Elizabeth Kleinfeld
Writing Center Director
Metro State

 Communicate internally with staff
 Market to students
 Educate faculty
 Conduct research
 Train tutors

 Communicate internally –
memos, emails
 Market to students –
flyers, bookmarks, emails
 Educate faculty –
flyers, memos, emails
 Conduct research – paper surveys
 Train tutors – meetings

 Expensive
 Environmentally irresponsible
 Wasteful
 Effective????

 Inexpensive or free
 Environmentally responsible
 No waste
 Effective????

One blog with four purposes:
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 Communicate internally
 Market to students
 Educate faculty
 Train tutors
Problems:
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 Too many purposes and audiences
 Too reliant on pull rather than push

Communicate internally – wiki
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Market to students – facebook, twitter
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Educate faculty – audio essay
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Conduct research – audio, video
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Train tutors – audio, video
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**just started using delicious for all of the
above

 Create and maintain a social
network
 Increase visibility virally
 Exploit passive endorsement
 More push than pull

GROUP PAGE

Groups
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 Horizontal communication: builds community
within already existing population
Pages
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 Vertical communication: promotes exposure to
many people through viral visibility
▪ Activity shows up in the newsfeed (passive endorsement)
▪ Captured in google searches
▪ Allows for more customization

 Use
images, names, taglines, etc.
consistently
 Cross reference
 Create new content regularly
 Be playful

 Elizabeth Kleinfeld
 ekleinfe@mscd.edu
 Slides will be uploaded to my blog:
http://revisionspiral.blog-city.com