Last post for social media class..

Don't worry.. I will still continue to blog when things come up related to the world of PR and Mass Communication. Just wanted to write a quick post to tell you about my journey these last couple of months. First of all, I have to say that I have learned a lot in this process. I took the social media mini-session the second week of January and we were assigned to create and maintain a blog until now. We could also choose three more social media platforms to maintain over these past couple of months. I chose Twitter, Pinterest and Linked In. It has been fun to learn how to maintain these social media sites and to get social media savvy. I have thoroughly enjoyed this process and I plan to take a small break the next couple of weeks as school is becoming pretty hectic. I am really enjoying my classes this semester and I will be graduating in December! Hooray! Thank you so much for following along with my blog and I hope you will continue to do so.

Talk to you soon!

Clemmie

How non-profits relied on social media in 2012

In December Mashable published this blog post. I am currently working on a campaign plan for the Historic Hattiesburg Downtown Association and just finished a social media plan for it. I was looking at sources that discussed social media in regards to non-profits and came across this post. 

I was amazed at the statistics on this graph. Friends are more likely to donate or find out about an organization if one of their friends shared a post about that organization. Donations were the highest they have ever been last year in regards to fundraising using social media. Do any of these statistics surprise you? Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

My life in Academia.

Ever feel like this?

Well, that is how my week has been. Lately school has gotten pretty busy. Now, I'm not complaining yet.. I started my new job and I have some interesting assignments I'm working on and I wanted to share. This weekend I am doing a critical analysis on an advertisement for my Critical and Cultural Theory class. My group picked this ad. Huggies had a lot of criticism over their "Dad-Test" Campaign and we thought this would be a great one to critique. I am also doing a small reaction paper on the Super Bowl ads. That should be fun right? I also have a social media plan I need to get started on for the mini-session I took. (It was a great class!) My favorite assignment yet is for the campaigns class I am taking this semester. I am doing a campaign for the Historical Hattiesburg Downtown Association. I am super excited about this. I always liked being involved in the Mainstreet organization in my hometown so I decided to seek out the organization in Hattiesburg like it. I met with the Executive Director and learned quite a bit about the organization and I am excited to get started on the campaign. Well, that is it for now. Plenty to keep me busy. Hope everyone is having a great Thursday!