Showing posts with label George Washington University. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Washington University. Show all posts

1/21/11

Social Media Evangelists Tweet Trends from GW Business School

  • schierholz
    What a stimulating day, spanning social media with #L2socialgraph to medicinal recipes during Shakespeare's time!

Are you reading this blog from your desk or outside your doorway?  Studies show that more people in three years will be surfing the Internet from their mobile phones than from the desktop computers. It’s mostly driven by emerging markets that are skipping computers altogether and adopting handheld PDAs as their primary tool, according to Scott Galloway, the founder of L2, a Think Tank for Digital Innovation.


gwbusinessRT @yianniak: More people will be surfing the web on their phone or tablet -- than they do on a computer within 3 years! -#l2socialgraph

Today, social media experts from the government and private sectors assembled at the social enterprising George Washington University to engage in stimulating discussions on the constantly evolving future of social media.



















  • “Social media and other online strategies are critical tools that public sector organizations use to encourage transparency, engage constituents and serve the public in an era of cost cutting,” said Dean Doug Guthrie. “Our leaders and public sector organizations need to embrace these powerful new tools.”







  • A college setting is the ideal location for such a dialogue because Facebook and Twitter are proving to be popular places for networking and promotion:
    simplyseton
    RT @yianniak: Young affluents are 2x likely to be on #facebook that to WATCH #tv#L2socialgraph
    After all, more and more students are tweeting in class and sharing notes and observations about the lecture with each other (yes, during class).  





1/18/11

GWU Wishes Happy Bday to MLK at Former Gang Plagued School



The spirit of service is alive and vibrant at George Washington University (GWU) and on the birthday of the legendary Dr. Martin Luther King, hundreds of GWU students, staff and faculty took a day ON, not a day off to beautiful this former gang-plagued school.

Ballou High School in the past has been plagued with violence both off and on-campus.
 
In 2003, the school was shut down for weeks due to a mercury spill in the chemistry lab.  In 2004, a 17-year-old student, star football-player, (J-Rock Richardson) was killed during a confrontation after class.  The hallways were filled with trash and graffiti.  Teachers were too afraid to correct students.
Students from Condon Terrace and Barry Farms feuded with Ballou.

5/17/10

Spirit of Volunteerism at GWU

Reflecting:

Volunteering is an important part of citizenship in the United States and its part of the lifeblood of my school, George Washington University.


Understanding

Last year, First Lady, Michelle Obama challenged GWU to 100,000 hours of community service.



8/19/09

High Ropes Course for High Inspiration