semester has ended

Our class is over, but for many of the students in fall 2007 Social Media class the journey in understanding social media has just begun!

In this class, we spent most of the semester creating student-selected social media projects then worked to make those projects a success. From marketing via Facebook to making good ole fashioned business cards & hitting the pavement, each student worked to increase viewership of his or her project.

Another major project involved students coming up with a proposal for an organization to integrate social media. The best of the best were covered on the blog so if you're ever looking for inspiration then check them out.

We provided extensive live coverage of the social media conference UGA Connect. Live blogging, twitter'ing, flickr'ing, podcasts & interviews. We did the same for the college's PRSSA chapter event, Professional Connection. Was there anything the students didn't do in sharing the on-site experience with the out-of-town observers?

And then there was the 48 hours of Twitter assignment that everyone loved! What fun!

Thanks to everyone who followed & interacted with this class - especially the professionals who did a "digital drop-in" for our "social media spotlite" series.

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semester projects

The big project this semester was to create a social media product & make it a success. Here are the class projects (in no particular order!):

• Kelly Jones covers public relations at Speaking Phonetically, Pee Arh
• Katherine Strate's Dawg Food blog
• Alicin Hendricks traveled around the state for her Georgia 2.0 blog
• Alicia Stafford kept us stlyin' in her Chic Athens blog
• Jeff Putnam brought hockey to Georgia in his Global NHL blog
  
• Katie Vandegrift was pet-tastic on her Georgia is for Dog Lovers blog
• Tolu sold art on SecondLife
• Abby Simonds chartered her Tails of an Unpaid Intern on her blog
• Asha Hill looked back on her time at UGA in her Class of 2008 tribute video on YouTube
  
• Lauren G. worked on a little self-improvement on her Challenge My Character blog
• Tim Anderson showed us UGA Study Abroad with his video
• Nina Eyrich gave us daily doses in her 365 (Picture) Project
• Lindsey Loughman said you can dance if you want to at her Two Left Feet blog
• Carmel Joseph gave us the tips & tricks of "making it" in the recording industry on her YouTube Channel
• Christina Graff cracked the code for us in her Greek Speak blog
• Lizzie Azzolino asked 5 Questions to Everyday People in her blog
• Ashley Beebe told us all about herself and the fact that There's A Mouse In My House
• Erin Gentry went hip-hop and re-made an old fave in her YouTube video
  
• Savannah Harp found out that the Real Full House equals real drama
  
• Geoffrey Tanner relived the Florida-Georgia game in his YouTube video
• Lindsay Lamphere showed us her inner shutter bug on Flickr
  

Check out their work if you haven't already!

UPDATE: Added Kelly's blog because I inadvertently left her off the original list