What’s Next?

Cap 105 was a very interesting class. In this class I learned and relearned a lot of good material. This class gave me a new perspective on social media and the Ad and Pr behind it. I learned how to use a lot of useful sites such as WordPress, slack, and social media sites.

My biggest takeaway from this class is that I want to practice photoshop and illustrator a lot more. I already have 3 years experience in photoshop and about a year in illustrator. After seeing the social media side of things I realized I want to stay away from this kind of work. It does not interest me and is not enjoyable to me. I want to create designs and edit videos to make them look unique so I realized I need to make sure I stay on top of these adobe programs so that I can use them on the job efficiently.

Something that I need to learn more about is advertising for companies on social media sites. Even though I want to stay away from this kind of work I feel like there will be a time where I will need to have some knowledge on this in order to get an internship.

 

Blog Post #4:Collaboration After College

There are a lot of Collaboration tools that businesses use in their daily or weekly work. Some of them would include Slack, Trello, Skype, Wunderlist and many more. These tools can either be free app, website, or could require a subscription monthly.

Slack is a website and app that can cost from $0-$15 a month depending on the package you choose to use. Slack is very helpful to businesses. It provides easy communication amongst co-workers. You can share links, direct message co-workers, schedule times and send out notifications to the whole office if needed. This is a great too for keeping the workplace organized and comfortable with each other.

Next there is a tool called Trello. Trello is an easy to use project management software. Trello makes it easy and fast to set up projects for the business. It can also be shared and accessible by the entire office if wanted.

Skype is a pretty well known collaboration tool. Skype is a website and an app where you   can easily contact multiple people at once on video. It allows users to a video conference on their phone or laptop with ease. It can be very useful and convenient in a business setting. It is easy to use and will give you good results.

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Wunderlist is another type of collaboration tool that you would use after college. Wunderlist is a popular app that is made to be used as a handy to-do list. This app creates a to-do list that can be sent out to the entire work place and send co-workers notifications about upcoming events. It has a lot of different settings with in the app that can be super helpful for a business.

 

Social Media In My Life

I am not an avid social media user. I don’t use it everyday and I don’t have much interest in any of it. However, I still have good experience in social media and also a good understanding of it.

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I stopped using social media about 2 years ago. I stopped because I saw how involved everybody got into it and I didn’t think that it was healthy. Even before then I wasn’t very active on social media. I would keep my profile secret and only follow things that I had interest in and not usually people I went to school with.

My social media usage will most like increase once I am in a business setting. This is because I am going into advertising and will need to keep up with the latest trends and what the consumers are looking for. Along with that I will need to advertise my clients products on social media.

Personal branding means a lot to me and I think that it is very important. I participating in personal branding in high school. I made clothes that a lot of my classmates liked and bagan selling them online. I created a social media to go along with it to help me advertise new pieces coming and where to get them. Doing this I got a lot better understandong about the business part of social media. It is competitive and in order to keep up you need to be very dedicated .