Turned Down by the MacArthur DML Competition – Staying Sustainable
The Conference on the First-Year Experience was a fantastic event for us because Red Rover** was very popular. The attendees were a mix of student advisors, deans, faculty, and librarians. Each group had a slightly different curiosity for Red Rover, but they all had one question in common and it was probably the most popular […]
Bosie State Newspaper Article About Swift Kick Training
It’s nice for us to connect with school newspaper reporters during our on-site trainings. It allows the message of the training to go out beyond just those who attended. Colby Stream of the Boise State Arbiter wrote a follow-up** to our Myspace/Facebook training at their school. Colby did a great job in capturing many of […]
Utlizing Facebook Flyers for Marketing Red Rover and Swift Kick
Last November, Facebook updated its semi-useful “Facebook Flyer” advertising system. The biggest updates were better target marketing by keyword and the ability to pay-per-click instead of impressions. This is big news for people who work in the marketing industry, especially for a PPC Agency Los Angeles as what that meant was very little harm in […]
Funny Google Searches for Swift Kick
As a child, my parents nicknamed me The Count because I used to count the number of pennies in our HUGE family coin jar. Though I no longer count the number of pennies lying around, I do admittedly have an obsession with watching our blog numbers** and calculating its monthly growth. Call me a geek, […]
2008 Themes for Swift Kick
1) WORK IN THE OPEN IMAGE FILE NO LONGER AVAILABLE Like the jewelry maker, we want to work in the open for every to see how we do what we do. Share our work whether raw or polished. Share our work with others and have others share with us. It takes a village to grow […]
SK Blog Stats for 2/1/08
One of our major goals of 2008 is to “work out in the open” like a jewelry maker in his/her shop creating the next piece in the open for everyone to see. Education and learning should be an open process so we can all learn from each other. This blog is a piece of jewelry […]
Student Assessment Graphs Added to Red Rover
We made another round of improvements to the assessment dashboard by adding several new key data metrics and by making the dashboard more visually appealing with graphs. Consider this Version 1.9999 (not quite 2.0 🙂 Only the admin for the school’s Red Rover account has access to the dashboard. From there, the admin can share […]
Interview about Red Rover with Peter Barnes of Fox Business TV
In case you happen to be up and about at 6:45 am tomorrow (Jan 23rd) tune into the morning edition of Fox Business TV with Peter Barnes**. He is interviewing me about Red Rover, Swift Kick, Ideablob, and why I like peanut butter so much. Yes, I did say 6:45 am 🙂 We should have […]
Chicago Sun-Times Article on Red Rover and Swift Kick
Sandra Guy from the Chicago Sun-Times wrote about Red Rover and Swift Kick from an entrepreneurial startup standpoint. She does a great job of capturing Red Rover’s role in new student orientation: “Red Rover does for education what eHarmony does for dating,” Krieglstein said. “We connect students via online networks to other students, groups and […]
2007 Swift Kick Program Calendar
As we close the door on 2007, here’s a look back at who we worked with. 01/02/07 APCA Las Vegas Advisors Summit 01/03/07 APCA Las Vegas Advisors Summit 01/04/07 APCA Las Vegas Advisors Summit 01/23/07 Valencia CC 01/27/07 University of Alabama – Birmingham 01/27/07 Nazareth College 02/11/07 Lees-McRae College 02/17/07 NACA Nationals 02/18/07 NACA Nationals […]