Robert Pearl Starks

Angela, When you describe using Facebook to interact with students, I am wondering what is meant by this. For instance, are you using Facebook as another communication tool or are you using it in some other way? Have you begun thinking about how you might use tools like Facebook or LinkedIn beyond the ways you currently use them? For instance, do you use Twitter or LinkedIn for your own professional development strategically building your own personal learning networks? Do you use LinkedIn not only for employer outreach, but for employer engagement? Have you thought about leveraging groups so that you… >>>

Carren, Social media is a perfect intervention strategy to help you overcome the challenge you describe. As the course outlines, using social media as a department strategy is very different than merely using it as a communication tool. I hope you are more able to explain the why behind your strategy once you are finished with the course. I am here to help if you need further guidance as I will also be available in the Lounge (www.careercollegelounge.com) which is the social learning network for career college professionals so you can continue to engage me there once you complete the… >>>

Paul, Saturation is definitely a challenge. I'm sure you already do this but something else I used to do, for our particularly challenging programs, was create events that engaged the local industry. In fact, we ended up having a pretty large annual conference for the local game industry in Arizona that attracted companies from outside of the local market. A video of the event can be seen here: http://youtu.be/qz3Q6-rXVtE. We marketed the event through grassroots efforts using social media, email, and even built a website using a free website building tool known as www.wix.com. What we did was hosted a… >>>