Twitter, up until recently, was more of any annoying tool utilized by my journalism professors to teach me about the ever changing media market. Now, it’s a platform where I express ideas, obtain information and promote my own personal brand. My semester has cumlinated into the blossoming of my social media presence. I now know […]
Read more "Personal Growth & Influence: My Semester With Social Media"With only two weeks of class left, I can honestly sit here and say time has flown by. This semester has brought me so many highs and yes, my fare share of lows, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything; I’ve seriously grown as not only a person but as an academic. When I started […]
Read more "The best of the best"In 2011 I established my Twitter handle, @laurakellerman_. My early Tweets all tended to revolve around some sort of high school dilemma, achievement, or observation, but none of my Tweets were truly noteworthy. Fast-forward to 2017 and what am I left with? An outdated Twitter handle with zero activity or engagement and a bunch of […]
Read more "A Social Media Lesson in How to Gain Followers"Before this class, I hardly used Twitter. When I did, I was a “dipper”–someone that will read other posts, maybe favorite a few tweets, but rarely post myself. Therefore, my follower count was steady, as there was no content to draw in new followers; however, this class forced me out of my comfort zone and […]
Read more "Social Analysis and Top 10 Tweets"Starting out in this course, I was not an avid Twitter user. Over the course of the semester I was able to take all of the strategies and lessons we learned in class and apply them to create a new Twitter focused skillset. Since the beginning of this course my Klout score has risen from […]
Read more "Social Influence"I guess you can say that I have gained a following on Twitter. I started out with 197 followers and now I have about 268 followers, that’s a growth of 36%! Whoa! I wasn’t an avid user of Twitter so this growth shows that I have higher levels of engagement and an expansion in my […]
Read more "Started From the Bottom Now My Klout Score is Up Here!"Part 1: Influence At the beginning of this semester, I wasn’t using my social media accounts very effectively — they were purely channels for me to communicate with my friends and look at funny memes. However, after taking this class, I think I’ve leveraged my profiles efficiently and made the most out of my influence, […]
Read more "Of GIFS and Memes: My Growth as a Social Media Influencer"Personal Analysis When this class first started, I thought that I knew everything there was to know about Twitter. This, however, was not the case. This semester, not only have I improved my tweeting skills but have also been able to gain and refine so many other social media-related skills. In regards to Twitter, this class made me […]
Read more "Influencer Growth and Ananlysis / Top 10 Tweets"At the beginning of this course, I had 0 followers on Twitter, and now I have 28! and I had a Klout score of 0 and now I have a 24. I realized I gravitate toward tweeting about design, which happens to work quite well honestly. I think I tried a few times to be […]
Read more "This course is over?"Hi. I’m Amelia and before this course I sucked at Twitter. I had 36 followers, and only one tweet…which was a retweet from the start-up I interned with over the summer. I took this course to up my social media skills, and although I’m not a professional, I’d like to think I’ve learned a thing […]
Read more "How I Became An Influencer…jk but this is how I improved"