RHB’s Senior Integration Consultant Megan Miller brings together her Slate expertise and experience as a university communications director to drop some great advice about using Deliver to make sending personalized, streamlined communications that are well received—and about making the process smoother for your whole team. As she says, “The fundamental truth is that we can’t…Read more
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End Your SMS SOS: Building a Texting Strategy that Gets the Job Done
eduWebinar Lunch and Learn Series: Building Student-Centered Strategies
RHB Senior Integration Consultant Megan Miller joined colleagues Jeremy Tiers (Tudor Collegiate Strategies) and Harrison “Soup” Campbell (ZeeMee) on June 23,2020, for an eduWebinar on student-centered marketing strategies. Here, you can read what Megan had to say about exactly what those words “student-centered” mean in this climate, and how you can cultivate the trust students…Read more
Coherence, Cooperation and Cocktails
If you missed Coherence, Cooperation and Cocktails with the RHB team (our substitute for our annual Slate Summit gathering), you’re in luck. Here’s a recording and summary of the webinar where you’ll enjoy a great metaphor featuring a house (from the genius of Jess Ricker of Wellesley), a fair amount of talk about sports cars…Read more
Reality Gone Virtual: Shifting Campus Events in Uncertain Times
As fears of coronavirus dominate the news cycle, universities across the country are forced to contend with many questions on how to operate in the face of a major public health event. Schools are opting to hold classes online, cancel activities, and otherwise limit large gatherings. But at the same time, those of us in…Read more
Texting in Admissions with Technolutions Slate
If you’ve been in the world of enrollment management for more than, well, about five minutes, you’re probably aware that texting is a key communications platform for prospective students. It’s also the channel that universities tend to be the least-confident about using for engagement, as enrollment and marketing teams try to determine how and when…Read more
What to Expect When You’re Expecting…Slate
Congratulations, you’re getting Slate! You’ve read about it in forums, heard counselors gush over it at fairs, and quietly side-eyed that college down the road as they launched a new app and weirdly celebrated with a Slate-themed cake. Can it really be THAT good? If you’re good to to your Slate instance, the answer from…Read more
Best Practices for Slate Campaigns: New Edition
Earlier this year, Alex Williams offered advice on how to best leverage Slate’s campaign features. His guidance is worth revisiting as institutions assess opportunities to improve their communications tactics, processes and strategies, especially as they move into a new recruitment cycle. One quality of Technolutions is that it’s constantly changing and evolving. New functionalities roll…Read more
A Guide to the 2019 Slate Innovation Summit
This year marks my fifth Slate Innovation Summit. I think that gets me a pin. Five years ago I was just a few months in to working at Technolutions and nervous about meeting my first clients in person (mostly because I was relatively new and didn’t want to be put on the spot to answer…Read more
What to Do When You Can Do Almost Anything in Slate
I don’t need to tell you that we live in a world of immediacy. You know it even more if you’re actively working with today’s students (no matter the generation). Often, the immediacy mindset transfers into our professional goals. And so, we need the solution, the module, the email, the portal, the [insert anything and…Read more