Thursday, April 26, 2012

Blog PR

Branding and Marketing exercise:


Write a single sentence describing how you want people to know you online. Begin with I am a…
Write a short list that describes who you want to reach on the web. List 3-4 kinds of people.
Write a short list that describes what you would like to learn about or learn from other people on the web. List 3 things you would like to learn. 

These will help you define the elements of your online brand


Your name
Your photo (or logo)
Bio/Description
Tweetable pitch including short keyword title (less than 140 characters)
Should be featured in ALL of your online and social media accounts
Keep an online file with these elements handy so you can use them again and again
ALSO – The types of content that you share (photos, videos, podcasts, article links, quotes, etc)
 
 In Addition, you will need to reach friends of friends.


Here's how all this PR work translates to homework:


-Your pitch and bio must be somewhere on the home page of your blog.
- Create your custom favicon.  convert at icoconverter.com before loading into blogger
- double check that your blog is current and has links to any "borrowed" content
- create original content (video or stills) and host it on a media sharing account (like flickr, instagram, youtube, vimeo, or picasa, ). Then link that to your blog.

Our presentation on Blogging your way to Self Promotion

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Get Ready

Homework for next week:

-Go back to your blog. Populate it with content. Keep it current and interesting.
Also, link back to original sources to be kind.

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Let's review the semester and make sure you're on track.
Review the attendance policy in the syllabus. Double-check your assignments:

Digital Avatar
Blog response to 3 readings
Thesis Statement
Blog response to Metaphoras
Thesis Revisions
CEC#1 Occupy Student Debt (you went, now complete your writeup- see that blog entry)
Your Blog
Paper Outline
CEC#2 Keliy Anderson Staley (you went, now complete your writeup- see that blog entry)
CEC#3 Black Maria Film Festival (you went, now complete your writeup- see that blog entry)
Paper
Storytelling Hex Code (color-grid image to slice)
CEC#4 Keith and Mendi Obadike (you went, now complete your writeup- see that blog entry)
Blog Response to Watch What You Say
Story Hack 01
Paper Revision
Story Hack 02

Thursday, April 5, 2012

INTERMEDIA Storytelling

Today you will present your stories.


Then you will work with your group to perfect one of your group's stories:
Makes Sense
Has Appealing Characters
Uses a Story Arc
Is Short

Next pick three of the following media to tell your story in:
Hypertext Narrative (seriously old-school internet storytelling)

Image Website

Video video camera, game,  to scrub throughstop-motion

Texts (captured as images or sent to the reader's phone at determined times)

Twitter Feed

Book Object

Conference Poster

Info-Graphic

Animation    xtranormal

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