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You’re Accepted!

James — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:54:55 +0000

kor group recently created multiple admission acceptance kits for some of our higher education clients: Assumption College, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Merrimack College, and Wheelock College. We understand that admission marketing is not just about getting prospective students to apply, but to yield. The goal of these kits was to excite the accepted student, and to immediately make him or her feel welcomed into the school’s community. Beyond the beautiful printed kits we included information for accepted students to connect with their future graduating class on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Assumption College Accept Kit folder

Assumption College Accept Brochure

MCPHS Accept Kit Folder

MCPHS Accept Kit Folder (Post-It Notes)

Merrimack College Accept Checklist

Wheelock College Accept Kit Folder

Wheelock College Merit Scholarship Award

PowerPoint karaoke? Yup.

Dave — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:24:46 +0000

Imagine this scenario. You’re at a friend’s house, or maybe a bar, and it’s time for a party game. No one feels like charades, and Pictionary is so – you know – 1996. Someone suggests PowerPoint karaoke, and they nominate you to go first.

Here’s what happens. You walk up to the front of the room, and begin presenting a random PowerPoint presentation. It’s been pulled off the Web, you’ve never seen it before, and you have no clue what it is about. But that’s the whole point. The object of the game is to present the slides as if you wrote them yourself – confidently and with authority.

So if the first slide were to claim that “we offer a robust SQL architecture that integrates seamlessly with your existing application base,” you need to make something up so that it looks like you actually know what that means. And if the next slide promises that “Reducing mainline capacity has produced a significant increase in ancillary revenue,” you have to explain it so that it adds to your story. Your friends will shout out suggestions and comments while watching you make a fool of yourself.

There’s no winning or losing, and there’s not really a point beyond transforming the typically mind-numbing PowerPoint presentation into a wacky, zany short story. It’s a sort of Mad Libs 2.0. Karaoke PowerPoint began in Germany, and has become popular at tech conferences in the United States. If you happen to be playing at a bar, pre-game cocktail consumption is recommended.

Source: Boston Globe

Social Media Upset

Rachel — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:43:10 +0000

Bill Gates has joined team LinkedIn and deleted his Facebook account, according to the NY Times Bits blog. It’s going to be an interesting next few years as these big name networking sites duke it out for dominance, so it’s interesting to see where the big guys pledge their allegiance.