Social Media Futures

Social Media Futures is the fourth in a series of design-intensive group brain drain sponsored by COLAB at Syracuse University. Thirty-six students from Syracuse University’s schools and colleges, selected by the dean of their school spent a weekend in teams to generate unique solution to increase the effectiveness of businesses through the mode of various social media technologies and methodology. Throughout the course of this brain drain, various professionals in the field were brought in as examples to broaden the students’ understanding of Social Media. The outcome of the charrette examplifies the university’s embrace of new pedagogical approaches and collaboration.