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This week we read chapters nine and ten of Guy Kawasaki’s book The Art of Social Media: Power TIps for Power Users. Chapter nine is titled how to rock a twitter chat and is about just that, how to effectively use the chat feature of twitter. Chapter ten is titled How to Avoid Looking Clueless. In chapter nine the use of twitter chat is outlined and explained which I thought was pretty cool, I don’t think I have ever used this feature on twitter and I can see how it would be an effective means of communicating with those tuning into your event, or reading your content. Guy specifically outlines seven aspects of the twitter chat that will help you “rock the chat” they are: Use the Right Tools Picking a Short Evergreen Hashtag Making sure your guests are prepared Typing quickly When responding to an individual @ him or her Advertise for this event And be able and ready to summarize your twitter chat once it is over to help promote future chats you may have. Cha...

Social media has changed the world we live in many times, from ranking your friends and playing your favorite song while people viewed your profile on Myspace, to compacting one's thoughts and ideas into 140 or now 280 characters, or even posting pictures about anything and everything. Social media has come a long way in the recent past and is likely to continue to grow right before our eyes. But the biggest impact social media has had on society is not the dependence on ones phone or even the need to document every little aspect of your life it is the voice that it gives each and every person with an account. Social media gives everyone a voice even those that might not deserve a voice. Social media has changed the game when it comes to expressing your opinion. There are people every day that go viral because the opinion they have that they think is something that others may not do or may not relate do but connects with thousands upon thousands of people. These platforms also...

With anything you do in your life there will be beginnings and endings, firsts and lasts, as I head into my last semester of college and also my last season as a player on the Ohio Northern Men’s Lacrosse Team you might think I have seen it all and done it all. However in the first week alone we have experienced a new first. In my last first week the polar bears men's lacrosse team has experienced a new first. With this winter being particularly chilly and the NCAA’s rules pertaining to weather we were forced for the first time in program history to take our talents from the icy tundra AKA Dial Roberson Stadium into the field house at the Kinghorn athletic facility. What felt like a strange practice to both the players and coaches was captured by the head coach Nat St. Laurent and posted on the ONU Men’s Lacrosse twitter account for all to see how the bears were still getting work in even in the poor weather conditions. A few more experiences from the first week of my f...