Thank you all for a great semester!

• The course Gradebook is updated to show your final course grade. I will be loading these up to the official grading system on Friday.
• You all totally blew me away with completing student feedback forms. We ended up with a 96% completion rate. Take a bow!

Best wishes to you all for future success. Keep in touch!

Have you filled out your student feedback forms yet?

Right now is a great time to visit http://esff.temple.edu/!

Thank you to everyone in the class for contributing ideas and participating in the collaborative filtering process to generate tag lines for the class. I enjoy hearing all of them and was able to apply several to our blogs.

• The MIS3538 Course Portal (http://socialmedia.mis.temple.edu/) is now called Gamification: How to Win in Social Media
• The Community Participation Hub (http://socialmedia.mis.temple.edu/community13s/) is now called  Get Social. Be Social. Live Social.
• My MIS department blog (All Social) has a new tagline, “Where Business Meets the Blogroll”.

Also, congratulations to Team 4 for earning the most votes. You’ll see a few extra Quest Points in your total soon.

Here are guidelines for the individual term paper due at the end of the semester. I’ve also added some brief recommendations to help you do as well as possible on this assignment.

You may submit the term paper (via email) any time after Week 13 of class: in the two weeks between 5:30PM on April 25 and 8PM on May 9.)

Term Paper Guidelines

At the end of the semester, a final 5-7 page report documenting your class experience is due. This report has three major components:

Section 1. At least 1 page of analysis of your website traffic with detailed information from Google Analytics, including at least one segment analysis. Other appropriate topics include trends in traffic and most popular content.

Recommended: In addition to 1+ page of discussion, consider including one or more graphs based on your Google Analytics data. These can either be shown as Figures within the document or as additional Appendix at the end of the document.

Section 2. A reflection on what you learned during through:

• Class Preparation and Participation,
• Community Hub Contributions,
• Participation in The Quest,
• Social Media Activities, and
• Group assignments.

Recommended: To ensure that you have addressed each component, consider creating a sub-header for each one with a minimum of several sentences in each sub-section. If you are not familiar with the expectations for a reflection you may find this guide helpful.

Section 3. An evaluation of lessons learned from your Social Media Activities. Include:

• Recommendations of at least three things you would do the same again, and
• Recommendations of at three things you would do differently in creating another blog in the future.

Recommended: Make sure you have at least 3 in each category (same, different). It is better to have 3 insightful ideas in each rather than 5 mundane ones. Also, avoid the temptation of making all of the “different” items the exact opposite of your “same” ones.

Summary

To meet expectations the end of semester report must be submitted on time that substantively addresses all of the above elements and sub-elements. Submit your paper to me via email in either a .DOC or .PDF format.

Recommended:

• Plan ahead. This is the kind of paper that is best written in multiple sittings with plenty of time to proofread your final copy before submission.
• The length guidelines are purposely vague. More important than length is that you submit a professional document that meets all of the stated requirements.
• This is your opportunity to demonstrate what you have learned for the semester. For students “on the edge” between grades, the term paper is frequently the deciding factor.

Good luck! I look forward to reading your submissions.