Patrick Powers

The social media scene in St. Louis is a pretty active one with scores of individuals doing some incredible work. Sure, I could list some of those individuals here but I’d hate to inadvertently leave someone off or appear to be sucking up to those I listed. We’ll save it for another post. Instead, this [...]

When asked why he no longer dined at Ruggeri’s restaurant, St. Louis-native Yogi Berra uttered these now famous words: “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” Can the same be said about the social media behemoth Facebook? It would appear College Only thinks so and last month launched a new social media network limited to those [...]

Here’s what I imagine to expect the next big thing when it comes to social media in higher education (and really social media in any industry): location-based social networking. Yeah, I know, I’m a bold prognosticator. Twitter, to some extent, is already starting to embrace the idea by allowing users to attach a location to tweets. [...]