Social media for business undergrads in < 45 minutes

October 6, 2010 By

I’ve been asked to spend up to 45 minutes speaking to our undergraduate business majors about social media. That’s pretty much all the direction I was given, aside from talking about what we do here on campus would be cool (I got the call from undergrad event organizers, very low formality with these guys). I’ve [...]

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To my new social media student worker, a to-do list.

December 3, 2009 By

This is the message I just sent my brand new social media student worker. I’ve given him some time to get used to the office, read some great social media resources, watch useful videos and talk theory with me while getting to know the personality style we use here. Now, time for him to get [...]

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Content Contributor Training for WPMU – the basic plan (part 1)

November 24, 2009 By

As part of the WPMU implentation I’ve been working on for a year now, it’s time to start training my content contributors (“content managers”? I haven’t come up with the right title for these departmental “please take this responsibility off my plate” types). Simply giving faculty and staff basic software training and sending them on [...]

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There and Back Again, a geek girls tale of #heweb09

October 9, 2009 By

HighEdWeb 2009 just wrapped up as a resounding (overall) success. It’s to my increasing satisfaction that this conference gets better and better every year. We’re setting the bar for mix of content and social interaction that, from what I’ve seen and heard from attendees, isn’t really matched anywhere else. The winning mix of great presentations, [...]

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BuddyPress and closed community membership

April 26, 2009 By

So I’ve been struggling with how to manage our varied user groups when it comes to initial site population and long-term registration rules. In English, all of our current faculty, staff, students and very recent alumni have @saumag email addresses, so using the built-in WPMU registration restriction based on email domain capability is perfect for [...]

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