Social Media (Lecture)

We're living in an environment where networks are natural to us, the internet connects the world and is used constantly. This lecture highlighted the importance of certain sites - and how they can be used to develop ones 'Professional image'.

We were introduced to a range of different Social Networking Sites (here are very brief notes on a few) :

Red Bubble - A place of art, design and writing - a place where you can sell you're work.

Linked In- A place for Professional, a business directory.

Myspace - Changed from a general social networking site to a place for bands and new music.

Flickr - Share Photos, link to blog etc.

SlideShare3 - Powerpoint presentation

Digg - People have the opportunity to 'vote' whether they like things

Skype - Free face to face time and file transfer.

Social Media allows us the opportunity to Publish, Share, Discuss and Socialise with other people, it allows us to present our work how we'd like it shown (for example Youtube allows videos to be made and published easily - avoiding any real input from third parties/ organisations to change scripts and ideas etc.) 

We were given some 'Top Tips for Successful Blogs

- Be Social

- Visit other Blogs

- Respond to comments

- Be Generous

- Subscribe  by email

- Share

- Assume everything's permanent 

- Be original 

- Create a news feed.

- Interview somebody

- Post Frequently

- Left align your writing

- Don't copy and paste from word

- End on a question

- Use Paragraphs

- Credit your Sources

These are useful tips, though are quite hard to follow properly due to the nature of our College Blogs. (As we are required to post Lecture notes etc, and are focused more on fitting to a brief). This therefore has made me consider starting another blog, perhaps on Tumblr (as that is a more social platform than Blogger it seems). 

I also started a Twitter account around the time of this lecture, and found it useful for networking and discovering new and interest videos/concept-art/news, it is also helpful in linking the world to our work and contacting professionals as well as being aware of work they are creating.