Self Promotion With Google Tools

Now that you've got a handle on Google Adwords, check out Google Analytics! Sign up and copy the code.

Next,  in your layout view, include a text widget at the bottom of your main template.

Paste the code here.

Next, sign up to follow each of your classmates' blogs with your Google Reader.

Let the analysis begin!

DUE NEXT WEEK:
-You should follow everyone's blog
-do as much cross-posting as you can (while still remaining relevant to your own blog)
-Where appropriate, you might want to use (and link back to!) images or videos from classmates' blogs
-You should also have at least one cross-post and one image link-back to an established, popular blog related to yours.
-Next week is the last possible opportunity to hand in anything including All CEC's and paper revisions.

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

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.

-------------------------

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

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 through,  stop-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

QR Code

Storytelling with code- Part One

Welcome back from the break!
Papers are due today. If you're having a Paper Emergency...

We'll be doing part one of a data mapping/coding/connection-making exercise

We will complete the exercise with Keith and Mendi Obadike
Wednesday APRIL 11th from 3-5pm BC142a   (CEC- required) see me if you have a conflict

Homework:
Watch what you say
Reading response due on the blog

Also, keep your blogs going! make sure your content is strong, organized, and that un-original content has links to the originals.

Another CEC and EXTRA CREDIT opportunity
STORYHACK

Democracy, Connectivity, and Hactivism

Activism and Democracy

 

What are the aspects of internet connectivity that Democracy could benefit from?
The potential for social media to assist Democracy

Is the isolation that comes with online filtering bad for Democracy?
Ted Talk

How did it work during Egypt's Arab Spring uprising?
Internet Activist Wael Ghonim

Activist Apps for your smartphone?

Pocket Congress

Free2work


Obscuracam

Hacktivism   "Old School" 

 The Barbie Liberation Organization

Jonah Peretti's Nike emails

rtmark

department of art and technology

Hacktivist Augmented Reality

the leak in your hometown

BP LAYAR app by Mark Skwarek

AR Flashmob


Have a great Spring Break. Papers due when we meet after break. Email me with any questions.

Creative Commons

THE ORIGINAL INSTAGRAM

CEC #2 :
Please attend one of the following
Wed March 14- 3-4pm Keliy Anderson-Staley Artist Talk
Tue March 13 2pm Tintype Demo- Berrie Center First Floor
Wed March 14 11:30am Tintype Demo, 4pm Demo

A Shared Culture Video

Wiki -Creative Commons

How do you find still, video or audio content that is legal to use in your artwork?
archive.org
Did you know you can search for images labeled for re-use?

What Happened to Shepard Fairey?

Pleads Guilty

Lawsuit Settled

HOMEWORK:

Work on Paper. Put content on your blog.