Part 1: Influence When I first began COM 427: Social Media for Communicators, I was pretty mediocre at Twitter. I had a personal handle that I tweeted my thoughts that had no rhyme or reason and definitely lacked a consistent voice. With this in mind, I decided that I wanted to totally re-define myself on […]
Read more "How I Improved My #SocialMedia Presence"From when we started this class at the end of August until now, my Twitter follower growth has grown. I started with 517 followers, and I ended with 523 followers. That is a gain of 6 followers. Although this is a small number, it shows that me being back on Twitter after taking a long […]
Read more "Influencer/Top 10"Influence: I started my social media class with 70 followers on Twitter and after only 3 months, the number increased a 49% to 104 followers. As well, I started with a Klout score of 18 and it escalated to 49, which means a rise in 172%. View post on imgur.com I noticed that the posts that […]
Read more "Twitter Influencer"At the start of this semester my Twitter was in dire need of revamping. I had previously used my Twitter for social purposes with very little professional content. Prior to this class, I was considering deleting my Twitter all together and going inactive. However, NHSMC allowed me to keep my follower base with a new […]
Read more "“New Twitter, New Me”: A look at my New and Improved Twitter"Before this class I had never posted a tweet on my page, although I had created it in 2009. I had a mere 19 followers on Twitter to begin with and my Klout Score was 15.58. I was not aware of how to use Twitter, however, as I became more active on social media for professional […]
Read more "Twitter Influence: This is just the beginning"At the beginning of the semester and before my social media crash course, I had only 103 followers on Twitter. I went on maybe once a week and never tweeted anything. I wouldn’t follow me either. At the end of the semester I’ve grown my follower count to 134 ( a 30.1% increase) and grown […]
Read more "My Twitter Semester"At the start of this class, it had been months since I’d used my Twitter account. I created a professional one last fall to promote my radio news stories for class, but since then, it’d been pretty inactive. I could have used my more personal account that already had more than 500 followers and thousands […]
Read more "How I Became a Twitter Influencer In Three Months"Part 1: Influence I have used Twitter since high school for staying updated with news, but I never really tweeted. When I started this class, I decided to keep the Twitter that I had prior to this class. I wanted to keep my network from home and then build on it. I deleted all of […]
Read more "How @sydddrod became @sydearodriguez"As a senior public relations student about to embark on my first job search, I took COM 427: Social Media for Communicators during the Fall 2016 semester with hopes of strengthening my personal brand, building a greater online presence, and learning social media skills to improve myself as a candidate for employment. At the beginning […]
Read more "Influencer Growth and My Top 10 Tweets"Throughout the semester I gained 30 followers and my final follower count for the semester is 267, this is a 12.65% percent increase. The best ways to gain followers would be to tweet relatable content, tag the right influencers and use relevant hashtags/ media to get the content (and your profile) in front of more […]
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