Why We Launched the University Snapchat Account

  Oh, Snapchat… the most polarizing popular social platform out right now. “You have a University Snapchat account?” they say. “Isn’t that just for sending inappropriate pictures?” Not for us. It’s a way for #teamsocial to establish relationships with our audience and to tap into an unsaturated market comprised of one of our most valuable […]

6 Ways to Do It For the Vine

A picture says a thousand words. We’ve all heard that saying before – because it’s true. But if a photo says a thousand words, a video says a million. Attention spans are shrinking. The demand for engaging content is growing. We’ve got to get creative. Sounds like a job for Vine – Twitter’s inherently sharable, 6-second looping […]

Mobile Photography 101: Tips and Tricks

Believe it or not, there was a day when capturing a moment in time was not as easy as reaching into your pocket and pulling out your smartphone. Gone are the days of waiting for a roll of film to be developed hoping that the pictures would turn out—with proper exposure and no blinks. Recent […]

The Swoon Principle

We call it the Swoon Principle. Every single day, fans around the world choose to engage with Colorado State across social media channels. And it’s awesome. In fact, we often swoon. Lindsay Connors, our marketing whiz and Pinterest queen, coined the term.   “The Swoon Principle. It’s tough to explain, but I think it’s approaching […]

#Hello

Welcome to our blog. We’re glad you’re here. Let’s get Social. Virtually every university (or brand for that matter) uses some form of social media as part of its communications toolkit. And that’s no different here at Colorado State University. Social media is in many ways the lynchpin in how we communicate as an institution. […]

Oh CAM, You Look so Snappy

So………we’ve had Snapchat (add us, CSUCamtheRam) since December 2013 and debuted it at the New Mexico Bowl. We’re not shouting that out because we want to be the hipsters of universities creating Snapchat accounts, (although, while we’re talking about it, we might as well claim it) but to say, “we’re still kind of new at this thing.”