by Jeff Ream | Nov 7, 2015 | Building A Better Blog Series, Featured, school counselor
Building a Better Blog Series: Setting Up an RSS-Feed Driven Email List with MailChimp If you have a blog – most likely you want people to read it. By setting up an RSS-feed driven email list – you can make reading your blog easy. Using MailChimp makes it even easier! Watch the SCOA – Marketing Monday with MailChimp Video The changer of worlds. Email. Apart from text messaging – the single most popular communication tool in the world. Quick, simp…
by Jeff Ream | Aug 5, 2014 | Branding, Building A Better Blog Series, Featured
…ks. Look at one of your Blogger posts and the URL. Most look like http://myblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/post-name-separated-with-spaces.html – you will want to mirror this on WordPress. You should go to the custom option and enter this: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html The steps for moving blogger are similar but you will need to download a specific plugin when you click Blogger in the import menu. Follow the directions as it tells you and just lik…
by Jeff Ream | Aug 25, 2014 | activity, Building A Better Blog Series, Featured, school counselor
…our new blog that pizzazz it needs If you have been reading along with the Building A Better School Counseling Blog series – you will know this is the third entry, so we have already made several big strides. If you are just joining the series, the other two posts of this three post series (at least three for the time being) can be found at the following links: #1 – The First Steps #2 – Making It Happen This post will be focusing on how to take yo…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 28, 2014 | ASCA14, Branding, Featured, tips, tutorial
…omain registration with the hosting package. Decision #2 – Hosting Service Building a Better School Counseling Blog and moving to a more customizable blog platform usually will require web hosting. Web hosting is purchasing (really leasing) some space and bandwidth on a web server and with a WordPress.org install – you will need your own hosting plan. Most plans range between $4-$15/month depending on the features, company, and plan. When I was do…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 31, 2014 | counseling, Counseling Tech, Featured, school counselor, video blog, year in review
…e. Read the whole post here: Interview and Applicant Essentials Building A Better Blog Series A major series for the year was focusing on School Counselor bloggers and helping new and seasoned bloggers improve or develop a better blog. I really enjoyed writing this series as I also went through a big blog re-vamp and re-design. This is a multiple post series including 1: The First Steps, 2: Sprucing It Up, and 3: Making It Happen. If you are a blo…
by Jeff Ream | Aug 12, 2016 | Featured, Collaboration, counseling, school counselor, tips
…eful for any and all. Circle of Care Two years ago – I set out to create a better foundation to develop our school community and collaboration on. I, until this year, have been an only school counselor in my building and that can be a lonely (and sometimes scary) experience. It leaves little room for consultation and collaboration on difficult cases. I know that I don’t have all the answers all the time (and many times few answers most of the time…
by Jeff Ream | Jan 2, 2016 | #scchat, Counseling Tech, counseling technology series, Featured, free, Marketing, social networking, technology, tips, tools
…develop a hashtag for you and to get their friends to follow you to start building steam. They will likely tell you even more tools that may have better reach. Try this: start a marketing club at the middle or high school levels. Lots of students want to go into business and marketing and this is a great exposure to the line of thought plus a huge insight into your student body. Tip #10: Watch it grow and evaluate. Using the workout routine examp…
by Jeff Ream | May 24, 2019 | Featured
…colleague uses it – but I get over it. Do I think that everything will be better in our worlds if all of a sudden every school counselor had an accurate title? Nope. But what I do hope is that we are not the very people keeping our identities stuck in the mid-1900’s. I know my work is not done in black and white nor do I want my professional identity to be stuck in the 8-track era. It’s high time that we take a fresh look at our profession, get i…
by Jeff Ream | May 16, 2024 | Featured
…must advocate for a model where the profits generated are redistributed to better support the educators and reduce the financial burdens on students and families. Only through these changes can we hope to see an educational landscape that genuinely prioritizes learning and equitable access over profit margins. The time for change is now; it is overdue that the College Board re-evaluates its priorities and operations to better reflect its stated mi…
by Jeff Ream | May 29, 2017 | Featured, counseling, Networking, school counselor, social networking, support, tips
…I have to learn to embrace this, practice my less natural skills and keep building my strengths. It’s about finding a balance I have zero research-backed data on this, let’s call it a hunch, but from the anecdotal evidence of talking with colleagues and following along on the school counselor Twitter and Facebook haunts, I notice we all desire to be all things for all people. It is our tendency as school counselors and helping professionals. I ev…
