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Interview with Nicole Morell
March 9, 2015
Nicole Morell is the MIT Alumni Association’s social media community manager. She manages day-to-day social media and writes for the Slice of MIT blog. Nicole shares her insights into her favorite social network, as well as the challenges and successes she’s had on the job. What is your favorite social network and...
Read the PostCurated content about curated content
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...
Read the Post"Meltdown": A Twitter Case Study
December 20, 2012
"Meltdown," a post written in October on the MIT Admissions blog, evoked a lot of responses via social media. One benefit of social media is the data they provide on reactions and thoughts about a piece of news. It's like listening in on what people are saying to each other about a particular topic. Between October...
Read the PostUse IFTTT for Automatic Content Archival
August 27, 2012
IFTTT ("if this then that") is an automation tool that allows you to make "recipes" consisting of triggers. Here's how it works. You register all your social (and other internet-based) accounts with IFTTT. Then you can make a recipe, such as "whenever I get tagged on Facebook, send me an email." You can use this tool...
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