Category: social networking

Attempting a new world speed record

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s-t-land-speed-vehicle.jpgA group of students from the university where I’m employed (to do flackery, no less) is in a remote and desolate portion of Nevada attempting to break the collegiate human land-speed record. On our Experience This! blog, we’re using video, photos and text to report on the adventures of Jerrod Bouchard and his crew as they attempt to set the new world record.

Bouchard is pedaling a specially designed recumbent bicycle — which looks nothing like any bicycle you’ve ever seen — to speeds (so far) as high as 59 mph. (The record is 61.5 mph.) We’ve got a blogger, a photographer and a videographer on the scene to capture the event. Note the prominent display of the “Missouri S&T” word mark on the team’s vehicle and uniforms.

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Take part in a social media survey

The Society for New Communications Research is conducting a survey of PR and marketing types about social media’s impact on businesses, employees and prospects. Here are the details. Here’s your chance to let the world know what higher ed is doing, or not doing, with/about social media. The survey takes about 10 minutes to complete.

There’s also a survey for consumers of new media, details of which are on the same above-linked site. Link via Shel Holtz, who is an SNCR research fellow and board member. the society is to present the survey results at a conference in December.