.M.: Do As Macgyver. Be resourceful. Be a life hacker. Create creative solutions.
4. Infuse Love: Show passion/compassion/empathy in all the work you do both internally and externally with our community of users.
5. Open Door, Open Hearts: Share your work, results, and emotions with those around you and know that through openness comes
6. Think Play: Tackle any situation/project/task as a child would to a new challenge. If you’re playing, you’re learning, and if you’re learning, you’re growing.
7. Raise Tides: We are in this together and our work isn’t just for our gain, but for the gain of everyone around us, the whole team, and our whole community

#CTCX No. 62: Crowdsourcing Student Potential with @AlumniChoose

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On Monday (4/9) we welcome to Tanya Joosten (@tjoosten) the Director (Interim) at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Learning Technology Center (LTC) and teaches in the Department of Communication to the Campus Tech Connection (#CTCX) show from 12-1 pm CST to talk about strategies & best practices for using social media in education.

          

Join the @BreakDrink Campus Tech Connection podcasting posse as we talk about social justice in technology and how it impacts our campus communities. Here is  TODAY’s podcast and show notes:

I. How Technology is Created & Used

II. BYOD & Social Economic Status for Students on Campus

III.  How Technology Can Support Issues & Causes

We have some questions:

• Does technology provide our students with tools for revolution or activism?
• What does our technology & consumption mean for our students and educators?
• Who has access to technology on campus?

Happy Leap Day!

Since this only happens every 4 years, the Campus Tech Connection (#CTCX) will be hosting a podcast to TODAY at 12 pm CST to talk about leaping forward with technology in higher education.

We were joined by @EricStoller on a podcast & Google + Hangout to discuss the 2012 Horizon Report and how it impacts Student Affairs and Technology (#SAtech). Did you miss the episode? Here is the podcast:

The Horizon Project has been a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC) Emerging Technologies Initiative and EDUCAUSE to help map out the emerging technologies for teaching, learning, research, creative inquiry, and information management.  The Horizon Report was first launched in 2002 to help educators and thought leaders share  strategies, research and analysis around how technologies can effectively support learning.

How to connect to #CTCX:

• Streaming LIVE from Blog Talk Radio-BreakDrink
• Tweet your thoughts using the hashtag #CTCX
• Call or Skype during the show:  (646) 652-2342  or breakdrink

Join the Campus Tech Connection (#CTCX) podcast LIVE today (2/13) from 12-1 pm CST as we have an action-packed line up of guests to share how to get connected in Higher Education. Our guests include:

#CTCX #SAtech Highlight of the week:

@katieschmalzel and @jjwil325 from the @SAFirstYears team will tell us about their blogging adventures at Student Affairs – the First Years. This blog connects first year professionals and graduate students share their stories and experiences of life, work, and play in student affairs. Learn about how the 10 writers post each week to attract over 2,000 on their blog.

Bob Ertischek [@profology] founder of Profology a professional social network created exclusively for higher education faculty, staff and administrators. Bob has been an adjunct and full-time faculty member, teaching classes in Political Science and Business Law at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY. He has also worked in non-faculty roles in higher education in distance and online learning as a faculty developer and instructional technologist at Rochester Institute of Technology. Bob was a member of the Horizon Project Advisory Board in 2004. Prior to working in Higher Education, Bob practiced law and received his Juris Doctor degree from Temple University School of Law in Philadelphia. Bob is married to Faith and has two daughters, Lily and Miranda. Learn how this social network is evolving to connect our higher education peers!

Mark Mruss [@MarkAtAndromo] is a developer at Andromo - a free and easy-to-use professional Android app maker. He’s been programming ever since his parents got him CoCo 3 computer for Christmas. Mark majored in Computer Science at the University of Manitoba, and joined Indigo Rose shortly after graduation. He spent about ten years writting software in C++ designed for Windows developers, and then in early 2011 the company decided to look in a different direction to began mobile development. Although Mark taught himself Python & blogged about it – he does get a chance to leave his nerd behind while hanging out with his son, listening to music,  and riding his bike to work (in the summer – because Winnipeg is COLD). Mark is a beer lover who has been homebrewing for the last two and a half years, and he even grows hops in his own backyard. Come learn how a non-programmer can create an mobile app!

How to connect to #CTCX:

• Streaming LIVE from Blog Talk Radio-BreakDrink
• Tweet your thoughts using the hashtag #CTCX
• Call or Skype during the show:  (646) 652-2342  or breakdrink

Join the Campus Tech Connection (#CTCX) today LIVE from 12-1 pm CST as we talk about the latest tech news and discuss how higher education is getting more connected by the minute with our guests. 

#CTCX #SATech Highlight of the Week: #SAsearch
Laura Megivern - thesasearch.org – @thesasearch

#CTCX Guest: Mike Petroff (@mikepetroff)

EDUTweetups (originally at edutweetups.com) was acquired by Inside Higher Ed, and we’re currently building out a section on their site to
be the Twitter Calendar for Higher Ed. Learn how it will be promoting events, weekly chats and hashtags.

Also learn about the NEW FollowEDU network. This is a searchable directory of Twitter users in higher ed. Learn how Mike started this project from with developers from Stamats Catchfire and hear more about how the recent launch is going.

Join us today:

• Streaming LIVE from Blog Talk Radio-BreakDrink 
• Tweet your thoughts using the hashtag #CTCX 
• Call or Skype during the show:  (646) 652-2342  or breakdrink

The Campus Tech Connection (#CTCX) podcasters are making a list… and checking it twice on TOMORROW’s (12/23) podcast.

Join us as the #CTCX elves compare lists of gadgets, tech, past shows and MORE from 2011 from 12-1 pm CST. What’s on your “best of” list for 2011? 

This one’s for the ladies… No it’s not. It is for ALL the #SAtech community.

The last Campus Tech Connection (#CTX) podcast was fortunate to have a few of the many the @SAwomentech join the show. Thanks to @kristendom, @brendabethman, @jenniferkeegin & @stephwint for sharing their insights, experiences, concerns and thoughts for the future of how women in student affairs and technology. There were discussions about how males typically dominate the #SAtech realm and how women in technology need to have a stronger voice in the community.  Do you agree? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

Flickr photo c/o rutty

Are you interested in contributing the the @SAwomentech blog? Good news – they are recruiting and would LOVE you to join in the fun. You learn more ABOUT the blog and DM @SAwomentech or send an e-mail.  I know that I keep tabs on the SA Women Talk Tech Blog in my RSS reader, and I will be sure to follow the dialog on Twitter with #SAWTT and #SAwomenblog hashtags.

Here are a few of the hot topics and questions we discussed on the podcast:

Listen to the responses for these questions and more from the @SAwomentech panel here:

Links to the #CTCX tech news & updates: