I have started the new year with my visit to Vives in Belgium, ampoule delivering again the New Media course to a new group of Erasmus exchange students. Using the feedback from every group, ampoule the course has become over time more focused on social media marketing and communications. This also includes more extensive discussions […]
Social media monitoring tools in higher education marketing
Nathaniel Hobby and I delivered a conference paper in November 2013 at the 1st Marketing and Communication in Asia Conference, dosage organized by Bournemouth University and Chulalongkorn University. The Conference proceedings have been now published and our full paper is included in them. The summary of the paper and the powerpoint are here.
The Digital Communication Strategies course that I teach at Bournemouth University now has its own social media presence in the form of a twitter account, website like this blog and dedicated Delicious stack. This term is very practice-focused so it makes sense to enable the course to exist and operate within the environment that […]
Social Media 4 Beginners: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WordPress tutorials
At the beginning of this month I wrote about the EuroBlog Social Media Award I have received for my use of social media for research and more. The University of the West of Scotland (where I pursue my PhD) picked up the news and shared it with the Scottish press. As a result of their […]
5 weeks, 5 days, 5 sessions of technology for education
After my teaching time as a visiting lecturer to Katho, this web I returned to Bahrain to embrace a new challenge. After the success of my Prezi workshops which have seen the powerpoint alternative very quickly adopted by academic staff around the campus, more about it made a lot of sense to try to […]
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 […]
I have just finished delivering the 6th edition of the New Media course at Katho. This is the 3rd consecutive year when I join Katho for 2 weeks during each semester to deliver a course that I developed on my own and that combines theoretical information about creative industries – journalism, advertising and public relations […]
At the beginning of this year I have entered my website in the EuroBlog Social Media Awards competition and was lucky enough to receive some support from colleagues and friends in the endeavor. Thank you to all of you who voted me because… I WON! My site has now an award for Most innovative use of […]
Word clouds are visualization of a given text based on the frequency of the words it contains. A word cloud generator will usually eliminate punctuation and common words and mostly display nouns. They follow a simple rule: the bigger the word, generic the more often it is used. Why I use word clouds? I have […]
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 […]
Social Media in the Classroom, Social Media Tools For Research
The middle of November was a busy and workshop-rich week for me. After a workshop on social media strategy and policy delivered at the UWS Library and a lecture on social media to support an acting career given to Stuart Hepburn‘s contemporary screen acting students, mycoplasmosis I also delivered with the great help and support […]
Another visit to Belgium is over and with it another successful delivery of the Katho New Media course. A big thank you goes to the students for their enthusiasm and hard work and to the Katho Hantal and those in charge of the Erasmus exchange program for making this happen again. Also a very big […]
It’s official! I am one of the 15 Advisory Board members of SMCEDU, pilule an education initiative of Social Media Club (founded by Chris Heuer) focused on improving the quality of Social Media education in Universities and empowering its community of Social Media professors. I have been following the Social Media Education chats ever since their first […]
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 […]
Among the many tweets I read every day there was one last week advertising a London event dedicated to researchers and academics. The event organized by the Research Information Network (RIN) and the National Endowment for Science, erectile Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is meant to help academics and researchers understand the influence of […]
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 […]
10+ Free Online Slideshow Resources for Lecturers and Communicators
I have delivered many conference presentations and guest lectures in the past, illness enough to realize that if one can have a slideshow with a twist (not the traditional click through powerpoint) half of the job of capturing the attention of the audience is done (of course, hepatitis this still requires a good presentation concept […]
Twitter tools for journalism and strategic communication students
An online live video guest lecture with real-life examples and immediate applicability On July 19, refractionist last Monday that is, I had the opportunity to speak to yet another group of Missouri School of Journalism students found in London for the summer for an exchange program. I say yet again because I have delivered numerous […]
ISDPA Power of Sport Summit – Innovation and New Media
Even before I was accepted to deliver a presentation as part of the works of the summit, hygiene Eli A. Wolff and I have been in touch discussing on several occasions my views on the need of making events of the scope and role of the ISDPA summit available to people who for several reasons, […]
The two weeks of the Katho New Media course came and passed quickly. I had a smaller class this time which enabled me to better interact with the students and follow closer their progress. This also meant that the course was more intense (and intensive) as the teams were smaller. Unlike with the previous semesters […]
A vitual lesson from Citizens’ Eye This is the fourth semester when I deliver my New Media course at Katho but up until this month the lecture on community media and citizen journalism was perhaps the most abstract one. Although my students and I explore and question every semester the role of journalism and media […]
UPDATE: This post was picked up and reposted on the blog of the Research Students’ Society at UWS. You can therefore read it there as well. Good luck to all participating students at the UWS poster event! On Friday, May 7, 2010 the University of the West of Scotland is organizing a poster event for […]
UPDATE: This post was picked up and reposted on the blog of the Research Students’ Society at UWS. You can therefore read it there as well. Good luck to all participating students at the UWS poster event! On Friday, urticaria May 7, 2010 the University of the West of Scotland is organizing a poster event […]
An online video guest lecture to University of Missouri This is my second lecture delivered to a Willi Meyers‘ students using Skype and only one in a long series of lectures when we’ve met and debated Romania’s position in the European Union. Unlike most of my lectures where I need to prepare a talk, cialis […]
A guest lecture on using social media in communication environments I was invited again by Byron T. Scott, pills Professor Emeritus of Journalism at the University of Missouri – Columbia, cure to talk to a new group of Mizzou students in London. As the group of students I met last year at Imperial College, these too […]
Yong C Lee, recipe the organizer of the weekly Social Media Education Chat on twitter has invited me today to talk about my Katho New Media class. Since it’s only a couple of days since the course resumed and the official course evaluation was not yet sent to the students, price I was honored by […]
