Archive for August, 2012

Highlight an App: Spotcycle

August 30, 2012

By Anitra Cottledge I’m going to let all of you in on a tiny secret: I really underutilize apps on my iPhone. I only use a few apps with any regularity: Facebook, TweetDeck, Evernote, Wikipedia, Snaptell and Goodreads. As a result, I had to really think about what app to highlight for this post. In [...]

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Linkage Love (Late)

August 29, 2012

by Kristen Abell Tis the season in our division to start re-designing websites. And since I generally play an integral part in this process, I’ve been brushing up on my website standards (okay, not really – I pretty much have what I look for in a good website design memorized at this point, but it [...]

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Communicating to students using social media – best practices

August 28, 2012

by Lauren Creamer It’s that time of year again! And no, I don’t mean BBQ and mini-vaca to the Vineyard time – I mean on-campus move-in. Hooray! If you’re like me (and I imagine some of you are, as this is a student affairs blog you’re reading) you are super excited to meet new students [...]

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Highlight a Woman: Clare Cady

August 23, 2012

By Kathryn Magura This week I have the pleasure of highlighting the work of a friend and colleague, Clare Cady. Clare is the Coordinator of the Human Services Resource Center and Food Pantry on the Oregon State University campus. Clare is a recently published journal author and continues to bring the issues surrounding poverty at [...]

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Linkage Love: Women in the Military

August 22, 2012

By Anitra Cottledge I’m convinced that some of the best ideas come to me while watching #nerdland. I usually come away from watching the Melissa Harris-Perry (MHP) show with some inkling of a topic I want to know more about, or some tidbit of information that I want to further research. Today, I came away [...]

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