James Cochran

My Goal
 My goal, by explaining to you the things I did, is that
you will be able to duplicate some of the techniques I
used to further your own projects and hopefully
projects that will benefit IUPUI and CIT!

Beginning the Semester
 Class project
 iPhone development
 My first app!

Reality
 Obj-C is hard
 Without instruction
 Need something useable

CIT
 Student body
 Spreading the word
 Utilize social networking/media
 What is that?

Which network?
 MySpace?
 Twitter?
 Facebook!

Facebook Pages
 Public profile
 For businesses and organizations
 Easy to create

Updating
 Manual posting
 Automatically
 RSS
 Listserv
 Source of content
 Officially updated
 Yahoo Pipes
 But how to use emails?
 Ask Twitter!

www.xFruits.com
 RSS Mashup
 Aggregator
 RSS to Mobile
 Multiple RSS to OPML
 RSS to Voice
 Mail to RSS!!!
Security


Putting the feed in Facebook
 Tried several Facebook apps
 Blog RSS Feed Reader
 Simply RSS
 RSS-connect
 Boxes
 Wall updating
 Additional streams
 Calendar

Additional content
 Flickr integration
 Apps
 RSS Feed for search
 Facebook Photos
 Twitter integration
 Apps again
 Search
Hash Tags

 #CIT OR #IUPUI

Driving Traffic
 The work paid off
 Page views are up
 Page views are steady
 Create a community!

Conclusion
 Where do we go from here?
 The listserv is nice but…
 CIT Student Advisory Committee
 Ideas
 CIT Blog
 CIT@IUPUI Twitter
 Keep up to date