Social Media Matters

In or recent class, Dr. Nichols shared about the increasing performance of maintaining a positive social media presence. Students are taking control of their online personas by branding the look and feel of their social media sites, by reviewing the content of their sites for red flags (mentioned in class), by WRITING A GOOD SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILE BIO, and by preparing to connect all their social media sites in a communications dashboard.

Two resources students will find handy are the BrandYourself Definitive Guide to Personal Branding, and the HootSuite article "13 Ways to Improve Your Social Media Profiles."

Dr. Nichols has re-branded his sites as an exercise and example for students. You can link to this social media sites from his personal page, RhetoricSoup.com, or you can see his social media profile pages here - note the various profile bios stemming from centralized content, repeated phrases, common theme, taglines, etc.:

• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Pinterest
• Flickr
• YouTube
• Google Plus
• Instagram