Enroll Now To Earn Your New Media Drivers License At Michigan State University
Written by Audrianna Sibiski
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Learn how to utilize social media as it takes over the World Wide Web.
February 14, 2010 – Derek Mehraban, CEO of Ingenex Digital Marketing, is teaching Michigan State Univeristy advertising and public relations students how to brand themselves through social media in a new course called New Media Drivers License.
The course begins on a Saturday morning in Novi, Michigan. Derek, along co-instructors Michal Lorenc and Richard Cole, preview the entire semester and provide an overview of key topics to be covered throughout the semester. The class spends the remainder of the semester sessions in full online engagement with digital communication using social media tools and participating in the online media they are taught. Upon completion of this course students will be able to:
Be an effective and safe driver in a wide variety of social networks, media tools, and online technology
Know the ins and outs of blogging, and blog regularly
Engage with others through social media including Linkedin, Twitter, and Facebook
Understand social media marketing
Understand how to listen to and participate in online conversations
Learn the rules of online public relations
Become part of the online community
Understand Google and how search engine optimization works
Improve your digital presentation skills
Many students evaluate Mehraban’s New Media Drivers License as the best and most important class they have taken at Michigan State University. They realize social media is an exciting new communication platform, which they can utilize in their advertising and/or public relations career. These same students have reported this course has aided in new jobs and promotions in result of taking full advantage their New Media Drivers License.
As an advertising student at Michigan State University in pursuit of earning my New Media Drivers License through Mehraban’s course, I am approaching this course with optimism and enthusiasm. The World Wide Web is taking over the traditional advertising methods. Everything is online and to succeed in this new era of online technology we must educate ourselves to stay on top.
To learn more about Derek Mehraban and how to obtain your New Media Drivers License visit the class site at http://newmediadl.com.
Audrianna Sibiski is an advertising senior at Michigan State University. Audrianna will graduate with her BA in May and pursue an international advertising career using the social media instruction from Derek Mehraban’s New Media Drivers License course.
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