Resources
- Social Media Employee Policy Examples from Over 100 Organization
- Use http://www.superscreenshot.com/ or http://www.PDFmyURL.com to capture screenshots
- Monitor blog comments with http://www.blogpulse.com/
- Monitor mentions in video with http://video.google.com/
- Monitor discussions with http://www.boardtracker.com/
- View your reputation with http://www.quarkbase.com
- Discover thought leaders: http://alltop.com/, https://twitter.com/invitations/suggestions, http://listorious.com/, http://www.postrank.com/all_topics, http://technorati.com/, http://blogsearch.google.com/
- Try http://101.gs, bit.ly and tiny.url to shorten URLs, and see how many characters you have left
- SEO for Journalists http://seoforjournalists.blogspot.com/http://seoforjournalists.blogspot.com/
- PAPER "Facebook groups as an e-learning component in higher education courses: One successful case study." (See the paper here or presentation slides here.)
- BOOK Clay Shirky’s 2008 book, Here Comes Everybody which can be supplemented with videos like his ‘09 TED talk and ‘09 visit to Harvard’s Shorenstein Center.
- For defining what “social networks” and “social networking” are, try Boyd & Ellison’s “Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship.”
- Check out Henry Jenkins’ work on participatory culture. In particular, his book Convergence Culture, but also pieces from his blog, and a video of his 2007 talk at Google for summarizing his work.
- Use HootSuite to manage multiple accounts and pre-schedule your tweets!
- A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Social Media http://mashable.com/2010/07/20/last-5-years-social-media/
- The Future of Public Relations and Social Media (Mashable Interview Series)
- Twitter has rolled out a new feature called Fast Follow: text “follow [account]” to 40404 and you’ll immediately start getting that account’s tweets via SMS—without ever signing up for Twitter >>> Four ways to use Fast Follow
- Experts Weigh Pros and Cons of Social Media
- TwitZip: A Twitter zip code infrastructure for public use aka hyperlocal tweets, Follow twitter.com/YourZipCode
- How The Seattle Times Is Using Mobile Video, Twitter to Report News Fast
- View tweets with #AEJMC10sm on WTHashtag.com
- What else? Send your best practices for incorporating social media into the classroom to Mich Sineath at AEJMCpr@aol.com :)