For all things social media...Dr. Richard Goedkoop

And you can now reach him at goedkoop@lasalle.edu!

That's Goedkoop!

Apologies to Prof. Richard Goedkoop; this is how you spell his name!

Art and Politics

La Salle Fine Arts Professor Siobhan Conaty teaches a course on this topic. I ahve to get together with her and learn how these two human expressions connect (or don't connect, if that's the case).

For those of you who still read books!

Hi,

I know there are a few of you out there!

This past Sunday La Salle Professor Richard Di Dio published his 20th review for the Philadelphia Inquirer. (It could be even more, as on two occasions he has critiqued two books ini one review; being conservative, I count those each as one review). Di Dio has examined books such as biographies of Albert Einsten, a memoir on Jimi Hendrix, a chronicle of one man's journey to wash dishes in all 50 states and (my favorite) the story of how Monty Python became Monty Python.

Close behind Di Dio is Dr. John Rossi, who's done 16 reviews, writing about books on baseball, WWI and WWII and a forthcoming biography of Lawrence of Arabia.

For Star Power, English Professor Judith Mussser has reviewed fiction/poetry for the paper in works by Philip Roth, Louise Erdrich, Nikki Giovani, Joyce Carol Oates and Kazuo Ishiguro.

Social Media: Dr. Goodkoop explains it....

La Salle University Communication Professor Dr. Richard Goodkoep is one of La Salle's experts on the affect social media has had in how news is made and reported, and can discuss where all these new tools can take us.

Reach him at goodkoep@laslle.edu

What's factually accurate and not accurate in "The King's Speech"

La Salle History Professor John Rossi has written that while "The King's Speech" is a fine film, it is not historically accurate. Omitted is the anti-semitism that many British felt in the 1930s; Rossi reported that King George VI opposed having Jews resettle in Palenstine after the War.

Check out Dr. Rossi's oped in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the matter:

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20110127_It_won_t_win_an_award_for_historical_accuracy.html

Can you teach an old dog new tricks?

I hope so, because I'm going to have to not only learn social media but use it with a purpose. Events in Tunisia and Africa notwithstanding, social media is changing how we live, and, equally important, what we learn and how we learn it.

What's probably going to happen is that I'll have to become my own "network" or "website": the Jon Caroulis "show" (or news hour), in which "viewers" will learn what's happening at La Salle and, equally important, what La Salle can do for them via the information I'll provide.

Well, one journalist who started in newspapers and is now a "famous" blogger and twitter said "quality" was the key to his posts and tweets. He has information that he gets from sources, so in that vein, coming up is my first atttempt to "engage" the world via social media...