Topic 6 - Nurturing a Social community to build deeper relationships

 

 

Bellah, Madsen, Sullivan, Swidler and Tipton (1985), in their book Habits of the Heart, define community as follows:
A community is a group of people who are socially interdependent, who participate together in discussion and decision making, and who share certain practices that both define the community and are nurtured by it. Such a community is not quickly formed. It almost aways has a history and so is also a community of memory, defined in part by its past and its memory of the past. (p.333)

There are plenty of social media tool in today's society. In some words, these tools are somewhat of exceptions. But How Social Media Might Improve Personal Relationships ?

"Now that’s not to say that I think social media is killing personal relationships really. The only ones who can do that are ourselves if we slack off and stop making a decent effort just because social media is “easier.” In fact, I do think social media can do positive things in helping to build relationships — especially new ones.
Most importantly, I think social media tools have the ability to serve as a stepping stone to deeper and more personal relationships with those we want to build them with. For example, I’d known a particular freelance writing colleague for a while. And I knew she lived just a few towns over. We got to know each other mostly through blogs, but also kept in touch occasionally through Twitter. Because of that, we later met in person a couple of times. And at that point we really took the time to get to know each other better on a more personal level — discussing family, local shops, and such rather than solely work. In that case I like to think of social media as a sort of extended introduction."


Conclusion:

  In my opinion, we had to admit that social media indeed decrease the time people talking to each other face to face. But we also have to admit that people communicate to each other more than before through the social media.


References:
http://socialimplications.com/is-social-media-killing-personal-relationships/

Topic 4 - Social Media Strategy Planning/ do you have--a social media plan??

Do you have any social media plan?
How long does the plan costs you to make?
How do you plan?
What should you think when you making the social media plan??


Before you do make the social media plan, you need to have:
_Goals
_Objectives
_Strategies
_Tactics
Above we can call: OGST.

There are four parts of social media plan:
*Listen.
 ---locate consumers
 ---assess their social activities
 ---look for small, focused audiences;

*Plan.
 ---define business objectives
 ---how can your brand's strengths be extended online?

*Strategy
 ---how and where will you do it?
 ---how will relationships with consumer's change?
 ---who will be leading this effort?

*Tools
 ---decide what social tools you will use.
 ---how will you monitor activities and measure success?

Whether you are a small business or a large corporation, having a social media presence is imperative, not just to help drive traffic to your site, but to help you engage your customers, as well.

The top social media sites that business owners should have presence in include:

1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. Tumbler
4. Pinterest
5. YouTube
6. Foursquare
7. LinkedIn
8. Instagram
9. Google+
10. Digg

Reference:
http://www.sleeplessmedia.com/blog/managing-your-social-media-marketing-strategy-and-the-tools-available/

what you think about social media?

what you think about social media?

 

Although we all know that social media develop rapidly, it just seem somethings happen these years. In some elderly people's opinion, they know something about social media, but they are not really interested in reading that, or may even not believe that. Because they think sometimes the social media are just advertising what they want and what they can benefit from. However, anyway, social media do play an important role in our life now, which make our life more colourful and wonderful. :)  xxxxxx

 

 

 



RE: New video warns of online dangers

New video warns of online dangers

Tuesday, 03 September 2013

A short film on the perils of social media, created by brother and sister duo Samantha and Shane Asbury, is now being featured in a statewide cyber safety campaign.

The Victorian Coalition Government’s It’s There For Life campaign follows increasing reports from young people that posts and images on social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter have resulted in them missing out on jobs, being bullied and stalked or even breaking the law.

Minister for Youth Affairs Ryan Smith said the film creatively captured the issues around online posting.

“The Coalition Government is taking action to help young people protect their privacy and their reputation and the film is a great reminder of why it’s important to think twice before uploading photos or posting online,” Mr Smith said.

“We want young Victorians to have the best start, but if you've posted something inappropriate online there’s a chance a prospective employer may have found the post and made a judgement before they’ve even met you.”

With many more employers and recruitment agencies scanning online posts of potential candidates the video is part of a broader Coalition Government campaign letting young people know that whenever you post or share something online, it really is there for life.

Ms Asbury said the video was a useful tool in teaching young people about the possible consequences of using social media.

“As secondary school teachers, both Shane and I know that all kids, from year 1 to 12, have grown up with technology all around them and easy access to computers, tablets and smart phones,” Ms Asbury said.

“But we also realise young people don’t always understand that when they post something online, or when their friends do, it might have consequences down the track. You can’t take it back.”

To view the video and for more information about It’s There For Life, visit www.youthcentral.vic.gov.au/it4l

 

 

Reference:

http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/7757-new-video-warns-of-online-dangers.html

social media marketing plan

save to watch tomorrow~: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtXp2lh00hg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing

Social Media Marketing in 3 minutes

4 Steps to Social Media Success:
   --find interested people
   --deliver quality content
   --capture information
   --stay in touch

Advantage of social media:
Trust; offer your products or services; perceived as expert; outstanding visbility; familiarity; make you credible; increase referrals; new relationships; demand higher prices.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gza8dvN8Hkc&noredirect=1

Vaccination is magic!!---be careful of your family disseas!!!!!

  Vaccinations are important in our life.!!

   "The mistake that we made was that we underestimated the diseases and we totally over-estimated the adverse reactions", says father Ian Williams, who is speaking publicly of his family's ordeal in an effort to warn other parents about the dangers of not immunising their children. (720 ABC Perth)

  When Alijah is about 7 years old, there were a small cut on his bottom foot. However, like many parents, Alijah's father, Williams, who believed the cut would be cured after couple days. And what they actually did just ignored it.

  However, after about a week, Williams found Alijah felt very sore, pain and felt sad. Alijah started to get cramps across his face.

  "It's like getting cramp but it's everywhere, across the face as well. They are so tight your jaw locks", Williams said, "It got so bad they put him in an induced coma just to put him out of his misery." (720 ABC Perth)

Picture:  Alijah Williams in the intensive care unit in December 2012 (Ian Williams - Supplied)


  Alijah's parents felt terrible and sorry about this. All this happened was because the decision they made--Deciding not to vaccinate!! This was obviously that their parents had made a wrong decision!

   This was the horrible news I reads that happened in Perth, Australia some years before. I felt shock about this! You believed it or not, I cried.

   But luckly, Alijah did not died. He survival. Although at the begining, Williams did not trust the caccinations, but he had to try to do this for his son. "Williams says that he was influenced by stories he read on the internet that the MMR (Measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine was linked to children developing autism; that they contain mercury and aluminium and that vaccines are promoted by drug companies purely for profit" (720 ABC Perth)

   After the vaccinations, serval days later, Alijah getting better and better. Not just Alijah can speak out, but also can walk. It was absolutely hard for Alijah to do that at the begining. However, thanks Alijah tried and did, he successed.

   I think this is the happy ending of the story at lease. Maybe you not believed the story, but it did happened in our life.  The vaccinations seem just like the injections, but it is very powerful and absolutely important in our life. They can influence our life and make a totally life.

  With the development of the society, vaccinations become more important than before as human being's living condition or environment getting worse than before.Therefore, many new kinds of virus or disseas come to our life. Getting some vaccinations seem important to us, and also as parents, they should pay more attention on this and give their children on time or in time.



Reference:
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/06/06/3776327.htm