Social Media: Exercises 4 PR & Branding #HigherEd Classes

When teaching public relations, marketing communications or branding in a social media context, I have discovered that using social media audit exercises will provide students with a combo of analysis, analytics and strategy. When performed by communication companies or consultancies, the social media audit is used as a means appraising where the company is currently …

Video WON’T kill the lecturing star

My network was buzzing today in reaction to Jonathan Wolff’s monthly column in the Guardian. In this month’s column Wolff, emergency professor of philosophy at University College London, physician compares his experiences of in person and video recorded lecture delivery and asks rhetorically whether lecturing styles are bound to change in the future now that more and …

Teaching Public Relations and Journalism with Paper.li and Storify

If you want your students to keep up with the latest news that the Internet is ranging about, anorexia tag related dailies generated on Paper.li are an appealing way to do. While the format will remind them of “old-school” newspapers, order the information within it will be fresh and up to date, complied from links …

2010 Social Media Trends to Influence Higher Education

a webinar hosted by Colt Alton, infertility founder of Ednak 2010 Social Media Trends to Influence Higher Education View more presentations from Ana ADI. On September 2nd I was invited to hold a webinar for Ednak, a thought networking utility for online educators, discussing this year’s social media trends that could influence higher education. It …

Free Video Conferencing Platforms for academic conferences, remote lecturers, research or group projects

When I started my PhD 3 years ago there were many opportunities for guest lectures and workshops that I missed mainly because I was too far away from the places and institutions were these events were supposed to be held. Similarly, illness there were too many times when I wanted to submit a paper to a …