Media Pitch

Buzzfeed Final Pitch from Tauri Howard With social media rapidly expanding, youth have begun to acknowledge themselves as public actors, claiming these platforms as tools for activism. One of the largest groups to take advantage of these platforms are young women of color. For this reason, I am proposing a Youtube talk show series created […]

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Was I Popping on Social Media?

Part 1:  Influence For this journey in Social Media, I really set out to find how to really garner the RIGHT type of attention on social media and create good content along the way. In doing this, I sought the help of professor Grygiel and her social media class to figure this out and also […]

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Influencer: Growth & Analysis

Social media always presented itself as a question mark to me. I never knew how big the platforms actually were until I moved to States and I have been on Twitter and Facebook for about ten years and until then I thought I could say wherever I wanted and use it as a personal diary. […]

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The MVT: Most Valuable Tweets

Over the course of the semester I nearly doubled my followers on twitter (from 23 to 45), made the leap to link my twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and became less afraid of the general act of tweeting. In both this class and my magazine editing class, tweeting was a required part of the curriculum for […]

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