social media

Future trend: crowdsourcing content In higher education

Nice video, huh? Watch it in HD, it’s even cooler.
That’s a clip of “Terrible Lie” by Nine Inch Nails. His album “The Downward Spiral” pretty much defines being 18 and that weird, strange and wonderful time between high school and college. Anyways, Trent Reznor (who attended the college I currently work at for 1 year) [...]

Marketing, Social Networks, social media

The Power of Thank You

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As I was reading Andrew Careaga’s blog this morning about five ways to “pay it forward” in the social mediasphere, I realized there’s one more thing I would add to the list. It works in not only the social media world, but the real world as well.
Say thank you to someone [...]

Careers, social media

Are We Failing To Properly Educate Our Students About Social Media?

As colleges and universities, I think we’ve done a great job embracing social media as a tool to communicate with different groups of people. We’re cranking out Twitter updates, Facebook wall posts and YouTube videos.
Our current and prospective students are as well. They’re chronicling their lives and being social, which is the whole point of [...]

Social Networks, facebook, social media