Social Media blog

After listening to the guest speaker last class, I found it to be a good look into how a business locally uses social media to actually get results. The most interesting thing was how it seems companies give jobs in running things like twitter and facebook, maybe that won't be the only thing you have to do at work, but it is a pretty fun thing to do at work. Also, as for the Weekender and Times Leader like we heard about in class, I think social media is a great addition because it is much faster and easier for customers to get when they can't get a physical copy of the publishment itself

Phillies Blog

Well as of this point in the year, basically everything the Phillies tweet is a recap of the last spring training game. I get the same 3 messages every day. One on twitter, one on facebook, and one on my iPhones MLB At Bat 2010 app. Without going into too much detail because there is so much talk amoungst them about how certain players are doing, the main topics have been about their pitching situation. How some pitchers are doing opposed to others and what the final rotation will be as of Opening Day. As of the news that has been tweeted, as a Phillies fan it is safe for me to assume the final rotation will be Halladay, Hamels, Blanton, Happ, and Kendrick

Phillies Blog, March 4th

Well Spring Training has starting and I'm pumped. All of the tweets have been about games and players. A few tweets were "Moyer Tosses three scoreless frames" and "Adjustments benefit Kendrick, Polanco".
That might not sound like anything interesting to you, but for me, I'm a huge Phils fan so thats the kind of stuff I want to know about. I mean if your going to follow the Phils, I think you should expect to read things like that. Especially this time of year. A few posts ago I think I said that it was the calm before the storm, well now the storm is starting to brew, nothing major, just some tweets about what we can expect. Then some April, I predic tweets like crazy.

Social Media Blog, conversation I had about YouTube

I had a conversation with somebody while at WBRE on my internship the other day, and I thought it was a good observation to share with you. I actually mentioned about this on my test, but I think it's true so I'll talk about it here.
While talking to somebody I am interning with in the commercial department of WBRE, we started talking about indy film making, since we are both interested in it. He was telling me about how production companies produce things but onlt with distribution, you have to do it all yourself, thats what happened to Rob Zombie with house of a thousand corpses. Well that got us talking about YouTube. YouTube is such a great thing, because now, when we are watching a video online (which is a great way to distribute your videos without needing that production company) we don't expect good quality. It makes us so anybody can make what ever they want without needing expensive equiptment. I just can't decide is this is a good thing or bad thing, or a little of both.

Phillies Blog

Well Spring training is about to begin, and all of the Phillies tweets are about progress and what exactly will be happening/who will be playing come spring training. For example some of the tweets were, "Sanchez is last left from Abreu trade" "Hamels adding curve, cutter to arsenal", and "Lidge, Romero continue progress". But the one tweet that was huge news was Roy Halladay would be starting the first spring training game against the Yankees. Arguably the two of the top pitchers in the league, facing off in spring training. This was a big tweet, stirring up a lot of talk in ESPN and making me go nuts because I couldn't wait for the game. From now on the season will start to me in swing, I can expect most of the tweets to be about the games itself.

Social Media Blog (Snow day week)

I wanted to mention in this blog about a website I stumbled upon with my friends when we were snowed in a few weeks back. We heard of a website, which I'm sure you all have heard of called chatroulette. It sounded awesome so we checked it out. Anybody that doesn't know what it is, it takes your webcam, and instantly links you up in a chat with a complete stranger, if your done talking/looking at them, click next, BAM you get somebody else.
We must have been on it for a few hours, it was addicting. Be warned, theres a lot of perverts as its not regulated, but put that aside, it's pretty cool. It's insane that you can look into somebodys life that can be in the same state, or around the world with the click of a mouse. Its totally worth checking out