Wednesday 16 October 2013

Is Facebook and Twitter the only Social Media that exist?

     After speaking to some students as well as reviewing the responses on our Facebook group, we have come to realise that some of you really don't know much about Social Media. It is not limited to Facebook, Twitter and all the other popular ones we know. So let's familiarise ourselves with all the services that exist.

Social media started with the e-mail back in the early 1970's. From then it has developed encompassing a medium for people to share information and interact with each other besides using a telephone, newspaper or any other traditional means. The video below does a great job on explaining social media and its development throughout the years. Take a look!!




After watching the video you may be able to add some more services that our College utilizes. We are not limited to Facebook and Twitter but YouTube and Flickr are also part of the social media world. So with this new found information, let's explore the various social media services COSTAATT attempts to utilise. Click on the highlighted words below to check them out:


  • Facebook- As mentioned before, COSTAATT has numerous Facebook pages. Check them out if you can :


COSTAATT

COSTAATT NLC

COSTAATT

COSTAATT Bachelor Nursing Students

COSTAATT Trekkers

COSTAATT Student's Event Committee

COSTAATT Alumni Relations


There is still more.......

COSTAATT (Official page)

 COSTAATT Football team

COSTAATT BScN1

COSTAATT NatSci Club

Voice Your Opinion (COSTAATT Students)

COSTAATT Students Magazine- Shout it!!

I was going to attempt to list all but their are way too many. Go on Facebook and in the search bar put in COSTAATT and you will see all the groups that exist.


  • Twitter: This has so much potential.
  • YouTube: Who would have thought!! 
  • Flickr: I thought it was used only for Graduation pictures but there is much more


You have to access this one for yourself:


  • Moddle: Some of us may be more familiar with the term E-classroom which again has a lot of potential but is being under used.

Did I leave out any?

So with this new found information, is COSTAATT taking advantage of these services?

Look out next week for our next blog.

Join our Facebook group 'COSTAATT Social Media Avengers' and get in the discussions!!

3 comments:

  1. Too many FB pages didn't know Costaatt had so much, the use of other social media would be nice. I do think Moodle is underutilised.....

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  2. The pages carrying COSTAATT's logos are put up, started by the students, and other groups within, thats part of the college. This also relates to a lot of other social media tools bearing the college logo.
    For example the communication students, nursing, and Alumni are just some of the groups that have pages with the college name. These groups use the college logo to communicate, share class information, ask questions and the like, creating a support system that is beneficial to the members and even others visiting the page and groups.

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  3. Moddle is underutilised. Next week we will be posting a blog on that subject. However we would like to know why you think it is underutilized.

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