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Tag: Twitter

President Craft joins Twitter

Posted on October 15, 2015October 14, 2015 by Emma Garton

  @PresidentCraft may not have Twitter’s blue checkmark, but it is the real deal. President William Craft has been taking the Twittersphere by storm for the past couple of weeks. “Yes, [the Twitter account] is mine. I work in partnership with the people in Communications and Marketing at the college,” Craft said. “They’re the ones…

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Beyond Classroom Boundaries

Posted on March 12, 2014March 11, 2014 by Contributing Writer

Religion professor Adam Copeland was looking to expand a class he teaches beyond the boundaries of the typical classroom setting, so on the first snow day of the year, Thursday, Jan. 9, Copeland hoped to conduct Religion and Pop Culture through the social media platform, Twitter. Since the beginning of the year, Copeland has facilitated…

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Cobber Confessions: empowered by anonymity

Posted on April 18, 2013April 18, 2013 by Jordan Elton

Christiana Hennings, a sophomore at Concordia, was sitting next to her friend as they submitted a statement about her to an anonymous source on Facebook. “Christiana Hennings is the hottest girl on campus. #noticeme,” they wrote on March 12. The statement was copied and pasted from the submission onto the Facebook page, Concordia College Confessions….

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Connecting with Boston

Posted on April 18, 2013April 18, 2013 by Joel Leeman

Where were you on Monday when Boston was rocked with explosions? I was having lunch with someone who was supposed to be watching the marathon with his friends just a few buildings over from where the devices exploded. He’s from Boston but was delayed in flying back home because of our little snowfall on Sunday….

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Tweeting through tour

Posted on March 14, 2013March 15, 2013 by Kaia Miller

The hashtag #cctour13 bombarded twitter feeds for the past two weeks as the Concordia Choir toured the Midwest heading south to Texas. Manager for the choir, Gordon Moe planned on using the hashtag as a marketing and promotional tool while the choir traveled. Although choir members enjoyed documenting their trip through social media, Moe explained…

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Will you tweet from the grave?

Posted on March 7, 2013March 7, 2013 by Joel Leeman

“When your heart stops beating, you’ll keep Tweeting.” That’s the slogan of a new startup company that is slated to launch in March. LivesOn is being advertised as “your social afterlife” and will analyze your tweets and continue posting similar content for you once you have died. When I originally read about this a few…

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Conco gossip: A Cobber embarrassment

Posted on March 7, 2013March 7, 2013 by Contributing Writer

Spotted: outraged and embarrassed Cobbers on Twitter. A Twitter account called “Gossip Girl Conco” has been the talk of many students on campus, and rarely does it inspire positive thoughts. This account has the main goal of spreading rumors and causing scandal—exposing infidelity, sexual promiscuity and embarrassing moments. This anonymous account even has the audacity…

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Let’s get social: Create. Perpetuate. Innovate. Consume.

Posted on November 29, 2012November 29, 2012 by Joel Leeman

In order to fully understand what potential we can unlock with social media, it’s important to look at the different practices involved. I like to think of these uses of social media in four distinct buckets: create, perpetuate, innovate and consume. Create. Social media gives us the opportunity to express ourselves in entirely new ways….

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Let’s get social: introducing a new column on social media

Posted on November 8, 2012November 7, 2012 by Joel Leeman

Tweet. Like. Friend. Pin. Tumble. Favorite. Retweet. Blog. Post. Plus one. While your platform may not have made it on this short list, social media is weaved into nearly every thread of our world. We may not have an account set up with every vendor, but most of us digital natives interact with social media…

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The value of Twitter

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Matt Hansen

I’ve had a Twitter account since my junior year of high school. As a proud early adopter, I spent a solid year tweeting mostly to myself, posting links to news articles and interesting online reads. I’m still doing that, but in good company — with nearly 360 followers. Those followers did not arrive overnight. Now,…

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