Brendan's Blog

After completing The Hootsuite module and client project 3 I feel like I have a better understanding now of how to utilize tools and advancements for social media platforms to gather information and expand within their community. Although these ideas and suggestions are provided I feel that they can be easily misinterpreted and a lot of companies won't use them and do a full effect. I found it interesting how much of an impact simple small videos, gifts, in other interactive engagements can have with people on social media. It has given me I'm more of a better understanding of how companies work no matter the size big or small. I think that is very important for all companies to take this into effect when wanting to improve their social media presence through an audit.

 The best way to balance the opportunities and threats presented by development of the big data should be in that be required to give out so much information for justice simple subscription. On the business side of things, it is important to have a business plan for prevention of hackers in big data.

Getting famous overnight is starting to become a more common thing. If you go on TikTok you can see thousands of videos they have over 100,000 likes and over 1,000,000 views on just one video. Even though the video you had had no intention to become a viral video, It is becoming easier and easier for people to understand the algorithms that go in social media to get the most views. For example, new and upcoming singers, podcasters, an artist post videos and snippets of their product and display it out on social media. It is becoming a very common way to get your name or brand out there.

My strategies and plans to improve my professional social media presence are to always be open-minded to new and innovative ideas. I plan on getting to know the company's schedule and important dates for me to have to prep for any posts or updates I might have to send to his clients or followers. What I have done so far for his company is to get to know his goals and understand where he sees his company going and where he wants to grow. After hearing his ideas, I asked him how he could describe his company and why it is better than others. When receiving all this information it was clear what I had to do to be successful. I plan on reaching out to different groups of people to get in contact with them to inform them what Athletic Preparation is all about and why they should choose this company over the others. I will also be making posts for open ideas on what they would like to see happen throughout the company. All will be taken into careful consideration before acting upon them of course but I want to build relationships with the customers to build a stronger connection with Athletic Preparation.

In my view, the most important quality for a social media consultant to have would be creativity. The role of a consultant is to provide new ideas and to complete tasks for the person who hired you that he/she could not do. In other words, you are the problem/opportunity solver. When completing the tasks, it is important to have a creative mind and imagination. Along with that, the other half of being a social media consultant is to listen and hear what improvements or suggestions the customers may have for the company. That is what I think are the most important qualities of becoming a social media consultant.

Overall I think that our privacy is a privilege that we get to have as humans. Having that information that could be used in a company's data that we've never heard of is honestly scary. Those companies having the resources to cell and gain more information on us is in my opinion a true violation of our privacy. I think that people who can use the Internet should have a safe and enjoyable experience without having to worry about their personal information being leaked. And that starts with the government and the social media companies working together to protect us.

When I think about myself using social media, I don't think of all the information that is out there based on me that can be easily accessed by any one of the big data companies. I feel that everyone who has a social media account or anyone who is thinking about getting a social media account should be aware of the information that will be provided to other companies solely based on yourself.  Many data brokers and companies that we may never hear of are using our data to sell information about us, we should be well aware of what is getting put out there about us before these companies have time to profit off us. Together, we should always be aware of what we're looking up and how easily that information could be passed along.

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From my experiment I've decided to turn off all my notifications. With me seeing how much interaction I have on my phone just in one day kind of baffled me. What I wanted to do for this experiment and to prove to myself was that I don't have to look at my phone as often as I need to. So, I decided to turn off all my notifications. With this I've concluded that I've only spent an hour and 52 minutes on my phone through the entire day. I felt myself more concentrated on things I needed to do, I felt myself more energized and more focused in class. It was a lot easier for me to fall asleep without looking at my phone for 1/2 hour before I go to bed. It was also easy for me to wake up as well seeing that didn't have to respond to people or things that may have received the night before. I didn't want to delete all my social media because I knew that I would have an urge to re download them and check him. But I think knowing that they are very easily accessible to get connected with other people but not getting any notifications saying that someone had this contact in me made it a little bit easier to get through my day. It was a weird experience; I'm not going to lie. Social media and technology have been a part of my life at the perfect age where I was able to get a phone and get connected with people was when technology and social media really blew up. Yes, I wasn't around for the Facebook era but that was the only thing out there except for my space, now we have an easier and faster way to connect with others on multiple different platforms. If I wanted to see a picture of someone I would go to their Instagram, if I wanted to hear someone opinions I would go to their Twitter, if I wanted to see a video of this person, I would go to their Tic Tok. You couldn't do that back in 2012. I highly recommend this system to anyone whoever wants to have a day of clarity. Go ahead and set your notifications off I promise you; you will have a more productive day than you thought you would have.

Have a good one