To be an effective educator, you must be a good communicator. To be a good communicator, you must break your messages down into their simplest form and change the way you talk about programs and educational systems. Let’s commit to replacing jargon with more relatable...
Don’t Let Jargon Monoxide Poison Your School Communications, Part 1How Edu-speak May Be Killing Your Message
Hockey has been my favorite sport since I turned eleven years old. Unfortunately, it’s not terribly popular here in my desert state of Arizona. So, if I start talking about breakaways, five-holes, slapshots, and dropping the gloves to the uninitiated, eyes glaze over,...
Where are you spending your school website budget? Sales or Support?Put your money where your priorities are; be a wise steward of your school's resources
Let’s discuss where schools typically choose to spend budgeted website funds. There are basically three choices when it comes to the school funds spent on their websites. Pay staff to develop and manage a free or open-source CMS platform. Use a pre-developed...
School Calendars: Your One-Stop School Communications ToolHow to Manage Your District and School Calendars
As school marketers, we sometimes become distracted by all the wonderful tools we have at our disposal—the website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and whatever the next new social media trend will be—that we sometimes don’t give one of the most efficient tools in our...
Web Accessibility Affects SurfersMake web surfing an accessible experience.
Do you spend your spare time at the beach surfing the waves until the sun sets? Maybe you prefer to watch the surfers as you enjoy basking in the sun. Maybe the beach isn’t your “thing” and after a hard days work, you prefer to channel-surf to clear your mind. We all...