Social Media paper

Social Media
26.03.2010
Amanda Stefanopoulos

After looking through several random websites, watching a few videos, reading an article or two, and looking through a slide I found out that there is no real definition of what social media is or can be. Social Media is such a broad topic in which many things fall under. I found that it’s not what you are needing or wanting to gain from that media that is important it’s how you do it that is. You have to have done a good amount of research not only on your target audience, your product at hand, and the type of media that you’re going to be using, but you have to look outside of the box and be free to ask several questions.

With our project the goal is to mainly create new innovative ideas for a small company that wants to expand its audience. Right now there will be several unanswered question, because we have no direct assignment. I believe this is important, because there are no set limitations; which is a key factor to social media from what I’ve gathered. I believe we need to figure out and answer the questions above, but be free to ask and answer other questions in hopes of gaining a more creative outcome. In a power point that I found they stated three crucial steps to identify. First you should create your content; which is simply creating a network, such as facebook, a blog, twitter,etc. We have already started this process by creating a blog now we just need to move on to step two. This is where we need to make connections with people outside of our group. It shows that it is possible to do this by creating online profiles, seeking out new friends, and interacting with the ones you already have. The third step is to make recommendations you have a rating review system, be able to tag or rank content, and possibly contribute useful articles or links. I believe we have a solid grasp on most all of this on our blog so far: however I think once we get a good direction started we could implement this more properly by going into depth with what we want to do and open it up to questions, comments, and suggestions from the public. On this slide there were several examples and plenty more useful information to check out.

Furthermore I found a website with random articles on how different companies or corporations use social networking and other things. This website gave examples from facebook, twitter, IBM, Zohos, and many others. I didn’t go through all the articles, but I schemed a couple and it seemed as though many of their aims were on research. Trying to answer questions like, where do people get most of their information from?, How do you combine what your wanting to achieve with what the world or audience wants?, and if you have more than one audience or goal how do you not miss or leave anything out? Some had a few answers for themselves, but mostly they are problems that you can’t solve until you fail or succeed. This site seemed very useful to me, because it opens up your mind to new questions; which ultimately broadens you outcomes.

Lastly is the all too well known YouTube. YouTube is a website phenomenon that caught on all over the world. This site has been and probably will remain a top spot for social media. Whether it be just basic home videos or videos ultimately targeting and benefiting a company it seems to somehow work. You are not only able to share your videos, but the site allows you to make recommendations, comments, and shows how many people have watched. These three things are crucial factors to the person who posted the video. It resolves and eliminates those unanswered questions we all have. This website made a huge turning point in social media and I think shows just how limitless the world of social media can be.

Social media is key part of just about every human beings lives. It gives us direction, wants, needs, desires, and educates us. It helps all people no matter how little or how big their information is make a name for themselves. Through social media we can achieve many goals and gain more outcomes for our project. If we allow others to help us answer questions and give us feedback there is no reason we can’t be successful in this project or any project we may have in the future.