Thinking Creatively with Radian6: Individual Projects

@ Clemson, the Creative Inquiry (CI) the program teaches students critical thinking skills.  Each course is customized around different research questions, themes, skillsets, & whatnot.  


My CI is powered by the higher ed program @ Radian6.  The folks @ Radian6 provided access to their insights dashboard, training to individuals & groups on how to effectively conduct searches (Thanks Genevieve Coates!), and a tremendous opportunity for our students to learn about how to analyze & leverage the power of social media. 


So what do kids learn?  How to search a vast dataset pulled from the "Social Web" & extract interesting insight or stories. That there is a potential for their assignments to be seen by the public, raises the stakes of the game ... Thus far, the response has been tremendous!


Here is this semester's individual project assignment: 


Sent on March 3 @ 8:13 AM: 


I have received most of your individual project topics (hint hint). If I haven't, please share it with me (hint hint). Here is the deliverable for the project:

You will write a blog post around your topic for Radian6 that incorporates analysis from the Radian6 Insights dashboard (insights.Radian6.com). Here is the Radian6 blog: http://www.radian6.com/blog/ 

Here are exemplars of blogs from Radian6: 

http://www.radian6.com/blog/2012/02/wanna-trade-nhl-tradecentre-blows-up-social-media/
http://www.radian6.com/blog/2012/03/the-sweet-story-of-crowdsourcing-social-media-baby-names/
http://www.radian6.com/blog/2012/02/putting-a-ring-on-social-media-engagement-a-meme-proposal/

Here is your challenge & potential reward 

The Challenge: the post must be INTERESTING & EXPLAIN what you learned about how to SEARCH & ANALYZE the social web ... it must be written in a way that someone who isn't in school would go - hey - that's pretty cool ... 


So, if you're looking @ Jeremy Lin ... one of the great parts of his story is the support from his family ... so you might want to narrow your search to jeremy lin & family, create a conversation cloud, and compare in a chart what people say about jeremy lin & family to jeremy lin & harvard ... I'm just brainstorming here :)

The Opportunity: once completed, all of the blog posts will be forwarded to Radian6's higher ed program. If they like it, your post (with some tweaks - they are the marketing experts after all) may be published on their website. 

So, here is an opportunity to demonstrate your chops @ social media listening, powered by Radian6, &, if its particularly good, shared with the entire world! 

The assignment is due on April 1. The J-team (Jason, Jim & Julie) will review them & provide feedback by April 10. We'll work on finalizing the projects & getting them to Radian 6 by May 1.

E-mail if you have questions: jason.b.thatcher@hotmail.com

P.S. if you are interested in a longer term project, like the NFL draft ... let's talk b/c it runs past the end of the semester :)