Teaching with Twitter: #vivesnewmedia reflections

  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.  

Introducing @DCS_BU & dcsbu.wordpress.com

  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 …