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Feed your inner junkie: 14 week, $50 Campaign Battleground course w/the pros

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Mike McIntyre and Ohio.com are highlighting a University of Akron course, Campaign Battleground, that will be offered Thursday evenings for 2.5 hrs, 14 weeks with John Green, Gerald Austin and Mark Weaver starting this Thursday (1/12/12) that sounds like a political junkie’s dream:

This course is about the 2012 American national elections, with a special focus on the presidential campaign.  In the spring of 2012 the course will focus on the primaries.  We will follow the campaign carefully and investigate the strategy, tactics and conduct for the major contenders in “real time,” that is, as the campaigns are taking place.  A special focus will be placed on Ohio, a key battle ground state. No class March 15, 2012 spring break.

If I could find that kind of time, I’d be blogging a lot more about the same and other topics but if you go, please consider starting a blog and writing about the class and how it’s making you think, etc.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:26 am January 9th, 2012 in Education, Ohio, Politics, WH2012, White House 2012 | Comments Off 

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Jan

9

Getting here from there: What being platform agnostic really looks like

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Originally posted on my Facebook page:

Just to show, again, how integrated consuming & producing news & information is with the use of social media:

1. I read about Inside Business’s Power 100 in the Sat. PD

2. I looked online to see that only one woman made the top 10 under 40

3. I blogged about that, then tweeted it, FB’d it & emailed one of the mag’s writers to learn more

4. This morning, I got followed on Twitter (happily so) by the editor of that mag, Steve Gleydura, who edits other prominent NE Ohio publications.

5. Viewing his twitter timeline, I clicked on a link to a video clip of him talking about the Cleveland mag’s most interesting people.

6. While watching & listening to that, I searched on my iPad for that issue to see who else was on the list. First thing: a good array of folks re: age, gender, race, occupation etc. Very nice. But really nice? Two women I know and think a lot of: Hallie Bram and Stefanie Penn Spear.

SO – kudos to all, esp. to Hallie and Stefanie

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:24 am January 9th, 2012 in Cleveland+, Diversity, Media, social media | Comments Off 

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