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Books I am Using This Fall for Social Media and Writing Across Platforms

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Happy Friday! We are wrapping up our first week of classes here at Shepherd University! This semester I am teaching 2 classes related to social media and strategic comm: Social Media (syllabus), and Writing Across Platforms (syllabus). I find myself using textbooks less […]

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The Link Schemes Change by Google: Why I Am Not Afraid!

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. I recently posted on the impact the change to Google’s link schemes is having on what we should teach students about writing press releases for the web. But what does this change mean? There are some concern around the web that this is […]

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Teach PR Writing? You Need to Know about Google’s Updated Link Schemes

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Google recently updated its link schemes and it means an important change to how we teach students to write press releases for the web. This is because the change directly targets articles or press releases distributed on other websites, like an online wire […]

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Web Roundup: Social Media rocks AEJMC 2013; Hot articles impacting

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. After a great trip to Washington DC and a wonderful #AEJMC2013 conference, I am back in West Virginia enjoying the last few days before classes start. Though I didn’t get to do all the things I had hoped nor meet all the great […]

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#TryThis! Teach Technology and Save Class Time with Screencasting

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. The start of the semester is right around the corner. So I thought it’d be fun to do series of posts titled #trythis! on teaching tools and techniques I hope you will try this fall. The first is an invaluable tool I’ve been […]

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Creative presentation of scholarship and infographics at #aejmc2013

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. A quick post from #aejmc2013 via my tablet. Though there have been many highlights such as seeing old colleagues and seeing creative and innovative scholarship, I want to take a quick second to share one thing that I have really enjoyed. I came […]

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Heading to AEJMC or NCA? How to Get Around DC and What to See!

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Quick Update: The NCA conference is also in Washington, DC this year. The below information is applicable to folks visiting DC for that conference, or any other conference too! Enjoy! – Matt The annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and […]

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