OK, so we’re all trying to figure out what, if anything, social media is useful for — other than having fun and wasting time with friends and family. The New Media Consortium has put together a site reviewing what they’ve been experimenting with. We have a group here that is viewing a webinar on October 27 on Effective Use of Social Media for Student recruitment ( if you’re in New Haven and want to join us just let me know.) I’ve had some success with Twitter in advancing business interests, but nothing I’m ready to wrap an official company strategy around. I really like LinkedIn (especially for helping students/alumni with career networking), but it seems like Facebook gets all the attention. And don’t forget blogs — not quite as sexy as Twitter or Facebook perhaps, but still finding a place in college communication efforts. Talking with peers, experimenting, and exploring — that’s a type of progress, right?
M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree
Dozens of colleges — including Amherst, Bates, Carleton, Colby, Vassar, Wellesley and Yale — are embracing student blogs on their Web sites, seeing them as a powerful marketing tool for high school students
n our research work for the Horizon Report, the NMC has been tracking Social Networking/Social Computing since 2005 and we have made extensive use of social bookmarking, photosharing, and Web 2.0 networking tools for our events.
NMC 2009 Summer Conference Social Media Recap | nmc
However I wanted to record, primarily for my own sake, while fresh in my mind a recap of the social media tools we used (and other related factors) for our conference.
Educational institutions are looking for the best formula to effectively deal with the plethora of social media available. In fact, no one has drawn a bead on this moving target– and new platforms constantly crowd into the space.
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