Category Archives: Higher Education

Empathy during pandemic: Masking your feelings?

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Gary R Schirr

In my previous post, Online versus in-class instruction is not really our choice for Fall, I made the argument that the face-to-face regime for college classes derived from CDC guidelines is far from the traditional in-class instruction that we are … Continue reading →

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Online instruction versus the Pandemic version face-to-face: a follow-up

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Gary R Schirr

At the urging of my daughter who has been active on Medium for some time, I posted my follow up to my previous post on that platform instead of here at WordPress. If you are interested in seeing the Medium article … Continue reading →

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Online versus in-class instruction is not really our choice for Fall

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Gary R Schirr

I am starting my fourteenth year as a professor at a residential university in a bucolic rural setting. I enjoy relatively small classes and the resulting opportunity to really get to know many of my students. Our discussions are more … Continue reading →

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What are the lessons from your organization’s crash course in working remote?

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Gary R Schirr

Many of us – in business, government, education, and non-profit organizations – have gotten a crash course in working remotely the past few months. Remote work comes in a variety of styles: Fully or mostly remote workers – “virtual company” … Continue reading →

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Five things to do in Quarantine

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Gary R Schirr

Can something good come out of a pandemic? I have encouraged (some might say coerced) 51 students in my social media marketing class to become new bloggers. I will likely do a future post showing off some of the student … Continue reading →

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Zooming – A progress report on the move online!

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Gary R Schirr

So far so good! The students seem to like having a weekly class session. (See left) Group sessions with the instructor seem to actually go better online than they do in class. I think we can concentrate better without the … Continue reading →

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Using your Social Media Community to innovate

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Gary R Schirr

Was Mark Schaefer’s wonderful SocialSlam really eight years ago? I still use my talk about using your social media community to crowdsource innovation in my social media marketing class.  

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Reinventing & reviving my 11-year-old #blog

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Gary R Schirr

On March 28, 2008, I posted my first blog post “My First Webinar” which is what you find at the bottom if you across through all the posts on this blog. So I can say I have been blogging for 11 years… sort of.

Please pass along your ideas and suggestion for the new/old venture! Continue reading →

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More advice from new #bloggers

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Gary R Schirr

A year ago I shared advice from my social media class, 4 weeks into blogging about how to succeed at blogging. I am back, this time with advice from new bloggers 6 weeks into their new passion! I think that … Continue reading →

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Advice from New Bloggers

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Gary R Schirr

The students in my social media marketing classes have been blogging for 4 weeks. I asked for tips or tricks on blogging, using WordPress, or sharing content, based on their experience. Here are their 26 ideas. Continue reading →

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