Coming into a social media class as non-social media person was most definitely a challenge. I was not exactly thrilled at the thought of having to tweet on a regular basis- even on a weekly basis. After taking this course I am still not a huge fan of Twitter but I can use it efficiently […]
Read more "I Still Don’t Like Twitter; But Now I Understand It"Twitter was never my go-to social media platform. If I wanted to get a message out to a large audience of people I would go to another platform, such as Facebook, where I had a larger following. This semester we learned about and experimented with different ways to get a large number of impressions and […]
Read more "10 #Winning Tweets"Followers Day 1: 0 Followers Now: 46 Starting from scratch and building a follower base on Twitter is definitely not easy. Yes, of course I had a Twitter account with hundreds of followers before this class, who didn’t? However, I like to keep my school/work life and personal life separate, so there I was […]
Read more "Slowly But Surely Becoming Influential"Throughout the course I have tweeted a lot, using the hashtag #NHsmc. Certain tweets have made more impressions and generated more engagement than others, due to different aspects of the tweet, including media content, hashtags, and mentions. After analyzing the impressions and engagements of my tweets, I have collected my top 10 tweets of the […]
Read more "My Top 10 Tweets"Having “top tweets” are definitely difficult for someone who started her Twitter from scratch. Gaining engagements and impressions are not as easy as one would think, and one must always be strategic in what they say, hashtag, and include in tweets. Check out my tips for the best ways to gain influence and engagements on […]
Read more "The Art of Tweeting"The most successful tweet from this past semester that included the class hashtag was my tweet promoting a YouTube video made with a friend. This tweet currently has 757 impressions with 26 engagements. I knew any tweet in which I tagged my friend James would get engagements due to @GongoozleTV’s over 4,000 followers. Jame’s title […]
Read more "@emjaywatson’s Top 10 Tweets"Before I started this class, I really only used Twitter as a social media platform, to see what people were talking about or retweeting the things that people were talking about. I had never really seen it as a place, that I could mold myself to create a brand and show my following who I […]
Read more "Top 10 Tweets of the Semester"At the beginning of the semester, I had a Twitter account that I had made for another class, however, as my followers and tweets showed, I did not use it regularly. I had used a personal Twitter account previously, but had not had much experience using Twitter in a professional manner. Throughout the semester I […]
Read more "Growing My Twitter Following in NHsmc"Below are my top 10 tweets of the semester. They all contain the hashtag #NHsmc. Below each tweet, I further elaborate on why I believe it is significant and received the kind of engagement that it did. A little #WednesdayWisdom on this #humpday #NHsmc pic.twitter.com/dWv7dhG1Ly — Helena Battipaglia (@HC_Batt) November 11, 2015 Using Topsy, I […]
Read more "My Top 10 Tweets"I tweeted only sporadically before the start of this class, and even during class rarely tweeted anything not required with the class hashtag. With that being said, I am a more active Twitter user now, and I’d like to continue that trend. Here are my top NHsmtp tweets, chronologically. #followfriday #NHsmtp @SeinfeldToday (like the show […]
Read more "A Condensed Summary of My Top Ten Tweets"