Thursday, April 22, 2010
Spokeo-Oh-NO!
Spokeo is the website I discussed in class that brings together all the info on the web about you.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
It all started with a simple little Tweet...
Have you read StephSoccerGA's blog My un-love letter to Twitter? This is precisely how I felt. She wrote:
It all started with a simple little tweet, well, not even a tweet, actually an add. In class on Monday, as I was messing with my Twitter account, I added Springfield Little Theatre to follow. The next day, a call came. I saw on my caller ID it was from the Springfield Little Theatre. I had two ideas on what this call could be: 1. Wow are they personal! Calling to thank me for following them on Twitter. 2. Maybe I won tickets because I was the 500th follower! Either way, I was excited.
The call was from the SLT Director of Development and Marketing, Kim Garwitz (also a fellow Rotaract member). Kim ask if I would be interested in being a member of the Associate Board of Directors for SLT.
Umm, yes please.
If you know me at all, you know how much I love be active in our community and am a HUGE fan of the arts. Now, I am going to an informational meeting on Wednesday on joining the Associate Board of Directors. Unfortunately, I will have to miss class (is 'Twitter made me do it,' a good excuse?).
So, even though I begrudgingly used Twitter, within a day, it had practical and positive impact on my professional life. Apparently, I do have a passion for the great qualities Twitter possesses.
I feel like Twitter is like the friend that I tell myself I should probably be in a relationship with because they have so many great qualities but I just can't seem to find the passion for.My thoughts precisely. What is it going to do for me? What do I have to say to it? Apparently, a lot.
It all started with a simple little tweet, well, not even a tweet, actually an add. In class on Monday, as I was messing with my Twitter account, I added Springfield Little Theatre to follow. The next day, a call came. I saw on my caller ID it was from the Springfield Little Theatre. I had two ideas on what this call could be: 1. Wow are they personal! Calling to thank me for following them on Twitter. 2. Maybe I won tickets because I was the 500th follower! Either way, I was excited.
The call was from the SLT Director of Development and Marketing, Kim Garwitz (also a fellow Rotaract member). Kim ask if I would be interested in being a member of the Associate Board of Directors for SLT.
Umm, yes please.
If you know me at all, you know how much I love be active in our community and am a HUGE fan of the arts. Now, I am going to an informational meeting on Wednesday on joining the Associate Board of Directors. Unfortunately, I will have to miss class (is 'Twitter made me do it,' a good excuse?).
So, even though I begrudgingly used Twitter, within a day, it had practical and positive impact on my professional life. Apparently, I do have a passion for the great qualities Twitter possesses.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Social Media Site Serves Social Media Junkies
Social media is extensive. Super extensive. So much, that as I learn about new social media outlets, I run across more and more that I didn't know about.
Digg is one resource I had never used prior to my Media and Technology Literacy class. As I was digging around, I found Mashable: The Social Media Guide. Wow. Social media overload. I could click around on this website for hours and still not know all of the different social media outlets and uses.
One interesting feature Mashable has is a job board for careers in social media, so if anyone wants to launch a career in social media, Mashable is the way to go.
I highly recommend the site for anyone interested in social media. There are even guidebooks for those who are new to Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites.
So, after Digging up this website on social media and searching it extensively for research on Facebooking for non-profits, this is how I feel
Digg is one resource I had never used prior to my Media and Technology Literacy class. As I was digging around, I found Mashable: The Social Media Guide. Wow. Social media overload. I could click around on this website for hours and still not know all of the different social media outlets and uses.
One interesting feature Mashable has is a job board for careers in social media, so if anyone wants to launch a career in social media, Mashable is the way to go.
I highly recommend the site for anyone interested in social media. There are even guidebooks for those who are new to Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites.
So, after Digging up this website on social media and searching it extensively for research on Facebooking for non-profits, this is how I feel
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Wiki Wiki What?
1999:
In high school, research meant looking through card catalogs and searching through abstracts to find articles and books, and if we were lucky, getting to use InfoTrac (where all information was retrieved swiftly on the school's dial-up Internet connection).
2001:
In the beginning of my college career, research was more user-friendly. Online abstract search engines became available, making the search through the Dewey-Decimal-System-organized bookshelves much more bearable.
2005:
By the end of college, I had discovered and mastered online databases. Databases filled with full-text articles that were not only extensive, but free! I NEVER had to leave my computer to gather all the research I would need (except for short walks to the printer, which was bad for the planet, but great for my time management). I quickly gained a huge appreciation for Lexus Nexis and Ebsco. It couldn't get easier!
Then, Wikipedia happend. I scoffed at Wikipedia. It was unreliable! Not factual! Anyone can contribute to it! and most importantly, it was for lazy students! Google would bring up Wikipedia articles and I would breeze right past them. 'Not a reliable source,' ringing in my ears (even if I was just looking up where Britney Spears was born). I really hated when people typed in http://www.wikipedia.com/ instead or http://www.wikipedia.org/. Yes, I was a wiki-wiki-snob.
Bring on 2010:
My current thoughts on Wikipedia? I'm still not sure. I will now consult the search engine to give me direction in research or use it is to solve a disagreement (exactly what is kimchi anyways?) So I'm not completely sold. However, I have learned many cool things about my town, Chilhowee, MO, via the search engine. Check out the notable people in my town of 300 people, ahem, 329 people. I mean, I knew my dad was an awesome BBQ smoker, I just had no idea he would make it to the world wide web!
So what do you think?
In high school, research meant looking through card catalogs and searching through abstracts to find articles and books, and if we were lucky, getting to use InfoTrac (where all information was retrieved swiftly on the school's dial-up Internet connection).
2001:
In the beginning of my college career, research was more user-friendly. Online abstract search engines became available, making the search through the Dewey-Decimal-System-organized bookshelves much more bearable.
2005:
By the end of college, I had discovered and mastered online databases. Databases filled with full-text articles that were not only extensive, but free! I NEVER had to leave my computer to gather all the research I would need (except for short walks to the printer, which was bad for the planet, but great for my time management). I quickly gained a huge appreciation for Lexus Nexis and Ebsco. It couldn't get easier!
Then, Wikipedia happend. I scoffed at Wikipedia. It was unreliable! Not factual! Anyone can contribute to it! and most importantly, it was for lazy students! Google would bring up Wikipedia articles and I would breeze right past them. 'Not a reliable source,' ringing in my ears (even if I was just looking up where Britney Spears was born). I really hated when people typed in http://www.wikipedia.com/ instead or http://www.wikipedia.org/. Yes, I was a wiki-wiki-snob.
Bring on 2010:
My current thoughts on Wikipedia? I'm still not sure. I will now consult the search engine to give me direction in research or use it is to solve a disagreement (exactly what is kimchi anyways?) So I'm not completely sold. However, I have learned many cool things about my town, Chilhowee, MO, via the search engine. Check out the notable people in my town of 300 people, ahem, 329 people. I mean, I knew my dad was an awesome BBQ smoker, I just had no idea he would make it to the world wide web!
So what do you think?
Monday, April 5, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Blogging is Here to Stay
Blogging. What is it? Who should use it? What is the correct way to blog? The answers to these questions are quite arbitrary. Blogger defines a blog as
Blogging is a fairly new phenomenon that has changed the way we learn. There are blogs about virtually everything from personal diaries to political forums. You can learn how to fix your toilet on one blog and in a few clicks read a blog on what the newest technology fad will be. It’s constantly changing and continually updated. But why do we care?
Today’s society is a need-to-know-now world. People are no longer patient and do not want to sort through a table of contents for a recipe or to wait on the newspaper to arrive the next morning to see why the fire trucks drove by their house. They want to know what happens as its happening and want to be able to track trends of what is getting ready to happen next in order to be on top of their game. If an organization waits 24 hours, they are too late. Someone else has already given that person the information they were seeking, probably 23 hours prior.
In marketing, blogs can be very powerful. A company can use blogs in order to give a personality to the organization. This persona can increase trust and credibility with the publics the organization is trying to reach.
Blogs create a community to the reader. People can follow other blogs and can be followed. It is a way for the person to stay on top of everything and anything they are potentially interested in following. Even if a person does not follow a blog, these blogs are linked to search engines so when someone Googles “Why does my toilet keep flushing?” the blog page on how to fix that pesky tank can pop up in the search results leading the person to click on that blog, and potentially, they could be clicking on Lowe’s website to buy the supplies they need. I wonder if Lowe’s has a blog. I need to sell them on that idea. Excuse me while I look into this.
… Sorry for the interruption. While Lowe’s does not have a Do It Yourself blog, I did find an interesting DIY blog for anyone interested.
...a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.Although the definition is vague, the importance of blogging is concrete.
Blogging is a fairly new phenomenon that has changed the way we learn. There are blogs about virtually everything from personal diaries to political forums. You can learn how to fix your toilet on one blog and in a few clicks read a blog on what the newest technology fad will be. It’s constantly changing and continually updated. But why do we care?
Today’s society is a need-to-know-now world. People are no longer patient and do not want to sort through a table of contents for a recipe or to wait on the newspaper to arrive the next morning to see why the fire trucks drove by their house. They want to know what happens as its happening and want to be able to track trends of what is getting ready to happen next in order to be on top of their game. If an organization waits 24 hours, they are too late. Someone else has already given that person the information they were seeking, probably 23 hours prior.
In marketing, blogs can be very powerful. A company can use blogs in order to give a personality to the organization. This persona can increase trust and credibility with the publics the organization is trying to reach.
Blogs create a community to the reader. People can follow other blogs and can be followed. It is a way for the person to stay on top of everything and anything they are potentially interested in following. Even if a person does not follow a blog, these blogs are linked to search engines so when someone Googles “Why does my toilet keep flushing?” the blog page on how to fix that pesky tank can pop up in the search results leading the person to click on that blog, and potentially, they could be clicking on Lowe’s website to buy the supplies they need. I wonder if Lowe’s has a blog. I need to sell them on that idea. Excuse me while I look into this.
… Sorry for the interruption. While Lowe’s does not have a Do It Yourself blog, I did find an interesting DIY blog for anyone interested.
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