Hugo Domingos's List: Social Media

• Because universities are educational institutions, they use social media to highlight their experts, as well as the resources they make available to the public. This includes tweeting and posting news releases to Facebook (), but also publicizing news involving the university appearing in mainstream media sources.
• ocial media is often used in showcasing student and faculty work,
• ome universities employ the tools to provide a place for the university community to engage and participate in the event as it’s happening. And what better way to report an event than through live streaming video or collecting tweets during commencement through a common hashtag?
• some schools are finding it easier and quicker to spread news during an emergency by complementing their e-mail and text alerts with a Tweet and a Facebook message or post.
• nd a lot of connections happen organically, without the universities doing anything intentionally, except providing a place for the community to connect and gather around a similar interest at the institution
• Further, beyond simply relying on a news organization to pick a story up, universities are using social media as a publishing tool to connect directly to their audiences.
• ost of university news services I interviewed said they used social media to engage the public. That means things like replying to tweets, Facebook posts, and blog comments.
• Because many universities produce their own video and audio, TV and radio producers get a chance to see what a researcher or expert sounds like on camera or in a sound bite.
• tanford University has its students connected through a mobile application. Last school year, the school released a free iPhone application called iStanford that allows students to register for classes, look up campus maps and be able view the location of their friends on a map – instant messaging them if need be.

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• Social Bookmarking – 2007
• year 2007
• oogle Bookmarks and delicious were the two most favorite destinations for bookmarking online
• Social Bookmarking – 2008
• 2008 as social networks replaced social bookmarking sites.
• Facebook, Digg, MySpace became the most preferred destinations for sharing content
• Social Bookmarking – 2009
• 2009. Facebook is now the most popular site for sharing content followed by a distant Twitter.
• the next 10 places

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• There's amazing viral potential involved with Facebook pages and it provides companies an easy way to reap the benefits of photos, videos, discussion forums, micro-blogging and pretty much every other form of social media in one neat little package.
• There are more than 300 million Facebook users as of the writing of this article

• Creating a Facebook page for your school or college isn’t as simple as it is when you’re just creating a personal page. There are several pitfalls that I came across when doing so that Facebook simply hasn’t addressed, and the administration process involved in adding schools on Facebook is more complex than a normal profile.

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• Rock stars were queuing up to play virtual gigs, Microsoft and IBM were setting up elaborate pixellated offices to host staff training seminars, Reuters even despatched a correspondent to report back on the latest in-world developments.
• Three years on, and the hype has been extinguished. Second Life has seen its status as the web wonderchild supplanted by Facebook and Twitter
• But what has happened to Second Life? Have the hundreds of thousands of registered players logged off and found a real life?

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• Get to know your neighbors
• Before you jump into the conversation, spend some time watching and learning. You’ll find that most people are very friendly and supportive, but it’s best to understand the ground rules first.
• People don’t talk to brands, they talk to people
• Make your updates personable and human, not scrubbed and polished like news columns
• Twitter is a two-way street
• Make Social Media a part of your plan
   Social Media outlets like Twitter work best when they are frequently updated. You’ll find that the most prolific companies on Twitter have tens of thousands of updates.
• Give people a reason to follow you
• Offer inside information, special offers or just one-to-one conversation with customers who follow you through Social Media.
• Integrate your messaging
   Twitter is a very flexible technology, which is what makes it so powerful. The fact that Twitter can be set up to automatically update your followers every time you post a blog entry or that any RSS feed can be re-broadcasted through your Twitter postings, are great examples of Twitter’s strengths

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