Is Social Media Ruining Our Concert Experiences?

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Is social media ruining our concert experiences? Musical artist thinks so.

If you are at a Beyonce concert and Beyonce tells you to “put that damn camera down”, you better put that damn camera down. The original purpose of seeing your favorite artist in concert was for that magical experience of seeing your favorite artist live. Today, social media makes us want to document the experience, and sometimes we are so into getting the perfect and clear shot we miss out on enjoying the live experience. Continue reading

Snapchat: The New Marketing Tool

Snapchat—known as the outlet for selfies, embarrassing photos and immediate pixel updates of your day—can now add a new title to its skill set, marketing, Companies from the fashion, beauty, and food world have been the first to increase their presence across social media platforms by using Snapchat as a marketing tool. Say goodbye to commercials and print advertisements, you will now be getting your news in ten seconds or less.

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Search Tools To Monitor Brands And Much More

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Three Search Tools To Increase Efficiency

Communications professionals use search tools beyond Google, Bing and Yahoo to:

  • monitor brands owned by employers or competitors or
  • produce results for academic research or
  • perform marketing research for upcoming product lines

These free search tools are commodities for digital life: Netvibes, Wolfram Alpha and DEVONagent Lite.

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Maybe Jesus was just a zombie.

Tomorrow, Joseph Atwill and Kenneth Humphreys will present his historical findings in London that show evidence that Jesus and corresponding biblical attributes are nothing more than first century Roman aristocrat fabrications as part of a psychological warfare operation during the Jewish-Roman war. The one day symposium will exhibit the controversial findings that question everything one of the biggest religions is based upon.

 

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Keep Your Internet Usage Private and Better Secure Yourself

According to Intel, every minute 639,800 gigabytes of information are transmitted around the net. Unfortunately, in that same minute, twenty people find themselves victims of identity theft. Many more find themselves victims of less nefarious actions such as data mining. Data mining occurs when your Internet behavior is tracked, profiled and then stored. This information is often then sold to advertisers and/or government agencies. This means that every click, website visit, purchase etc. does not go unnoticed. In order to keep your information private and provide yourself with a better sense of security here are some top tips to keep your Internet usage private:

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Over-the-top marriage proposals- the new norm?

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From an early age all girls dream of their wedding day. Who will be the lucky guy, what kind of dress will they wear, where will they get married? But until they meet Mr. Right, girls typically don’t fantasize about the marriage proposal itself. In the past all it really took was a loving speech and assuming one knee, but now the men of the millennial generation are delivering over-the-top marriage proposals and posting them for the world to see. Continue reading

iOS 7: The Unexpected Rollercoaster?

Apple’s newest software update for iPhones and iPads, iOS 7, is all the rage so far. It’s proven contagious, as 35% of Apple’s user updated from iOS6 within 24 hours of its introduction. Its sleek design and new look is visually appealing, but unique complaints have been rolling in – is the new operating system making people sick? Continue reading

TheFind: Holiday Shopping Savior

thefindIt’s almost that time of year again – yes, it’s holiday season – and that means time to start thinking about gift-giving. The never-ending lists of friends and family to buy presents for are piling up, and you have no time to shop for any of them. It may be holiday shopping season, but don’t panic just yet… TheFind is here to help with a personalized online shopping search engine.

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Brand Battles on Twitter: Oreo vs. AMC Theatres

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Twitter is becoming a new means of communication, specifically for company’s that wish to voice their opinions, concerns, and comments regarding their competitors. This new type of communication has been given the title “brand battles,”and these brand battles have become extremely prevalent throughout twitter. Although they are not nearly as entertaining as the feuds between celebrities, there are surely some brand battles that should not be missed.  Continue reading

Politicians and Tweeting

Celebrities Politicians and tweeting. Today, celebrities and tweeting is huge. Millions of people follow celebrities. For many different reasons. Sometimes, people follow celebrities because they curious what they are up to and sometimes it’s because they like to know about the latest styles and trends. However, lately, it has become a huge trend for politicians to start using Twitter and social media to get their information out.

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Rapper The Game Uses Instagram To Promote His Charity

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The rapper, The Game is using social media platform Instagram to promote his charity “The Robin Hood Project.” His goal is to give away $1 million of his own money by Christmas to people in need. His Instagram account, is filled with Polaroid like photos of people he has given money to. The photos caption includes the amount that was donated and why. It varies from $50 – 20,000. Check out The Robin Hood Project  Continue reading

Long Live the Millennial Blogs

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In recent years as blogging has transformed from an extracurricular into a business platform, a divide between mediocre and exceptional blogs has emerged. Blogging has been experimented with and manipulated by across all generations, but none garner as much attention as the millennial blogs.

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iPhone Flop

Despite predictions that the iPhone 5c would be a top seller, the products sales have not gone as Apple would have hoped. Tailored to kids, or people whom need an extra protection for their phone, the iPhone 5c has not been selling.

To consumers, the color palette and style of the mobile device have turned people off, the opposite of what Apple predicted. Where the 5s has soared, the 5c has flopped.

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“You’re so money and you don’t even know it!” -Branding yourself (online)

In the article “How to develop a personal brand and use social networking,” Pam Gaulin clearly defines the modern-day calling card: branding yourself via social media.

Call it modesty, or simply, uncertainty– but creating a brand for yourself can be off-putting. “When it’s time to promote ourselves, we may feel a little shy. Any woman who wants to advance in her job, change careers, or find a job, or is a crafter, writer, baker, or an artisan with products to sell should develop a personal brand.”

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Olympics: Invasion of the Russians

As Americans, certain rights are assumed. We have freedoms that most countries don’t have. We wake up every morning with a different lifestyle and different outlook. Unlike some countries, we can wake up and post how we’re feeling, especially about the government. Unfortunately for citizens in other countries, this isn’t always the case.

We wouldn’t be able to imagine our world without our basic rights. And, although they sometimes seem like some of them may be on the brink of being taken from us (gun rights, abortion rights, etc), there are some that would nearly impossible to take from us, rights that have changed and shaped our society. For example, freedom of speech. As a communication major, I could not imagine not having the right to speak freely about what is going on in our community, our country, our world. Many people think this communication should be completely free, these same people argued about the Patriot Act that was passed during the administration of President George W. Bush. This act allowed the government to listen into to certain communication that had the possibility of a threat or information of a threat against our country. This made some people feel safer and made other people angry about the fact that our privacy and communication was under surveillance.

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