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[8 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 12 views]
Resuming Blogging with an Update and a Video

Resuming my blogging on a more frequent schedule, I thought I’d share what I’ve been doing.
Over at PROpenMic we’ve been continuing our growth. I like the way we’ve been reaching more and more students from around the world. Today, PROpenMic has students from about 70 countries and over 400 colleges and universities.
Auburn Family is another project. It recently brought the students a silver medal from SIAA. Auburn University also rewarded the students with a front page (top right hand corner) link to their project. …

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[15 Feb 2010 | Comments Off | 7 views]
Google Buzz :: Great Leap for Social Networking-kind … or Buzzkill

Cross-posted from PROpenMic.
Ben Parr at Mashable has, it seems, been sipping the Koolaid.
Google Buzz Has Completely Changed the Game: Here’s How
Parr writes, “The Social Analyst … a weekly column … where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space.”
Mashable has become a sort of cause celebre of the new social media/network journalism. This stems from CNN’s adoption of Pete Cashmore as a columnist. “Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media. He is writing a weekly column …

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[29 Sep 2009 | Comments Off | 7 views]
Students Launch Auburn Family Social Network

Auburn University has launched a social network focused upon potential new students, their parents, Auburn alumni and friends of Auburn. Visit family.auburn.edu.
The site, hosted on the Ning platform, has been up for three weeks. You’ll note that the site is residing on the university’s domain. We have only found a few other college/university social networks. Auburn’s is the only one we can find that is totally open to the public.

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[25 Mar 2009 | Comments Off | 5 views]

Our PR social network has been in action for one year, as of April 1st.  I thought you might like to know how we’re doing.  I’d also appreciate your feedback on the network.  We can’t get better without hearing from your members (and those that haven’t joined, yet, too).
Here’s an update on PROpenMic’s traffic over the first year. Only April ‘08 through February ‘09 (11 months) are available.
I’ve used publicly available information from Compete.com and Alexa.com.  They are services used by media buyers to determine rates for ad buys, …