As co-chair of CASE's task force on social media, I've been working with Andrew Gossen and a capable team of leaders in educational advancement to dig into the best thinking on social media an elevate the conversation about its potential to make a positive impact. Sounds like a fun conversation, right? You probably have some things to say about it, right? Well, now you can. We've decided to have the conversations out in the open, on the web, and are doing so via the new CASE social media blog http://case.typepad.com/case_social_media/ . We'll post regularly, respond to comments and, when the time is right, pull the plug. This blog has a purpose and that purpose is to facilitate a conversation about the strategic implementation of social media in education. Join the fun.
My first post is a summary of an informal survey we did to get a sense of best practices. Here's a taste:
An Informal Look at Social Media Practices
To frame their thinking about best practices in social media use, members of the CASE social media task force reached out to 22 institutions that they thought were using social media effectively to ask practitioners what they were doing, what was working, what they had tried that didn’t work, and what advice they had for colleagues who were just dipping their toes into social media waters.
The 22 institutions in this informal survey represented diverse types of institutions: independent schools, community colleges, small liberal arts institutions and large research institutions both in the United States and the United Kingdom. Follow this link for a look at what the task force found. http://bit.ly/cXpCHu
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