End of the Semester

Writing for Multimedia is a great class to teach you skills for the future. We learned how to do many things that will help me in the future. It was a great way to learn how to write newsletters in paper form and newsletters thru e-mail. Other skills we learned was how to use social media sites more effectively and how to network with people in your field of work. We actually created a website that helps us network with the business world and it is called LinkedIn. I think a lot of these skills will be useful for me in the future.

I think my favorite assignment was the Facebook Fan Page. It was because it wasn't to hard to do it and it was nice to learn how to actually make a Fan Page on Facebook. Also it was for my mom's small business that she is starting and it has actually worked to sell a few of her products already. I think it was a great assignment because it was more than just a small assignment that you did and then after it didn't matter much. Here is a link to the Fan Page I made for her. I don't think I had one favorite blog from our class. I commented on random blogs each time and everytime I think that diffrent people had good things to say. An assisnment that could be added to this course could be a somthing on the basis of making a website, but focus on the writing on it and the posistioning of everything on the page. Overall I think the assisnments we had touched on a lot of good topics in writing for multimedia.

We had a guest speaker come into our class to give a presentation. She was Sarah Meaney from Comet Branding. This company writes blogs and does social media things for other companies. The presentation was very informative. She explained to us better ways to write for social media. She explained how people that read things online do a lot more skimming than if they were reading a newspaper. She gave advice that the shorter the text is the more likely it all will get read. Also that the bigger text is more apealing to people that are online becasue it catches there eye. She brought up the point that you want to keep readers on your page becasue then they will be more likly to read more of the content and not just skim over it or skip it completly. You need to have relevant information on your pages that will entertain your readers. Also ads and other things on a page can lead people to get destractied and you may want to keep those things down to a minium.

It's crazy how social media has become such a huge thing that there are actual businesses out there now that just do social media things for businesses. Her business is fairly small with only about five people working for them but they have some larger accounts and seem to do pretty well. This presentation was very informative and definatly had information in it that will be usefull in the future. Here is a link of what Coment Branding does.