Introduction: Putting that knowledge into practice There are lots of resources out there that team you how to optimize your website for SEO, and teaches you all the best practices and everything, but very rarely do they give you any way to put that knowledge into practice and set up your own SEO strategy, thus… Read More Learning How to Optimize Your Blog Posts for SEO | Optimizing This Blog Post
So, I went and kicked off a social media campaign. In a previous blog post I talked about how I was going to do something for Amazon, since I was inspired by them after a short freelance assignment with them. They had a conference back in December, and another one in January, which took place… Read More Case Study + Analysis – Two day impromptu social plan, looking at the results
OK, you share how we should get started, but now I want to ask you…. How should I get started? Something occurred to me just a few minutes ago before I sat down to start working on this blog post; How should I market myself? I spent a lot of time thinking about my business… Read More A quick step back to reassess priorities – What is the most important thing to do right now?
Ok, you decided to go solo, so you should probably get started on that… but where do you start? “Getting started” is arguably the hardest part about doing anything – from writing a story, to writing a blog post, to taking pictures, to, hell, f*kin’ getting out of bed in the morning. Obviously, starting a… Read More Starting your own social media agency – What do you need to get started?
This is a new thing that i’m going to try doing, end the week with big and interesting news in the advertising/marketing/PR industry. Not a lot, just some large things that seem to be pretty interesting. This first go is a test, to see how it goes. So, let me know how it goes. Layoffs… Read More This Week in Industry News: Layoffs and Shakeups
There’s been quite the flurry of news in the past couple weeks. On one had, the world is going to end, and everyone is going to die. On the other hand, our economy is crumbling, and all our work and jobs are all going to become homeless. Homeless, and dead, it would seem. Of course,… Read More How will digital media manage information in the future?
A little while ago, last week probably, I noticed a very interesting reaction that I had to one of the news notifications that popped up on my phone one day. I think it was last Saturday, during the election that took place in South Carolina. The election was called for Joe Biden immediately, and every… Read More One Way Social Media Impacted the Way we Read the News
There’s something that I’ve learned in grad school, a skill that I’ve neglected for many, many years. It’s a skill that’s very important, and it’s important to succeed in today’s professional world, but it’s also very easy to ignore, or perhaps, take for granted. That skill? Fostering relationships. In this program, I was assigned a… Read More Learning to Foster Relationships
This week, we had an in-class activity where we looked at some digital issues of the day, and as a small group, we put together a mock-conference that focuses on today’s digital divide. In case any of my wonderful readers out there aren’t familiar, “digital divide” is basically a term that describes the gap between… Read More What Should We Talk About In a Digital Divide Conference?
In class last week, we all gave some presentations about different social media platforms, and the platform that I chose was VK, a Russian social media platform. I chose that platform because, in short, I just had a feeling that it would become important in the future, sometime. I decided to revisit the VK… Read More How do some Social Media Platforms Get So Big, while Going Unnoticed?
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