Your class presentations

May 2nd, 2011 by prof

These are the key points to remember when giving your class presentations:

  1. What is your niche?
  2. Who are the influencers in your niche? (Identify important and influential sites in your niche)
  3. What relevant content in your niche are you sharing?
  4. How is your content organized?
  5. What content of your own have you created?

Blogger Jonathan Fields on Content Curation

May 1st, 2011 by prof

This is an interesting article for you about content curation, which is the gathering, sorting through, and organizing of all the different media we sift through daily on the web. As a matter of fact, all of you have been curating content throughout the semester on your blogs.

It’s a new concept that is the buzzword of the moment in the news and media industries. Learn how to navigate the inundation of information out there and organize it and you are set for conquering the future job market in communications.

One of the single most valuable roles you can play in this cataclysmic cacaphony of content is to be the one who lends sanity to the process of finding and sharing only the cream of the crop.

Read the article.

Social Networking, Week 4

April 3rd, 2011 by prof

Comedian Dane Cook on Social Media Presence

March 31st, 2011 by prof

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Some insight on the benefits of social media, such as the concept of “flyering”, but in the social media sphere.

Facebook obsession anyone?

March 27th, 2011 by prof

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From Online Schools

Week 3 slideshow: microblogging

March 27th, 2011 by prof

Your blogrolls

March 20th, 2011 by prof

I have a list of all of your blogs except for one class. Please make sure you add the blogs from your TC to your blogroll. In the sidesbar on the left you will find the links (TC 1, 2 etc)

Remember, the point of blogging is not only to give the world news and to promote yourself, it is also to build up a network.

In case you missed the post, here is an overview on how to do the most basic things on your blog, including adding to your blogroll.

Social Media Week 2 Slideshow

March 20th, 2011 by prof

US Military hires PR firm to manipulate social media

March 18th, 2011 by prof

The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.

Read the article here on the Guardian

Getting started on your blogs

March 18th, 2011 by prof

We’re all going to start posting this week, so here are some simple guidelines in case you need a refresher.

Logging in

meta

From the Meta section of your blog, click on “Log in”.

If you do not have a Meta section on your blog, type in your blog’s URL with “/wp-login.php” at the end. The entire URL should look something like this: http://blogs.iscom.org/yourblog/wp-login.php (replacing “yourblog” with your information)

The next screen you get looks like this:

login-window

Here you enter the user name and password what was given to you when you created your group blogs.

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