This is part 2 of a post discussing how I taught my Social Media Strategies class this semester at Drake University. I broke the class into nine sections, each with at least one related assignment.<\/p>\n
If you haven’t yet read part one, do that first<\/a>. It goes over the first four sections of the class.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We used two different methods to keep up with current social media research.<\/p>\n The first is the Nieman Journalism Lab website<\/a>, where we looked for stories with the headline “What’s new in social media research.”<\/p>\n The second resource was the Drake University Library’s Super Search<\/a>, which allowed us to access academic journals with articles on social media research.<\/p>\n Students then turned the academic research topic they studied into presentations for the class – so we all could learn from what each group put together.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We used this infographic<\/a>\u00a0to talk about what makes for an effective blog post.<\/p>\n And we used this template to evaluate blog posts<\/a>.<\/p>\nTopic 5: Finding current social media research<\/h2>\n
Topic 6: Writing an effective blog post<\/h2>\n