A blog for social media communicators at MIT

By Jenny Li Fowler November 2, 2018

There is so much information out there about paid social media. One might even feel pressured to pay to play. I thought I’d offer a voice in support of non-paid social media. At MIT we have a purely organic strategy, and I think it could work for you, too. Since I started working at MIT in November 2015, we’ve grown...

By Stephanie Hatch Leishman January 15, 2015

This past fall, I attended a presentation by Jay Baer in which he talked about “Youtility.” Marketing and customer service are colliding, and less than half of the public trusts advertising, according to Baer. As I listened to him describe the state of advertising, one statement stuck out. He said, “Stop trying to be...

By Stephanie Hatch Leishman June 2, 2014

Yes, it’s my pet peeve. It’s the use of the phrase “check out.” The phrase isn’t inherently good or bad; what really stands out is its overuse as a sign of vocabulary laziness. In the past 30 days, 10 million tweets used the phrase “check out.” I’ve included some examples below, with the number of times each phrase...

By Stephanie Hatch Leishman March 1, 2013

Curation is an effective and unique content type. Pawan Deshpande says content curation is "the process of finding, organizing and sharing online content." In its very basic definition, curation is using your expertise in a field to gather great content around a specific theme and present that content in a way that...