A Social Media Education Blog by Matthew J. Kushin, Ph.D.
In the last few posts, I’ve been writing about my Social Media class and the semester project we’ve been doing. To recap, students create a social media content strategy for our department’s social media (the details of the assignment are on the previous post). They then use this plan to create content for the department. […]
Continue reading My Fall 2014 Social Media Class Project In ReviewThis 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. 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. I owe this blog to the book Born to Blog: Building Your Blog for Personal and Business Success One Post at a Time by Mark W. Schaefer and Stanford A. Smith. For some time before starting Social Media Syllabus, I’d thought about blogging […]
Continue reading Blog Better with Born to Blog by Schaefer and Smith (Book Review)