This morning’s lecture at uni’ was hosted by Chris Unitt who, among other things, set up Created in Birmingham, a promotional platform for Birmingham’s creative community.
This began life as a blog in 2006 with two aims:
- To find out what’s going on around Birmingham and promote it
- To show that blogging is a simple and effective way of engaging with audiences online
And this was also the aim of Chris’ informative lecture.
He explained the many reasons people use social media including, not just blogs, but Facebook, You Tube, Twitter, Tumblr… the list is now endless as this has become a very effective and popular way of self-promotion.
Chris also brought to our attention the fact that prospective employers or customers will “Google” people’s names to find as much information about them as possible!
It definately taught me the many ways I can expand on my use of social media both in the near and distant future.
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