Comments on: A Higher Education in Social Media

By: Cribbed Content for April 10th | TrishaLyn

Cribbed Content for April 10th | TrishaLyn — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:26:16 +0000

[...] Another guest post by me at Marketing Pilgrim on a new Social Media masters program being offered in the UK. [...]

By: seo melbourne

seo melbourne — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:25:06 +0000

I agree with Barry. People learn social media just by doing it themselves.

By: Barry Hurd

Barry Hurd — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:58:20 +0000

As a very fluent online communicator: how do you teach an master course in social media? If I were to log all the hours I spend every day absorbing, interpreting, and applying social media, I would have to challenge the course on a 10x level and simply pay hundreds of dollars on the credit. This is of course also ironic in the fact that you simply cannot create coursework for something that changes every day. "could be self-taught." ???? as far as I know, 99.9% of social media is self-taught, working in the trenches and applying it to specific business models. This is somewhat also ironic, because Andy has an advertisement running here for Full Sail university and an online marketing degree (which has a social media portion as well.) Barry Hurd's last blog post..Social Media Audits - executives need to ask “Why?”

By: Esearchclick

Esearchclick — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:00:09 +0000

Education about the use of social media and blog is necessary. Some short time program will also help people alot.

By: John R.

John R. — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:13:30 +0000

“It’s not for freaks or IT geeks”

Lost me right there. Sneering at excellence, how corporately academic. Oh whoopie! Another degree mill for the average everyones! Like, let’s all be Conservatives without knowing our ass from a golf hole and go back teh Ole Daze!!! lolz!

I am quite sure that modern “journalists” would be exactly the right audience for this inflated crap. Hopefully in this new “totally not for omg freaks or geeks profession” will not cause the damage corporate journalism has done.

By: Yelena

Yelena — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:47:49 +0000

Sounds more like a Bachelor's program to me. To make it a Master's level they should add LinkedIn... But maybe they meant not the entire MA program devoted to Facebook and Twitter, but only just 1 course? That I would sort of understand. Although there's so much free information online on how to get started and plenty of books on Amazon to get into the subject further. Besides, I'm just interested how are they going to build a curriculum around something that's developing and changing so fast? Yelena's last blog post..Thinking About Getting Into Social Media? Think Again!

By: Trisha Lyn Fawver

Trisha Lyn Fawver — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:46:25 +0000

I agree, it seems like a stretch for an entire MA. Trisha Lyn Fawver's last blog post..California Assembly Bill 178

By: Kate Morris

Kate Morris — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:44:18 +0000

I am actually in agreement with you Trisha. While I am happy that higher education is getting into the game here, I am not sure it’s necessary to have an entire degree on social media right now. I would however like to see an internet marketing degree in the top marketing programs in the world. It’s time for them to catch up with the world. Something I am hoping to help with someday, but that’s a way down the road.