Online Communities/ Social Media

Online communities is a way for people grow relationships with others and bring them closer, while collaborating towards a common goal.  Social media is huge in this day and age. Social media is a way humans communicate with others for personal or professional reasons. This could be by direct or indirect communication. Humans are born to communicate and engage with others.

Business side of online communities can help reach out to new or old customer and build new or old relationships.
Benefits
Sales and Marketing:

• Improved natural search engine and social media optimization (brand and products/services)

Customer Service:

• Decreased volume of inbound support calls
• Increased customer satisfaction

So, if you're not active with a online community or active in social media you should start today!

GOOGLE!

Google is a very powerful search engine that many people use on a daily basis. Whether to find out information about a certain product, find a location to our destination, check spelling and the list can keep going. If we sit down and think about how Google works and how it keeps track of everything we type in, it can be discouraging. It's very personal to the point where you can start seeing ads pop up on other sites, such as Facebook of products you have been goggling. Some may say this is great and it's very customer service based, while others say this could be invading personal space.

I can see Google expanding even more and taking over other benefits, when technology gets more complex. I personally like Google and use it all the time as my search engine. There are many search engines out there and we have the capability to use whatever search engine we want, so if you don't like the way Google runs, use another search engine. Us humans have complete control of what happens on the web, it just depends on what you search.

Blog Prompt #2. Convergence

When we look at the world today we see how everything is converging onto one device, such as our  phones or some sort of electronics. We can watch t.v, movies, call and text people, receive and send emails, listen to music, find out news and the list can keep on going on about how we can do multiple things on one electronic device. Within the next few years who knows where the media will go, but I think someday in the future electronics (phones) maybe the only way to get news etc. This leads consumers into purchasing whatever they need to get the information they are looking to consume.

First Post- The Beast Comes to Life

Taylor B made a post about The Beast Comes to Life, which was very interesting to me. Anything Disney related is my favorite topic because I love Walt Disney World. Bringing the story of Beauty and the Beast to life is a great idea, but I do agree with Taylor on her view on Bill Condon being the director. Bill Condon is known for directing The Twilight Saga's Breaking Down Part 2 and I'm not a fan of the Twilight movies. I have seen the film Cinderalla, which was a Disney movie that was live-action and I absolutely loved it. So, I do think live action Disney movies can be just as good as animated.

First Blog

This is my first blog!