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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Yes! In 2025, spray and pray doesn’t work for print OR digital. Target or don’t bother. #EMChat

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Yes! More feedback loops between enrollment/admissions and marketing! They can be so beneficial! #EMChat

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A1. Branding is more than design. A good branding platform helps YOUR work, too. And aligning your messaging with brand messaging is good for everyone. #EMChat

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I’m Dave Hunt, Executive Creative Director for ODUGlobal at Old Dominion University. I’m going with pumpkin pie. Normalize eating that year round. I once made it for @higheredcmo.bsky.social for her birthday in July.

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If all my chipmunk son wanted for Christmas was a hula hoop, I'd buy it for him and be happy I was getting off the hook cheap this year.

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We are specifically not going after high school and leaving that for on-campus. We have a category called “degree completer” that kind of differentiates younger transfer from “adult” #EMChat

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

But more seriously, I’m in the ODUGlobal online area and so transfer is a huge population for us. Because of our location, we also do a lot for military, including pathways to try to maximize turning experience into college credits

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Wow did it just hit me that it’s 9 pm and I’ve been working for 12 hours today. 🤣

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Patrick Stewart is a treasure

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Good evening! I’m Dave Hunt at Old Dominion University. Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. Is what I want to say, but I’m genuinely more partial to iced chais. #EMChat

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

68 degrees. Dining dockside at Dockside. Sunset on Lynnhaven Bay. With my favorite person. No shortage of things to be grateful for today! With @higheredcmo.bsky.social

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Creative Director: That cup looks cheap and the color of the liquid is not on brand.

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Urban Dictionary does not agree with you. 😬

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

“Twitter” and “tweets” are dead. Elon doesn’t want them. So why try to find an awkward new name for a post on Bluesky? Ya’ll, we can just call it a tweet. #tweet #tweeting #tweeted

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

But it also is kinda like saying your favorite Christmas movie is Independence Day. 😉🤣

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

In my day, we changed the words to the secular songs before we stole them for Jesus. These weirdos are straight up singing accurate Madonna covers.

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I’ve seen institutions where grad program directors sit on admission decisions for months to build their dream classes, and then when they get around to admitting students, they’ve all moved on. The market is forcing that to change, but still pockets of resistance.

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

In the grad space, around 80% of prospects apply to multiple programs, and approx 75% attend the first one that admits them. The universities that can move fast are going to win!

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Related — great session from Tina Miller at AMA last week on AI where she talked about how leaders need to be excited about and encourage innovation, not be buzzkills (don’t worry, there are others who will take on that role, but as a leader, it should NOT be you). #EMChat

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I was first person in my area talking about GenAi when it started blowing up late 2022. I’ve been very fortunate to have leadership that was all for embracing it, and then have been an advocate for and evangelist to my team. Now even my leadership is daily using the custom GPTs I’ve built. #EMChat

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Heavily integrating AI into our work. We have ChatGPT for Teams for about a dozen of us, and our designers are embracing AI tools in Canva and the Adobe Creative Suite. Also launched a brand and built a team — those have taken so much work. Getting new hires immediately using AI has helped! #EMChat

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Yes! It’s a great way to force mindfulness since you have to pay attention to what you’re doing and “be where your feet are”

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Presenting on AI and feeling responsible about keeping up with the latest for my team have both forced me to stay current. Even an hour or two a week helps. I watch a lot of YouTube in my free time and there are great channels like Matt Wolfe’s that give you weekly updates on AI news #EMChat

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

CustomGPTs are THE BEST. Highly recommend building one based on your brand guidelines. This has been a lifesaver for me and my team. #EMChat

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I’m Dave, Executive Creative Director at ODUGlobal — online programs at Old Dominion University in coastal Virginia. I’m a gamer, fairly avid reader, occasional acrylic painter when I’m not fretting about enrollment goals. #EMChat

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

First the election, then a fake Mark Hamill account using your profile picture followed me and I didn’t realize at first that it was fake. The theme of this month is betrayal!

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a close up of yoda from star wars standing next to some furry animals

ALT: a close up of yoda from star wars standing next to some furry animals

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

About two minutes away from the Baptist choirs singing “Sexual Healing”

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 — Anxious People One movie 🎥 — Ocean’s 11 One album 💿 — Achtung Baby One TV show 📺 — Freaks and Geeks

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

During the height of Covid I implemented an annual goal to read 50 books a year to disrupt my doom scrolling and the damage it was doing to me. @scalzi.com’s book Starter Villain is my favorite bit of brilliantly absurd escapist fun I’ve read since starting that. And he’s a great follow on Bluesky!

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I was gonna offer! But I wasn’t out of bed yet either. 🤪

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

And I suspect it will stay soup season for the next four years.

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

You could tell me it is any day of the week and any time of the day and I would believe you.

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Dave Hunt @highereddave.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hello Higher Ed! I signed up for Bluesky a long time ago and it was crickets. But this week has me hoping. Maybe this will be a thing?

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