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30 Mar 2009

Birmingham City University will offer a one year-course that will consider social networking sites as communications and marketing tools.

Jon Hickman, the course convener, said he had received a good response from potential students and described what the course would entail.

“During the course we will consider what people can do on Facebook and Twitter, and how they can be used for communication and marketing purposes.

“There has been significant interest in the course already, and it will definitely appeal to students looking to go into professions including journalism and PR.”

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category: school
07 Nov 2008

Not that it’s a popular practice, but if you’re applying to college and you have a Facebook, MySpace, or some other kind of public profile, be careful - your school-to-be could check to make sure you’re the kind of person they want representing their school.  For the most part, these schools don’t have time to be checking every student’s profile, but if they receive a tip about something questionable, they might check it out.  Of course, you can easily prevent this by A) changing your settings to private, where only your friends can access your profile, or B) not putting anything stupid on there in the first place.  But where’s the fun in that?  Read more…

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