Written by Bob Valentine, Contributing writer It is official: We are living distracted lives in a distracted world. There, doesn’t that make you feel better? It explains a great deal about what is happening all around us, even if we’re not terribly aware of what exactly is going on. In the last few days, the Read More
Students are able to log onto their social media accounts like Twitter and Instagram anytime they want on campus. However, something they have never been able to see, before the past year, was their University president tweeting back to them. President Bob Davies and his Twitter account, @MurrayStatePrez, boast more than 2,000 followers and sustain Read More
The man holding the reins of the Pony Express and its humorous Twitter account has grown the food truck phenomenon exponentially since he took over in July of 2014. Joseph Woods, assistant manager of Dining Services and Racer Hospitality, was handed control of the Pony Express one year after its start in July of 2013. Read More
Weeks after @collegefessions exploded on Twitter, Murray State students started following a more localized confessions page, @murrayfessions. With more than 400 followers, the account has only been active for two weeks. The first tweet from the account encouraged students to send in their own confessions and said, “we want to know all your secrets.” While Read More
When a crisis happens on campus, Dana Howard feels a substantial weight on her shoulders. Howard, social media and marketing manager, is responsible for informing students faster than any other communications position at Murray State. She is the mastermind behind the Twitter and Facebook pages tied to the University. “It really is a job that Read More
“I tripped acid with my professor and cooked grilled cheese sandwiches for 3 and a half hours.” This tweet is one example of the tweets that can be found on collegefession.com and @collegefession, supposedly submitted by a Murray State student. The Twitter account, which has more than 456,000 followers, tweets about alcoholic adventures, sexual exploitations Read More
Convergence is something every major is experiencing as the world moves into the world of technology and the Internet. Furthermore, jobs which require a knowledge of social media functions and laws are growing more popular in every field of work. Because of the heightened popularity of social media such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Foursquare and Read More
Across the United States, multiple higher education institutions have used their skills and knowledge to reach their audience by creating memorable social media tactics. Murray State and 27 other institutions from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Africa launched successful campaigns and revealed their secrets of success in the book, Social Works. In Read More