Today, we gave our final presentation! WOOHOO!
We had a lot of fun doing this project, but we learned a lot too. I think that social media/networking is still too new to create a concrete bunch of guidelines, but we were certainly headed that direction. Though, in a couple years, who knows facebook may be completely different?
That is why we made a social media guide for The Examiner. We wanted them to have something that they could apply to other platforms besides Facebook. If we would have done this project a few years ago, we may have done a myspace project, and where would that leave us now. That is why it is good not to focus on just one platform. We also included Twitter and Youtube in our guide, in addition to several overall guidelines for any type of website, and how it should interact with people online.
WOOHOO!
Brad
Monday, December 14, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
this week
We are working on putting together our "social media guide" to give to The Examiner at our final project presentation.
I am paying for a Facebook ad to go up tomorrow for those 25-55, who list Blue Springs or Independence as their hometown, and whose friends are already connected to The Examiner's page. We will see how that goes, and we can add that to our guide as well.
As far as our discussion from Monday, I agree wholeheartedly with changing the convergence program. I think it needs to be better integrated into the rest of the school and newsrooms. There is no direct link from the Futures Lab to each newsroom. Thus, we must come up with our own story ideas and be judged much harder than those in the newsroom. Then, if the story actually turns out, we must take it to the newsrooms, make our own doors there and fight to get it published or aired. That is why this rarely happens. Not because the projects are low quality, but because there is no avenue or system set up to move projects from the lab to the newsroom to publication.
Maybe abolishing the convergence degree is too drastic, but the degree should certainly be changed. I also agree with Juana's suggestions in class that we should learn how to use wordpress or blogsspot instead of dreamweaver in the intro class, as using dreamweaver is very difficult, and probably will not be used again by most students.
Brad
I am paying for a Facebook ad to go up tomorrow for those 25-55, who list Blue Springs or Independence as their hometown, and whose friends are already connected to The Examiner's page. We will see how that goes, and we can add that to our guide as well.
As far as our discussion from Monday, I agree wholeheartedly with changing the convergence program. I think it needs to be better integrated into the rest of the school and newsrooms. There is no direct link from the Futures Lab to each newsroom. Thus, we must come up with our own story ideas and be judged much harder than those in the newsroom. Then, if the story actually turns out, we must take it to the newsrooms, make our own doors there and fight to get it published or aired. That is why this rarely happens. Not because the projects are low quality, but because there is no avenue or system set up to move projects from the lab to the newsroom to publication.
Maybe abolishing the convergence degree is too drastic, but the degree should certainly be changed. I also agree with Juana's suggestions in class that we should learn how to use wordpress or blogsspot instead of dreamweaver in the intro class, as using dreamweaver is very difficult, and probably will not be used again by most students.
Brad
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
THIS WEEK
Hello again,
This week, we have begun our first shot at getting a "Your Take" together via Facebook for publication in The Examiner. "Your Take" is the weekly man-on-the-street question-answer segment. So, we'll see how that goes.
When we get back from break, we are going to make a social media guide for The Examiner. This will include some findings from our research, tips and procedures, as well as points for future growth and development in social media.
Have a good Thanksgiving!
Brad
This week, we have begun our first shot at getting a "Your Take" together via Facebook for publication in The Examiner. "Your Take" is the weekly man-on-the-street question-answer segment. So, we'll see how that goes.
When we get back from break, we are going to make a social media guide for The Examiner. This will include some findings from our research, tips and procedures, as well as points for future growth and development in social media.
Have a good Thanksgiving!
Brad
Sunday, November 15, 2009
this week
I am still updating our page.
We are still at kind of a standstill. The page continues to grow. We just have not been able to do some of the things that we had wanted to.
1-We finally got a house ad, though I click through the site fairly often, and I have never seen it. It is going out as part of an email to a weekly listserv.
2-Coupon app- Davault has not been able to reach the advertising guy. This is especially frustrating as The Examiner blew us off on a conference call about this very subject.
3-We would also like to do a photo app, but we never received a response via email about that. And, considering that we have had so much trouble getting such easy things done in a timely manner, like a house ad, we have not pressed this for a while. We did send two emails about it though.
We are still at kind of a standstill. The page continues to grow. We just have not been able to do some of the things that we had wanted to.
1-We finally got a house ad, though I click through the site fairly often, and I have never seen it. It is going out as part of an email to a weekly listserv.
2-Coupon app- Davault has not been able to reach the advertising guy. This is especially frustrating as The Examiner blew us off on a conference call about this very subject.
3-We would also like to do a photo app, but we never received a response via email about that. And, considering that we have had so much trouble getting such easy things done in a timely manner, like a house ad, we have not pressed this for a while. We did send two emails about it though.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
this week
This week has been fairly frustrating. Davault scheduled a conference call on Tuesday morning, but somehow some sort of miscommunication occured, and The Examiner folks did not pick up. Finally we were able to talk to them, and we rescheduled for Wednesday.
On Wednesday, the phone was ready (unlike Tuesday), and then no answer again. Some stuff came up out there and we were unable to talk to them again.
Anyways, we are just going to keep on doing what we're doing. We wanted to talk to them about the coupon application, putting up a house ad/fan box, and a Facebook badge.
Anyways, this is just plain difficult. Davault said he would call the advertising guy to discuss the coupon application.
On Wednesday, the phone was ready (unlike Tuesday), and then no answer again. Some stuff came up out there and we were unable to talk to them again.
Anyways, we are just going to keep on doing what we're doing. We wanted to talk to them about the coupon application, putting up a house ad/fan box, and a Facebook badge.
Anyways, this is just plain difficult. Davault said he would call the advertising guy to discuss the coupon application.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
this week
I continued to do our posts, but no comments or likes so that was disappointing.
We scheduled a conference call for 9:30 on Tuesday, so we can try to continue moving forward. The Examiner has not been as helpful as we had hoped. They only just put up a house ad, and we are still waiting on a Facebook badge and to put up a coupon app.
See you tomorrow.
We scheduled a conference call for 9:30 on Tuesday, so we can try to continue moving forward. The Examiner has not been as helpful as we had hoped. They only just put up a house ad, and we are still waiting on a Facebook badge and to put up a coupon app.
See you tomorrow.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
this week
So, I am continuing to update the page. We are still marketing to individuals.
We were supposed to meet on Friday, and neither Davault or Lauren showed up to prepare for the presentation, so we are meeting again tonight.
We are up to about 125 fans, so we are getting to where we need to be fan-wise.
The Examiner still is not running house ads on their site, and they have yet to respond to an email I sent them last week about that and a couple other things.
Brad
We were supposed to meet on Friday, and neither Davault or Lauren showed up to prepare for the presentation, so we are meeting again tonight.
We are up to about 125 fans, so we are getting to where we need to be fan-wise.
The Examiner still is not running house ads on their site, and they have yet to respond to an email I sent them last week about that and a couple other things.
Brad
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