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...

  Our first big project for our social media class was a live-tweeting assignment. I was so confused and had no idea of what to cover when Dr. Aggie explained the assignment. I had been slammed with homework and practices every day, so I was struggling with what event to do but that's when I thought of doing it on my favorite team, the Chicago Bulls. I have been watching the Bulls my entire life and I would consider them my favorite team now. Honestly, I like whatever Chicago team is doing the best, regardless of the sport, that is except the White Sox. That is where I draw the line. As a Cub’s fan, I am forced to hate them with a passion. With that out of the way, I can go back to talking about the Bulls game. It was a well fought battle between the Atlanta Hawks and Chicago Bulls. Late in the 4th quarter, Trae Young the star player on the Hawks hit back-to-back threes to win the game. This was a disappointing loss because the Bulls are ranked 2nd in the East and the Hawks are ran...

  Chapter 6 details the essentials of social media marketing. I learned the opportunity for businesses to use Twitter to promote Ideas and goals, build relationships with customers, connect with their audiences, and keep up with the competition. I also learned that Twitter is not like Instagram or Facebook. While they are all communication platforms, those apps are used to do a lot of promoting. Twitter on the other hand, shouldn’t be used to promote and instead should invite questions and encourage engagement. Engagement shows that the business has value. When it comes to tweeting, tweets should not be long paragraphs but rather short, to the point messages. As someone who occasionally uses Twitter, I never read anything longer than a few sentences. Anything longer than that, I skip past it and ignore. Another thing I picked up on is that when businesses are trying to promote something, they should post consistently and at times when they can reach most of their audience. Also, th...