Want a cool, fancy, free design for your blog? Check out my students’ new blogs

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Way back when . . . I first started blogging with WordPress.com in April of this year, I never changed my background from the Kubrick default theme. So for four months, my blog looked exactly like my husband Jack’s above. HOWEVER, now that I know how EASY and how much FUN it is to see [...]

So now you can Tweet . . . What comes next? Getting Started lessons continue:

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You’ve played with Twitter and perhaps gotten past the “Emperor’s New Clothes” feeling that there’s a lot of Buzz about nothing. You have gotten past that, haven’t you? Let’s chat Today’s Getting Started lesson is going to “resemble” a conversation . . . However, since I’m the only one in the room, I’ll have to [...]

Our Future Around Facebook and Twitter — guest post from Gen Y-er Zahid Lilani

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I couldn’t wait. Sharisax Is Out There has been featuring a series of reviews on the book Putting the Public Back in PR, but one of my most conscientious SFSU students wrote this wonderful article on Gen Y and social media. Without further ado, here is Zahid: Social Media has changed the way we communicate [...]

What to Blog? My story about Peter

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Many of my students have begun blogs, and their first questions seem to revolve around, “How do I get more readers?” and “How do I get people to comment?” My standard answers have been these three: * Comment on other people’s blogs * Announce your new posts on Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, and LinkedIn * Enable [...]

Life on Twitter made easier than Life on Mars — Try Tweetdeck

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If you love getting organized, you’ll love Tweetdeck Tweetdeck is the key that not only opens the door to greater accessibility but can make your entire Twitter experience so much fun — especially for those who love easy organization. How Tweetdeck works: 1. Download Tweetdeck (TweetDeck runs on the Adobe AIR runtime. To use TweetDeck, [...]

Twitter 101: Be Choosy when selecting first Tweeple to Follow

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The REAL, intrinsic, not-so-secret value of social media in general — and Twitter, particularly — is the desire to help others by sharing information. Expertise, whether in the form of “raw knowledge” or super-research skills, is on the Net for the taking and, of course, the giving. Lesson TWO: How to find people to “follow” [...]

Marketing student compares Facebook & LinkedIn for class back in 2009

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**GUEST POST** San Francisco State University senior Roxanne Cobbs has been an active member of this semester’s public relations class — and has functioned as a very responsible leader for two small groups, the 2nd of which investigated the topic of “Facebook for Business.” Roxanne’s group put together an excellent power point presentation, and she [...]

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