Societal Social - Comm Club Attends Social Media Society Launch!

Hey guys! Abi here. Natan and I just got back from Societal Social, an evening celebrating the launch of the Social Media Society (@soosocial). This is the first society of its kind, focusing primarily on social media. We all know about blogging, tweeting, facebooking, and myspacing (yes, these are all terms accepted by urbandictionary.com) but have you ever thought about how big of a communications industry these sites are?

For this reason Comm club wants to get involved. By meeting professionals in this field we can plan for guest speakers and learn about internship opportunities. Natan and I were the only students at the event and people were very excited to talk to us. We met the founder of Social Media Society and are looking forward to collaborating with them by becoming a student chapter.

Social media is a huge up and coming industry and we’re really excited to get involved! For those of you interested in digital marketing, PR, media, ad sales, or anything that has to do with social media stay tuned for updates on the situation!

Update: Comm Club covered in MediaPost's Just An Online Minute blog!

Update: Here's a very poorly edited clip we put together from the night. Hope you enjoy it.



Thanks!

-Abi Bock Director of Social Media Society Outreach

Comm Club Attends “Google: Experiments in Digital Creativity” Panel at Advertising Week

Natan here again. The other panel at Advertising Week today that is worth noting and sharing with everyone was Google’s “Experiments in Digital Creativity”. I could go on forever “geeking out” to the cool things their creative people showed us, but instead I would like to just share with you the presentation itself which can be found at http://bit.ly/87coolthings.

Here were some of my favorite Google inventions from the presentation:

1. Example of clickable videos - booneoakley – BooneOakley.com redirects you to their YouTube page, which is a clickable video. My words wouldn't give it justice, so I recommend you just check it out and see the possibilities of centralizing a brand or a company through YouTube. The possibilities are limitless. A university could present the brands of their school in a whole new light through a medium that our demographic loves going to.

2. Zappos - what shoes are being bought everywhere - http://www.zappos.com/map/

3. Monopoly, Google Maps style - http://www.monopolycitystreets.com/

4. Make history - 9/11 memorial, sponsored by Google - http://makehistory.national911memorial.org/

5. Stweet – Tweet with a picture of exactly where you are standing based on Google’s coordinates - http://www.we-love-the.net/Stweet/

6. Wordle.net – Create beautiful word clouds. - http://www.wordle.net/

7. Augmented Reality - Postal Service’s feature that lets you see how big a box will be for your package - https://www.prioritymail.com/

8. Google Wave – Google’s whole new approach to thinking about different Google Apps - http://wave.google.com/

9. Google Trends – “In aggregate, what people are thinking about and why” - http://www.google.com/trends

We would love to hear your thoughts on the presentation, especially ways that NYU could benefit/use some of Google’s Apps or APIs.

-Natan Edelsburg, Vice President

Comm Club's ReadyU Target Event!

Saturday, the Communications Club executed our first large event. Felicia Shulman, Caitlin Pirraglia, Lynn Burke and myself (Natan Edelsburg) went out to Washington Square Park to invite students from all of NYU to board free buses to Target in Jersey City so they could get anything they needed for their dorms!

We had a HUGE turnout and heard only good things from our participants. The rain throughout the day did not deter people from coming to the park, enjoying our flavored PUR filtered water and dancing to the music of the amazing DJ that was spinning at our event. For our many, many Twitter followers :), here is a link to the live Tweet from @NYUCommClub from the event: Live Tweet. Here are a few pictures from the event:

Thanks for everyone who came out and we encourage everyone to come join us at our first meeting, this Wednesday at 7:30pm in the 3rd floor lounge of Pless Hall.