Call for Papers on Social Media in the Communication Classroom

by corinnew December 2, 2008

I know that there are some academics who read this blog, so this post is for you – please feel free to share this call for papers with your peers.  CALL FOR PAPERS Electronic Journal of Communication (EJC) Special Issue: Communication Pedagogy in the Age of Social Media Over the course of the last few […]

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More on Social Media & the Mumbai Attacks

by corinnew December 1, 2008

I had planned to discuss the Cluetrain Manifesto in class tomorrow, but the events of last week in India have lead to a slight change in plans. As Twitter user naomieve observed a few days ago, Mumbai is a social media experiment in action and because it is such a great case study, I figured […]

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Social media sites cover Mumbai attacks in real time

by corinnew November 27, 2008

I just learned about the horrible terrorist attacks in Mumbai. I’ve been following the developments on Twitter – weird how just a few months ago I would have immediately turned on the TV and set it on CNN. Another good example of the effectiveness of social media in times of crises. Poynter has a good […]

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Making a YouTube video that’s worth watching

by corinnew November 14, 2008

Here are a few additional guidelines for your upcoming video project 🙂 YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video

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Tweeting about layoffs at Zappos

by corinnew November 7, 2008

Very emotional day for everyone at Zappos. I’ll be sending out an update later today with details of what’s going on. That’s the message Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh sent out over Twitter today. The details he would later reveal were plans to lay off 8% of the company’s workforce in order to deal with the […]

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Obama Takes the Presidential Transition Process to the Web

by corinnew November 7, 2008

Looks like president-elect Obama isn’t losing any time preparing to take office in January. Today, his campaign launched change.gov, a website supposed to chronicle the presidential transition process. Most interesting to me is the part of the website that allows users to share their vision for the country. To do so, users fill out a […]

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The Internet & Social Networks: A museum of personal mistakes?

by corinnew November 6, 2008

I came across this excellent video via the OpinionWatch blog. It’s an hour long documentary on reputation management and personal branding in a hyper-connected world. The documentary is in French (hey, a good time to practice those French skills!) and was produced by 13ème Rue, a NBC Universal Global Networks channel. The first part of […]

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Student Podcasts

by corinnew November 5, 2008

This semester’s student podcasts are finally in! For this project students worked in teams to produce a 5-10 minute podcast on an issue pertaining to class. Each team was given the option of either interviewing an expert on the topic of social media or organizing a panel discussion on a social media and PR issue. […]

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“I Voted” Sticker Photo Contest

by corinnew October 31, 2008

Voted yet? If so, don’t throw away that “I Voted” sticker. Mercury Mambo, a local hispanic marketing firm, has launched a photo contest, which asks voters to submit a creative picture of them and their “I Voted” sticker.

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Web2.0 Video Assignment: Creating Video Without Commercial Software

by corinnew October 31, 2008

When I first designed this class I felt that it should contain a web video component so students would learn to communicate a message in a number of formats, including digital video. I therefore covered basic iMovie video editing skills in class, stressing the video editing techniques rather than how to execute them on a […]

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