By Jeff Inman, Assistant Professor of Journalism, Drake University AUSTIN, TEXAS – They call it Nerd Spring Break for a reason. Every March social media junkies, venture capital gurus, scruffy bearded programmers and would-be Mark Zuckerbergs all converge on downtown Austin for South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive. While the annual SXSW convention covers more that...
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Social Media Strategies class creates one-second video
Drake’s social media strategies class took on a challenge from Drake’s admissions office and created a completely crowdsourced video showing what student life is like at Drake University. The admission office is trying to get more potential students to visit Drake. The class decided the best way to do that was to create content that...
Greg Swan to visit SJMC classes Thursday
Drake SJMC grad Greg Swan will be speaking to two classes Thursday morning. He will talk to David Remund's PR Writing class at 9:30 a.m. and Chris Snider's Social Media Strategies class at 11 a.m.
New classes: Business Fundamentals and Social Media Strategies
The Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication will offer two new classes this spring semester: Business Fundamentals for Communications Professionals and Social Media Strategies.
Media Responsibility class collaborates via Twitter
For Lori Blachford's course Media Responsibility Over Time (JMC-066), students are required to tweet at least five times a week to share news links.