Hello Class!
As you get your blogs up and running - send your classmates your www address so they can follow your blog.  As soon as your blog has followers you can track and see all kinds of information - especially if it is in the Blogger.com .  Ideally I would like to see you follow each other and then also everyone do a guest blog post - it doesn't have to be a post on a classmate's blog. Speaking of blogging here's how it ties into content curation and how this can make a difference if you want to drive traffic to your website.  Take a look at this ebook .

When you have time check out the videos by Argyle Social.  So many tools, so little time...
http://www.youtube.com/argylesocial

The Super Bowl Social Media phenomenon is gearing up at historic proportions.  Here are a couple more  articles and they keep coming in...
http://mashable.com/2012/02/02/social-media-super-bowl-xlvi/

http://www.genconnect.com/career/super-bowl-2012-advertisers-use-social-media-to-build-hype/