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A really neat real-time counter of social media activity

Thought provoking article about the growth of social media. Add your thoughts to the discussion!

The StudentAdvisor.com research team continuously collects information on how active and effective each school is at engaging their audiences on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social media tools, such as iTunes and podcasts. The ranking methodology also takes into account the size of each school's population, as well as other metrics, to gauge overall reach and effectiveness. The team then produces a strictly quantitative score for each school based on this information, and updates the findings regularly.

"According to research by Harris Interactive, that was commissioned by CareerBuilder.com and surveyed 2,667 HR professionals, found that 45% of them use social networking sites to research job candidates, with an additional 11% planning to implement social media screening in the very near future."

Keeping up with Social Media

Mayo Clinic use of social media

I am reminded that we are preparing our students for jobs that do not yet exist - being a social media expert is one such job

What do you mean?

Teaching our students how to learn is part of the liberal arts educaiton, this prepares them for jobs that don't exist yet. Gives them the ability to adapt.

SOPHIE is an open source tool maintained by USC that allows for creating and reading rich media documents in a networked environment. Sophie authors can easily combine a variety of media - text, images, video and audio into a sophisticated multimedia work.

For the journalism social media workshop

Good introduction to semantic web and innovative uses of social media for public relations, marketing and business development

gives some data on how much social media is being used by reporters

Survey of 939 professors indicates their use of social media - both personally and in the classroom - is higher than expected with negligible differences found in use by age of professor.

This is a very good introduction to the impact of social media on society.

Employers using tools like facebook to find prospective employees.

"Nearly 28% of college students plan to seek employment using LinkedIn, up from 5% last year, according to a survey out today from employee recognition provider I Love Rewards and career-services network Experience. Slightly more than 7% plan to use Facebook, up from 5%."