Comments on: Creating the future – how should we teach social media? http://www.liberatemedia.com/uncategorized/creating-the-future-%e2%80%93-how-should-we-teach-social-media/ Liberate Media blends online PR with offline PR expertise to form a uniquely positioned social media agency. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:18:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Christopher Hughes http://www.liberatemedia.com/uncategorized/creating-the-future-%e2%80%93-how-should-we-teach-social-media/#comment-7854 Christopher Hughes Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:15:51 +0000 http://www.liberatemedia.com/?p=2019#comment-7854 Yes – In my opinion, Social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Myspace have a negative perceived value relative to the effort of having to nurture and sustain a new account. Obviously, the actual benefit on sites such as Twitter can be quite significant, but students will only know this from an ex-post perspective and so there lies the initial problem. I feel that companies should try to reduce the overheads of the site for people who do not have the necessary time to nurture a new account, for example, Twitter and Facebook, could maybe find ways of making it easier for students to transfer existing contacts from one site to another or at least try to make that application more well known to students, just a thought! Yes – In my opinion, Social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Myspace have a negative perceived value relative to the effort of having to nurture and sustain a new account. Obviously, the actual benefit on sites such as Twitter can be quite significant, but students will only know this from an ex-post perspective and so there lies the initial problem. I feel that companies should try to reduce the overheads of the site for people who do not have the necessary time to nurture a new account, for example, Twitter and Facebook, could maybe find ways of making it easier for students to transfer existing contacts from one site to another or at least try to make that application more well known to students, just a thought!

]]> By: Miguel Arraya http://www.liberatemedia.com/uncategorized/creating-the-future-%e2%80%93-how-should-we-teach-social-media/#comment-7771 Miguel Arraya Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:11:11 +0000 http://www.liberatemedia.com/?p=2019#comment-7771 Hi Lorraine I'm a part time MBA student with Soton, but living in Jersey - Lisa Harris held a very interesting two day lecture this weekend just gone, which certainly opened my eyes to Web 2+ - being on the cusp of Gen X/Young boomer, I am just about adept with web 1. I can certainly see the value of social media and it is definitely the way forward - like many things in life, it has to become a way of life, an ingrained habit and I am sure that the time element and having the right equipment will be factors that may prevent Gen Xs + from truly adopting this medium. Also, we know that 90% of people are not proactive, so there is inherent inertia. Miguel Arraya Hi Lorraine

I’m a part time MBA student with Soton, but living in Jersey - Lisa Harris held a very interesting two day lecture this weekend just gone, which certainly opened my eyes to Web 2+ - being on the cusp of Gen X/Young boomer, I am just about adept with web 1. I can certainly see the value of social media and it is definitely the way forward - like many things in life, it has to become a way of life, an ingrained habit and I am sure that the time element and having the right equipment will be factors that may prevent Gen Xs + from truly adopting this medium. Also, we know that 90% of people are not proactive, so there is inherent inertia.

Miguel Arraya

]]> By: Lisa http://www.liberatemedia.com/uncategorized/creating-the-future-%e2%80%93-how-should-we-teach-social-media/#comment-7746 Lisa Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:21:09 +0000 http://www.liberatemedia.com/?p=2019#comment-7746 great article Lorraine - my final year undergrads have a group project to develop and manage a connected community using a blog, Facebook, Twitter, Ning and YouTube. Still work in progress at the moment but perhaps they might like to add their feedback on what they are learning from this task in the light of your post...? <abbr><em><abbr><em>Lisas last blog post..<a href="http://punchaboveyourweight.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/online-marketing-presentation-2/" rel="nofollow">Online Marketing Presentation</a></em></abbr></abbr></em> great article Lorraine - my final year undergrads have a group project to develop and manage a connected community using a blog, Facebook, Twitter, Ning and YouTube. Still work in progress at the moment but perhaps they might like to add their feedback on what they are learning from this task in the light of your post…?

Lisas last blog post..Online Marketing Presentation

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