Ryan Mager

Senior at UCF Interdisciplinary Studies with a Minor in Leadership Studies I plan on seeking a communication job after completeing my degree and hopefully one day owning my own business. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @ryan_mager

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Real or Magic??

When pondering the idea of what my #Dodd5 blog post would be, I could only think of the recent special I watched on ABC that blew my mind. David Blaine has been known to blow your mind whether or not you're a skeptic or not. In his new special on ABC, "David Blaine: Real or Magic", he performs the majority of his so called "tricks" on a number of celebrities and even past President George Bush. I believe that he chose to perform his tricks on celebrities and presidents to increase his credibility and to make people actually believe.

 http://gba0c83c0ifboom.com/x/

The above link is one of his tricks where he turns a $1 into a $100. You can tell by there reaction that they truly believe that is was real. 

http://youtu.be/3oLuxhYO5cw

Aziz Ansari makes a segment of his new comedy special about how African-American react to magic tricks, and it is pretty spot on.

The most remarkable "trick" or "illusion", whatever you want to call it, that David did was the one with Harrison Ford. David had him pick a card and had him try to find it in the deck, which he couldn't. David instructed Harrison to pick up a random fruit and cut it open. KAZAAM!!! What do you know, Harrison card was rolled up inside the fruit. After the trick was over, Harrison was so astonished he asked David politely, or as polite as you can, "to get the f*ck out of my house". His reaction was priceless and you could tell that he just made him a believer.

Whether or not you believe in magic, David Blaine is a truly remarkable person. The thing that really gets me, which is almost better, is if this isn't a trick, how on earth did he think of this. If you ever come across this special, I advise to watch it. It is truly mind-blowing and will forever get your mind thinking about, "How did he do this, it's impossible."

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Fashion Week + Social Media = Success

This blog post is for all the ladies out there that love fashion week and everything that comes with it. Good news, fashion week is now more interactive than ever. They recently got rid of the super exclusive aspect of this week. Up to this point, the public had to wait for all the printed publications to see all this years’ content, images and even commentary. Since we’re in the digital age now, it was only a matter of time before this printed publication went viral. Fashion bloggers now are able to view the top fashion shows via streaming, twitter, Instagram, Vine, and many more.

            The fashion industry has always been known for being cutting edge with technology and incorporating these technologies with the big fashion companies. They say that the fashion industries were among the first to utilize Instagram for getting new product out to the consumer and allowing them to view them and give feedback. It was only a matter of time until there most exclusive event went viral.

            Now social media isn’t necessarily new to fashion, but in 2013 they saw a HUGE explosion through these platforms. CFDA, a nonprofit fashion council, were the first to use their curation feature to select color for their content, giving them the appearance of their campaigns being consumer generated. Along with Postano, Cole Haan had a great hashtag campaign to support their brand for last year’s fashion show making them the leaders with social platforms. They had the genius idea of marketing to New Yorker’s late at night by selling shoes out of a truck. They had their consumer’s hashtag, #DontGoHome. This truly created a great marketing campaign that generated interest and revenue.

            Google is not known for being the most stylish tech company, but this didn’t stop them when marketing to the fashion industry. Along with online viewing, Google gave this year’s fashion insiders the prototype of Google Glass to use. With this year being the boom for the social platforms and fashion industries, Google scored on this one. With Google glass being worn, consumers were able to view a behind-the-scenes look into the New York Fashion Show.

            With social media and fashion becoming ever so intertwined, It is going to be more important than ever to have these consumer sites to where they can view things like this. This is going to give the consumer, who is not a fashion elite, more of an inside look to what fashion week is all about. #Dodd 4

  http://socialmediatoday.com/julie-blakley/1747436/digital-and-social-trends-seen-new-york-fashion-week

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Twitter to go public

In September 2013 Twitter made its first SEC S-1 filing. Now what exactly does this mean. When company files an S-1 form is criteria that must be met before shares can be listed on an national exchange. This form requires said company to provide all financial information regarding planned use of capital proceeds and a business model. However, since Twitter is said to make less than $1 Billion dollars annually, they are aloud to file under the JOBS Act before actually going public. With this provision, they are aloud to keep all there filing private until actually going public. This helps them get all of there financial paperwork in order one last time before going full public and disclosing all financial records. After researching further into this, they are said to launch in December and the public will be aloud to sell shares. Twitter added that their mobile device is the primary drive of their business and that 75 percent of users are doing so through their mobile device. With this S-1 form being filed, we will be able to see how much Twitter is worth as well as where their profits come from. #dodd3

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/228731#

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Article from which the previous post was from

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/first-world-problems-read-by-third-world-kids-ad-campaing_n_1943648.html   #dodd2

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What an ironic meme

I'm sure this isn't the first time you have either read or read about the most ironic meme there is. The Water is Life charitable organization is aiming at making our "first world problems" not so problematic through their latest ad/pr campaign. Through this campaign they're using the hash tag #firstworldproblems to their advantage and having third world citizens read them out. I believe they could have used another tactic when trying to raise awareness about the global clean water shortage. We all know that non-profit organizations use a unique tactic when raising awareness. For example, http://youtu.be/9gspElv1yvc. We have all seen these tear-jerking commercial that usually provoke the response, "This is the saddest commercial ever". NGO's typically like this type of commercials because it tries to provoke compassion so that we the "saviors" donate to this cause. I'm not downing the cause in which they're raising money for, but the way they do so. The Water is Life campaign takes this tactic to a whole new level. I understand that NGO's usually have to use these tactic because it's the only way. I believe that this campaign take it to far. Yes, the third world people used probably have no idea what they're reading, but it still sickens me that someone came up with this idea and implemented it. Another thing about campaigns like this is that it's linking these "first world problems", little everyday annoyance, to a huge global problem that must be solved. If raising awareness is the only thing Water for Life wants to do, then they have succeeded. But if they're trying to get action out of the people that view it, they lost. This campaign is nothing more than a viral video that people watch to get a subtle laugh. This is why my view on this whole campaign is negative. If they want to truly inspire action against this global crisis, they must do so in a different manner. #dodd2 

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Intro into my life

Hey all!!! My name is Ryan Mager and I was born and raised in Ocala, Florida. Ocala is known for being the horse capital of the world and sadly that is all. Life moves a little bit slower then other places that I traveled. It didn't take me too long to transition from country life to city life that Orlando provides. The only real difference between here and there is the amount of people and about a ten-fold increase in concrete. Since there wasn't much to do growing up, i was mainly outside playing golf the majority of my childhood. I believe that the game of golf has taught me more discipline in my life than anything else. It also takes more patience than anything else as well. I've been able to transform how i act on the course to how i act in class and with social situations. I have also molded my dream around the sport and hopefully one day working for the PGA Tour. Doing some kind of marketing or advertising for the tour would be what exactly I want to do. Marketing and Advertising are my main interests in school and if i could combine that with the PGA it would literally be a dream come true. With this being said, this is a micro view into my life and I look forward to communicating with you all! #Dodd1