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How I Get My News

{ April 6, 2009 @ 5:19 pm } · { Social Media Class }
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If every newsroom closed its doors for good tomorrow morning, what would you do?

I personally would not be to upset. For the most part I receive my news from what I find on the Internet.
I do occasionally flip on the TV to the nightly news but usually it’s only when I’m doing homework. The only reason I usually even put it on the news channel is because I only receive five channels and it’s the only thing on besides infomercials.
Newspapers I rarely look at. The only paper I ever read is the O’Colly and to be honest I generally skim the pictures and read my horoscope.
Most of my news I find from the internet. I open up my web browser to the MSN homepage. If there headline stories interest me I will click on them and usually skim the article. If there is a topic that really gets my attention I will go to Google and type it in and find some searches that look good. Most of the time the searches lead me to blogs or personal Web sites that provided as much information if not more that I would find on TV or in newspapers. Something else that I like in the internet news over TV or Newspapers is the span of pictures. I would rather look threw 50 pictures of one event than to sit and read a whole article on it.

http://mediaemerging.com/2009/04/03/25-questions-for-journalism-and-pr/

New Blogging Starting

{ March 25, 2009 @ 2:54 pm } · { Social Media Class }
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In class Tuesday we were told that our blogging assignment is being changed.  We are now blogging about any aspect of social media.  I figured I would start with the most popular types of Web sites for social media.

As of January 2009 the top 5 are:

5. linkedin.com currently has 42,744,438 logins per month.

4. flixter.com currently has 53,389,974 logins per month.

3. twitter.com currently has 54,218,731 logins per month.

2. myspace.com currently has 810,153,536 logins per month.

1. facebook.com currently has 1,191,373,339 logins per month.

http://blog.compete.com/2009/02/09/facebook-myspace-twitter-social-network/

I am personally a user of facebook and twitter.  I have a linkedin account however I must say I have not logged into it since I created the account.  I am really starting to enjoy twitter.  I used to be a just a facebook user but with all these updates and changes I am being to like facebook less and less. 

What is your favorite social media site and why?

Socially Orange – Needing Some Content

{ March 9, 2009 @ 2:43 pm } · { Social Media Class }
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In class last week we talked about our website www.sociallyorange.org as well as videos.

First we discussed the need to generate content on Socially Orange.  We have the site up and ready to go, but now it is just sitting there waiting to be used.  As we discussed in class it is hard to break into a new habit, and that is what Socially Orange is.  I’m sure everyone checks there facebook/e-mail/twitter at least three or four times a day, so now we need to add socially orange to that list.  Not only do we need to start to check it, we need to interact with the sites other users. 

Last week we also learned the how easy it is to make and edit videos.  We used Prof. Handy’s flip camera and recorded a short interview video.  We then put it on the computer and showed how simple it was to edit it.  We attempted to upload it to YouTube, but our classroom technology was not cooperating, so that task will be showed to us this week.

Communications Expo

{ March 2, 2009 @ 3:34 am } · { Communications Expo }
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Last Thursday I went to the JB expo, and it went really well.  There were not as many companies there as I was expecting but I still think I was able to make some great connections.  I talked to five or six different companies like Associated Centers for Therapy, Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency, University Marketing and News 9.  All companies I talked to seem really excited to be there and helping students in their future careers.

At the expo I talked to Beverly Moore who worked for ACT.  She told me that her company was not there looking for internets but just to network.  Well I got to talking to her and told her how I am interested in PR for oil and natural gas companies.  She has a really good friend in Tulsa who is in PR working for an oil and natural gas company and she gave me his information and is forwarding my resume onto him.  It’s amazing how networking works!

Socially Orange

{ February 23, 2009 @ 6:16 pm } · { Social Media Class }
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www.sociallyorange.org is now up and running! 

Our class project is to design a place for all types of people to network.  We want students, professionals, professors, high school students and any other interested canidates to join in our discussions.  We want this network to be a place where people can post questions they have about any aspect of the JB fields, and a place they can connect and get answers as well as meeting other people interested in the same things they are.

We used Ning to create our social network.  Right now we  have the basics done.  For the time being the site is primarily directed towards the college age students.  We are brainstorming our ideas for our discussion rooms and what we think would be important information that JB students want to know. 

What suggestions do you have that you think would  be important issues to discuss on sociallyorange?

Tornados and Social Media

{ February 15, 2009 @ 5:24 pm } · { Social Media Class }
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Class on Tuesday…we started to talk about the social media site we are going to create, our Mayberry.  We talked about who we want to join and how they are connected.  We got about this far when the Stillwater sirens started going off.  We went to the basement and took cover from the tornado (or lack thereof).

Thursday we continued to discuss our Mayberry.  We brainstormed on how each group is connected.  We also talked about how we wanted the ‘rooms’ in our Mayberry to be connected.  From this point on we are taking the discussion online to brainstorm more ideas.

The Magic of Twitter

{ February 9, 2009 @ 2:47 am } · { Social Media Class }
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Class was full of Tweets! We learned all about the basics of twitter in class on Tuesday. We learned how to send a direct message along with replies and retweeting someone else’s posts. We learned about the magic of tweetdeck, twitter search, and many other applications to make twitter more interactive.

We also learned the value of smaller posts. My prof Bill Handy told us a story about a prof who gave an assignment that said the students had to write the shortest story possible that has to involve religion, romance, and mystery. The only A was: Oh God I’m pregnant, I wonder who the dad is?

We also had a guest speaker on Thursday to talk to us about Social Media, however I was home with the flu so I did not get to hear them speak.

Micro-Blogging

{ February 1, 2009 @ 3:36 am } · { Social Media Class }
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In class on Thursday we learned about micro blogging, specifically Twitter.

Micro blogging is a great way to let your friends and family know how you are doing. I think it’s a great way to keep in touch; however you need to be careful with how often you do micro blog. I think it would be ok to use it 2 or 3 times a day but not excessively.

I have recently joined the community of Twitter. Twitter is a great tool to use to connect with my friend and family. My favorite aspect to Twitter is that I can connect it to some many of my other social net works, like facebook and my blog.

The Beginning

{ January 26, 2009 @ 2:20 am } · { Social Media Class }
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On Jan. 22 we received our second assignment in my social media class, and this assignment is to blog.  I am a newbie to the blogging world so here goes. 

I am supposed to create my own blog based on my social media class and a topic of choice.  I have to make two posts per week, one about each topic.  I am also required to make two comments per week on other blog that I think are interesting.

 So here is my jump into the blogging world hope that you enjoy it!

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