Two Harvard economics professors found this out the hard way when a recruitment video they taped for the department’s website ended up on YouTube as the subject of disparaging comments and student parodies. One of the professors, John Campbell, explained:
’”Ed Glaeser and I made the video in a misguided attempt to make the Harvard economics department’s Ph.D. admissions Web site more personal. Of course, if you have seen the video you know that the effect is rather different – pompous I would say,” …’
The official video ended up on YouTube, with Campbell and Glaeser parodied in an edited version of the show and a series of “outtake” skits. Here’s the article from Inside Higher Ed. FWIW, I couldn’t find the video on Harvard’s Economic Department website!
Michael Stoner Co-Founder and Co-Owner Was I born a skeptic or did I become one as I watched the hypestorm gather during the dotcom years, recede, and congeal once more as we come to terms with our online, social, mobile world? Whatever. I'm not much interested in cutting edge but what actually works for real people in the real world. Does that make me a bad person?