Week Five -- Monday, June 24
Sharing, Presence, Relationships, and Groups + a guest speaker

Objectives

By the end of week five, you should be able to:

1. Describe how social media management jobs help organizations.
2. Describe the typical job duties of social media managers.
3. Discuss common interaction techniques that promote sharing and presence in social media, especially mobile social media usage.
4. Make recommendations for how your organization can manage interactions with its intended audience through social media.

What to do this week

Blogging -- Diana

Diana -- please write and post an article on our Wordpress blog by Monday evening at 8pm. You may write on any topic related to social media. Email me if you need technical assistance.

Everyone can post articles at any time as well, just as Lisa did this week. The blog is meant to be a collective and ongoing conversation, so please participate as much as possible.

This Week's Readings

Step 1

This week we'll begin with our guest speaker, Josh Martin. Josh will talk with us about his job as a social media manager. Please read sources 1-5 below. For sources #2 and #3, browse through a few social media jobs to see what typical duties are like. Use the other sources for background regarding jobs in social media.

Based on sources 1-5, please be prepared with at least two questions for Josh. He'll begin with a short introduction of his work, and then he'll answer your questions. Ask questions that might help you to understand both what the social media managers for your organization do and what you might be able to do yourself in your current or future jobs.

1. Turn your Facebook and Twitter skills into a career
2. CareerBuilder -- social media jobs
3. Monster.com -- social media jobs
4. Think you have what it takes to be a social media manager?
5. Tools for using social media

Step 2

Please read the following article in Dropbox in the Week 5 reading folder. In particular, examine the article's dicussion of social interaction in public, inner and outer space (not what you think), metaspace, and the three functions of interactions they discuss -- connecting, cataloguing, and coordinating. After our discussion with Josh, we'll discuss the concepts in this article.

Connecting, Coordinating, Cataloguing: Communicative Practices on Mobile Social Networks
Lee Humphreys -- in Dropbox

 

Class Agenda for Monday, June 24

1. First, we'll begin with our guest, Josh Martin, as described above.

2. Second, we'll hold an informal discussion of the Connecting, Coordinating, Cataloguing: Communicative Practices on Mobile Social Networks by Lee Humphreys -- in Dropbox.

3. Third, we'll discuss the Best Practices assignment. This is a team assignment and the peer review is due Monday, July 1. Teams are assigned as follows:

Team One: Ken, Varad, Diana

Team Two: Lisa and John

Both teams -- please overview the assignment and begin discussions about how you will complete it based on the requirements.

4. Finally, we'll conclude with an overview of the July 1 session.

 

What to do after you've read -- interact in our social media sites

1. Comment on the class blog -- all posts.

You have received an invitation to become an author on our Wordpress blog, tco691.wordpress.com. Go to the blog, read my post, and write a comment reflecting your thoughts about my post. Then, read the comments of other students and make at least one comment regarding another student's comment. Throughout the semester, you will be responsible for writing and posting articles on this blog.

2. Continue following @tco691. Tweet from our account. Here's how:

Join the class Twitter account -- https://twitter.com/tco691. First, create a Twitter account if you do not have one, or log in if you do and follow @tco691. Then, log out and sign in to our shared account. The username is tco691 and the password is Mercer1833. Send at least one tweet regarding anything you've read or you hope to learn to the class using the hashtag #tcosm.

3. Join our Google+ circle (you've all been invited). Make a comment, share a link, provide some sort of feedback within our circle.

 

Join our Webex meeting Monday, June 24.