Comments on: Get Your MBA in Social Media? http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2010/04/15/get-your-mba-in-social-media/ Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:28:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bill Ives http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2010/04/15/get-your-mba-in-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-289359 Bill Ives Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:54:54 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/?p=4797#comment-289359 Carri Thanks for your candid comment. See my more recent post on whether there can be best practices in this space. You comment on UI is noted and will be passed on to those responsible. Bill Carri

Thanks for your candid comment. See my more recent post on whether there can be best practices in this space. You comment on UI is noted and will be passed on to those responsible.

Bill

]]> By: Carri Bugbee http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2010/04/15/get-your-mba-in-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-289185 Carri Bugbee Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:14:09 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/?p=4797#comment-289185 I actually teach a social media marketing class at Portland State University. This requires an ungodly amount of research and practical hands-on experience with clients. Things change on daily basis (look at how many changes have happened in the past two weeks with Twitter and Facebook!), so the curriculum has to change constantly as well. I started joking that I was working on my social media MBA in early 2008 and given the amount of time and opportunity cost I've invested, I could have earned (and paid for) a real MBA twice over since then. That said, the concept of an MBA in social media is kind of laughable to me. I think methodologies need to mature quite a bit first. Right now there are few tried and true techniques. Almost everything is experimental. Which doesn't lend itself to a degree program. Moreover there are only a handful of people in the world qualified teach an MBA course in social media marketing. And their current careers are probably much too lucrative to bother. BTW, the colors and fonts are your blog as so faint as to be almost unreadable. If you were my student, I might not give you a passing grade in usability. ;-) @CarriBugbee Social Profiles: www.CarriBugbee.com I actually teach a social media marketing class at Portland State University. This requires an ungodly amount of research and practical hands-on experience with clients. Things change on daily basis (look at how many changes have happened in the past two weeks with Twitter and Facebook!), so the curriculum has to change constantly as well.

I started joking that I was working on my social media MBA in early 2008 and given the amount of time and opportunity cost I’ve invested, I could have earned (and paid for) a real MBA twice over since then. That said, the concept of an MBA in social media is kind of laughable to me.

I think methodologies need to mature quite a bit first. Right now there are few tried and true techniques. Almost everything is experimental. Which doesn’t lend itself to a degree program. Moreover there are only a handful of people in the world qualified teach an MBA course in social media marketing. And their current careers are probably much too lucrative to bother.

BTW, the colors and fonts are your blog as so faint as to be almost unreadable. If you were my student, I might not give you a passing grade in usability. ;-)

@CarriBugbee
Social Profiles: http://www.CarriBugbee.com

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