A Social Media Education Blog by Matthew J. Kushin, Ph.D.
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Hope everyone is enjoying their Thanksgiving break! A recent article published in Studies in Higher Education asks: Why do academics blog? Hmm. I guess it seemed obvious. Why does anyone blog? Fame, fortune…? Then I got thinking. Yeah, why do academics blog? Of […]
Continue reading Why Do Academics Blog? Mysteries of 21st century academia!This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. I always learn so much from our guest speakers! This week we were very fortunate to have the author of our class text, Born to Blog, Mark Schaefer (@markwschaefer) Skype with our class. If you aren’t familiar with Mark, he is a very […]
Continue reading Born to Blog author talks social media challenges, opportunities, and more!This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. I love having guests come and talk to my class. Last week, Comm 322 Social Media had another special guest – Leigh-Anne Lawrence from Hagerstown Community College (HCC). Leigh-Anne is the Social Media and Public Information Specialist in the Public Information & Government […]
Continue reading How to Manage Social Media for a Higher Education Institution: Guest SpeakerThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. It has been a very busy few weeks here. Good news: It is Friday and time for another web roundup! And I will be turning in my mid-term tenure review portfolio today! wahoo! Great articles from around the web: Recently, the great blog […]
Continue reading More on Google and News Releases; New Google Tools; The Death of iGoogleThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. What tools are you teaching your students in your social media class? Recognizing the need to teach students how to use social media dashboards, I began teaching Hootsuite in the classroom a few years ago. However, I was disappointed in the limited amount of […]
Continue reading 3 Great Benefits of the Hootsuite University Higher Ed ProgramThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Happy Monday! Last week, my social media class had the wonderful opportunity of having Nate Bagley as our guest. Who is Nate Bagley (@bigbags)? Nate currently runs the Loveumentary Podcast (and blog!), a podcast that believes “True Love exists… you just need to listen.” The […]
Continue reading Guest Speaker: Using social media to share the search for true loveThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. What is the story behind great technological innovations? What was it like for those involved in making them? What were the struggles? The “aha!” moments? I recently came across two great articles from the New York Times Magazine that tell the story (both […]
Continue reading The fascinating origins of the iPhone and Twitter you didn’t know