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 […]
Judging Student Literacy
It’s blog entries like Noichole Pinkard’s** that keep my excitement flowing about the potential future of education. Here’s my favorite line: I conjecture that by 2018, a student will routinely be judged not only by her ability to write a 5-paragraph essay but her ability to represent her ideas via a 5 minute podcast, 2 […]
Update – Red Rover Submission into the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitoin
Thus far, the MacArthur Foundation has not released any information, or hints, on the status of individual applications. I’m not sure if they will or if they are holding out until mid-February. The only post competition press release I’ve found is a blog written in October by Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg, HASTAC […]
Utilizing Red Rover Tag Clouds for Marketing
Red Rover uses tags throughout its interface to help match people and groups together on campus. Tags are simple keywords that describe a person or group. Institution tag clouds, like the one seen here, are a collection of all the individual and group tags for an institution. The institution tag cloud becomes a poster for […]
Keeping the Focus – Posting our Projects
By design, we move fast at Swift Kick. Our staff is small with 2 full-time employees (Kevin and Me), 1 part-time (Emma**), and a team of ad-hoc consultants (designer, programmer, accountant, etc.) Kevin and I are always impressed when we look back 6 months and see our progress. A major advantage we have is an […]
It’s Too Easy to Focus on the Negatives of Myspace and Facebook
We break our Myspace/Facebook program** for students into 3 parts: 1) The Dangers 2) Protecting Yourself 3) How to Use the Tools Positively and Effectively In the actual talk, we spend only about 1/3rd of the time on the first two parts and 2/3rds on the last part. The reason is studies show that students […]
Why We Speak.
Kevin is on the tail end of a 3 week tour with 14 days of solid speaking. That’s impressive and the most amount of consecutive speaking we’ve ever done. Before he left I sent him an email as a reminder as to why our speaking matters beyond keeping Swift Kick alive: Today on Facebook, I […]
Creating a Speech
Speaker turnover in the college market is impressive. We’ve seen it happen far too often. A new speaker spends around $2000 to go to an APCA or NACA conference only to never show up again. What happens? There are many reasons and we will try to blog about them from time to time so others […]
Red Rover Intro Video
In talking with a lot of advisors who are trying to start Red Rover on their campus, one of the challenges they say they are facing is convincing the staff/admin how it works and what it does. So we put together this video. More help is coming soon including a website with screenshots and an […]