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Building a Following on Snapchat

By Kellen Manning April 28, 2016

Due to Snapchat not providing definitive total audience numbers, this is not a definitive case study. It’s more or less, me trying something with my channel and providing conclusions. What do I know for sure? As of May 2015, the Division of Student Life’s Snapchat account (MIT Student Life) amassed over 1000...

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Periscope: What We've Learned So Far

By Stephanie Hatch Leishman, Emer Garland July 30, 2015

We recently launched MIT on Periscope, which is a new social network for live video streaming. We have done a few scopes (shorthand for a Periscope video), so let us share our learnings with those of you who are also just getting started.  1. Periscope is super new, so experimentation with the platform is expected. ...

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Hosting a Bilingual Twitter Chat

By Nse Umoh Esema September 23, 2014

On September 5, MIT’s Community Innovators Lab (@MITCoLab) co-facilitated a bilingual Twitter chat with its innovation school, Escuela de Innovación Comunitaria (@InnovacionC). The topic of the chat was leveraging ethnic identity to build community power. Along with a local partner, Manos Visibles, MIT CoLab recently...

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