Students can use the app to tell the school their interests and it will push related content (program info, events, etc) to the student’s facebook page. OH yea..and log all that data in a CRM for stats/reporting.

Sorry if that came off like a pitch!! It’s vapor-ware currently, but obviously we’re excited about a launch!

It would be interesting to see the percentage in the group, even though some of the Facebook group members have probably opted to go elsewhere and simply haven’t removed themselves from the group yet. (It’s simple to leave a group in Facebook. Some remember to leave the group eventually, some don’t. Admins can remove these people, of course.)

That’s a distinction from school-hosted forums, where members can’t easily leave. (Again, admins can removes their account.) In essence, membership in school-hosted forums is inflated, and the ratio of members-to-deposits is probably less useful for the forums.

Has anyone posted a link from the BUForums to the Facebook group. That’s promotion of the Facebook group in a somewhat-sanctioned manner, even if not done by a Butler staffer.

No doubt that is true.

Here’s my bias. By active promotion, the number of incoming students a college can get to join and participate in a group on a popular social network (i.e. Facebook at the moment) is likely greater than the COMBINED number of students joining a college’s officially promoted in-house Web community and an outside, non-promoted Facebook group.

When you’re putting in the time and effort, might as well get the best results out of it

Do your counselors participate in the BUForums or in the class group?