85% of Colleges Have a Social Media Crisis Plan in Place

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A new infographic from Online Colleges explores some statistics about social media use in higher education as well as 5 steps for developing a social media crisis management system at your college or university.

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Thanks OnLineColleges – great infographic!

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Universities and Social MediaMark Smithers | Mark Smithers

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My friend Inger Mewburn (@thesiswhisperer) recently wrote a thoughtful piece in The Conversation web site entitled Academics behaving badly? Universities and online reputations. For the record I think that the points she made were valid and true but I also think that there is an underlying issue that remains uncovered. Simply put, it is that fact that policies around the use of social media by the academy have, in many cases, been outsourced to individuals who are not members of the academy and do not understand the purpose of the academy. As a result they fundamentally miss the opportunities that social media offer universities in engaging with the wider community. This seems to me to be particularly true in Australia where rampant managerialism associated with the corporate university has led to situation in which ‘brand positioning’ and being ‘on message’ is seen to be more important than concepts of sharing, collaboration and collegiality in knowledge distribution and generation.

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