Flashmob City. Population: Me.

This past Thursday I took part in the first Flashmob to ever take place on Oklahoma State University's campus. And it was awesome! For those of you who don't know what a Flashmob is, it can best be described as an a large gathering of people at a public place to perform an act. In our case, this act was dancing. The students of my Advanced PR Media class organized the event to raise awareness of the name change of our school from the School of Journalism and Broadcasting to the School of Media and Strategic Communications. We were put into groups and each group was given a specific area to focus on.

I obviously volunteered to be in the group in charge of making up the dance and teaching it to everyone. I love to boogie so this seemed like the natural choice for me. We had three practices to teach the dance to other OSU students. We then performed the dance on Thursday, just after the Spirit Walk and before the kick off of the Oklahoma State v. Texas A&M game.

This was a really cool project to be a part of and a major reason for it's success was the use of social media. By using Facebook and Twitter, we were able to communicate with a much larger group of students than we would have had we not been able to use this tool. Our Twitter page http://twitter.com/OKStateflashmob acted as a reminder to all those participating in the event.

Here is a taste of the swagging that went on...

To say that the Flashmob was fly wouldn't be doing it justice. I'm not saying it had anything to do with OSU's come-from-behind, thrilling win over Texas A&M...but I'm not saying it DIDN"T have anything to do with it either.