Comments on: Links to Social Media Sites on Russell Group University Home Pages

By: Mètriques 2.0 del sistema català d’R+D « Des de la Mediterrània

Mètriques 2.0 del sistema català d’R+D « Des de la Mediterrània — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:57:14 +0000

[...] Aquest article es basa en anteriors articles publicats en aquest bloc [UK Web Focus] que han descrit l’ús de les xarxes socials en el sector de l’educació superior del Regne Unit, com ara Social Analytics for Institutional Twitter Accounts Provided by the 24 Russell Group Universities, Use of Facebook by Russell Group Universities i Links to Social Media Sites on Russell Group University Home Pages. [...]

By: Mètriques 2.0 del sistema català d’R+D | L'ase quàntic

Mètriques 2.0 del sistema català d’R+D | L'ase quàntic — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:18:21 +0000

By: Social Media Analytics for R&D: a Catalan Vision « UK Web Focus

Social Media Analytics for R&D: a Catalan Vision « UK Web Focus — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:43:08 +0000

[...] This guest blog post builds on previous posts on this blog which have described use of social media in the UK higher education sector, including posts on Social Analytics for Institutional Twitter Accounts Provided by the 24 Russell Group Universities, Use of Facebook by Russell Group Universities and Links to Social Media Sites on Russell Group University Home Pages. [...]

By: Institutional Use of Social Media in China « UK Web Focus

Institutional Use of Social Media in China « UK Web Focus — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:48:50 +0000

[...] of social media by UK universities, including surveys of use of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and links to social media services. These surveys were followed by a post on Institutional Use of Social Media In Europe. Such [...]

By: Russell Group universities use social media, but don’t we all now? | Vorsprung durch Bürokratie

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:36:22 +0000

[...] A post from Brian Kelly on the extent to which Russell Group universities are linking to social medi… In a recent post in which I gave my predictions for 2012 I predicted that “Social networking services will continue to grow in importance across the higher education sector“. But how will we be able to assess the accuracy of that prediction? One approach is to see if there are significant changes in the number of links to social media services from institutional home pages. The following survey provides a summary of links to social media services which are hosted on the institutional entry point for the 20 Russell Group universities. [...]

By: Niall Cook

Niall Cook — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:41:28 +0000

Interesting analysis. We looked at ‘owned’ social channels last year to see what both the Russell Group and 1994 Group universities were promoting on their websites and found that one third of them had no visible social links at all, even though they all had a social media presence on one platform or another: http://www.sociagility.com/2011/09/top-british-unis-failing-to-integrate-social/

By: Mike Nolan

Mike Nolan — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:39:54 +0000

Interesting that none of the sites are using the more advanced Follow/Like buttons offered by Twitter and Facebook. I wonder if this is because they don't fit with the institution's design or because of privacy concerns.