Newsletter: December 2010
It’s a new year, and a time of new classes, new friends to meet, and new opportunities around every corner. With new (there’s that word again) features that help you keep up with what’s happening at your institution, the Student Directory is here to help you keep moving forward. Here’s to another year of growing […]
The Red Rover Orientation Activity
Moving students from online connections to offline engagement is a goal of Red Rover. We want to help you find people who are excited about the same things as you within your community and then help you go do stuff around those interests. Facilitating connections around shared interests builds a sense of comfort which according […]
Dance Floor Theory™ In A Nutshell [QUOTE]
This is an except I wrote from an upcoming NCSL NOW! magazine article about online community engagement… “When talking about online engagement my favorite place to start is offline on the dance floor. We’ve all been to good dances and bad dances. Good dances are proportional to the number of relationships built up on the […]
Tis The Season To…Hire
With an amazing 2010 coming to a close for us at Red Rover and 2011 already looking like a landmark year, we’re expanding the team and looking to recruit some amazing new people. Below are two roles we’re hiring for in the next couple weeks. For both roles, they’d start off as trial contractual positions […]
Updates to the “Tag Yourself” Signup Step
Connecting people and groups around shared interests is what we’re all about, and we do this by matching users’ self-reported interests with those of other people and groups in each institution. The more keywords that people use to tag themselves—and the more accurate those words are—the more relevant connections we can help them make. To […]
Newsletter: November 2010
As the month of November wound down to a close, we found ourselves reflecting on the things for which we are thankful. In a world of increasing digital noise, we are most grateful for the meaningful relationships and serendipitous discoveries that new technologies can bring. Stay tuned—in the next few months, we’ll be […]
Newsletter: October 2010
Ah, autumn…the leaves are turning, the days are getting cooler, and we are finally beginning to recover from all of the Halloween candy. Here are a few tips and treats that we’ve gathered for you in the last month—but don’t worry, these won’t contribute to your sugar coma. A man of many titles, UW-Madison’s […]
New Feature: Customizing the Homepage Image and Banner
Every community is unique, with its own history and culture, and in higher education, that collective identity is expressed visually with school colors, logos, and mascots—all of the elements that find their way into the institution’s website. We want to support you in developing the individual communities that make your institution extraordinary, so we’ve added […]
Connecting at Georgia Highlands College
Here at Red Rover, student engagement is pretty much our raison d’être. From the moment a bright-eyed high school kid starts thinking about admissions essays, through the college years and beyond, we want to provide the tools and opportunities for students to get involved—to build relationships, to contribute, and to be successful. That’s why we […]
An Open Letter Back To The #SAchat Community
The Backstory Kevin and I started The Student Affairs Collaborative in 2005 to test our hypothesis that a decentralized, open system of peer-to-peer learning built around shared interests would increase engagement and retention. We wanted to create a community in which everyone was a teacher at some level, and everyone supported each other to become […]