It’s been a crazy week, and we’ll be back next week with a new episode. For now, enjoy this rebroadcast episode with Jon McBride!

Jon McBride works at Brigham Young University as the media relations and social media manager. Since he started at BYU 6 years ago, he has begun to develop a strong and creative social media strategy. In this episode, he explained how he loves that his department is adaptive to the field of communication. Jon tells us about the time he pitched Beyonce’s publicist, and also chats with Lougan and Jackie about his student social media team and their thoughtful Instagram stories on tough campus topics.

Links to cool stuff

• Jon on Twitter
• Jon on LinkedIn
• BYU Consent Instgram Story
• BYU Respect Instagram Story

The start of the academic year is upon us! We hope you’re enjoying welcoming students both new and old to your campus. Because of all the craziness (and a random trip to Oregon), we’re rebroadcasting our episode with Lisa Catto. It’s a great episode, so check it out.

We hit the big 5-0 with Lisa Catto, Director of Social Media and Media Relations at Western Oregon University. Because she’s in Oregon and Lougan loves it, we talk about Portland…a lot. That includes public transit, ramen noodles, and the fact that it really is awesome despite what Portlandians say about it. With the new year starting, all of us are thinking about upcoming conferences, and we discuss why they’re awesome, how to be a newbie, and other great benefits. We close the show talking about social media groups, from faculty to students!

Links to cool stuff: 

• Higher Ed Live – Social Listening 
• Lisa’s first episode on Higher Ed Social
• HighEdWeb 2016 Conference
• HighEdWeb NE
• BB-8 on Belmont’s Instagram
• Lisa’s awesome keyboard

It’s vacation time, so we’re taking a break this week. In the mean time, enjoy Lougan and Jackie’s episode with Andy Shaw! We’ll be back next week.

Get ready for a VERY lively episode this week. Lougan and Jackie talked with the hilarious Andy Shaw, director of enrollment communications at York College of Pennsylvania. Andy loves his job because he makes stuff that get students to come to his college. He also teaches a class about comedy for freshmen to help them build confidence in public speaking. Andy is a new father, and that’s become a very important part of his life. He has an upcoming book titled The New Mom’s Guide to New Dads which helps new mom’s understand the minds of new dads. We talk about that and his experiences being a dad!

Links to cool stuff: 

• Andy on Twitter
• Andy on LinkedIn
• Andy’s Website Instafather
• Read an excerpt from his new book

Jackie and Lougan are taking a two week breather from the show. They’ll be back on March 21, but in the mean time enjoy the Gator Fax episode!

Episode 80 welcomes Bruce Floyd, Social Media Manager for the Florida Gators. He takes us behind the scenes of his social media strategy for the 21-team large franchise, and explains how he coordinates each individual team’s accounts. We discuss how messaging on Twitter has changed in athletics, and how Bruce manages it all. He also shares his recent Signing Day experience, introducing us to the most important part – the fax machine, who became famous and was featured in publications including Rolling Stone.

Links to cool stuff

• Bruce on Twitter
• Florida Gators on Twitter
• GatorsFax on Twitter
• GatorsFax singing “Hello”
• Belmont Kid eating Mayo