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Liberal Arts Staff Social Media Workshop

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Today, College of the Liberal Arts staff participated in a Social Media Workshop sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Studies.  Staff from a variety of departments, including Anthropology, Economics, English, Psychology, and Sociology, just to name a few, attended the workshop. The workshop was designed to get Liberal Arts staff familiar with social media and to begin thinking about ways to implement those technologies into their work environment.

Associate Dean Long, Ashley Tarbet, and Jillian Balay led the workshop.  The presenters talked about the ways that LAUS is currently making use of social media.  They discussed the LAUS blogs, Facebook page, Twitter accounts, Flickr account, and You Tube channel.  The presenters emphasized that the overall goal of LAUS’ new social media initiative is to build a community around the undergraduate experience in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State.

Take a look at a screencast of the Invitation to Participation Prezi below:

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Invitation to Participation on Prezi

The workshop participants had the opportunity to brainstorm ways that their departments or units could also begin using social media technology. Several Liberal Arts staff members thought that creating departmental Facebook pages would be a good way to begin to build an on-line community.  Others thought that Flickr pages would allow their units to draw attention to certain events by posting pictures in a more public domain.   

The workshop was a great way to bring Liberal Arts staff together to begin talking about ways that all Liberal Arts departments can use social media to build an even stronger community.

Take a look at some pictures from the workshop:

Thank you to everyone who attended the workshop.  We look forward to watching you develop your own social media technologies. 

Please feel free to share your thoughts and do some additional brainstorming by commenting on this blog post or adding to our Google Doc.

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