If I were to be recently hired by Baruch College to be apart of the new media team, some of the advice I would give is to use every single type of social media out there. Even the ones that are not as popular. Then give people incentives to share and promote the college. For example, a voucher for a free lunch or something similar to that sort so that more people will be inclined to help promote Baruch College. Another thing I would do is help the college utilize new media to help make the college student's lives easier. Things that are dedicated specifically to things in relevance to assist them. For example, if they wanted to buy or sell textbooks, help use new media to develop a tool to make it easier to assist the student in buying or selling textbooks.
Virtual worlds can be used in many ways, one being such as having an area where you can explore and express your imaginations. For example, in a video game called Minecraft, it is a lego cartoon based virtual world created for children to be able to freely express their creativity and to be able explore the virtual world. Virtual worlds can also be used for simulations, escape from reality, video games, etc. The pros of virtual reality is that is can possibly and potentially be better than reality, it connects people, can be used for rehabilitation, provides a safe way to build skills in challenging or risky tasks, allows skills to be developed at one's own pace. The cons of virtual reality is that it can create a disconnection from the real world and the virtual world, it is costly, it could possibly reduce ones creativity. Virtual reality can be a really good thing if it was used on real life terms such as using it as like a second office. Rather than having an individual go to w...
I think that Baruch should utilize social media and are lacking in that area right now. I also think that Baruch should create a easier way for students to buy and sell textbooks on social media platforms rather than just the Baruch bookstore.
ReplyDeleteI think thats a great idea to help promote and give an incentive to student, for promoting the school on every social platform, in that way students would be more knowledgeable about whats going on in the school, etc. if they are not on a certain network, so utilizing every platform even if they are not popular would be great. also developing a tool to help assist students in buying and selling textbooks for cheap is a great idea, that would benefit every student and make them want to purchase the textbooks.
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