Online Communities & Networking

Online Advocacy: A Call to Action from “Waitin’ on the World to Change”

February 9, 2012

As a student affairs professional, I recognize that my contact with students provides me with both an opportunity and a responsibility to aspire to influence them in meaningful ways. Increasingly, my growing interests in advocacy, citizenship, and social media have collided and evolved into a focus on research and encouraging conversations about using social media to advocate for [...]

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Connecting, not Collecting.

January 16, 2012
Source: http://www.CentreForSocialMedia.com/

I’ll admit it, over the last few months I’ve become a bit of a collector.  Not of postcards, or books, or knick-knacks, but of people in my social networks.  When friend requests come in I’m quick to friend, follow, group, list and organize, but often epically fail at connecting.  I’m the first to say that [...]

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Course in Progress: “Social Media & Citizenship”

December 5, 2011
Source: ConvergencePartnership.org

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the type of content I would include if I were to be asked to create a class since a lecture that I gave to a group of students in an intro class focused around the 7 Revolutions via Skype earlier this semester. I was asked to create [...]

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Using Social Media to Hit a Home Run!

September 26, 2011
Source: LogoSoftware.com

While I shared this article with Campus Activities Programming Magazine, I wanted to also publish it to readers of my blog who are not subscribed, or who would like to add additional feedback in the comments section.  I would love to hear your commentary!  Social media has become a hot topic for student affairs professionals during [...]

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Professional Development on a Graduate School Budget

September 2, 2011
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Free Resources for Professional Development for Student Affairs Graduate Students Between Ed Cabellon‘s clarion call for #sagrow students to describe their professional development needs and aspirations and a conversation I had earlier this week with some of the first year Graduate Hall Directors at A&M about “getting tapped into Student Affairs ‘hot topics’,” I thought [...]

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The Social Media Case Study: Associating with Associations?

August 7, 2011

Many professional associations in student affairs have incorporated the use of social media as a means to continue personal learning outside of conferences, increase their own branding power, and serve as a resource to their membership. But the implication (and a greater factor to consider for student affairs professionals) is the role of branding in not [...]

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Blogging on Facebook Pages: Why not?

July 6, 2011

Facebook pages have become almost a ubiquitous marketing tool for companies and brands, simply because of the potential audience that is available in the space; but with personal branding becoming more and more important, I’m surprised more bloggers, consultants, and professionals aren’t also developing their presence on Facebook pages beyond their personal accounts!  Sure, without [...]

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Using Facebook Pages to Build Stakeholder Relationships

June 30, 2011
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  So you’ve set up a Facebook page, and you’re gaining a following within your University community, but have you ever considered the potential that your page has in building relationships with other brands, departments, stakeholders, or causes? Well, you should!  As a Facebook page Administrator, using the “Use Facebook as [Your Page]” feature has [...]

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Growing up on “The Book”

June 1, 2011
Photo Courtesy and Credit to RedDogReport.com

If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you’ll notice that my posts are often inspired by what’s in my GoogleReader– and the more that perspective, advice, and importance of SM and the job search are brought to the forefront, the more I am intrigued by their implications related to student affairs. Over the [...]

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What’s in a Tweet?

April 22, 2011
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Through the great post by Ed Cabellon on Social Media & Authenticity and a really thought-provoking conversation between Jeff Lail and Eric Stoller on #SALive on Social Media & Professionalism, it appears we’ve begun a second wave conversation about the #sachat identity brought about most directly from James Frier‘s post. The take home is that [...]

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