If you have any interest in the future of journalism in a day when newspapers are going bankrupt and traditional media losing their grip on our attention — all while citizen journalism and new models are emerging — then you’ll want to be aware that former Best Buy VC and now “Innovation Accelerator”, Kim Garretson (a Missouri School of Journalism or “Mizzou” alumnus) has been actively engaged for some time at the school.
Kim has had the students working on two of his startups, LikeMe as well as one founded in Minnesota, BackstageGallery, which we’ve covered before at Minnov8.
If have any free moments today between 3:30pm and 7:30pm, please tune in the live video stream and you’ll be able to watch five teams of Mizzou seniors in Strategic Communications & Convergence Journalism presenting the results of their semester-long social media campaigns & execution for those two of Kim’s startups.
Having done this several times, Kim said that the students “…are guaranteed to KILL IT with their creativity and enthusiasm.” If you’re watching and tweet, use hashtag #mizzou09 as there will be a live Twitter stream screen in the presentation room. On-site judges are CEOs of digital agencies, the head of Social Media for H&R Block, and several others.