Social Media Network Resume - Just For Me

I am CONNECTED with social media.

This class has allowed me to "amp" up the social media networks that I am already using, and it has also allowed me to join and create new networks that will keep me more connected to friends, family, businesses, and the world. I am now interconnected.

We can start by following my blog. All of my social media networks can be accessed by clicking here, or by clicking individually on each link below.

Twitter
Facebook
Youtube
LinkedIn
SMPM Blog
Personal Blog
Flickr

Social Media Networks NCCYouth1916

To start the Social Media journey for NCCYouth1916, start by clicking on NCCYouth1916's website: nccyouth1916.weebly.com

All of the networks can be accessed from this one local point.
(Facebook is the only network that will not directly allow a link back to the original website for NCCYouth1916.)

I have created a website, email account, twitter, youtube, facebook, and blog for my client.
I cannot create a LinkedIn profile until Craig, my client, gets back in town.
I also created a Technorati account for my client, but it will not allow me to upload a photo nor can I upload the blog to accompany it.
The youtube account will be used on a biweekly basis. My client will use youtube to show videos for students that accompany his sermons. There are no links back to the original site from youtube.

All of the networks are interconnected and RSS feeds are sent to the email account I have created: nccyouth1916@gmail.com

There is even a prayer request option on the website to send information from users to the email account created for the client.

Blog
Twitter
Facebook Group
Facebook Fan
Youtube
Website

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Finally I have my phone!!

Fasting was not very fun. I never realized how much I rely and depend on my cell phone.

My day started out when I woke up before 9 a.m. so that I could check my email and facebook. I sent my last few text messages and then headed out to class. I was reaching for my phone not even twenty minutes into class. I had to stop myself every time. It was SOOOO difficult. I mean, I knew had become dependent on my cell phone but how extremely dependent on it I had no idea.

I was driving home that afternoon, and the fact that I could not call Chris (the bf) to let him know I was coming was not very comforting. He had already been upset with me for now having my phone on. He likes to know that I make it safely home, and he likes to be able to call and say hey. That 2 and a half hour drive was long with no one to talk to on the phone. It was especially long without my CDS!! I channel flipped the entire time.

As soon as I got home, I ran to the land line with a cord (the only one in the house is in my Dad's office...I had to sneak to use it!) and called Chris instantly. He answered and had no idea who was talking to him. He didn't even have my house phone saved in his phone. I hung out with my family in front of the television for a while, but then we were headed out to a grad party. I kept trying to reach for my phone to check the time, but it was a good thing that I was wearing a watch. Normally, I would have just used my phone.

We went to a movie at a theater near the mall in town. My cousin was supposed to show up separately, and of course I did not have my phone to call her. We were waiting twenty or so minutes outside of the theater until she showed up. I wish I had had my phone!

Saturday, my boyfriend and I went to his friend's wedding. I, being the planner, and Chris, being the opposite, had a difficult time communicating about how we were getting to the wedding and at what time we would be meeting up. Again, without my cell phone, I felt lost. Honestly, I felt lost. I had to wait til the movie ended, my family got home, and I could get to the land line before I could call him. It was after 11 p.m. so I had to call him instead of him calling me. When I called him, he was busy at the bachelor's party still. I had to wait another hour before I could call him again. It was so frustrating.

Finally, I was going to wake up Saturday and all would be well. Not. Well, my alarm was on my phone...so I did not get up on time. Neither did my mom. So she woke me up late. Which offset the rest of that day's events. When I went to turn my phone back on finally, my phone broke. It would not power on. So, I did all of this fasting and waiting and not using current media just to result back to an old, sliver Samsung crap phone (not even a flip phone). It doesn't even get pictures, much less take pictures. It was a sad ending to a difficult project.

But, at least now I can text...

Thank you Henry Jenkins

First of all...I love suspenders. A very dear friend of mine (my second grade Sunday School teacher, Mr. Bob) passed away about a year ago. He used to always wear suspenders. It must mean good character.

Secondly, I was born in Smyrna and had my early childhood there. So, I love that he wrote for the Smyrna Neighbor.

Things I have learned:

Collective intelligence does inspire and lend itself to transparency. In a way, it almost acts as a forcing agent to keep our government and other organizations transparent. The more people know, they more likely we are to cause disturbance when the truth equilibrium in off balance. With collective intelligence comes a new standard. The world is held in new regards and has a lot greater responsibilities and obligations to live up to.

It blew my mind that the "Flow of Twitter Buzz factor" is probably one of the greatest and most accurate predictors of a film's success at the box office. As long as media outlets learn how to analyze and interpret the data that is available to them, the way consumers and providers operate will be forever changed. There has never been a more instant, consistent, and constant way of rating products or services before. Media convergence has allowed for the consumers to tell the producers, advertisers, and big media what we want. They then have access to our opinions, and then, it is up to them to respond to our interests. This benefits all.

I greatly appreciate that Jenkins does not like the term "viral" when regarding videos that have gone haywire and spread around like a good helping of PB&J. Viral just sounds so awful. It should be something more along the lines of "hot" or "widely distriubuted". I don't know; someone could come up with something creative to call them. Maybe not "distributed", but at least "widely circulated."

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Question for Henry Jenkins:

During the 1950's and 1960's, McLuhan's concepts were characterized by one-way communication, obviously due to the lack of a wide-variety of media outlets. Do you think that if McLuhan were alive today, his ideas of the Medium Theory would be different than what he proposed back then?

http://vinnysrmitblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/discussion-on-henry-jenkins-and-marshall-mcluhan/

SMPM Gluten Free Ch. Chip Oatmeal Cookies!

Wheat Free/Gluten Free Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
1/2 cup rice flour (brown or white)
3/4 cup oat flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp allspice
pinch nutmeg, freshly grated
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
1 large egg or equivalent egg-replacer
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 tbsp water
1 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cup quick cooking rolled oats (the “1 minute” variety)
1/4 cup (sweetened) shredded coconut
3/4 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flours, baking soda, salt, spices and sugars.
In a small bowl, whisk together egg/egg-replacer, vegetable oil, water and vanilla extract. Pour into dry ingredients and stir until no streaks of flour(s) remain. Stir in oats, coconut and chocolate chips (can reduce chocolate chips to 1/2 cup if you like your cookies a bit less chocolaty, or simply substitute raisins).
Drop 1-inch balls of dough onto prepared cookie sheet. Flatten slightly.
Bake for 11-13 minutes, or until light gold at the edges.
Cool completely on a wire rack

Makes about 2 1/2 dozen cookies.