84% of colleges and universities now use Twitter to reach out to their students — that’s up from 0% in 2008-2009. With LinkedIn, it went from 0% to 47% in the last two years. There’s no doubt that social media is affecting the way schools reach out to students, and you can bet that students today have a different relationship with their institution than they had just a few years ago.
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. 
Here’s an infographic that kids can tell their parents and teachers about before whipping out their iPhone to tweet funny YouTube clips to one another. It wouldn’t be necessarily taking in the findings of the study, which found that students who were ‘heavy’ social media users tended to have higher grades.
To help ring in the new school year, we decided to put together a list of fun back to school videos on YouTube. We’ve got back to school advice, back to school songs, fun teachers and more. So before you grab your backpack and your brown bag lunch, and check out these videos to get into the back to school spirit or to reminisce about your old school days!
The Camera Wizard is a new interactive video series that hit YouTube this week to teach video makers how a camera works and how to use your camera to achieve the best possible shot.
