The beauty of social media

November 8, 2009 at 6:14 am · Filed under NCT-related and tagged: branding, leet, social media, stephie tan

This week i have learnt alot about Social Media.
And slowly, i am beginning to appreciate it.

Initially social media to me is yet another platform for us to communicate with our friends however, now i have understood the real reasons behind it.

Guest Speaker: Stephie Tan

It is all thanks to Stephie Tan from Stephie says (http://www.stephiesays.com/) who has shared with us the beauty of social media usage.

She has mentioned that she made use of social media tools such as ‘Facebook’, ‘Twitter’, ‘website’ to help her establish a ‘brand’ for herself.

Till now, She has countless of followers on her website as well as her online magazine ‘fashion nation’ (http://fashionation.wordpress.com/) which she co-writes with her friend.

The most motivational thing is that it is her passion to write and she is now able to turn it into her career. Isn’t it the best of both worlds?

From what stephie has talked to us about and from these couple of weeks of intensive social media usage, i have come to realise their importance.

Social media tools serves as an effective platform for marketing or networking purposes provided that it is used correctly and appropriately.
Whereas for us students, the usage of such tools is to keep ourselves constantly updated with the most recent news, to network and/or to socialise with people that we do not know as well as to brand ourselves.

Why the need to do so?

The internet is huge but it would be such an easy task for people to hunt you down. All they need to know is your name, Google search and everything about you will be listed out. If in the future your prospective boss decides to check up on you, there, your past will be back to haunt you.

Solution:
-clean up your social media accounts eg. facebook
-start building a brand for yourself eg. via twitter
-say nothing but the positive stuff

So, that’s basically about social media. It can be a dangerous weapon against you or an effective tool aiding you.

Fun Facts all in bite-size:

1.Do you know that there is something called a LEET Language?
example in leet speak:

|-|1. 1 4/\/\ j0R33|\| 4|\|D 7|-|15 15 /\/\’/ bL09.

-Gamers invented Leet Language so that non-gamers do not know what they are talking about.

- The leetness of the language does not stop at this. It can be adjusted, the higher the percentage, the harder it is for ppl to decipher.

Try it!

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/leet

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