Is it possible that university curriculum can keep up with the ever-changing speed of social media? My guest today believes so, with a lot of coffee and commitment. In this episode, Dr. Karen Freberg discusses life as a social media professor, from developing lesson plans to partnerships with companies like General Motors and Louisville Bats to Hootsuite and Adobe. Karen shares the ways that her time as a record-setting college athlete helped shape her career path in sports marketing, where her digital storytelling skills started with her first website gifted from her parents and how she taps into communities on twitter and facebook to build a community of social media professors.
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Notes from this Episode
International Coffee Day
University of Florida
Southern California University
University of Tennessee
University of Louisville
West Virginia University
The rise of emojis & potential uses for them in social media classes
General Motors
Chevy goes emoji campaign
Plank Center Fellowship
Val Kilmer
2004 Olympic Trials
Shotput Record
Florida State University
Pat Summitt
Churchill Downs
Marion Jones
Louisville Slugger
Louisville City FC
Louisville Bats
Cincinnati Reds
Clemson Athletics
Atlanta Falcons
College Gameday
Hootsuite
Hootsuite Certification
The Bats are now on Snapchat… add us! (louisvillebats)
— Louisville Bats (@LouisvilleBats) January 14, 2014
Louisville Bats- Snapchat Feature
Jason Falls
All of the ways Instagram stories and Snapchat stories are the same |#SMSports https://t.co/rW9m2bBd5r
— Karen Freberg, Ph.D. (@kfreberg) August 11, 2016
Kentucky Derby
Finstas
Hubspot
A Roadmap for Teaching Social Media
#SMprof
Ai Zhang
Chris Wilson
@SMprofessors
Jeremy Lipschultz
#SMC2018
Meltwater
The Teacher’s Lounge
#SMsports
Minnesota Vikings + Tagboard
#SMM
#FrebergAlum
#Freberg18
Karen and Hootsuite
Adobe
Adobe Max
Creativity is Truly Contagious for this PR professor: Reflections from EDUMax and Adobe Max
Adobe Spark
@kfreberg (Instagram + Twitter)
karen.freberg@louisville.edu
Coffee + Social Media
Thank you Dr! #RockClock won't let ya down. #NoSnoozeButton #GetAfterIt #KarenMiniMarathon https://t.co/zOcab68IgM
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) August 19, 2016
More about Karen
Dr. Karen Freberg is currently an Associate Professor in Strategic Communications at the University of Louisville. Along with teaching, she is also a research consultant in social media and crisis communications and has worked with several organizations and agencies such as Firestorm Solutions, Hootsuite, Kentucky Derby Festival, IMC Agency, DHS, CDC, National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD), Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates, and the Colorado Ski Association. This experience led Dr. Freberg to be a 2015 Plank Center Fellow for General Motors (GM), where her responsibility was to work with the PR and social media teams forming best practices and recommendations on social media measurement strategies and influencer marketing practices.
Dr. Freberg has coordinated and advised various companies on the areas of social media pedagogy and certification programs, such as Hootsuite (Advanced Social Media Certification and #HootAmb), Meltwater (certification program), Adobe (EDUMax Thought Leader), and Hubspot (Education program and podcast).
Along with teaching, Dr. Freberg’s research has been published in several book chapters and in academic journals such as Public Relations Review, Media Psychology Review, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management and Health Communication. She also serves on the editorial board for Psychology for Popular Media Culture, Corporate Communication, Marketing Education Review, Journal of Public Relations Research, and Case Studies in Strategic Communication (CSSC). I am also professionally active serving on the executive committee for the PRSA Entertainment and Sports section and is a regular contributor and a young professionals award judge for Front Office Sports.
Connect with Karen
LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/karenfreberg
Twitter @kfreberg
Snapchat @karenfreberg
Instagram @kfreberg
FB page www.facebook.com/drkarenfreberg
Blog: https://karenfreberg.com/blog/
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