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Election 2012: Twitter and Infographics
Content: Yesterday I watched Twitter, especially observing tweets using the hashtag #election2012. A lot of people expressed their political beliefs via Twitter, making the social network an important...
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Content: "Meltdown," a post written in October on the MIT Admissions blog, evoked a lot of responses via social media. One benefit of social media is the data they provide on reactions and thoughts...
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Content: I approached Kellen Manning a week ago to see if he’d be willing to answer some questions about his work. Kellen manages social media for MIT’s Division of Student Life.Kellen, what’s the...
View ArticleRemove "Check Out" From Your Social Media Vocabulary
Content: Yes, it’s my pet peeve. It’s the use of the phrase “check out.” The phrase isn’t inherently good or bad; what really stands out is its overuse as a sign of vocabulary laziness.In the past 30...
View ArticleHosting a Bilingual Twitter Chat
Content: On September 5, MIT’s Community Innovators Lab (@MITCoLab) co-facilitated a bilingual Twitter chat with its innovation school, Escuela de Innovación Comunitaria (@InnovacionC). The topic of...
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Case Study: Social Media at the CAST Symposium
Content: The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology hosted “Seeing / Sounding / Sensing,” an intensive two-day symposium that invited creative artists to join with philosophers, cognitive...
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Case Study: Hosting the #MITAlum Twitter Chat
Content: In October, the MIT Alumni Association hosted the #MITAlum Twitter chat “MIT Alumni and the Final Frontier.” This chat featured six alumni working in space exploration and tied in with...
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Interview with Nicole Morell
Content: Nicole Morell is the MIT Alumni Association’s social media community manager. She manages day-to-day social media and writes for the Slice of MIT blog. Nicole shares her insights into her...
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#alwaysMIT
Content: In May, some members of MIT's Commencement committee wanted to gather memories from graduating seniors and asked me if we could use social media to do so. The original hashtag that was...
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#MIT02139
Content: The Century in Cambridge celebration marked the 100th anniversary of MIT’s move from Boston to Cambridge in 1916, and events were planned for most of the spring. We wanted to share our...
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