The 13th of June in Bournemouth University’s calendar of the Festival of Learning was dedicated to visual communication. Aimed mainly at people working within the third sector, the workshop which my colleague Anna Feigenbaum and I ran challenged participants to think about creating images that stick on a shoestring budget. To make the challenge more …
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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 …
Whether one considers social media strategy to be part of wider marketing efforts or put it under a general communication strategy, buy questions about access and representation of a company and brand should always be asked. There aren’t only questions that deal with reputation management but also with maintaining a balance between freedom of speech …
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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 …
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I have started teaching as a Visiting Lecturer at Katho in December 2008. I was returning to the institution that hosted me as an exchange student 5 years earlier. I swapped position in the classroom – from the student’s seat to the lecturer’s spotlight. When I wrote the New Media course syllabus I wanted it …