social-ology

I’m seeing several universities jumping on the Twitter bandwagon.

Universities are taking advantage of the opportunity to use Twitter to promote everything from campus events to news and links to press releases related to current news items affecting the respective campuses.

Here are just a few of the universities taking advantage of Twitter:

TWITTER USER NAME – UNIVERSITY

MarquetteU – Marquette University

IUBloomington – Indiana University

princeton – Princeton University

EmoryUniversity – Emory University

Harvard – Harvard University

AuburnU – Auburn University

Stanford – Stanford University

TuftsUniversity – Tufts University

templeedu – Temple University

uiowa – University of Iowa

Is your university on Twitter but not listed above? Let me know and I’ll add it.

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Showing off my copywriting skills a bit

Sometimes, I think we can get all caught up in the seriousness of information exchange and such with social media marketing and using all the buzz words like “Listening” and “Conversations.”

So the promo image I created above (thanks to a great photo by Jimmy_Joe on Flickr) is my little exercise this morning to lighten things up a bit as I’m working on my presentation, “The Social Media Marketing Journey” to document my social media marketing process for clients and prospects. I guess this is me being “Transparent” and “Authentic.”

-Kevin McIntosh

Kevin McIntosh has 20 years marketing and branding experience. He shows companies how to use branding and social media to build digital word-of-mouth. He lives in the Nashville market.