Teaching social media as a professional tool to grad students has been an interesting learning experience. Having a background in television production, web production and living in social media, I was considered a “rare hybrid” in a “unique position to teach.” Ok, well, lets see about that. Going in, my assumption was I wouldn’t be teaching too much. Don’t 20 year olds know all about this stuff? I fully expected to learn more then teach. All the “press” going in was “the kids know all this stuff.” All the jokes about how parents have their 12 year old fix the printer. The 10 year old is “helpdesk.” So, the first day, the first question I ask was “how many people have a Facebook account. A few hands go up. Yikes. “How many have a Twitter account?” Fewer hands. Well, it seems I will be teaching after all. Read More...

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