Author: Courtney Beacham

My Challenge: Virality

Objective: maximize views and encourage engagement with content that will cause users to spread the content to others. Who can actually resist pizza? Outcome: 621 Imgur Views + 190 Twitter Engagements = 811 Total Engagements View post on imgur.com View post on imgur.com I received great engagement on my attempt at creating a viral meme […]

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#Prop64: What do Californians think?

With the Election of 2016 coming to a close, Californians are taking to Twitter to express their thoughts about the passing of Prop 64, the legalization of recreational marijuana use for adults.  There have been many hashtags surrounding the topic of the legalization of marijuana, but the most important one to track the feelings of California residents right […]

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#ItCanWait

Context: The hashtag analyzed below is #ItCanWait. This hashtag is intended to promote the end of distracted driving. #ItCanWait is part of AT&T’s campaign which allows people to “take the pledge” to end distracted driving. Our research looked at tweets using the hashtag from 8/1 – 8/3/2016, and examined a global audience. Latest Tweets: The […]

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Why is THERE still confusion?

Deep down inside we all have that one grammatical pet peeve that we can’t get over (or in some cases, many). For me, I can’t understand what is so hard to understand about using the correct form of “their, there, they’re” when speaking. To help at the most basic level, I’ve tried my best to explain it in this explainer video. Enjoy!

For more info and examples, please visit http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blog/english-mistakes/their-there-theyre/ where I had to do a little refresher before making this.

 

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