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Branding, Influencers and Human Observers, My final class blog post.

Last Blog Post for my social media class and I have to say its been a journey. As a class we have dissected certain parts of social media platforms, and have identified the proper way to use social media that will be beneficial to your life. I have learnt that when using social media platforms you should ALWAYS be aware that its not for your eyes only, but for everyone to see. Notice, Analyze and sort out the content of posts you make on the internet, realize that potential employers might look you up on the web.

To be a brand means to be a name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's product distinct from those of other sellers. To be a brand in the social media world you have to first know who you are, and what about yourself you want to portray to the world.

Personal Branding101

Influencers in the social media world connect with their audience, they produce influential content that can positively impact their audience. You always want to be a positive influencer and not a negative one therefore people will always follow what you have to say. Being an influencer in LinkedIn is very beneficial seeing as how that is an online resume, it will be able to help you out professionally.

LinkedIn Influencer Program

Finally, Human Observer, on social media a human observer might be identified as a lurker, someone who watches without joining in, (you can find out more about lurking and more social media terms in the book Trust Agents) but they are mainly identified as someone who watches their audience as a clue to find out what decisions they can make that would be beneficial to their audience.

My overall experience in a social media class has been eye opening, I feel like I discovered a whole new world in social media and I have to say it has been gratifying. I know how to carefully be responsible for all the social media platforms I have, and how to use it the right way so that it can impact me positively. The book Trust Agents is a very useful book on social media I highly recommend it as it thought me so much, it is full of insightful tips on how to harness the web to accomplish your goals.

The authors Chris Brogan and Julien Smith are examples of great influencers in the social media world. After taking this social media class I can confidently say that future employers that go through my social media accounts will not be disappointed in what they see, as I have used the insightful tips learned in my class and the book Trust Agents to change and brand myself positively.

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Geo-Location

My blog post for today is basically explaining Geo-location what it is and the cons and pros of having it Geo-location is the identification of the real-world geographic location of an object, such as a radar, mobile phone or an Internet-connected computer terminal Geo-location may refer to the practice of assessing the location, or to the actual assessed location. Geo-location is great if you want your friends on social media to experiences what you're experiencing by being where you are.

Foursquare is the main platform for Geo-location and Facebook and Twitter have processed it into their software, with Facebook you can check in wherever you are, and for twitter you can add your location to each tweets you send out voluntarily. Sharing where you are whether it’s a restaurant or a store can help that store, if you give it good recommendations, and recommended it to your friends and followers. Cons of Geo-location is that, people know where you are, you can be vulnerable to burglaries through this. There was an episode on Geo-location on the show Degrassi. It basically talked about how this girl was so into twitter that she would share her location every time she tweeted, she had no idea who her followers were but that didn't stop her. She let the amount of followers, their re-tweets and replies go to her head. She later came home to find her place burglarized it appeared to be one of her followers on twitter. Geo-locating can be good if you know who you’re sending it out to, and if you want recommendations from friends, but it is very bad for people you don’t know to have access to your location, there is such a thing as too much information. You certainly don’t want strangers to know too much about who you are and where your from.

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Vine is ready to shine

A short form of social media that recently caught my eye is Vine. Vine is a mobile service that lets you create and share short looping videos. Videos you post to Vine will appear on your Vine profile and the timelines of your Vine followers. Posts can also be shared to Twitter or Facebook. I was suprised to find out vine had been around longer than I thought it was, like around january, but it seemed to boom during april, which is when I found out about it. My current vine account is just me following some comedic people and I have to tell you its amazing. For example if im feeling down I can change that when I look at a funny vine video which I think is amazing. I create vines sometimes when I'm bored and can think of something creative to create, I may think of some comedic things now and then, and other days I just blank out and may not know what to post. Vine is a wonderful way to bring out your creative juices and put them in use, it is a wonderful tool if you’re are going into the movie making business even though its just a 6 second video. The risk is that 6 second is short to portray what you want consumers to know about your business. You can't really know what a company is about simply by watching a short second clip about that company, unless it is attention grabbing and they are able to convey important information about their product in such a short time then it might work for them. Teenagers have such short attention span that vine is a good form of social media for them, makes them want to be creative and think of creative things to produce. Follow me on vine, even though I don't have that much posted yet. Abigail obidike, and if you dont have vine go make one right now and follow some comedic people, trust me you wont regret it.

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LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a social networking website for people in professional occupations. LinkedIn is basically an online resume, every work and education you have experienced in your life you put in your LinkedIn profile. It is such a great way to get different job opportunities fall in your lap. Ever get tired of sending in your resume to every job you apply for, or having someone write a recommendation for you with you having no idea what they wrote about or if it was specific enough. Well LinkedIn is the answer to all those worries and questions. With LinkedIn worries like who you want to be you right reference are answered, because you can ask someone to be you reference in LinkedIn and they can get basic and up to date information on you for when they are writing you a recommendation.

LinkedIn is for professionals and you could tell that it is while creating an account. The information you put in your profile is much more advanced than what you put in on twitter and Facebook accounts. While on LinkedIn you are able to gain an advantage in job searching, you are able to learn insightful skills needed in achieving the job you want. You also learn about other peoples success stories in their job field which will encourage you to want to apply yourself more in the job that you want. Connecting with people on LinkedIn is engaging and beneficial, because as you connect with those people, you connect with different job opportunities and you gain a better advantage. Whenever you are applying for a job and you just happened to use LinkedIn for that job search and application you gain a Better advantage and you could learn more about that job than you will if you applied somewhere else. LinkedIn is a very proficient took for future professionals and I strongly suggest that you try it out, it will help profoundly in building your future professional goal and help in making it grow.

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Pin What, Pin Who, Pinterest

So my choice topic for today’s blog post is on Pinterest. Because we talked about it this week and I’m just reconnecting with my Pinterest after a year away from it. Pinterest is a tool for collecting and organizing the things that inspire you. Going back to my boards on pinterest I remember why it was addicting to me, and why sometimes it wasn't. Pinterest is basically an electronic scrapbook to me, I pin everything I don’t have and want, and everything I can’t have and wish for. The things I wish for and want are what get me addicted to pinterest. I can spend a whole day looking at the pictures on pinterest and the next day I don’t even go on pinterest. What is so addicting about pinterest? Well it’s basically looking at pictures of things that I might never have, but it doesn't stop me from looking. Pinterest Is information, you see a picture you like, you can have the information on that picture by going to the website which is surprisingly linked to the picture. Your interactions in pinterest are connected; you browse a picture then get connected to another similar picture etc. Women of course are the most active members on pinterest, and you know us we like to shop which is why over half of the active members purchase things that they saw on pinterest. Pinterest is a huge benefit for growing your business and it will benefit you when you create a Pinterest account. according to Katie Kavulla Everyone uses it for different things -- from saving recipes that you want to make to saving articles that you want to reference later (we can, ahem, certainly suggest some you should pin!) to all of the shoes you'd love to add to your closet for spring -- so Pinterest can easily be whatever you want it to be.

Bottom-line, if you want to share, find, and discuss images and videos in an easy-to-use setting that mimics a billboard concept, then Pinterest is a great choice for you-Susan Gunelius

P.S follow me on pinterest: abygirl7

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Literacy Network in Dane County

My blog post today is going to be about the literacy network and their mission.

The mission of the literacy network is to teach reading, writing and speaking skills to adults and families doing this enables them to achieve financial independence, good health and greater involvement in community life. Don’t believe me, visit their website ( http://www.litnetwork.org/) it says so right there. To add to the excitement of this amazing program it’s also free of charge, and who doesn’t like free stuff. This program of course is available in Madison, Wisconsin, perks of living here. English is a main language in the United States, and in other to get jobs it is highly required, so this program is a stepping stone for getting the job that you need. Basically reading, writing and speaking English is an everyday thing in the life of adults in America, it makes understanding everything so much easier, having this skills helps the adults better achieve goals specific to their needs: to read to their children or help with homework, to fill out a job application, to understand finances, or speak with a doctor about a health concern.

Literacy Network serves primarily low income adults and families in need of literacy services by offering programs specifically tailored to the needs, goals, and different learning styles of the individual students:

•One-to-one Tutoring for ESL and Basic Literacy

•Small ESL classes

•Community Literacy

•Family Literacy and English in the Schools

•Integrated English and Civics Education

•Workplace Literacy

Knowing English is part of what makes people achieve greater in life in the US, knowing that the literacy network helps in that is amazing. What would be even greater is helping people achieve their goals and you can do that by volunteering.  Helping someone learn how to read has been one of the most enriching experiences of my life...This work has helped me be a better human being." - Literacy Network Tutor  

You can do that by going to their website( http://www.litnetwork.org/) and clicking on FOR VOLUNTEERS, IT WOULD BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY AND YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THAT.

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my personal branding

Reserved, outgoing, witty, passionate, diverse, five words that I use to brand myself on social media and they couldn’t be any truer. I am this five words in real life, so portraying that same image in social media is a given. You always have to be real to yourself no matter where you are, never try to be what they call these days “catfish”. I am reserved in real life, so in social media before I type anything I need to think ahead and know what type of effects it will have on people. I need to filter out what I think is good and what’s bad. I try to be as funny as I can be on twitter, because I am sarcastic in real life. So if you were to check my twitter you will find one or two tweets of my own humor. (Go ahead and see for yourself and while you’re at it don’t be afraid to hit the follow button @abygirl7). I love to retweet or even tweet inspirational quotes and phrases here and there. I think I am a likable person therefore I shall be a likable person on social media. In real life I am a happy person and I do not like to surround myself with negativity, therefore I shall convey myself on social media as the person I truly am. I think I’m doing a good job in portraying the person I am onto my social media platforms, as the saying goes “what you see is what you get” but also “don’t judge a book by its cover”. I may be portraying who I am on social media but I am also not portraying all of who I am on social media, meaning I also hold back on things that shouldn’t be said or done on social media. My klout score recently is 39, which is pretty lower than what I expected, but that’s going to change once my favorite shows comeback on air (i.e. pretty little liars, teen wolf) I tend to tweet a lot when watching my favorite TV shows. The score mattered to me because it tells me that I need to also interact more with my social media friends, and as someone who loves to experience new things in life that is something that I plan on doing.

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Trust Agents Chapter 6 Human Artist

Trust Agents written by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith talks about being able to survive and be successful on social media. Chapter 6 talks about being a Human Artist, portraying your human emotions into how you interact on social media. Interacting with people requires you to have proper etiquette skills and understanding. Being a human artist according to the book Trust Agents means, “Learning to work well with people, empowering them, recognizing their strengths and weakness and knowing when to improve relationships”. If not having this skills means failure for a company’s future then social interactions without these skills would be doomed too. Think like a web user and find something interesting for your audience. In order to find, retain and grow communities of customers in the human web, you need etiquette and understanding of how to navigate it.

 Making friends in social media means you are curious about the person and do not necessarily mean you have to stay friends, in other words consider yourself un-friended if you try to market your stuff right away. In the real world you don’t make friends then try to sell your products right away, if it’s not acceptable in the real world then it probably won’t be acceptable on social media. Effective online actions according to the book are, Listening, Lurking, Asking, Reciprocating, Commenting and commenting back. As newcomers to the web, after going through those actions what comes next is contributing by having a conversation.

To understand people on the web transparency and Anonymity work together to help get the feedback we need. Trust Agents says that anonymity can help people open up and build ones confidence. But this can also lead to trolls; which is when you act in a way that’s not approved by others online. “Anonymity changes the way people behave online” when people don’t know who you are online you tend to act out and spam people just for the attention. There will always be trolls on the web; best thing to do is ignore them. They love causing Havoc, and your appalled reactions will just egg them on.

Working as a trust agent requires you to do customer service. Points to consider are,

1. Answer the phone,

2. Learn the three A’s (Acknowledge, Apologize, Act)

3. Customers shoot Back

As human Artist you need to know how to keep you “signals live. Meaning make constant touches (drop emails, tweets, Facebook notes), connect people together constantly (if you have a friend good at promoting music, look for chances to slot that person into a relationship with others who can benefit), link fervently (on your blog) and mix up the transmission methods.

According to Chris and Julien the entire book Trust Agents is a recipe into the land of “trust” and “how-to”. Trust on the web is different than it is in person. Have great first impression on the web, presentation of your Twitter or Facebook matters this means it should look professional. Everyone who sees it for the first time should be convinced that you know what you’re doing on the web and in real life.

At the closing of the chapter “Human Artist” they give us tips on how to be reliable on the web; reliability is the easiest way to differentiate you from others, they make us realize that you did not get at the top of your game alone on the web, share your influences. Use twitter to spread the message they also give us tips on how to be followed on twitter @chrisbrogan and @julien. At the end of the chapter and building up to the next chapter titled “Build and Army” they make us realize that on the web we go from being an individual to being a group. When we move from real life to online life, we move from relationships on a mostly individual level to those on an almost tribelike level, meaning you need to consider what the group would like, too. Trust Agents is a fantastic group that helps you navigate your way into success on the web, and I highly recommend it.

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My Celeb Twitter list

I have a total of twenty two celebs in my twitter list and more than half of them are artists. Some celebs on my list tweet quite often in one day, while others tweet once or twice a day. With the celebs that I am following you get the best of both worlds; you experience what they go through when promoting their work, while also getting a short glimpse of their personal life. Celebs on my list that are in a current promotional cycle of their career are, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, Ariana Grande, Taylor Momsen and Lady Gaga. When following celebs currently in a promotional cycle, you get constant tweets of them telling you to buy their album, come see them perform at their concert, watch their new released music video or catch them at a late night talk show, this helps their fans keep up with them while also helping them make money. Sharing pictures is something that resonated with my celeb tweeters and the main source used for the pictures where instagram or just normal twitter. Some celeb tweets are also egotistical at times, which means that you might find them retweet a fans tweet that praises and adores them, which to me just says that if you want a retweet from a celebrity tweet nice things about them. There is a celeb in my list that actually interacts with her twitter followers, by having a follow day every Monday. Jennette Mccurdy of icarly and Sam and Cat sends out a constant tweet every Monday that plainly says “RT for a follow” and it always has at least 10,000 retweets, she calls this day Mccurdian Monday where her followers retweet the tweet and she tries to follow as many as she can, which is how I surprisingly got a follow from her. For good tweeters I would have to say Rihanna is, she tweets a lot and overshares a lot, her instagram is connected to her twitter so we get to see tons of pictures that she takes of herself and even her family. A lot happens in the celebrity world on twitter, there have been twitter wars, promotions, apologies and more. Almost every celeb uses twitter to participate in collective action, improving their image is something every celeb does and twitter has become the main source of social media used by celebrities to clarify their actions.

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Coco Chanel-the first woman to give women a modern attitude that didnt exist before

Her(Coco Chanel) style belonged to another period, but it survived and adapted itself to a modern world and all the following decade according to Karl Lagerfeld, the head designer and creative fashion house for Chanel. Chanel S.A. is a high fashion brand that specializes in haute couture and ready-to-wear clothes, luxury goods and fashion accessories. when you look at clothings of Chanel, all you see is sophistication intended for women. what i really love about Chanel are the handbags, by looking at them you feel like you just have to have one. i especially love the logo of CHANEL, you would think that with the letters CC the logo would come out just plain and simple but it does not, i love the essemble of how the letters interlocked and placed on their products, it looks elegant. The way it is dispayed on their bags i think adds more charm to it, also on some of their bags it is the first thing you notice because it is also a lock for the bag or purse, so ofcourse it has to draw women in. when i look at twitter, women are the ones who mostly tweet about chanel especially their handbags and purses which seem to be the major things women buy from chanel. chanel is so hot that there are a lot of fake chanel bag going around pretending to be the real thing. Add the allure of celebrities owning their bags and you just have to have it. They have almost everything from glasses, to earrings, rings, perfume and many more. i love the clothes of chanel and how it makes a woman look classy and elegant at the same time, this is what i really love about fashion. chanel is very expensive, which might be what adds more value to it. but it is an amazing brand for women, that helps us show our feminie, elegant and sophisticated self. If i could own anything chanel, i would love their handbag.

It is not appearance, is the essence. It is not money, is education. It is not clothing, is the class. - Coco Chanel

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BLOG #3 Topic: Was Thursday’s class easier or harder for you? For your classmates?

Thursdays class was easy and difficult at certain points. The main idea of having a conversation is to listen to the tone of the person and make eye contact, by tweeting the whole time in class, I had no idea how some of my classmates felt or how the teacher felt. it was just reading of words, when you read words you create the tone yourself and make it feel exactly how you want it to feel. but it was really fun overall and it made the class fly by quickly. it was also easy all you had to do to join a conversation was type, you could also create a conversation yourself. it was great way to share insightful information that had to do with social media. i think my classmates learned a lot from the information they saw, i'm sure they enjoyed it too. i think it was an awesome experience, but as a classroom i think were suppose to interact more with ourselves and the teacher with our body language and eye contact. overall i had fun on Thursday with the whole tweeting experience.

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When Im upset with being unemployed

And everyone else seems to love not going to work:

THAT IS SOOOO ME RIGHT NOW

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When I walk into the wrong office for an interview

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Trust Agents Authors-Chris Brogan and Julien Smith

Finding Chris Brogan and Julien Smith was easy enough, you just google them and BAM you find them, oddly enough their websites have their NAME on it, that was one clue. lol anyway Chris Brogan is a CEO of human business works and his website is titled... you guessed it chrisbrogan.com. Julien smith is the CEO of Breather; an app for your smartphone where you can find empty and quiet places to chillax. (relax and chill combined for those who dont know) ofcourse you have to pay. Julien's Blog website is titled inoveryourhead.net, in his latest blog titled "5 thing i changed to present like steve jobs" he gives steps on how to present like steve jobs and why presenting like him benefits you, he says "if you want to present something you consider revolutionary" then you should present like steve jobs. The blog entry i'm focusing on for Chris Brogan is the one titled "Where do you decide to post which kind of Content" he helps us by explain how and where to post contents to help in our business efforts. he also clarifies that his blog is for getting our eyes, and making sure that we stick around, but his newletter is for interacting and connecting with us while also being helpful. These authors have worked with GIANT companies like GOOGLE, MOTORROLA, MICROSOFT and many more, so reading their blogs is really gelpful and can be a way to help in building your companies through the use of social media, as well as other things that have to do with social media.

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