MCMA LinkedIn Group and Facebook Page

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Written by Don Laur Wednesday, 24 June 2009 11:17

News - General MCMA

The College of Mass Communication and Media Arts LinkedIn Group

Connect with other MCMA faculty/staff, students and alumni in this professional network. LinkedIn is the worldís largest professional network with over 40 million members and growing rapidly. LinkedIn connects you to your trusted contacts and helps you exchange knowledge, ideas, and opportunities with a broader network of professionals.

SIUC MCMA Facebook Page

A Facebook Page is a public profile that enables you to share your business and products with Facebook users. The College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale uses its facebook Page to share news, events, photos and videos, and connect with faculty/staff and alumni.

The College of Mass Communication and Media Arts has several ways for students, faculty, staff, and alumni to connect with us.

Social Networks

  • SIUC MCMA facebook account - We posts links to SIUC and MCMA news, post comments, upload photos and videos and feature work.
  • MCMA facebook group - We post MCMA events and it is an open group to join.
  • Linked In MCMA Group - Connect with other MCMA faculty/staff, students and alumni in this professional network.
  • Flickr Photostream - Curious what students are up to? As we collect photos of students and faculty at work we are organizing them online using a Flickr photostream. These photos are meant to show some of our many hands-on opportunities.
  • Twitter - Curious what events and news that the MCMA has going on? Twitter is a service that allows us to enter in a short 140 character update. If you register with Twitter you can than follow us and even set your phone to get txt message updates.
  • Youtube - Our youtube channel has videos created by students. The videos are limited to a 10 minutes in length.
  • SIUC on iTunes U - The University is using iTunes U to distribute audio and video focusing on teaching and learning. Our longer videos are featured here and because MCMA has had a large involvement in iTunes U you can find plenty of videos produced by MCMA faculty and students.

 

About MCMA News

Most news is produced by SIU public relations/media professionals with the intent on distribution to print and broadcast media in Southern Illinois. This news is available on the Saluki Times at news.siu.edu, however, it is University-based news so we highlight the news that is relevant to our college. Pete Rosenbery (University Communications) covers the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts. Because this news is produced by SIU in news release form it often appears in other publications. When unique stories about our college appears in other print and broadcast media, we also highlight it through our news feed.

Smaller news updates and awards, faculty publications and appearances that have not been published into a full news article, can be emailed to the MCMA webmaster, Donnie Laur.

We are using RSS feeds from SIU and MCMA student produced news such as news from the Daily Egyptian, from Saluki Times, and from the WSIU newsroom.

We post our faculty and student news updates on facebook, Twitter, Linked In, and our MCMA News website. News also goes out via listserv and the MCMA newsletter.

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