Surviving School

As the school year is winding down and we have started to reach the last chapters of Social Media, I find the chapter we are learning about now are podcasts. When it comes to what podcasts are, the best way to describe them is a way to build a deeper connection to an audience. They can also be used to discuss current news or even a podcaster’s opinion on things like video games, books, movies, etc. Basically, anything an audience would find interesting can be a podcast. When it comes to how many people are a part of a podcast, it is usually two or more people that lead it or host it. However, there is a podcaster named Joe Rogan who has risen to be the most listened podcaster today. What he does is have very famous people to go on and talk about themselves while he picks their brain about what they think about current events or gets them to reveal things they may have done in the past. Now if you had asked a bunch of people a couple of years ago if they ever listened to a podcast, I wo...

Growing up in a family of businesspeople, LinkedIn is used a lot. I had a basic understanding of the app and knew that when I got to college, this would be one of the more important social network platforms I would need to use. However, while reading, I realized there was so much more to this app than I knew. LinkedIn is the largest professional networking platform available. There are about 740 million users, in more than 200 countries. The primary uses of LinkedIn are for professionals to stay connected with one another and to search and apply for jobs. LinkedIn is also great for building a personal brand and connecting with professionals that might work in a field of interest or work at a company a person is trying to get hired into. When compared to the other social media platforms we have discussed, it is most like Facebook, but more professional and networking focused. When it comes to using LinkedIn, the most important part is the profile and its contents. For example, my Linked...