Comments on: Facebook Connect at Colgate University http://www.annualgivingexchange.com/2009/08/24/facebook-connect-at-colgate-university/ A Blog about Annual Giving Today Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:02:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Patrick Aievoli http://www.annualgivingexchange.com/2009/08/24/facebook-connect-at-colgate-university/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Patrick Aievoli Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:05:49 +0000 http://danallenby.wordpress.com/?p=1162#comment-22 Whatever this "connect" garners is a mere pittance compared to what FB will make off of all this connects. what schools need to do is to make their own portals more open and use appropriate e-Commerce solutions to generate sustainable revenue. FB is worth billions but yet they do not give anything back to the marketplace that made them those billions. What you need is a free portal environment that can be customized for each school and generates revenue for those schools. I am an academic and I have seen and felt the ups and downs of academia. The problem is that there is no sustainable model. It relies on tuition and endowments ( read financial crisis) and fund raising. Each time these initiatives are utilized it takes almost as much financing to generate the income. So ROI is lost. Back to square one. Check out my website and see how this can be sustained without any cost to these institutions. http://www.theCampusCenter.com Whatever this “connect” garners is a mere pittance compared to what FB will make off of all this connects. what schools need to do is to make their own portals more open and use appropriate e-Commerce solutions to generate sustainable revenue. FB is worth billions but yet they do not give anything back to the marketplace that made them those billions. What you need is a free portal environment that can be customized for each school and generates revenue for those schools. I am an academic and I have seen and felt the ups and downs of academia. The problem is that there is no sustainable model. It relies on tuition and endowments ( read financial crisis) and fund raising. Each time these initiatives are utilized it takes almost as much financing to generate the income. So ROI is lost. Back to square one. Check out my website and see how this can be sustained without any cost to these institutions.
http://www.theCampusCenter.com

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