Are you ready for a University Degree in Social Media? | About Online Degrees

Are you ready for a University Degree in Social Media?

Christine S. Baker
July 1st, 2010

Social media is now embedded into our psyche. Social media now affects how we talk, think and communicate with each other. Life as we know it will never be the same, as social media has accelerated the pace of life and now people are just considered to be wired or not. The extent of how deep social media has become a necessity in our daily lives is shown in the new thrust by several universities to offer online degree programs in social media. Universities are not only in the education business to educate individuals. They also exist to provide a profit to their shareholders. So we see, by them offering degree programs in social media only prove the point of how social media has become to our hi-tech society.

In addition, all the major media broadcasting houses have developed various TV programs based around social media. Examples of how social media has infiltrated TV programming is shown in the many eye witness reports that are uploaded to their respective Twitter, Facebook and MySpace pages within seconds of an event. This concept has provided many job opportunities for amateur journalists who are always on the lookout for breaking events.

Before we go any further, let us examine this concept of social media. Social media is an interaction of different individuals through means of technology and telecommunications. These tools provide individuals to share word, picture, audio and video content from locations all over the world. As a result, social media has developed into the main source of contact between individuals.

Bachelor’s Degree in Social Media

Any course in marketing will tell you that where people congregate, there is an opportunity for business. The growth of social media has prompted several universities to devise degree programs that will teach individuals how to exploit the accessibility of social media. The bachelor’s degree in social media has been incorporated in the faculties of business, computing and information management of many universities. The degree is also becoming quite popular as many individuals are now viewing social media as a viable career option.

The bachelor degree in social media focuses of developing student’s skills of business, computing and communication through various mediums such as text messaging, internet, mobile phones, email and chat rooms.

Master’s Degree in Social Media

Recently one leading university launched a master’s degree that focused solely on teaching its students about the use of, effects, opportunities that social media offer to the greater community. This online course entails a scholarly study of how social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo can help both the marketing and communication sectors.

As in all accredited master’s degree program, the course had to meet various standards before it could be approved by the Department of Education.

They have reported significant interest in the course as many companies are now acknowledging the power of social media and want to be at the cutting edge of its manipulation. Hence, whether you are wired or not, social media is here to stay so it is for us to ask ourselves the question “are we ready for social media?” http://aboutonlinedegrees.org/blog/university-degree-social-media/

Textile-Art My New Studio

 Its been a long and tiring week, I moved into my new studio in the Nuceles Arts Centre, Chatham High Street, Chatham 

I have taken over the studio of Renound Artist Peter Reeds, and he's a very dear friend :). You can catch a glimps of the studio as it was in the days of Peter right Here. Of course As I'm a Textile Artist  Its looking a little difrent now..  As soon as I can get some pictures up here of how it is now, I will let you all see them. 

I will be Working on some new Projects over the next lot of weeks, I will be talking about thme in latter blog posts so mame sure you look out for them.

 

Last friday I als launched my new life as Textile Artist by having two of my portraits in the "Thats You That Is" Portrait Exibition in the Necules Arts Centre Gallery.  Its still running if you have time to get down to Chatham its well worth the trip.

 

This lively group exhibition showcases artist's portraits of fellow artists.  Featuring some of Medway's finest creative minds, it's an exciting mixture of painting, drawing, photography, mixed-media, sculpture and more.

Curated by painter Marissa Mardon, the aim of the show is to connect creative people and promote their practices as individual artists within the local area.

 

List of exhibitors: Michelle Aburrow, Nigel Adams, Gordian Bailey, Mark Barnes, Angie Berkley, Andi Bristo, Alexander Cooley, Wendy Daws, Porlie Eidolon, Nick Evans, Tina Finnerty, Tilly Flood, Jon Gubbay, Adam Hanson, Heather Haythornthwaite, Dee Hudson, Reetta Jussila, Sarah Langstone, Marissa Mardon, Sara Norling, Rikard Osterlund, Claire Patchett, Candy Parker, Peter Reeds, Christopher Sacre, Lorri Thomas and Danielle Wright.

 

Private view/meet the artists: Friday 23 July, 6-9pm. All welcome

 

Well thats all for Now Back to work :)

Dee Hudson Textile Artist

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Textile Art, Dee Hudson, Thats You That Is,  Nucleus Arts Centre, Peter Reeds,

 

Are you ready for a University Degree in Social Media? | About Online Degrees

Are you ready for a University Degree in Social Media?

Christine S. Baker
July 1st, 2010

Social media is now embedded into our psyche. Social media now affects how we talk, think and communicate with each other. Life as we know it will never be the same, as social media has accelerated the pace of life and now people are just considered to be wired or not. The extent of how deep social media has become a necessity in our daily lives is shown in the new thrust by several universities to offer online degree programs in social media. Universities are not only in the education business to educate individuals. They also exist to provide a profit to their shareholders. So we see, by them offering degree programs in social media only prove the point of how social media has become to our hi-tech society.

In addition, all the major media broadcasting houses have developed various TV programs based around social media. Examples of how social media has infiltrated TV programming is shown in the many eye witness reports that are uploaded to their respective Twitter, Facebook and MySpace pages within seconds of an event. This concept has provided many job opportunities for amateur journalists who are always on the lookout for breaking events.

Before we go any further, let us examine this concept of social media. Social media is an interaction of different individuals through means of technology and telecommunications. These tools provide individuals to share word, picture, audio and video content from locations all over the world. As a result, social media has developed into the main source of contact between individuals.

Bachelor’s Degree in Social Media

Any course in marketing will tell you that where people congregate, there is an opportunity for business. The growth of social media has prompted several universities to devise degree programs that will teach individuals how to exploit the accessibility of social media. The bachelor’s degree in social media has been incorporated in the faculties of business, computing and information management of many universities. The degree is also becoming quite popular as many individuals are now viewing social media as a viable career option.

The bachelor degree in social media focuses of developing student’s skills of business, computing and communication through various mediums such as text messaging, internet, mobile phones, email and chat rooms.

Master’s Degree in Social Media

Recently one leading university launched a master’s degree that focused solely on teaching its students about the use of, effects, opportunities that social media offer to the greater community. This online course entails a scholarly study of how social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo can help both the marketing and communication sectors.

As in all accredited master’s degree program, the course had to meet various standards before it could be approved by the Department of Education.

They have reported significant interest in the course as many companies are now acknowledging the power of social media and want to be at the cutting edge of its manipulation. Hence, whether you are wired or not, social media is here to stay so it is for us to ask ourselves the question “are we ready for social media?” http://aboutonlinedegrees.org/blog/university-degree-social-media/

Firefox is KILLING your Internet Business

I just wanted to let you know about this new site that launched.  It's all about Firefox Add-ons, and how they affect you as an internet marketer.

http://www.allaboutaddons.com/?rid=1536

I had NO idea that so many people have been missing the important parts of my pages, just because of these addons! 

You might be losing up to 50% of your potential optins or sales because of ONE nasty little add-on!

Go now, and join this site, to find out how to educate your customers, and potential customers!

http://www.allaboutaddons.com/?rid=1536

To your success!

Dee Hudson

P.S. Be sure to check the One Time Offer when you sign up.  The upgraded membership, which includes rebranding rights to ALL 10 ebooks... PLUS videos, is usually $37.  You can get it through the One Time Offer for only $27!  It's well worth it!         

Discover How to Increase Sales by 53% Not Costing You One Red Cent! Find out how a Nasty little add-on for Firefox is KILLING your Internet Business! AllAboutAddons is free to join, but paid benefits are also available. As a free member, you will receive 20% of purchases made by your direct referrals. Click Here For Your Free E-Book!

Firefox is KILLING your Internet Business

I just wanted to let you know about this new site that launched.  It's all about Firefox Add-ons, and how they affect you as an internet marketer.

http://www.allaboutaddons.com/?rid=1536

I had NO idea that so many people have been missing the important parts of my pages, just because of these addons! 

You might be losing up to 50% of your potential optins or sales because of ONE nasty little add-on!

Go now, and join this site, to find out how to educate your customers, and potential customers!

http://www.allaboutaddons.com/?rid=1536

To your success!

Dee Hudson

P.S. Be sure to check the One Time Offer when you sign up.  The upgraded membership, which includes rebranding rights to ALL 10 ebooks... PLUS videos, is usually $37.  You can get it through the One Time Offer for only $27!  It's well worth it!         

Discover How to Increase Sales by 53% Not Costing You One Red Cent! Find out how a Nasty little add-on for Firefox is KILLING your Internet Business! AllAboutAddons is free to join, but paid benefits are also available. As a free member, you will receive 20% of purchases made by your direct referrals. Click Here For Your Free E-Book!

the use of blog for search engine optimisation

When setting up a home business online first thing that you need to address this to purchase your own domain. By doing a careful research. You can then decide on the domain name, you need to take certain factors into consideration.

Your product or service.

What keyword searches, would you use to find your business on the net.

What other variants that could be used in the search for the type of business or service that you are offering.

Within each of these categories. What other main keywords, and also what other keywords, would they be linked to

One should have decided on the type of domain name, but you are looking for the next stage is to find out whether it is available.

Don't be disheartened, if the first few names that you decide on not available as a denying. Have you checked whether they are available in all the difference variations for incidents.
.com .net .biz .ws .co.uk .gov .TV chat on the site. But you are doing searches that reminds to see what other variations can be available.

Once you have the domain setup in place. There are a variety of add-ons that you can do to enhance both the appearance and the resources within your domain. These could include
a guestbook
a site map
a links to other web pages
a profile page
a blog, or online journal

A blog or online journal is in my opinion, they must have. The main purpose of this blog is to keep your audience up to date on any information to do with your products or services, Batard seemed to be added or beta testing. Also, to give a little bit of insight into the products and services on a more personal level. Another key feature for a blog is the fact that it is a search engine optimisation tool, if used correctly.

With the use of the right keywords terms and phrases that are all relevant to your product or service. You can attain top ranking within the search engines in Google, Yahoo etc. Also with in this blog. There are many applications and gadgets that you can use, which will further develop your presence on the web. I have mentioned some of these in previous posts and will continue to do so as this blog develops.

It is a well-known fact that blocks. More often than not halt, high positioning within the search engines over a wide variety of subjects.

These methods can be used in any type of business, whether it be an online only or bricks and mortar business. In the field of search engine optimisation. The fact that you are adding constant updates to your blog and also linking to active RSS feeds that are all using keywords relevant to your blog will all help with the overall positioning within the search engines.

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August 9, 2008 Posted by deesincomebuilder | Internet Business, Leads, Setting up a home Business, advice on home business | Dee Hudson, advice on home business, Social Networking, New, Social networking Site, social networking

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Building a Team

How Do you go about, getting a team together, that are willing to work together for the better of everybody? I can hear you all saying, I don't know anybody. I would recommend that you join, one to networking communities, that I have listed on this page. You will soon find people asking to be invited to your friends and contacts list. These people are also looking for people to network with. Once you have made contact with these people, by introducing yourself and letting them a little bit about your background within business. You can then offer them the opportunity to partner with your inner joint-venture of promoting each of your relevant businesses.

Many methods that you can use to keep in contact with each other, I personally use either Skype or Messenger, once you have established a commonplace to notify each other about the advertising that you are doing, you then need to let each other know that you have posted either to a social networking site forum or blog. Then, your team members, can visit the relevant post and make a comment on it, either recommending you all the product that you are promoting.

In turn they will be making their own posts to social networking forums and blogs. They will ask you to visit their relevant advertising, and make a comment or recommendation also. You can see that working as a team. Not only has your post been picked up within the search engines. But also the fact that there has been instant traffic to your particular advertised in its the search engines will be interested and will boost the ranking of that particular post within the search engines. The higher that you go within the search engine, the more likelihood you are going to get traffic to your site via keyword searches within the search engines.

If you are doing this with a group of say 10 people, that would seem that you would have 10 instant visitors to your post. Using this method along with other methods of boosting your business, for instance, blasting the search engines, e-mailing everybody did you know, in the social networking sites, and also using bookmarking sites, I will talk about that. More later..... you will soon have the desired traffic to your site that you have always wished for.

Don't forget, these contacts networking friends that you use do not necessarily have to be in your primary businesses, but you might find that some of them will actually join some of your businesses because of the fact that they've been brought awareness of that particular business. via this networking method. Please don't feel that there are any limitations to this,, if you work with a team of members from other affiliate business for instance your upline / downline. This will have the greatest effect; let me explain. Even if the people posting comments about your particular advertising and feel that they'd like to put their own links in as well. This will not harm you can do is prove that there is a growing force of people that are interested in your business. Many of the businesses we are involved in are matrix, and if you are all promoting the top link in that matrix it means that there will be spillover for everybody. You could of course, add all of your URLs for one particular business into a rotator, that way everybody will get a fair crack of the whip at getting some new downline Into Their business.

Team work and Team Players

Teamwork skills include the mix of interactive, interpersonal, problem solving and communication skills needed by a group of people working on a common task, in complementary roles, towards a common goal whose outcomes are greater than those possible by any one person working independently.

Team Players


If you are looking to succeed in business, within the popular affiliate and networking businesses found online. You need to practice team work within your chosen field of expertise. You need to also teach this to your down-line, (up-line if necessary) Lets face it, they will gladly listen if they want success too. Team work is a necessity, you will find it impossible to generate the traffic needed if its your work alone.

Team players can have a very positive effect on your business. As a team you can combine all your teams efforts to the good of the whole. You might not feel that working in a team is not the best course of action for you, but once you have read this you might want to test it out for your self.

I will be introducing you to the wide verity of social networking sites, and book-marking sites that are available, Also I will be explaining how you can use theses sites to your businesses advantage. Once you are armed with this information you will be able to take your business to the next level.

Social Networking Links

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• Ojeez the social network marketing community for entrepreneurs, professionals and home based busines
  Ojeez is a community designed to become the top destination for network marketing professionals, small business owners and work at home entrepreneurs
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