Communications & Media

Question 84556 asked on 2011-09-27 14:36:46

I'm writing to you as both a student and as a practitioner. As a student, it's interesting to engage with all sorts of social media tools; read scholarly papers and research; Tweet; and develop blogs, wikis, web strategy/social media plans, and other means of disseminating information. As a communications specialist working for a polytechnic, I am particularly interested in finding out about best practices using social media in higher education. I read an article this week entitled "Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Notre Dame among the top schools for social media" (http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/9577.aspx). Given my work as a communications specialist, I am wondering whether you can provide me with some information on how post-secondary institutions use social media to engage prospects/donors (with a view to receiving either gifts in kind, or funds for bursaries and scholarships) industry and business partners (those who offer work placements to students enrolled in cooperative education programs, for example) alumni and alumni chapters I would also be interested in any additional information you may have about best practices with respect to developing and implementing a social media strategy for this type of stakeholder engagement.

Question 85168 asked on 2011-10-28 13:53:53

I am wanting to look in old newspapers from Feb 1985 and also 1982. I am looking for obituaries and for a story that may or may not have been printed in Feb '85. Can you tell me where I would go to look at such things?