Finally the last blog of the entire year!!! Yay!!!
When starting this class, I was excited and anxious to learn more about social media usage within businesses and how I could use it to my full advantage one day. I liked how many different ways we used to analyse all types of social media accounts and the effects that they have on the success of businesses and success. I did not realize how much effort needed to be put into social media within a company before this class, nor did I realize that there was a very specific and detailed way to do so. I think that this class overall will come into play in my future by helping me successfully operate a social media account of my own for my future business or one that I choose to work for.
I love working with groups in this class. Everyone in my group was always on the same page, and each time we did a project or assignment, we were each able to contribute something unique and beneficial to the work. Not only were we a group during projects, but we also became our own group within the class and were able to help each other on individual assignments whenever one of us was confused. My group became very close friends, so we even had fun doing our assignments together. I also liked how the class had a Facebook page where we could all converse with each other when needed. This helped me by constantly keeping up with the posts and announcements. I am a Facebook freak, so this was very easy and accessible to me.
The Design Process was a very useful approach for me. it taught me how to come up with my wildest and most unique ideas. It made me realize how much creativity I really am capable of. I kind of forgot how to brainstorm, and practicing the design process really brought that back to life for me. I think that this process really came into play whenever my group and I were putting together our marketing plan. To create a successful plan, creativity and accuracy is a must. I believe this marketing plan was beneficial because I now know what to do in order to conduct successful marketing within my future business.
The only thing that I would consider changing in this class is the whole changing of the group concepts. I think that this was hard and slightly confusing to the class because we would get used to working with one specific concept, and then have to quickly change to another concept the next week. I would like to work one certain concept for the entire class if I could do it over again. Overall, this class has taught me a lot about social media and will come in handy someday. I have enjoyed learning about it and will definitely have the opportunity to put my knowledge to good use in my future career.
