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Social Media and the Next Generation

Submitted by Avi from Google Reader

Aug 02, 2009

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My four years at Bethany College will always stick in my mind as some of the best times of my life. Professionally, this is where I learned the fundamentals of communications, from public relations to advertising to writing for the media. Personally, this is where I formed many of the relationships that have made me the person that I am today. This period of professional and personal growth has had a tremendous impact on everything that I do and I’m extraordinarily grateful for the relationships, experiences, and knowledge that I gained while I was in college. It was here that I first learned the differences in writing a feature story and a news story, where I learned how to give a public presentation, where I first experienced what it was like to work with an actual client, where I began to understand that all the knowledge in the world isn’t going to cut it in the “real world” unless I had people skills too. Disappointingly though, I didn’t learn a single thing about social media, Web 2.0, and especially not Government 2.0. It wasn’t just that this

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