I am #MoreThanMyName because I am more than the judgments people may pass about me based on it. #NHsmc — Daisia Glover (@daisiaglover) November 16, 2015 This tweet has a total engagement of 8, including four likes and two retweets. I tried to tweet something very real and relatable that would also inspire thought and […]
Read more "I’ma let you finish, but Daisia had 10 of the best tweets of all time"When I first started COM 600, I had never really thought my social media platforms could be used as a tool to brand myself on the web. All I would really use them for was too see what was going on in the world, and post things that I felt were interesting. At the beginning […]
Read more "Started From the Bottom Now I’m Here: Fall 2015 Twitter and Klout Growth"Start – Followers: 277 & Following: 564 End – Followers: 449 & Following: 660 Coming into the class in September, I only had 277 followers on Twitter and was far from being an active user. However, tweeting each week for class inspired me to get into regularly posting on Twitter. My current follower audience size is 449, […]
Read more "Twitter Game On Fleek"By utilizing the strategies and tools taught in this course (COM 427: Social Media for Communicators), I have been able to transform my social media footprint. My perception and knowledge of current trends in social media has changed considerably over the past several weeks. I now understand the benefit in using targeted and strategic tactics in order […]
Read more "Top 10 Tweets"Through the course of the entire semester, I began to grasp and understand how to better manage ‘social media’. At the beginning, only a few short months ago, there is no denying that I was wary of social media in general and tried to keep myself away and my personal information safe. Sitting here, typing […]
Read more "@theSteinTimes Top 10 Tweets"Virtually everyone I see daily – my peers, professors, and friends – use social media in some form. Social media is used to share thoughts, articles, interests, and content. Individuals in my age group like to think that since we have grown up with social media and since or personalities demand it, we have all mastered […]
Read more "Rising Social Influence"Ok, lets be honest. When I was told on the first day of class to record how many followers I had on Twitter, not only was I surprised to see I was following the second highest amount of people (462), I was amazed to see that I had one of the highest number of followers […]
Read more "My Unexpected the Power to Influence"My top tweet of the semester was a picture at Ethan Zuckerman’s speaking engagement “Insurrectionist Civics & Digital Activism in the Age of Mistrust”. In the picture there are a few of my classmates, Ethan, and Prof. Grygiel. This post did particularly well because many of the people in the class retweeted or liked it, […]
Read more "GB’s Best of Fall’15"Fourteen weeks, forty-three students and one hashtag. Throughout the course, COM 427: Social Media for Communicators, countless tweets have been generated with hopes of teaching students how to engage with Twitter as a powerful platform. As the semester comes to an end, one that arrived sooner than expected, I have begun to reflect on my social media […]
Read more "My Finest Final Ten"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"