Thanks to the use of social media giant YouTube, even former students at small colleges like Grove City are able to keep in contact with their friends.  For example, alumni of the Omicron Xi fraternity can check out what their active fraternity brothers have been up to…

Grove City Lacrosse Junior Goaltender Andrew Dymski recently wrote an article titled, Utilizing Social Media to Create a Strong Support Base. The article discusses how a club team, like Grove City Lacrosse, can use Twitter to inform fans and build support.  Dymski refutes the thinking of those who doubt the ability to communicate substantive information [...]

A little known non-profit organization known as Butterfly Medical is doing just that… Providing Knowledge to the World. What this organization is attempting to do is provide mainly developing and third world countries with free access to medical knowledge that could potentially save countless lives. So so many people die in developing countries from curable diseases [...]

Ever find yourself bored and wanting something to do.. well why not stumble. Stumbleupon is a site that brings up sites from all over the web. All you have to do is go to stumbleupon.com and fill out the form that asks for interests. This insures that the sites being generated are in your field [...]

If you are interested in entrepreneurship of any sort I urge you to check out kiva. Kiva is a place where people can get on the world wide web and help to fund the dreams of entrepreneurs from all over the globe. With a donation (repaid by entrepreneur) as low as 25 dollars, donors are [...]

I was never much of a youtube user until I came to college. Now it seems like friends of mine put stuff up there and send me links all the time. It’s incredibly fun to be able to do this – and is also ridiculously easy. Below is a particularly fine example. [...]

Social media is the way to go these days if you want to reach a larger target market for less money, and who doesn’t want that?  Web features such as “Rate this product” and “Comment on this product” tell people a lot more about a product than a companies own biased ads, and people seem [...]

For many different projects in the last couple years, both school and work related, I have had to dive into the world of social networking.  Lately I’ve been considering its possible use in a couple different business ideas I have running through my mind.  Although it sounds like an easy, obvious tool to use, knowing [...]

A brand new social networking site was launched several days ago by Google, called Buzz. Google Buzz is a new way to share updates, photos, videos, and start conversations about the things you find interesting. If you own a Gmail account, you’re already set up to follow the people you email and chat with the [...]

So I may have created a twitter account early last week.  I say “may” because I’m hesitant to put it out there that I’ve joined the throng of “twitterers” or “tweeters” or whatever you call people that use the site.  In fact, after just a week of having the internet tool, I’m already a little [...]