Topic 3 Comments

Katie Franks

Wow, your post is long haha. You seem to have a lot of friends that are avid activists.  I’m glad that there are so many people who can go out and be a part of so much good in this world. *Faith in Humanity Restored*

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Carson Kehoe

It seems that we are all on the same page here. I don’t want a future boss not hiring me because I want trash out of the ocean or whatever. My personal beliefs are mine, and my close friends know them of course, but social media is intended for me to stay in touch with friends that don’t live here in Statesboro. I don’t promote my views, and I do my best to stay out of other people’s. It’s worked so far, and I am trying to keep it that way. Great read tho. Good Job Carson.

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Topic of the Week – PRCA 3334 – Online Activism

For someone who doesn’t really get on Facebook or Twitter that much, I can’t say that I have had too much experience in Online Activism. I’ve always thought of my social media sites as being things that pretty much advertise who I am. In the future, my prospective employers will be looking at my social media sites and look to see who I am as a person. Will all that online activism help or harm me? I really don’t know, so I choose not to. Surely, there are causes that I would love to be a part of on my sites, but like I said, I’m not sure of the reaction that might occur.

People joining an online activism project is extremely simple as to their motives. In the end, what it comes down to is people join because of how they feel about that particular subject. For example, I am Pro-Life, and I would love to help out on the “Right to Life” online activism, and should that be fine with future employers, then I will after I get my jobs. Anyway, I want to join that movement because of how I feel about abortion. People either join or oppose it because of their feelings about the subject. Like I said, In the end, that’s what it comes down to.

I feel that organizations can benefit from online activism, as long as they truly care about the activism itself. For example, my client this summer is Harley-Davidson, and if they were to join M.A.D.D or something to do with drunk driving in general, then they would get more support, followers, friends on Facebook, whatever. Joining an online activism would help gain the support of everyone else that is already in the organization. Of course, like I said, it would only work if they truly cared about the subject matter.

Topic 2 Replies to other blogs

Katie Franks

I honestly don’t think that they deserved the backlash that they got from the internet. You have a lot of good Ideas as to how they could fix the problem. The 20% off is a great one….I’m kinda upset that i didn’t think of that.

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Hayley Johnson

I disagree to a small degree here. I feel like the punishment for the crime was way out of proportion. It wasn’t that big of a mistake that they made. Now I do agree with what you said about the response time and how they handled it. They could have been faster and better about it from the get go.

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Topic of the Week – PRCA 3334 – Social Media Oops

Shutterfly Logo

Mistakes happen, we all know this, shoot I’ve made plenty myself. Shutterfly made a mistake by sending out a mass email to their entire emailing list, and I personally believe that they did not deserve the bashing that came back from a tiny mistake. I understand that many of the people on the mailing list were either still grieving from a lost child, or from being Infertile, and I could not possibly ever begin to understand how they might feel after something like that, but in all honesty did Shutterfly deserve all of the bashing that they got?

My answer is no. Shutterfly answered as quickly as they could with a twitter apology. This is where they messed up in my books. Sending out a generic tweet to all of your followers is not going to fix the problem. The reason I say this is because, what if the people you upset don’t check their twitter that often? Those people who you upset so much might not even be reading your apology. This oops is probably ten times worse than the previous oops.

Where there is tragedy, there is also victory as shown in Shutterfly’s second attempt at apologizing to their clients. John Boris, the Chief Marketing Officer at Shutterfly personally wrote emails to those he upset and sent them out through email. This in my opinion is the way to go because then you know that these people will see what you wrote to them, and therefore will ultimately get the message.

In conclusion, Shutterfly did not deserve what came to them, but in reality it could have been handled better than it was.

Topic of the Week – PRCA 3334 – Social Media & TV

America’s Got Talent

Personally, I feel that the crossover between Social Media and Television is great. In fact, I have been a part of several different occasions that dealt with it. My favorite at the time being America’s Got Talent. A show very much like American Idol, but better in my opinion. America’s Got Talent did both a live twitter feed, and a voting poll using Twitter, and I thought that was really cool. This past season was the first time that I did something remotely like a twitter feed during a show, and I loved it. I loved expressing my views on whichever talent I enjoyed or hated. I loved interacting with the judges, they all followed me back almost instantly, overall it was a lot of fun, and I enjoyed being a part of the end result as of who in the end won overall.

As for whether or not they tweeted me back, they in fact did. There were a few occasions when the judges would do something stupid, or they would show pics of themselves when they were younger. For example, one of the Judges was Howie Mendell, and he ate one of the hottest peppers in the world after someone’s act. I tweeted him telling him to drink as much milk as possible, and eat Ice Cream for the next few days, and he responded “Will do, but I might need a new tongue first. lol” I thought that it was really cool that I got a personal response from someone on that show, which was being shown live at that point in the season. Overall, it was just a cool experience.