Taking a look at the book Winning the Story Wars and information from Jonah Sachs, the author, gave us an idea of a direction we may want to take for our client, HEB Transit. Find some links that will help all of us understand the concept of storytelling in social media a little better and comment on it.
Here’s the TED Talk from Jonah Sachs for you to re-review:
Photos and videos make your live tweeting more interesting. Take a look at these links regarding using your phone to take great photos and videos, practice a bit in class, then comment on how you used these links to help you. Link us to some examples you posted online.
Tips from National Geographic:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/photography/8-tips-taking-travel-pictures-with-the-iphone7/
From photographers:
https://recombu.com/mobile/article/iphone-camera-tips-tricks-guide
Video tips:
For this week’s post, please give us a link to a site that gives us some tips on how to effectively Live Tweet an event. What are some things you need to do beforehand? What about while you are at the event? What works best–photos or videos?
Based on the blog post “How Not to Suck on Social Media,” what can you do to improve your social media posting? Give some specifics for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Please post your answer before midnight on Wednesday, Sept. 13.
Well maybe no more…I guess it depends on what you plan for your client strategy and implementation and your social media blitz. But you are done with your “official” Live Tweeting for the semester.
So now, provide a few observations you have about your own live-tweeting and the live-tweeting of your classmates. Who was the best Tweeter (other than you)? Why?
What do you wish you would have known before you started this process? What did you learn? What one piece of advice would you give to someone who was assigned to live Tweet and event?
Embed your best Tweet in your response and explain why it is your best.
Your live-Tweeting is riding off into the sunset….wave bye-bye. (Photo by K. Colley, Islamorada, Florida)
To make something contagious, Berger says we need to include social currency. Let’s make your contagious as a brand. What is there about your brand that creates social currency? Difficult question. Grapple.
This year’s News Engagement Day fair saw several classes coordinating to help students at Texas Wesleyan get more engaged with the news. What did you do for MCO 3399? Do you think your social media was effective? What did you learn, and how will that impact your projects for the rest of this semester?
Check out this News Engagement Day review of retweets nationally: 
As we look at what makes something contagious from Jonah Berger’s book, of the six principles from our discussion today, which one do you think is the most important and why? How can you put that principle into practice as we promote News Engagement Day?
Online social media software programs such as Hootsuite and Spredfast that allow you to manage multiple social media accounts through content creation and monitoring can be helpful. How so, and what did you learn from getting Hootsuite certified?
Remember, your certification is due before midnight on Sept. 23.
Upcoming is your first assignment in live-Tweeting. In preparation for this assignment, review the different readings below:
What makes for good live Tweeting? Find an example as well and follow that reporter. Put their link here as well.
MCO 3399 Texas Wesleyan Social Media Class 