Bulletin on Facebook

The Bulletin is going interactive. If you're a member of the social networking site, Facebook, you can join the Bulletin's new Facebook group, called NC State Bulletin. Membership is free and open to everyone and gives you the option (the joy, really) of posting comments, photos and video; joining discussion threads; and sharing links.

We set up the Bulletin group so we could provide a behind-the-scenes look at our employee communication efforts and bring our readers into the process. During the week, we'll post photos that we've taken, talk about the stories we're working on, and share our plans and ideas for the future.

You can tell us what's happening on campus that we should be covering, comment on our work (or grade it, if you're a faculty member) and post your news and events directly on the site.

The Facebook group is just one of a number of social networking opportunities we're taking advantage of to enhance our ability to promote news and events at NC State, both internally and externally.

NC State's News Services office has also created its own Twitter account for Twitter users among our faculty, staff, students, alums and friends of the university who want instant updates on news from and about NC State. Twitter is an electronic service that allows its users to publish and follow "micro-blogs," called "tweets," that are limited to 140 characters. Users select which Twitter "feeds" to follow, and then receive updates whenever those feeds are updated.

You can follow NC State News Services' Twitter feed at: http://twitter.com/NCStateNews.

News Services has also created a Facebook group, separate from the Bulletin group, at http://tinyurl.com/cqcc38.

By the way, if your department or college has a Facebook group, let us know and we'll add a link to our group.  And don't forget about NC State's YouTube site, http://www.youtube.com/ncstate, which has tons of great videos produced right on campus.