4 #SoMe Peeps NOT To Be

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reading up on social media and the law.  Now, originally I began this reading venture because I selected it as the topic for my law class. But my interests were peaked and I have become quite engulfed in the topic. Throughout my reading, I’ve been noticing that there

Assimilate and Be Happy!

With the New Year rung in, and everyone’s resolutions on the forefront, I’ve seen a pattern in my social and professional circles in regards to addressing social media in New Year’s Resolutions. Social Media is on everyone’s resolution lists in someway, whether to start a platform, be more persistent with existing platforms, or even whittling

Key Helpful #SoMe Hints

A few weekends ago, one of my best friends rejoined the land of the living and rejoined Facebook. Now, he’s about to go #SoMe crazy, and it got me thinking, about what would be some best practices and suggestions for those individuals like him who are re-establishing their online identity and creating profiles. So, for

Making the Call

As I have made a few mentions before in earlier posts, I volunteer my time on a state-wide  level for my fraternity. This is my second year and am really getting into the swing of things. As a new initiative for our state, I’m reinstating our regular conference calls. Now, conference calls with 10 or

The Tips and Tricks

So, over the past few weeks, I wrote some posts about PLEs /PLNs and Reinventing Your Online Identity. I figured today I’d go into some helpful tips and tricks that can apply to both in order to ensure successful and purposeful identities and networks. 1) Be Consistent: In order to establish a solid network you

Back It Up, Back It Up, Back It Up…Guide for First-Time Backchannelers

Two years ago, if you told me that I should backchannel, I would have said I can’t swim. (Get it…backchannel…backpaddle…?…meh). Anyway, now I backchannel everything I can. I’m actually following the #psuweb13 backchannel while I sit here writing this post. 🙂 Backchanneling is a live conversation occurring simulatneously along side an event conference, webcast, etc.