Comments on: Implementing Social Media on your campus

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:11:13 +0000

We just started doing it. I created a YouTube corporate account over a year ago and now we’re an education partner. I’ve also created a corporate Flickr and Twitter account and we’ve also got a Facebook page. I spend more time on these when I’ve got a bit of spare time and do the bare minimum when I’m busier. The buy-in comes after the sites are created and for the most part has been positive.

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Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:21:30 +0000

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By: BlueNorma

BlueNorma — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:25:24 +0000

I’m not having trouble with buy-in in my immediate vicinity, but it is a problem with administration and older faculty members. They’re afraid social networking isn’t “dignified” or that we’ll look “bad.”

I’m the social networking guru by default–I have the expertise and I make the time. My attempts to pull students in have been futile. No one except me wants to hand over responsibilities to students. They’re afraid of what they’ll say. I say bring it! I can’t even get support for student-produced audio and video. It’s insane.

By: kathleen

kathleen — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:39:23 +0000

Brad – I was the first one to answer your tweet, and I have to admit to being a little flip in my answer … I’m lucky to have buy-in here for the things that the web team and I have just gone ahead and done – Twitter, 2 facebook pages, dabbling with posting on YouTube and Flickr. My problem is two-fold: 1) I need the concentrated time to pull these things together and actually DO something with them and 2) I just don’t know where is the best place to put my efforts first (although I think it has to be blogs). Plus I have to admit I’m more than a little afraid of failing if I can’t put enough effort in to make this worthwhile. To which I can hear both you and @kylejames answer “Don’t be afraid to fail – just try it and if it doesn’t work out, try something else!” Still, it’s all a little daunting.

Thanks for a good post + comments that give a lot to think on!

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Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:35:22 +0000

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:51:10 +0000

Gail, good point on the silos. I tried to use that to my advantage when starting projects. I was far enough down the chain I was under the radar. If things were going well I would make a visit to the silos to invite them in. I think we all understood the not enough time issue. That is why I turned to social media. When used to it’s full potential it gave me more time to work with students.

By: Gail

Gail — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:22:40 +0000

thanks for this thread – it couldn’t have come at a better time for me and my day-today. I also don’t think the problem is buy-in, but this is an issue that is institution dependent. Depending on your particular college culture, which we know differs radically from place to place – big/small/lots of support/none. We all seem to work in silos at times like Jess said so that makes it even more difficult when many of us are attempting to do similar things and collaboration/communication doesn’t happen – or it does but it seems to take more work than it should. For me it’s a time issue and I do what I can when I can make it happen. Try it all and hope that something works – that’s what makes me happy