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Farmer’s Market

Farmer’s Market- Final assigment week 7

I have chosen farmers market for my final assignment in my blog post because my plan is to invest in my hometown Hinesville Ga. I have searched small business websites and Farmer’s Market is not listed. However, organic products are a growing industry but farmers are still competing with chain supermarket and convenience. With more people worrying about what they are putting in their body Farmer’s Market will make a strong come back. Farmer’s Market also “known as the Greenmarket” is one of the oldest organizations to direct marketing. Farmers Market is retail marketing selling homegrown foods directly by farmers to consumers. Social media is critical to Farmers Market because the vendors are meeting one or two times out of the month in my hometown.  Farmer’s Market has a locator and Facebook page to announce the dates when and where they will be located with a locator so the consumers won’t miss the market’s  events. Without social media, the consumers would miss all the events Farmer’s Market were having. Sadly that has happened to me on several occasions because I didn’t have my hometown’s Facebook page with the communities events. Farmers Market is a food industry that was replaced by brokers and chain supermarkets for high volumes of food production. “From this study, it was determined that 66,700 farmers serve 2,760,000 customers per week at farmers’ markets. In addition, 19,000 farmers use farmers’ markets as their sole marketing outlet. Farmers’ markets reported retail sales of approximately $900 million. This represents 93 percent of total sales. Customers spent an average of $17.30 per week at farmers’ markets (2002).” However, Farmer Market have been increasing sell in the past two years by cutting the middleman and sell directly to the consumers. The other reasons for the increase in profit are because more consumers are changing over to more plant-based diets. The vegetables and fruit market contains products with little or to none pesticides and herbicides which are known to cause health problems with daily use. Most importantly farmer is able to retain fruits and vegetable shelf life longer if the vendors are able to serve their community locally. Farmers Market uses social media to announce events online, show pictures of quality products, and prices of products. By displaying products highlights the freshness and show what is in season and show them a fresh take on an old classic by walking on a street than in a general store. However, blogs and widely used for markets that are most active with communities posting recipes, tips and events are used widely on Twitter and Facebook. The objective for the blog to give the consumers a chance to find a bargain and the products that will be sold at the marketing event. Farmers Market, a strategy is to get the community more involved so they block off a roadway within the community. They placed booths with vendors with all kinds vegetables, fruit, meats, music and art. Farmer’s Market has much potential for high sales rate due to buying at markets encourages attention to the surrounding area and ongoing activities by providing outlets for local products, farmers’ markets help create distinction and uniqueness, which can increase pride and encourage visitors to return. “Utilising the framework of Conventions Theory, it assesses how producers and consumers coordinate their mutual expectations in order to circumvent the uniform standards of ‘conventionally’ produced food and create new production–consumption spaces.(2006)”

   In my opinion, the strategy that is being used in Hinesville Georgia is not advertised enough. I believe social media can have more impact on the vendor’s sales using other social media website and use them consistently responding or blogging like the rest of the vendors in different Farmer’s Market districts. Sales are not often guaranteed for vendors and they can take a large financial burden if their product is not sold. The vendor has come up with selling more than one group of products but a variety of product can reduce financial burdens. However, the most effective financial success is when vendor come together to combine all products to keep the consumers motivated to buy more the products that are presented. “Research showed food value chains”, an innovative business model in which agricultural producers, processors, buyers, and other supply chain members form collaborative, transparent partnerships that intentionally attempt to combine financial success with social benefit”(2002).    

In the last two years, Farmer’s Market has introduced more product of high-quality products such as handmade soap, oils, art, and music. Also, vendors create a relationship with their consumers to keep coming back. Most of their blogs are published in the town’s newspapers to publish the quality of the vendor products the consumers love. Hinesville Farmers Market was given 4.6 stars out of 5 on Facebook. Twitter has over a hundred Farmer’s Market listed with several states and communities but Hinesville Farmer Market is not listed on Twitter. However, Hinesville Farmers Market blog in showcased within the Liberty County of Commerce. New residents within the area use the site to find information about our town but it has not been updated since 2015 leaving the page with no rating.

Reference

Payne, T. (2002). US farmers markets, 2000: A study of emerging trends (pp. 1-40). US Department of Agriculture, Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Programs, Marketing Services Branch.

Guthrie, J., Guthrie, A., Lawson, R., & Cameron, A. (2006). Farmers’ markets: the small business counter-revolution in food production and retailing. British Food Journal, 108(7), 560-573.

Brown, A. (2002). Farmers’ market research 1940–2000: An inventory and review. American Journal of Alternative Agriculture, 17(4), 167-176.

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I Enjoyed your post about the farmers market and all the benefits of the farmers market. From fresh produce to Oiles to several vendors that are present at the market. You said that you’ve done a lot of searching I couldn’t find it under businesses. But you’re right this is something that is very prevalent and is in most states and cities. I appreciate the fact that you want to do something different in your city. It’s good to have fresh homegrown things to offer to the people that abide in your city. I also appreciate your feedback in regard to how the farmers market is not a visit or have enough attention in your city and how you feel social media can grow this industry.

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Marketing Tumbler Blog

Marketing Blog Tumbler Post Big Hit Entertainment

 Intro: Big hit is a Korean entertainment company. They produce good music and are home to some big name artist. The most famous being The Bang Ten boys or BTS as they are better known by their fans. I think social media is essential for what they do because it allows the company to get their name as well as the artist name out as well as spread the word about different types of music they are working on right now. In turn this builds up their cliental and their artist fandoms grow and more of their music albums to be sold. They are in the Korean music entertainment industry quickly making a name for themselves overseas and globally particularly here in America as of lately. Many Entertainments companies find it essential today to use social media to market their music artist and Big Hit is no different. In fact if anything I would say this is one of Big Hits’s strongest marketing tools and one of their greatest strengths as a company. Big hit has a whole team whose sole purpose is to use various social media sites to het their name and the name of their artists out to as many people as possible at one time.  They do this by updating their artist fans regularly by posting about their everyday activity on both Big Hits social media sites as well as the group of artists individual social media sites.  They encourage themselves to frequently update the SMS as well as the fan café online encouraging them to post selfies and go live. This is accomplished using the V app an app which allows one way video chat and answer questions or just talk to fans normally allowing their fans to have a small peak at their being the scenes in their life.  As often as possible leaving their fans the ability to connect to them.  Big Hits is really good about using every social media tool there is at their disposal. 

 Overall social media use: Big hit entertainment company that was founded by Bang Si Hyck back in 2008 -2009 has been using social media since as early as 2010 to promote their up and coming groups. I have found footage that dates back as early as 2011 of the now members audition to get into their company. Although in recent years it has become clear that Big Hit has defined their practice of using social media as an effective marketing tool, which is probably what lead to their biggest KPOP group winning best social media artist in the 2017 billboard awards. This was a first for a KPOP group like themselves a huge feel considering they had to beat out a lot of big name artist like Selena Gomez, Arianna Grande, & Justin Bieber. This group uses twitter, instagram,Vapp,onlinefan café, you tube, facebook, and snap chat it has also been rumored that a  couple of BTS has some secret fan accounts on these platforms as well as tumbler used to interact with their fans. As far as I can tell the company use both their Twitter & Instagram accounts the most when it comes to the promotion of themselves. They use You tube, the V app and fan café a lot. Their strategy seems simple use the media sites for promotion of the group and its activities and use the other media outlets to build fandom and increase the sales of their merchandise and sales.

  Big Hit seems to use a lot of marketing strategies whether it be promoting their albums with contracted marketing firms to promote a certain album or just using their connections with local radio programs and various music shows and variety shows at local broadcasting stations to promote their artist current activities and keep their name on the front of people’s minds to generate buzz and interest in their groups . This causes an increase in album sales, revenue, and builds fandom which increases concert sales, merchandise sales, and sales for future concerts. The marketing strategy seems to be the use of social media along with its various platforms to promote their artist as well as their products. For example when BTS released their Wings album back in 2016, Big Hit released multiple mini clips of each member with a dramatic back story along with a small snippet of a song each lasting about 30 seconds a piece and the fandom went nuts trying to figure out what was going on.BTS became a hot topic on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and even you tube as several people began to debate what these teasers could possible mean as these theories were circulated around #’s related to BTS began generating more specifically BTS fans. Now this was not a first for Big Hit as they did a similar mini story release when BTS released their third album in their “The most beautiful moment in life trilogy titled “The most beautiful moment in life Forever Young” which included a dramatic video that took the whole fandom by surprise and the result was a storm of comments and theories circulating around the fandom along with multiple hashtags about the video again. However like the mysterious video teasers they had used to promote the wings album. This video preluded a whole dramatic back story that left the fans asking one question. “why? What happened? This was a good move on Big Hits because it peaked everyone’s interest it got everyone asking about upcoming Album and MV release. In fact the interest was so much several you tubers even add videos about both of these campaigns to share their own theories. Even Big Hits current campaign for BTS newest album “Love Yourself” was first introduced with a highlight reel featuring a different back story for each member. All of which were very cute and memorable due to the cute meets the members had with girls featured in their reel and it got the fans talking about who these girls were and how they related to the album as BTS rarely use female actors in their MV’s again this album was released two weeks ago was met with much anticipation and numerous hashtags has managed to top the chats of all the KPOP charts and music shows and has made it on to the Bilboard top 100 here in the US. So you know if to determine the most critical relationships necessary for Big Hit and their success. I would say it is probably the relationship they have with Korea’s various broadcasting stations and music shows like music bank and mnet countdown as the various entertainment variety shows. The relationship they share with local radio stations who often play the boys music their relationship with various news reporters and online news sites who are always writing articles on their activities, success, and their own relationships with different brand sponsors who see their artist model things which currently include puma, BBQ chicken, smart uniform,SK Telecom. 

Data : Facebook BTS’s official Facebook page has 5,223,675 people following on their page and 5,144,119 likes on their page there is a link on this page to Big Hits home page which hasn’t been set up yet so I wasn’t able to see how many people had visited it. But seeing as it was pretty high up in the search bar when I googled it so I think it is pretty safe to assume that I am not the only one interested in this company. However I did find their Wikipedia page & was able to gain a ton of useful information from there. Big Hits facebook page has 1,595,756 followers and 1,573,413 likes There are featured videos and articles about its artist. I’m pretty sure it’s the same stuff that appears on BTS page only Big Hits is in all Korean, while BTS’s has been converted to English for their overseas and international fans. Wikipeida: Big Hit which is a south Korean entertainment company founded in 2005 by Bang Si- Hyuk and is currently home to to kpo idol group BTS and Musical duo Homme, although it previous groups include 2am,8eight,Glam and Lim Jeong-hee, and its more notable former trainees includes Hwang Eunbi (SinB)  and Jung Eunbi (Eunha) of well know upcoming female kpop group Gfriend, well know rapper Iron who was featured on popular television show “sshow me the money” Jin Hyo-sang (kidoh) and Kim Sang-gyun (A-tom)of well know male Kpop group Topp Dogg, Park Seung-Jun (seungjun) and Jung In-Seong (Inseong) of popular up and coming kpop group KNK, Jo So-Jin (sojin)of popular female kpop group Nine Muses, Kim Joo- mi (Zumy) of famous and well seasoned female kpop group Ladies Code, and Ahn Hyung-seob a former contestant on popular audition program Produce 101, season 2. Big Hit which is a private company has 52 employees and has an annual operating income of 35,500,000,000 won as of 2017 and is located in Seoul Gangnam-gu, Nonhyeon-dong, 155-010,10-31 Cheong-gu bldg,2F, South Korea. Twitter:Big Hits Twitter has over 3.6 milion followers and seems to be updated frequently , and is used to promote not only Bighit as a company but their Artist as well. Their most recent tweet which was tweeted just 12 hours ago  was used to share an article written on Naver.com about their group BTS and how they took first place on Music Bank for the second week in a row. The Article goes on to say that BTS beat out another famous artist I.U.’s song “Autum Morning” with their new track “DNA”.  BTS’s official results K-charts was calculated based off the fact that they received 65% of the digital music record votes, 5% music sales, 20% number of broadcasts, and 10 % of Audence preference to give BTS a score of 8,876 points to the 6,376 points I.U. won. BTS historic unseating of Kpop Queen I.U. is just the beginning though . Because this trophy was not the only one BTS has managed to score this comeback. They have also won first prize on MBC’s music show “Show Champion”, and KBS’s 2 TV “Music Bank”, SBS’s “Popular Song” and Mnet “MCountdown” and have secured a spot in Billboard’s top 100, proving that not only are they a very powerful and talented boy group, but that “DNA” is an awesome song and this has already a very successful comeback. (Article is written in Korean, but was translated by @NefariousEunoia and can be found on Big Hit’s most recent Tweet in the comment section, or if you can understand it feel free to read the original article on Naver, link can bee found in Big Hit’s most recent Tweet.) Instagram: Big Hit does have a Instagram in fact it has two… @boys.BigHit which has 2,900 followers, and  is believed it is used to promote the Big Hit trainees to promote their activities, although this Instagram page only has 1 post.  Meanwhile the other Instagram Big Hit has @BTS.BigHitOffical  has 5.8 million followers and has over 346posts each with at least a million likes. Which is why most people believe that this is Big Hits official Instagram, as it is used most often to promote the boy activities. However it is possible that both of these are used by Big Hit as they both have verified and each includes a link to the Big Hit website. (Which again unfortunately has not been set up yet) BTS Amino: This is an app that connected the BTS’S official fan café and its purpose to allow international fans of BTS and other Big Hit group to stay connected to their favorite artist and the company keeping them up to date. Many fans are not able to join the official fan page as its layout is entirely in Korean as is the majority off their uploads. By going through this page which is in English and updated in English (for your language of choice) You can both keep current with events and stay connected to your favorite artist and meet other fans like themselves and even send fan mail via email to the boy and their company. It’s a pretty cool app I had it on my phone in order to research it for this project, but I am considering keeping it as it allows for having fun with it. 

 Assessments and Recommendations Big Hits over all marketing seem to be a pretty successful one. Big Hit uses all their tools at their disposal which means their music and their main musical group at the moment BTS.  Big hit uses their connections with various to secure BTS a spot on the music shows every time they have a comeback, which allows BTS to perform and promote their new song which in turn increases album sales. By doing shows like this in which fans are encouraged to vote for their favorite performer or team it generates buzz online and produces numerous hashtags with BTS as part of the subject line. This in turn generates more fans, more interest in their group by increasing sales of future concerts and merchandise sales. Another thing this does is bring in perspective companies who are looking for bright young stars to model clothing lines or participate in photo shoots which gives another line of revenue through group contracted work in which Big Hit gets a portion. So as you can see social media plays a key role and works hand in hand w Big Hits as well as other marketing tools to help promote their product. Which in ths case shows they have a solid foundation and a lot of potential as a group. Recently it has become a trend to cast popular idols K-dramas and variety shows in turn this reaches a new demographic and a new population. This boosts the drama rating thanks to KPOP fans it draws the prospective Kdrama fans into the KPOP fandom therby once again increasing their sales of merchandise and concerts. In addition to bringing the artist appearance fee plus the fee for singing the show OTS all of which Big Hit gets a cut of it also means it is sure to buzz among the fans of the said artists and groups and KDrama fans everywhere meaning more online articles, mentions, reviews and hashtags ultimately building more revenue coming in as the show fans will purchase the OTS on I tunes if not. Another new marketing concept for Big Hit whom had been using the boys beyond the scenes you tube channel to shoot Bangtan Bombs. Also BTS appears in a similar show back 2014-2015 called “American Hustle Life” it was shot in LA despite the boys of KPOP not being very well known at the time it was received pretty well and most of the episodes can still be found on you tube today all with a pretty significant amount of views as we know leads to more social media posts. Overall I would say that their marketing strategy is a pretty solid one. I don’t really have anything to recommend in the way of changing things, what they are doing seems to be working. I would however say that Big Hit does need to get their website up and running soon. 

 Citations: www.http://facebook.com/ibighit

www.http://Facebook.com/bts 

www.http://Twitter.com/bts_twt 

www.http://Twitter.com/BigHitEnt

www.http://instagram/bts.bighitoffical

www.http://Ibighit.com

www.http://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=76&aid=0003159480 

www.http://btsblog.ibighit.com/m 

www.http://btsamino.com

www.http://youtube.com/bighit 

www.http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/big_hit_entertainment 

www.http://youtube.comabiz

www.http://youtube.com/vip www.http://youtube.combangtantv 

www.http//bbc.co.uk

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Klout Score Acessment Q:5

My final Klout Score was 51 and I started at 10. I believe that I had my score increased because I increased the amount of time I spend on social media as I had to do a lot of social media assignments for this class. This class I learned how to use social media and different platforms and I believe that I have gained a very healthy respect for those who have careers in social media and marketing. I think that I am able to maneuver around different platforms on social media now that I had never even heard of and will continue to grow as time goes by.

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Klout Score Acessment Q:4

I have gained 30 new Followers since joining this social media class.

I believe the category of users I follow the most or other Christian leaders or preachers and other classmates from this class.

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Klout Score Acessment Q:3

This is the tweet received the the most engagement out of all my Tweets. I believe that this is because Majority of the people Who liked or read tweeted this tweet for people who have been to the conference were on the team for this conference and therefore no how wonderful experience like this can be. I also think that this is a very relatable treats and a very relevant message for this time.

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Klout Score Acessment Q:2

I believe that this Tweet received very little response because not many people are familiar with Tyler Oakley’s work. I also think that because of Tyler’s sexual orientation, over all political stance on some of the major issues he tends to run people the wrong way sometimes. I also think that due the increase in cyber bullying a lot of people who are like Tyler or share his beliefs are afraid to post or repost things like this out of fear of getting bullied for doing so.

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Klout Score Assessment Q:1

This is the Tweet that received the most retweet’s. I believe that this Tweet was retweeted so many times is because it peaked some people’s interest. Meanwhile some other retweet’s came from friends who had attended this conference before and know how powerful it can be.

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1)BigHit made the right move by adding this final member toBTS- Abiz-Entertainment Buzz

This video was shared on this popular Entertainment NewsChannel nearly Two years ago and it as true today as it wasthen. In this informative video it list all of the reasons why eventhough Park Jimin was the last member to be added to the nowglobally popular 7 member kpop group, BigHit made the rightchoice in adding him to the group despite him not havingreceived as much training as the other members. Jimin whorecognizes this fact always works hard in improving his skills,and has become a key member of the BTS team. All in All Iagree with this videos point of view and think BigHit made agood call too, after all BTS just wouldn't be BTS without Jimin,or any of the other members as well. They all have their role toplay in this winning combination and I don't think that the teamwould be the same without any one of them.

2) BigHit CEO thought think that it was impossible for Jungkookto debut as a member of BTS -Abiz

-Entertainment Buzz posted yet another video about the newsuper rookie group a few years back, in regards to why BigHit'sCEO Bang Shin-Hyuk  often referred to as BangHitmanthought it was impossible for Global Super Group and popularKpop stars youngest member Jeon Jungkook to make hisdebut. In this online vlog the popular site refers to a interviewconversation in which Bang PDnim (formal speech short forpresident in Korean, which is used by to address him by hiscolleagues and underlings) talks about how Shy Jungkook wasand how even though he was talented he was so shy he couldbarely sing in front of him, let alone train properly. Thankfullyover time Jungkook came out of his shell, and began tobecome more comfortable and playful throughout his trainingprocess. Jungkook is know by his fans to be the shyestmember of the group, however he has not let that stand in hisway. Jungkook now 4 years into his career and a seasonedartist and entertainer has come into himself over the years andso even though he can still be kind of shy at moments he hasreally done a good job at overcoming this weakness and grownas an entertainer. As I have previously stated in regards to thearticle about Jimin, I truly believe BTS would not be assuccessful without all of its current members. So I like manyARMYs (the name of the BTS boys fandom) am happy thatJungkook could get over his shyness and make his Debut,because BTS would just not be BTS with out him. Now before Imove on to the next video I want to share with you what I foundto be the most striking part of this video, because it wasn't thatJungkook was shy, I already knew that. No I chose this videobecause it showed that Bang Shin-Hyuk CEO was not only justanother CEO of an entertainment company out to make afortune off this winning group, but rather it showed hishumane/fatherly side in which you could really see the careand concern he has for the boys as his artists, and as people,as well as his family. (Sidenote: for those of you who don'tknow Bang PDnim often refers to the boys as his sons andthey referred to him as father. So you can see how close theyare and how they really treat each other like a family, which isvery different from most entertainment companies particularlyin South Korea)

3)BigHit Entertainment holding open Auditions in LA to findnext global Super Star -VIP News -I chose this video because Ithink it is important to recognize how much BigHit as anEntertainment company has grown over the last few years. Inthe past only in the big three entertainment companies in SouthKorea would have held the global auditions this being SM, YG,and JYP, but as it has become a recent trend to allow otherartists from different countries in Asia to come over to SouthKorea and train to debut as kpop artists in a group as seen invarious idol Groups such as EXO (Whom are signed to SM(one of the big 3) and had three Chinese members, one beingchecked Canadian/Chinese) Cross Gene (who had membersfrom Japan and China, as well as South Korea) Got7 which isanother 7 member group signed under JYP ( one of the big 3)an they have a member who is From Thailand, a member who is from China, and a member who is from America, in additionto the 4 other members who are Korean. Pentagon a newergroup from a smaller company who made their debut last yearhave 10 members and out of those 10, 2 are from over seas one is Chinese and theother Japanese. Even SM newest group NCT is composed of several members put into multiple subunits has 6 members from China, one fromJapan, one from Thailand, one from Canada, and one from the United States, making nearly half ofthe current 24 members group which is broken down into 3 subunits(currently) overseas members from other countries who migrated to South Korea to train in hopes ofbecoming Kpop idols, in fact their are tons of companies debut mixed groups these days so I think that it is important that BigHit a company whose Artists up till now have all been Korean, jump on this newest trend and start searching for new up and coming artists globally, as this will help bridge thegap between countries and make kpop as a whole more accessible globally, which in turn can equalmore album sales, CF adds, and world tours all can add up to one thing. Chu- Ching, that right cashmoney y'all... The more successful K pop is globally and in big hits case the more successful theirartist are globally the more money they will take and in return. So in the grand scheme of things it onlymakes sense to have K pop as accessible to as many countries in the world as possible. 

4) DNA official M/V -BigHit

This is the newest MV produced by BigHit and I found it on their official YouTube site, whichcoincidentally has 3,316,697 subscribers, and the MV itself has had over 82 million views in a little over2 weeks (which is when the video was first released) This is significant as it has quickly become themost viewed Kpop video in the fastest amount of time in YouTube history, and it is breaking recordsall over the place as is the song itself which is quickly sweeping the charts and is even featured onThe billboard top 100, a feat that has not been accomplished by another kpop artist for quite sometime. There is no doubt that BTS big hits original group has been a huge success not only in Koreabut globally. I believe this is because BigHit has come up with a winning team and a winningcombination of killer music videos and study use of social media platforms to promote their video andtheir groups activities. One of the things that make this video so unique is that it's has a minimal focuson the background with bright colors so that there is still the elements of a typical K pop video typefeel without all the extras. That way the main focus will be on the members dancing (which is willsynchronized) as well as the smooth vocals and energized rap style used to enhance this Kacielectronic/ EDM styled dance song with it energizing and refreshing beat. Also this video had tosubtitles added automatically which I believe was a good move given that huge overseas market aswell as the BTS boys ever growing Fanbase. Not having to wait for subtitles definitely played a part inthis m/v achieving so many views so quickly. This music video is similar in style to their previousMusic Video for their hit song 'Not Today' another very popular video on BigHit's channel with awhopping 144 million videos.

5)Blood, Sweat, and Tears -BigHit

This another very popular video from BigHit's channel with a very different feel. The other song hasthis a similar hip-hop feel in style the video itself is completely different from previously mentionedminimal set designed them video. This video has multiple set designs and costume changes, andmuch more closely relates to what a typical Kpop video would be expectation wise.  This Video withits brightly colored set pieces, and unique story line has a whooping 188 million views and is anothersuccessful m/v for a impressive song with a good Dance Beat and multiple Vocal breakdowns thatallow each members unique talent to shine. However unlike the previous MVs that I have mentioned,it has a very elaborate set with most multiple costume changes and is very close to what the usualtrend for typical Kpop style MVs, however in spite of it's similarities to other videos done by groups likeVixx and MonsterX with their similar themes. This video has far surpassed those videos based on itssheer popularity. Whatever the reason it is it is clear that nothing is stopping this company from risingto the top of the Korean music market and making a name for it self globally.

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Facebook Election Post

Today we live in a very inpatient and quick society everybodywants their information at the cook of their fingers really quicklyand very rarely do people take the time to check the facts. I likemost people get majority of my news from social mediaspending time in on Facebook scrolling through I happen tosee a news article and I'll click on it and read what Is going on.Or the more heartbreaking news I'll get a few tweets regardingthe date and I'll go in and check it out on Twitter and see what'sgoing on. Most people today spend an average of 50 minuteson Facebook alone, Although to be honest most of us spendmore. I myself am terrible about being distracted by Facebook.Of course I'm also distracted by Twitter and Tumblr andInstagram so you know 90% of free time is actually spent onsocial media, which you can be a good and bad thing. It's goodbecause I stay connected it to the people in my life and what'sgoing on around the world and even in my own country. It's notso good because I spend so much time staying connectedonline sometimes I really don't make the time to connect topeople in person. In fact I'm not joking when I say majority ofmy friends are online friends, which means I really only talk tothem online. That was the famous quote that went around afew years ago about "if we're not friends on Facebook or notreal friends" it was supposed to be funny but sadly it's taken ona really scary but true meaning today, at least for most people.Because I spend a lot of time online I have friends all over theworld that I connect with over social media but the sad thing isthat I also use it to connect to the people who live in the samecity as me and down the street and whom I see at church onSundays every week, but only really ever talk to you onlineafter that. Social media plays a huge part in majority of our livesand staying connected with our friends and family. But it alsoallows us to stay connected with what's going on in the broaderworld. However because the sites like Facebook andInstagram and Twitter and Tumblr our social media sites theyare also sites that allow people to express their opinionsthrough them. So here's what happens when that occurspeoples opinions tend to sway the news and then we have fakenews stories popping out based on other peoples opinions.And because we live in a world that is fast moving and fast-paced we tend to want our news in five seconds,so rather thandoing the research to check whether an article. We just read itand whether this true or not we take it at face value and spreadit, there by spreading what we call fake news. This fake newsthen circulate throughout our entire friends list and then thosewho share their entire friends list and then so on and so on andbefore you know it we have a ton of fake news and nobodyreally knows what's really going on. Now some sites are tryingto cut down on fake news, so as to help stop confusion amongtheir users, but over because in platforms like this it'simpossible to stop all fake news here are some things that weshould look for in regards to fact checking suppose it affectnews. First if it has third-party sites to back it up it's probably afake news. Second if it has a ton of lower cost advertisingattached to it it's probably fake. Third if it doesn't have an sortof references to back up what the article is talking about it'sprobably fake. Now back during the election or just shortly afterthe election Facebook faced a lot of criticism because therewere a lot of people who thought that the fake news that willcirculate around Facebook did in fact sway the election. Wellwhile as a digital native and a democrat who happened to bevery passionate about this election due to my interest inpolitics, I can see how some people might think that the fakenews that was circulating could have sway the election. I don'tblame Facebook is fake stories entirely. Because honestly ifyou cared about it you would've done the research. So manypeople voted out of ignorance every year because they don'ttake time to look at the issues They just read a fake newsarticle and allow that to affect their decision. In circumstanceslike that who's fault is it is it not our fault for not taking the timeto explore what the issues are and voting according to our ownguidance and conscience rather than letting somebody justdictate what we believe because were just too lazy to

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Facebook Election Post Today we live in a very inpatient and quick society everybody wants their information at the cook of their fingers really quickly and very rarely do people take the time to check the facts. I like most people get majority of my news from social media spending time in on Facebook scrolling through I happen to see a news article and I'll click on it and read what Is going on. Or the more heartbreaking news I'll get a few tweets regarding the date and I'll go in and check it out on Twitter and see what's going on. Most people today spend an average of 50 minutes on Facebook alone, Although to be honest most of us spend more. I myself am terrible about being distracted by Facebook. Of course I'm also distracted by Twitter and Tumblr and Instagram so you know 90% of free time is actually spent on social media, which you can be a good and bad thing. It's good because I stay connected it to the people in my life and what's going on around the world and even in my own country. It's not so good because I spend so much time staying connected online sometimes I really don't make the time to connect to people in person. In fact I'm not joking when I say majority of my friends are online friends, which means I really only talk to them online. That was the famous quote that went around a few years ago about "if we're not friends on Facebook or not real friends" it was supposed to be funny but sadly it's taken on a really scary but true meaning today, at least for most people. Because I spend a lot of time online I have friends all over the world that I connect with over social media but the sad thing is that I also use it to connect to the people who live in the same city as me and down the street and whom I see at church on Sundays every week, but only really ever talk to you online after that. Social media plays a huge part in majority of our lives and staying connected with our friends and family. But it also allows us to stay connected with what's going on in the broader world. However because the sites like Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and Tumblr our social media sites they are also sites that allow people to express their opinions through them. So here's what happens when that occurs peoples opinions tend to sway the news and then we have fake news stories popping out based on other peoples opinions. And because we live in a world that is fast moving and fast-paced we tend to want our news in five seconds,so rather than doing the research to check whether an article. We just read it and whether this true or not we take it at face value and spread it, there by spreading what we call fake news. This fake news then circulate throughout our entire friends list and then those who share their entire friends list and then so on and so on and before you know it we have a ton of fake news and nobody really knows what's really going on. Now some sites are trying to cut down on fake news, so as to help stop confusion among their users, but over because in platforms like this it's impossible to stop all fake news here are some things that we should look for in regards to fact checking suppose it affect news. First if it has third-party sites to back it up it's probably a fake news. Second if it has a ton of lower cost advertising attached to it it's probably fake. Third if it doesn't have an sort of references to back up what the article is talking about it's probably fake. Now back during the election or just shortly after the election Facebook faced a lot of criticism because there were a lot of people who thought that the fake news that will circulate around Facebook did in fact sway the election. Well while as a digital native and a democrat who happened to be very passionate about this election due to my interest in politics, I can see how some people might think that the fake news that was circulating could have sway the election. I don't blame Facebook is fake stories entirely. Because honestly if you cared about it you would've done the research. So many people voted out of ignorance every year because they don't take time to look at the issues They just read a fake news article and allow that to affect their decision. In circumstances like that who's fault is it is it not our fault for not taking the time to explore what the issues are and voting according to our own guidance and conscience rather than letting somebody just dictate what we believe because were just too lazy to.

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Hello all, The journalist I chose is famed news reported of NBC’s Today Show Matt Lauer.  Matt Lauer is a new anchor/ Journalist on the Today show and has been for over 20 years. Matt Lauer has been a fount of information and has seen our country through many crisis as well as celebrations over the years. Mr. Lauer is a very smart and wise man who keeps up with all the world’s most current events, not just our own countries. He also keeps up with what is going on in politics and keeps current with what is going on there.  But not only is Mr. Lauer proficient in these areas but he is also well connect with several different celebrities, due to the fact that over the years he has had the pleasure of interviewing several people, So he is also has been keeping up with what is going on in the celebrity world, gossip wise. Matt Lauer is overall very knowledgeable and tends to be a real people person with a gentle personality, which is probably why so many people respect his opinion when it comes to these types of things.  But another area that Matt Lauer has been pursuing lately is the social media world. Matt has been pretty present on several social media platforms and as a result he has been able to stay pretty current about the most recent trends. I did some research and found out that Matt Lauer actually has over 615k followers and is often used to promote many of his professional engagements. Meanwhile Matt’s Instagram has over 141k followers and is also used to promote his professional career though admittedly on a much smaller scale, and Matt’s Facebook page  currently has aporoxmently  236,442 people who are following his Facebook page, and over 239,165 likes on his face book page, which is also often used to promote his professional career. All in all I think Matt Lauer is a pretty neat guy and an excellent example of the kind of reporter that this post is talking about.

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Siracha Challenge post

The first challenge I chose to talk about that I found similar to the Ice Bucket Challenge was the Siracha Challenge. The Siracha Challenge first made it’s appearance in 2013, To raise money for Homeless Vets, to help get them off the street, and give them some decent clothes to wear and hot meals to eat. There are roughly about 58,000 vets who are homeless every night. These are the same men and women who have served our country, who have risked their lives and their limbs for their country and then came home to no family, no creature comforts, no Job, and no place to call their own and sadly this is a ongoing problem in our society. These people are heroes and they give of themselves to fight for our country and our freedom and what do they get in return, inflated medical bills, over booked Veteran hospitals, and veterans affairs office that have to many cases and not enough assistance programs to fulfill the needs.

Now over the past few years the Siracha Challenge has made a reappearance and over time there have been a few tweaks added to spice up this already extremely spicy challenge. Originally it was one teaspoon of siracha now it has been taken up to one shot glass. The recent siracha challenge came about after the ice bucket challenge raised so much awareness for ALS, so when the big Ebola Virius scare happened they decided to try to raise awareness by doing a similar Challenge and Viola the new upgraded version of this challenge was born when 3 guys with a camera decided to raise awareness about this new disease buy pouring themselves a whole shot glass of Siracha sauce supposed to the previous table spoon that people used to do. It was originally meant to be a parody but as so often happens on the internet people who have too much time on their hands, and who will do anything for view see these kinds of stunts and try to use them to their advantage and suddenly the internet explodes with challenges like this. Like so many before it this Challenge quickly grew in popularity, instantly gaining the attention of several members of the online community and so several different youtubers began to not only take up this challenge but apply their own little twists to it. Today their are hundreds of videos done by several different walks of life, People for different countries different backgrounds,Different races and religions, different ages and genders and even with their own different takes on this challenge yet they all have one thing in common, and it is more then just a love for spicy food, or a love for making fun and creative videos. No these people have come together to make these videos with a common goal and that is a desire to make a difference in this world.They desire to make a change. They desire to make a difference in this world and to use their time and the talents to help people. These people have decided to use their platforms to make a significant change in peoples life all from the comfort of their own homes and in doing so they have helped raise awareness about these terrible diseases and have help aid in funding the necessary organizations so that they can find a cure. Isn't that wonderful? What would the world be like if we could all use our time and our talents like this.

Now I want to take just a moment to talk about some of the youtubes who have taken this challenge over the years and maybe explore the possibility as to why this challenge has become such a huge thing, and possibly even look at a few of the ways that various youtubers, viners, younowers, facebook/instagram livers and various other  social platforms which have taken it upon themselves to take up this challenge. Now I am not saying that all these people who have take this challenge did so just because they wanted to support this cause. Because I have seen some who have taken this challenge just for the views, or because they enjoy a challenge, or even simple because they enjoy following the latest trends and so they chose to do their own version of this challenge. But even in doing so without even trying they have helped raise awareness and spread the underlying message of this challenge. Which in and of itself is pretty amazing. Because there was a time when the world was not so easy to access, and where a message like this would of been much harder to share without technology. But thanks to the advances in technology and the various social media platforms we have access to today people like Alfie aka Pointless Blog a popular British youtuber with over 4 million subscibers who has taken this challenge a few years back and was able to tag some of his mates their, most of whom had several hundreds or even thousands of followers as well as tag his friend Tyler Oakley here in the united states. Then Tyler Oakley a very famous and well know youtuber for states side with his channel of over 7 million subcribers was able to take the challenge and then challenge several of his friends all whom have several successful youtube channels of their own, all with  hundreds and thousands of followers of their own, and among his list of friends he has chosen to challenge is his friend Troye Sivan a famed Australian musician who got is start on, you guessed it youtube. So now Troye takes up the challenge and shares it with his hundreds and millions of followers and then challenges his own Aussie Youtube friends among which their is a well know youtuber who is or Korean decent and who is originally from Korea and is Just studying over in Australia  at the moment but most of the videos he post are in Korean. So now he takes up this challenge and shares it with his followers and tags his fellow youtube friends which include several other youtubers who are of Korean decent and even a few Chinese friends and a friend from Africa all who take up the challenge and share it with their followers, and challenge their own friends and now this message and this challenge has gone global on this  much larger scale however their is also the fact that their viewers who have seen these videos and got inspired to take the challenge themselves are also passing along this challenge so on a smaller scale you have these other lesser known youtubers passing along this challenge to and the outcome is what we came a global phenomenon called going viral. This challenge like the ALS challenge went Viral because of people like these youtuber I have just named, and they each had their own way of doing this challenge and sort of adding their own spin on it to make it their own the point is that the message was still spread across all these contents and to countries all over the world and the people who saw them then continued to share them, and along with them they were able to share the hope that they bring and if you ask me that is pretty dang cool.

Here are few examples I found of various people taking this challenge, in their own unique way:

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4 years going strong God gets all glory! Excited for the lives that will be changed and the healings in which will take place.

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SEO/SMO Tumbler Post

https://www.faithup365.com

This is one of my favorite websites it is husbands The ministry is called Faith up365. The purpose of the website is to be an encouragement to people on a daily basis. There are a variety of services that he offers whether looking for inspiration, motivation or coaching this is your guy. His skill set is large and the areas of expertise and experience are broad. His strengths are on mentorship with men, teens and marriages.  This website is used to grow many people in any walk of life from everyday life, to professional life, family life and spiritual life there is something to learn and something that will propel one to the next level they have in focus.

The name alone gives hope to bring up your faith and level of thinking that can be available to one 365 days of the year. My favorite part of the layout is 2 things the easiness of navigation through the website as well as the comfort and inspiration that is drawn from the video and the quotes. It leaves me feeling inspired. Seriously when I say the layout is easy to use from the classes being all in one area. I love the fact that it seems as if he is trustworthy as has a wealth of references. I feel the one thing that could make it better is while it is connected to some social media like facebook, twitter and google plus. I would love to see it attached to more digital outlets such as instagram, tumbler, pintrest, you now and you tube as I have great confidence in what he has to offer and want more people to see and discover this all over the world.I really enjoy this website and this is why I have chosen to share it with all of you I hope you will take the time to visit it as I feel it will benefit all of you immensely.

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Hey guys, so I have been thinking lately it is hard to go anywhere these days without hearing someone talk about HBO’S huge television hit Game of Thrones. Now this show is just the newest hit in a long line of popular fantasy based TV shows.  However this show which is currently is in its sixth season has drawn in a huge crowd of viewers, both domestically and internationally, and has become so huge that it has even has its own fandom, and many of their fans are quite passionate about this show. In fact I can’t tell you how many blogs, Tumbler accounts, Twitter accounts, Instagram account and various other social media accounts I have seen dedicated to this show. My aunt is such a huge fan of it, that she even themes her dinner around it on the night that game of thrones is on and hold like a watching party for some of the other Game of thrones fans in the neighborhood. Though I myself have never seen this show, because I am a bit hesitant to about the sex and violence I heard is featured in the show. Although I understand that is this is actually a big theme in the books that the series is based off of. However in spite of this the series has managed to procure several awards 38 Emmy Awards, 5 screen actors guild awards, and a Peabody award.

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