{"id":413,"date":"2012-01-05T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/?p=413"},"modified":"2012-01-08T02:30:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T07:30:28","slug":"413","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/2012\/01\/05\/413\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2012 Course Update part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cloud computing<\/strong> is a hot topic these days; if you are considering taking<strong> ITM 444\/ITM 544 Cloud Computing Technologies<\/strong>\u00a0in Fall 2012, you should take <strong>ITM 456 Introduction to Open Source Operating Systems<\/strong> this spring. It is not a prerequisite, but students who do not have a solid grounding in Linux will be at a\u00a0\u00a0<em>distinct\u00a0disadvantage<\/em>\u00a0 in\u00a0the class. (And no one wants to be at at a\u00a0\u00a0<em>distinct\u00a0disadvantage<\/em>\u00a0now, do they?)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Media Marketing, ITM 495\/ITM595,<\/strong> is a last-minute addition for the Spring term. Students in this course will explore the tactics, tools and strategies of incorporating new media channels to successfully grow a business, and\/or to maximize the goals of other types of organizations. Topics will include social media components and tactics such as Social Networks, Blogs, Microblogs, Photo Sharing, Audiocasting\/Videocasting, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, Mobile Apps;\u00a0social media tools; social media strategies; how to run a business based on social media; and use of social media for customer relationship management (CRM). The course will be taught by Robert VanDame and will meet Tuesday evenings at 6:25pm in Stuart 238 on the Main Campus.\u00a0Grading for the course will be based on three exams and a\u00a0Student Project consisting of development of a Social Media Marketing program for a real or fictional organization.<em> If you need a last-minute addition to your schedule this might be the thing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, our BookList is at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itm.iit.edu\/data\/ITM_Booklist_12S.pdf\">http:\/\/www.itm.iit.edu\/data\/ITM_Booklist_12S.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, we hope to add additional seats to all of our closed sections except ITM 461 sometime on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud computing is a hot topic these days; if you are considering taking ITM 444\/ITM 544 Cloud Computing Technologies\u00a0in Fall 2012, you should take ITM 456 Introduction to Open Source Operating Systems this spring. It is not a prerequisite, but students who do not have a solid grounding in Linux will be at a\u00a0\u00a0distinct\u00a0disadvantage\u00a0 in\u00a0the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3884,3875],"tags":[1648,1654,3912],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-operating-systems","tag-academics","tag-courses","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iit.edu\/itm_loopback\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}