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Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Notre Dame at Top of New "Top 100 Social Media Colleges"© Rankings from StudentAdvisor.comCAMBRIDGE, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- StudentAdvisor.com's Fall 2011 Top 100 Social Media Colleges continues to showcase the best social media practices at work at U.S. colleges and universities - from daily tasks of finding parking spaces to more serious work of helping to find a missing classmate. "At colleges around the country, social media has the pulse of pop culture while providing a real world 'temperature' in real time," said Dean Tsouvalas, Editor-in-Chief, StudentAdvisor.com. "What was once used for flash mobs and general communication between college students and parents has now become an essential component of college life today." For example, when the movie "The Help" hit theaters, Auburn University's social media skyrocketed due in no small part to alumni Octavia Spencer, who plays the character Minnie in the movie. Auburn entered for the 1st time and debuts at #23. Some other effective uses of college social media include Tufts University (#68) who posts its lunch menus on Twitter (News - Alert). Louisiana State University Tweets which of its 23,000 parking spaces are available in real-time. The Thunderbird School of Global Management (#30) has a GPS app for locating alumni. "On a daily basis we track more than 2000 colleges and universities on more than 100,000 data points to determine their respective social media uses," said Brian Carr (News - Alert), Publisher, StudentAdvisor.com. "Colleges and their students are at the forefront of social media best practices and other industries should take note of the great work being done on our nation's campuses." Sadly, there is a need for more serious uses of social media as well After 20-year-old Indiana University (News - Alert) student Lauren Spierer went missing this summer, her friends effectively used social media as one way to get the word out. They set up a Twitter account and a Facebook (News - Alert) page that is now followed by tens of thousands of people interested in helping. "Their efforts have helped organize the search for Spierer and turned her disappearance into a national news story, Tsouvalas said. "This is the essence of social media in action." The latest Top 100 Social Media Colleges list published today features a new member of the Top 10: The University of Texas at Austin (#10), which debuts with phenomenal social media guidelines. At the Top of the List: 1. Johns Hopkins University 2. Harvard University 3. University of Notre Dame 4. Ohio State University (up 1) 5. Columbia University (down 1) 6. University of Kentucky 7. Stanford University 8. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College (up 1) 9. United States Military Academy (up 1) 10. The University of Texas at Austin (up 3)
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