#CollegeCash Summary with College Abacus
Our guest for CollegeCash was College Abacus, we had a great twitter conversation about college cost in the United States. Abacus is free service parents, students and counselors , that helps compare projected college financial aid packages across schools and to identify schools within families budgets. [View the story "CollegeCash Summary with College Abacus" on Storify] Share → Tweet
Twitter Tips for College Visits and the College-bound
This week we welcomed Kelly Queijo (@collegevisit), founder of http://SmartCollegeVisit.com, to share her Twitter Tips for College Visits and the College-bound. Following is a summary of the chat. Twitter is a great tool for teens to use for college searches, admissions information, networking, opinions, weather and alerts. But they should choose a Twitter ID and avatar that is not offensive as colleges may want to engage in conversation with them. For a quick wrap-up, check out: 6 Reasons College-Bound Teens Should Use Twitter at http://ow.ly/gUGD6. To locate colleges on Twitter,... Read The Rest →
How Students Should Approach Networking Using Social Media
As we enter into this exciting graduation season, this week on her #CollegeCash chat, Jodi welcomed special guest Lori Ruff, The LinkedIn Diva™, who is a Forbes Top 50 super-connected Social Media Power Influencer. Lori travels the globe to demonstrate how to effectively and efficiently harness the business development power of social media. We started off the chat discussing why new grads need social networking. Lori explained that not only do new grads need social networking in and after school, but that they need to transition that networking from the... Read The Rest →
Social Profiles #CollegeCash Summary
This week Jodi welcomed special guest Phyllis Khare, a speaker, trainer, consultant and author of “Social Media Marketing eLearning Kit for Dummies.” She is also co-authored “Facebook Marketing All-In-One for Dummies.” The topic discussed was: “Social Profiles on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ and how they can help – or hurt – students who are planning for college.” First things first! To check your social profiles, simply log on to a computer that you don’t normally use and perform a Google search for your name (and nicknames). At the top... Read The Rest →
Sheldon Word-Nerd Is Our Guest on #CollegeCash
We continue expanding our community of #CollegeCash Twitter Seminars, which are filled with many tools your college bound students can use to navigate the College Prep process. Join us at #CollegeCash on October 20 at 10 pm EDT/7 pm PDT to meet our special guest. If your student is preparing for the SAT or PSAT you may have heard a lot about vocabulary and wondering if your student has learned enough in school for the test. This week on our #CollegeCash Twitter Seminar, we are very excited to feature Jenn... Read The Rest →