What is the future of news? The Shorenstein Center at Harvard University wants to see how aspiring journalists, filmmakers and avid media consumers answer this question and so they’ve launched a video contest to find out.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
You might be wondering why foursquare choose these colleges first. That is easy to answer because just about every school that is getting a badge has an active foursquare presence. For instance, the University of Oregon and Texas A&M both have sponsored an on campus foursquare-based scavenger hunts. Then, USC quite often asks the student body to check in to campus events, offering incentives to encourage them even more.
If the movie The Social Network didn’t fill your need of Facebook tales and folklore, then I recommend that you visit Who Owns Facebook?
Companies and individuals make great use of Twitter as part of a social media strategy, but Twitter is also a top-notch tool for colleges and universities.
Some of the world’s top business schools are offering courses in social media as part of their strategy to keep their students on the cutting-edge of the business world. These schools emphasize using social networks as complimentary, but not necessarily central, to current business strategies. It is important that students have a firm understanding of traditional business strategies before jumping on to YouTube or Twitter as their specialty, in order to use social media effectively.
Read more
