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Well, I’ve had some travel & packed appointment days, so here’s my delayed RECAP post from the 2013 Annual NACADA Conference (#nacada13) in Salt Lake City, UT. I proudly passed the NACADA Technology in Advising Commission (#AdvTech) chair torch to Julie Larsen (@julieclarsen); however I thought I would highlight some of the great things from our commission, steering committee, and general happenings at the #nacada13 conference:

Consultation for the NEW #nacada13 mobile app via Guidebook = awesome!
High five to the #nacada13 Social Media Team – fine job tweeting, blogging, photog-ing, and more!
We set goals & planned for the next year all across NACADA in a strategic way. Go assessment!
Thanks to Julie Larsen & George Steele for an involved Pre-Conference workshop for aligning your advising goals to technology planning – Here are a few tweets from the workshop
Kudos for Dr. Melissa Johnson for pulling together the #hackPhD panel with Sarah Craddock, Erin Justyna & Me — this conversation motivated me to work on my dissertation proposal & have some meaningful after panel conversations with a number of advising professionals/faculty. Follow: @drmelissajl, @polishpattycake, @sarahhcraddock for continued hacking your PhD support. 🙂
Great dialogues and sharing happened at the #SMAdv discussion lead by Matt Rupert (@matt_rupert ) & me – thanks to those who tweeted social media guidelines & thoughts during the session — feel free to contribute & read more here: http://bit.ly/smadv
For those of us not always able to travel to #nacada13, talked about alternative and informal ways to encourage professional development for individuals advisors or at your institution. Here are the notes taken on Twitter. Be sure to follow the panel: @allenmtaylor, @peacox, @polishpattycake
The #AdvTech Commission won MOST CREATIVE at the Commission & Interest Group (CIG) Fair Breakfast! See what happens when you PUT A HASHTAG ON IT! See how we got active with our hashtag at #nacada13. Thanks to our Toby Deutsch (@freestyl321) & our #advetch steering committee for their brilliant ideas!
The #AdvTech Commission was great! You give these participants and Google doc, the hit the ground running to brainstorm, share, and take notes. Here’s our agenda and musings from the meeting: http://bit.ly/advtechmtg13
CONGRATULATIONS to our very own NACADA Commission & Interest Group Division Service Award winner, Paul Cox (@peacox). We appreciate ALL THAT YOU DO for #acadv & #advtech. Thanks!
The 3rd annual #nacada13 & #AcAdv Chat Tweet Up on Tuesday (10/8) rallied with the Canada Interest Group & The Gentlemen Riders at the Bee Hive http://bit.ly/nacada13tweetup
Although the #advtech HOT TOPIC round table discussions was the LAST schedule session at the conference, we had a great turn out & very fruitful discussions — here are the open notes from this session: http://bit.ly/HOTtopic13

So I just want to say…

Are you interested in getting involved with the #advtech commission? The #AdvTech NACADA Technology in Advising Commission Sign-up for 2013-2014 is still open http://bit.ly/advtech13. Please complete this form to let us know HOW you want to be involved this year. Talk to our #advtech steering committee leaders if you have questions, ideas, or suggestions for our commission!

Website: http://bit.ly/AdvTechWebsite
Facebook Group: http://bit.ly/AdvTechFbGroup
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/nacadaadvtech
Hashtag: Follow #AdvTech & #AcAdv (#nacada13 at the conference)
Get Involved! Sign Up Here: http://bit.ly/AdvTech2013

Dear Academic Advising Professionals, Faculty & Administrators in Higher Education,

The division of Undergraduate Studies at the University of North Texas (UNT) is hosting the 2013 Technology in Advising Use in Higher Education survey to assess how technology in academic advising is being utilized in colleges and universities around the globe. The NACADA Technology in Advising Commission sponsored study is designed to examine the current use and perception of technology in advising among academic advising professionals, faculty advisors, and advising administrators in higher education.

If you agree to participate, you will be asked to respond to a 20-question survey, which will take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. The questions will ask for your opinion of technology in advising use at your college and/or university institution, and your own perception about how technology is supporting the field of academic advising as a whole. Your responses are completely confidential and no individual participant will ever be identified with his/her answers.

SURVEY: 2013 Technology in Advising Use in Higher Education or cut and paste the following URL link into a web browser: http://bit.ly/AdvTechSurvey2013

This survey will close on Monday, March 4^th at 11:55 pm CST.

If you have any questions or comments, please free to contact me. On behalf of the Global Community for Academic Advising (NACADA) and the advising profession, I would like to thank you for your time and input. Please pass this survey along to other advising faculty, professionals, and administrators at your college and/or university.

Thank you,

Laura Pasquini (@laurapasquini)

NACADA Technology in Advising Commission Chair 2011-2013

Academic Counselor, Office for Exploring Majors – Undergraduate Studies, UNT

This blog post is cross-posted at The Official NACADA Blog.

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2013 Technology in Advising (#AcAdv) Use in #HigherEd [SURVEY]