Social Media Weeek

During social media week I learned a lot about how social networks can set me up for my career and help me network with professionals while I'm in college. This will make it easier for me to meet my career goals. I chose to follow businesses on facebook for social media week and I think it helped me understand how much of a 24/7 job any media career is. These businesses had posts ALL THE TIME! It was a convenient project for me however, and I have to admit I found it pretty interesting. I love watching the news so having news stories from my area of the state as well as other news sites around Ames and nation-wide was really useful.

I thought the articles on social media week were very interesting. The amount of ways that social sites can be used amazes me. I was fascinated by the article that talked about how social networking sites are being used to promote public safety in Mexico. To me, that's one of the wonderful (and beneficial) uses of these sites that their creators could never have foreseen. I learned a lot from the article about using twitter to promote yourself to potential clients. It made me want to go look at my own facebook page and think about what an employer might think of what they see there. Just FYI, I'm pretty sure I would be fine!

Overall, I enjoyed the social media week a lot more than I thought I would when it started. It was really nice to be able to incorporate my course work into my daily routine. Plus, now that I think about it, I could even incorporate these same techniques in my career as a journalist. (Good thing I enjoyed it, huh?) I have a new appreciation for what sites like twitter and facebook can do to help (or harm) my career!