The @CPRSVanStudents event on Social Media 101

I was invited along with my good friend Gus Fosarolli (Marketwire), Natasha N. Davies (Peak Communications) and Dale Tournemille (Coast Capital Savings) to be part of a speed-dating-style series of roundtables (four in total) where we spoke with recent graduates, students and other PR and communications professionals on what we know in Social Media, giving tips and sharing our experiences.

As someone who is an academic and an educator but at the same time a power user of social media, I felt it was important that I volunteer my time to this type of events, because it is by spreading my thinking on social media to other folks that I’ll be able to enhance and further the field (a goal of mine since I arrived into the social media scene in Vancouver).

You can read tweets associated with our conversations by following the hashtag CPRS101SM on Twitter. I will try to do a series of screencaptures as I know that tweets are rather ephemeral and I did not live-blog the event (as I was speaking). I hope everyone found our insights useful! And thanks Nick Seliwoniuk for the invite.