and Barbara Schroder and now episode three of Bad Bad Thing.

We are just getting started here in class tonight as we have about 100 students in the class.

This is social media management. It is the first social media course that's offered.

You're listening to an old video I found online of Meredith Sullivan Chapman teaching her

digital communications class at the University of Delaware. She had a favorite quote she liked to

share with her students. You've probably heard it before. Behave. What happens today will go

viral tomorrow. So last thanks so much for joining us. Where are you tonight?

I'm in Austin, Texas. This is Eric Qualman. He's a digital expert and an author.

He was a frequent virtual guest in Meredith's classrooms.

Yeah, Meredith is fantastic. I mean I just got into and zoom into hundreds of lectures

that use my books across the country and the world really. But I heard stood out and it stood

out because there's students. You can tell there's just like a love and then hey this this

professor gets it. She's young. She's dynamic from day one when I started in the classes through

the eyes of the students. I could tell the appreciation and just the respect that they had for Meredith.

So you did meet her in person too? Yes, there's like a magnetism. As I mentioned above her that

you could tell it attracted people to her just that personality. Hello, a bright light.

Meredith was a shining star her entire life. After she graduated from the University of Delaware

where she'd been a cheerleader, she became a press secretary for a US congressman. Then she got a job

as a local TV producer where in 2009 she helped put together an Emmy nominated documentary

about then vice president Joe Biden. Also that year Meredith got married to a tall handsome man

she thought of as her prince charming Luke Chapman who would go on to become a financial advisor

and a Newark Delaware City Councilman. Well I have some exciting news to share with you today so

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