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Can Greater Social Connections Improve Higher Education?

Social Media Strategery

That’s why when I saw that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently invested $2 million in a Facebook app to improve post-secondary education, I knew that I had to find out more about this app and how it might help further the SMCEDU mission. Groups are great for small groups of people to share and communicate.

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SMCEDU: Changing Higher Education Through Social Media

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As most of you know, the topic of using social media and education is one that I’m very interested in – whether that means using social media in the classroom or teaching social media, I believe that there is a lot of opportunity to use technology to improve the ways the next generation learns. What’s the mission of SMCEDU?

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Social Media Integration in Higher Education | Social Media Strategery

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Development Social Media Social Media Integration in Higher Education Wed, Aug 18, 2010 Miscellaneous , Personal The following is a guest post by Jen Dryer , a current student at the University of Southern Indiana. However, since social media has existed, most of the education departments of America have not “signed in.&# Government 2.0

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Rethinking Public Relations Education

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Development Social Media Rethinking Public Relations Education Fri, Nov 20, 2009 Best Practices How should social media be incorporated into a PR degree? I don’t want to hire a social media guru or ninja – I want to hire an innovative, entrepreneurial communications professional who understands how to use social media. *In

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Is Our PR Community Part of the New Pittsburgh or the Old One?

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Where’s the PR, advertising, and marketing community in all of that? And I think there’s a whole lot people here in the Pittsburgh PR community who feel the same way. Let’s do a better job at educating the people in our organization about the value we bring. I want to show them that we’ve got some cool things up our sleeves too.

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Crowdsourcing Our Health – Using Social Media to Educate and Unite.

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Development Social Media Crowdsourcing Our Health – Using Social Media to Educate and Unite the Public Mon, Mar 23, 2009 Social Media “Social media on the Internet are empowering, engaging, and educating consumers and providers in health care. Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Government 2.0 Six Villains of Gov 2.0

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The Year in Social Media Strategery

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community was active and engaged, and I found myself really in the trenches with a lot of my clients helping them work through many of the issues that I got to write about. Social Media and Higher Education? This third year though, was a little different. Was I going to focus on Enterprise 2.0? Or Public Relations? Social Media?