There are a lot of things they teach you in college, and overall universities do a decent job of getting students prepared for the real world. By no means is this blog a knock on the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, but there’s one crucial tool every communications student should have but most don’t. And it’s not what you think. Continue reading »
I recently read an outstanding and ridiculously in depth look at Twitter by author Orian Marx, who is the founder of Siftee, a Twitter management company for professionals and networks. The article is long and quite extensive, but there are several noteworthy pieces of information and opinions that come out of it. If you’re a Twitter nerd like me you may learn a few things by reading the whole article. Below I outline 4 tidbits about Twitter that I learned and wanted to share from Marx’s piece. Continue reading »
New Twitter Tool Helps Reduce White Noise
Here’s an interesting new Twitter tool called Shuu.sh which helps you sift out the good and bad tweeters that you follow. Each of your followers gets graded on a 1-11 scale based on the frequency of tweets (11 being most frequent). As the website states, “It aims to amplify the people that don’t usually get heard, and scale back those with frequent updates.”
After playing around with this tool, it’s interesting, but Continue reading »
- As the school year winds now and the summer months begin to hit, lots of shifting going on around Ohio University. Continue reading »