Wrapping up...

As the school year is coming to end, I am looking back on my memories from my sophomore year of college. I have grown up alot this year, I have made mistakes, I have learned to learn from my mistakes, I have had so many wonderful oppurtunities as I near the final years of my college life. My sorority has made me a stronger, more independent leader, I have expanded my horizons and taken things on that I never thought I could. This has been one of the most educational, rough, amazing years of my life and I wouldn't change a minute. I have learned that college is about getting an education, despite what I want it to be. I have learned alot about myself, others, and am now, more than ever, focused on my bright future ahead of me.

For any of you ladies out there interested in going through recruitment in the fall, I highly encourage you to do so. Recruitment will be 4 days the first week of September. You can sign up online or wait for the Greek BBQ the Sunday we return for school in the fall. Even if you do not join, just going through recruitment will help you meet new people if you are new or even if you just haven't put yourself out there yet. I encourage anyone with even the slightest interest in Greek life to go through recruitment. It has changed my life so much and it can do the same for you. If you are looking for service and leadership oppurtunities as well as life long friends and excellent networking for your future, Greek life is the life for you. Sign up for recruitment today!

Social Media Taking Over the WORLD

While doing research for my paper in Composition 112, my sister who is a senior at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, showed me this video. It was introduced to her in a social science class and is full of useful information and statistics about the use of social media. I think many of the students in my Composition class will find this to be very useful in researching and writing their final papers.

For some reason the embed code will not work so here is a link to the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8

Support Phi Sigma Kappa

Just a little heads up to anyone cleaning out their closets as they prepare to head home for summer, Phi Sigma Kappa is holding a clothing drive this week to donate clothing to those less fortunate. Look for big yellow bins to donate around campus. I believe there is one in the Union and I know there is one in Roberta Hall by the front desk.

How-To Avoid Social Media Disaster

How to Avoid Facebook & Twitter Disasters is a guide to using social media. It discusses the importance of privacy and how to maintain privacy while still getting full use out of the social media sites of Facebook and Twitter. This article is an excellent source because it is an easy to read, quick guide on something that many people care about, privacy. This source is completely relevant to my topic because what is posted on social media sites may be available for future employers to read. This is a huge issue with college students now as they are beginning to see that jobs are increasingly hard to find. Because of the economy, fewer positions are available and employers want to fill those places with quality people. More and more employers today are using social media sites to sift through the candidates based on their online profiles and what is posted on them.

Social Media and Your Career

How Social Media Can Hurt You Career from CNN.com is an article about how Facebook, twitter and blogging updates can affect your future career. It gives many examples of how others have lost future jobs and present jobs because of inappropriate Facebook and twitter updates about jobs, co-workers and bosses. This article shows how prevalent this topic is and how people are clearly not learning from others mistakes because it is a reoccurring pattern in the business world. This is one of my favorite and most valuable sources I came across. It directly relates to my topic and is exactly what I am aiming to discuss in my paper. It is an easy to read and uses examples of Facebook and twitter updates that are funny to draw people in and keep them entertained while educating them on the severity of posting such things.

Learning Through Social Media

Social Learning by Desing: The Role of Social Media from Knowledge Quest is an article is about social media's role in student learning today. It is an argument for technology education in schools because it will be such a huge role in education in the future. The author, Laura Brooks, is an advocate for social technologies and encourages the use of it among school age students with proper training of use and privacy. This article is great for my topic because not only in itself is it an excellent source but all of the sources used to compile the article are also listed which is very beneficial to those, like me, using this article as a source for their own piece.

Social Media How-To

Mashable: The Social Media Guide is another easy to read, easy to follow and stay enthused piece. it is a basic "how-to" for social media users to have success in their career field. with technology today, it is nearly impossible to not incorporate social media with your future career because it is such a prevalent part of the current and future world. This piece is basic step by step tool to use social media to the fullest advantage to help your career. I believe I will use this source a lot when writing my paper because it is so basic and lays everything you need to know about using social media to assist in your future endevours.

Can Social Media Affect Your Career?

Social Media and Your Career: 6 Thing You Need to Know is a piece is from a career tip website and gives advice on the use of social media because of how prevalent it is in our society. It stresses the fact that social media is here to stay and whether we like it or not, it will be a part of most of our careers. This article, by Sital Ruparelia, states six basic tips which I believe is not only ones to live by in the use of social media, but in life in general. Be respectful, be transparent, be of value, be nice, be a connector, be different. All of these tips relate to my topic because it is important to practice all of these when it comes to your future career.

Social Media in The Classroom

Social Media in the Classroom from MultiMedia & Internet @ Schools, is the complete opposite of a previous source I used, "The Impact of Facebook on Our Students". This article argues for the use of social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, blogging and Twitter among students from kindergarten to high school. This article stresses that it is a good way for students to gain social skills through practicing safe use of social media. This piece breaks down different aspects of social media by age group and emphasizes the importance of privacy especially among the younger users. This article is a completely different spin on the use of social media among young children. Most sources are against it; this is one of few I found that argued for the use of social media among school aged children. This piece related to my topic because it is a good piece to pose an argument against many of my other sources that have a different point of view.

Your Doctor, Partying

This article is absolutely perfect for my topic. It is titled Now on Facebook: Your Future Doctor, Partying from Chronicle of Higher Education. It is about how a student posting inappropriate pictures and postings on their Facebook affects their professionalism and future career. Most students post on their social sites thinking no one important will be able to see this but they are completely wrong. This article discusses the repercussions of positing such things in the open and how it may ultimately affect your future even when you are still in school. This article is very informative and uses actual situations of med students to get its point across. This source is directly related to my topic because it is exactly what I plan to talk about in my paper. It draws readers in with a funny, interesting title and keeps them interested by using a real life situation that could happen to any student that has a Facebook or any social media account.

Connect and Promote

The article, Connect and Promote from Career World, is about the benefits of social media to the marketing field. Through Facebook, Twitter and blogging, companies are getting more advertisement than ever. Connect and Promote discusses how simple technology has made it for companies to advertise their product to certain age groups thus improving sales for the companies. This piece is unique because it encourages social media throughout unlike other pieces I have seen. This source is relevant to my topic because advertising and marketing is a huge career field that directly relates to the use of social media.

Social Media and Journalism

Social Media: Journalism's Friend or Foe?, covers everything from posting a professional writing through social media to protecting one's professional integrity when using personal social media tools. This article discusses the impact of social media and current technologies on the art of journalism. This article is more of an informant on the pros and cons of the use of different social media tools in different ways in journalism. It discusses that social media, in moderation and used properly and professionally can be a benefit to journalism as an evolving technology. Social Media: Journalism's Friend or Foe? is an excellent source for my topic because it discusses the downfalls as well as benefits of social media to journalism.

Facebook and Young Students

The article, The Impact of Facebook On Our Students by Monroe and Fodemen from Teacher Librarian is all about internet safety. It is an argumentative piece about why students should not use Facebook due to lack of privacy, scams, and the danger of meeting people online. This article argues against the use of Facebook in schools by stating numerous facts and statistics about how the age of children that are joining Facebook is getting younger and younger and how easy it is to market young students through advertisements over social media sites such as Facebook. This article emphasizes privacy amongst young technology users and urges how important it is to keep our children safe when it comes to uses of these social sites. This article is very prevalent to my topic because my career of choice is education. The safety of my students is important to me. I agree with the article in the fact that I do not believe Facebook or any other social media device belongs in the classroom or around students that are not old enough to understand boundaries of privacy for their own safety.