If it were a country, Facebook would be the world's third largest.

Today, people are more likely to learn of breaking news via Twitter than traditional news outlets.

Search for Social Media Revolution 3 by Erik Qualman at http://www.youtube.com. This quick video explains the amazing power of social media.

Those of us who started our careers thinking Selectric typewriters with automated corrective type was the bee's knees can have a hard time getting our minds around social media. But clearly, it's a force that allows us to reach more people, more quickly, than we ever fathomed. For example, a tweet I posted about mosquito and malaria research -- with a link to additional information -- reached 26,231 people, simply because a handful of fellow tweeters found what I said interesting, and shared it with their followers.

Our college is adopting social media tools to help us with our land-grant mission of extending information from the university and getting it into the hands of people who can use it.

Join us. Follow me on Twitter: @bobbymoser, and check out our Facebook pages, blogs, and other Twitter feeds at http://cfaes.osu.edu/interact/.

--Bobby D. Moser
Vice President for Agricultural Administration and Dean, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences