Friday, February 11, 2011

A running tab on what's out there

I've created a list (see the top right of the home page) of links to advice columns. These include some of my favorite nationally-syndicated ones as well as some college-based advice columns. I've only found a couple of the latter, by hunting and pecking. Hoping to find a central source so I can delve in and spend a few concentrated hours getting an idea of what's out there. I found a column by a female Muhlenberg student, and a column for Cornell University students that's less about dating/personal advice and more about answers to an array of campus-based questions. But so far, I haven't found any column written by-parents-for-college-students. And I haven't found a national columnist who targets college students nationwide. As for students offering advice to other students on their specific campus, the obvious factor working against column longevity is that they're only going to be there for about four years.... So, actually, I'm feeling more optimistic about the potential market for Ask A Mom than I did a few hours ago. But I need to get a better sense of what individual campus advice columnists are out there --- and whether they're any good.

1 comment:

  1. If you can't find it then it means, at the least, no one has come up with one that's easy to find. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that yours will be so hugely popular it will be a noun that is a brand name, like Kleenex or Band-Aid.

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