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School’s In! ‘Managing the Blogosphere’ at UBC Continuing Studies

November 4, 2009

I’m teaching a class for the next month in the Continuing Studies program at UBC. The class is called “Managing the Blogosphere,” and it makes me feel like a grey beard, because I’ve only taught one session so far but it was laden with phrases like:

Back when I started blogging, we didn’t have ...
Nowadays, I guess it’s Twitter that people use instead of ...
And then they got bought by ...
This slide is from last year, though, and now there are already ten times ...

That aside, I’m really happy to be teaching again after about two and a half years away from it. Preparing is a good way to remind myself what I know and what I don’t actually know, and the questions I get from the students often help me to see the industry through fresh eyes.

To my students, and others who might be curious about the course: Here are the class notes, though of course it doesn’t cover the hands-on training or the tangents we cover in class, and I may have skipped over or modified some of the slides on the fly.

Course Outline: Managing_the_Blogosphere_November_2009.doc

Week 1 Slide Deck: Introduction_to_Blogs2.ppt

Week 2 Slide Deck: Blog_Add_Ins_and_Social_Media.ppt

Week 3 Slide Deck: Audience_Content_Microblogging.ppt

Week 4 Slide Deck: Audience_Outreach_Law.ppt

I’ll update this with the course content as we go.

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