Facebook analysis

I started a page called invest in you, which didn't really flourish the way I thought it would. I did realize, though, that this is a result of your eyes being bigger than your stomach, but not in terms of food!

What didn't work:

I felt as if the timing may have been a little off for me to start my page and give it all the TLC it needed. With the football season being at hand at the time I felt like I wasn't able to post at a high enough volume or invest enough passion and time behind what I was trying to do.

Posting statuses without any visual content, I noticed didn't get very much love or hardly any views at all.

The volume that I posted didn't really work either. I felt like had I posted at-least 4 times a week people would have received it better. I took the once or twice a week approach, and even sometimes not posting during the week and it didn't really work . I think if people constantly seen it popping up they would be more curious as to what it was they were looking at.

Advertising the way I did wasn't that effective. I cross referenced on my regular page a couple of times but not enough. Not enough to the point that people would know that it was even relevant.

What Did work:

Targeting the crowd that I was aiming for definitely worked, according to the stats. Most of the views of my page came through those in ages ranging from 18-24. They were the main ones looking at my page and being reached by the things that I posted!

Posting videos was a hit as well. Looking at my insights under the posts section, It showed that more people liked or viewed the videos more than any of the other posts.

Anything with a visual aspect, instead of simply words was viewed and successful on my page. Also If I shared a status or a quote from a celebrity or someone of prominence, it was viewed at a higher rate than that of my other posts.

Campaign Plan:

I felt like for the most part I followed through with my intended plan and motives for the page, though, there were times where I didn't meet my own criteria. My goal was to post motivating quotes, and videos about 4 times a week with the intentions of lifting people up and influencing them to keep pushing forward no matter how hard life gets, while keeping a solid backbone built of faith. I was only posting 2 times a week, and I wasn't posting an equal amount of videos as compared to photos and regular statuses. The plan was to not only post motivational photos and quotes, but to record motivational videos of myself , but I never got around to doing it. But in a lot of areas I do feel like I followed my plan, however; I do feel like with a little more time on the page and more preparation my page can become successful.

Self Evaluation:

I think this was definitely a cool experience, and a learning period on how to manage a page. I noticed that In myself, I wanted to do so much and really wanted to impact peoples lives, but I quickly learned that it takes time and a Valiant effort. I noticed that my focus on the page wasn't as equivalent as my passion for the page because I would be itching to post something and then my mind would go to a completely different place. I learned that this page, in fact can become very successful if advertised, and cared for the right way. I had the right mindset for the page, but I didn't have a lot of time. I am glad I did it because it taught me a lot, and I plan on continuing the page because I love inspiring people and introducing people to faith; not only on a social level but on a personal level as well.

Amsterdam and Miami! My contribution

When we started the project, we were throwing out Ideas on how to help Miami in some way and we were thinking of plans and someway to persuade people to use energy more efficiently and help the environment, so we came up with a Public relations plan/ App. I helped with this, and threw it out there because I watched a PR add for coke and is was very successful so I figured it would help this issue in the same fashion!

In our app we utilized the mane points such as equitable business, energy efficiency, low waste, preventable medicine, reduce carbon based fuel! There is a tag in the app that will take you to all of these different categories! Equitable business is aimed more at the colleges and universities wanting to get plans set in motion and completing initiatives. Energy Efficiency is aimed more at using waste as energy and using less energy. Low waste is to persuade people to recycle and like the last point, make use of waste! And the last one is to influence the people in Miami and all over to use bikes instead of cars to help protect the environment!
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Another part of my research included researching the particular topic and issue in regards to energy efficiency with Amsterdam and Miami. Miami had a lot of plans that they wanted to get done but never got around to doing it, However; Amsterdam set a lot of plans in motion. In fact Amsterdam is trying to make the entire city a smart city and cutting back on the waste of energy. They have put 500 smart meters in homes around the city. The meters send back data and show how much energy was consumed, and based on how much is used, the meter shows how you can preserve energy and how to cut back on energy consumption and use it smarter. Amsterdam is committed to spending one-million dollars a year until 2017 to put smart meters in all homes in Amsterdam.

 

http://sustainableamsterdam.com/whatwedo/

 

http://www.miamibeachfl.gov/green/scroll.aspx?id=63975

 

http://amsterdamsmartcity.com/projects/detail/id/71/slug/energy-atlas

 

http://www.miamidade.gov/green/eecbg-campaign.asp

 

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/amsterdam-as-smart-city-going-green-fast-in-holland-a-613503.html

Automatic Attitudinal Response

I appreciated these on the media assignments because I was able to look at things from both sides of the spectrum and lay my own opinion on what I had observed. It was also unique to listen to the people on the podcast because they all had interesting opinions and thoughts on the issues of the week.The other bonus to these assignments is that I  was able to look at patterns and how I worded and expressed my opinions.

Playboy: I definitely had my own agenda going into this post. Looking back at it I didn't spill my whole heart out and or word it the way I really wanted to. However, I came into the post with a predetermined attitude in the category of supporting covering the models up, and maybe even getting rid of it permanently. I think I went in to it in such a way because it does affect me and it hits home, because before I decided to find God I was hormonal young man who was curious, and the way that stuff messed with my mind was something vicious. So coming into it I had already had a response before typing it up.

Kim Davis: I felt a certain way going in this post and I was pretty opinionated in doing so, especially because I had been talking about the issue several days prior building up my particular outlook. I am a Christian like Kim Davis, but I tried not to let that make me biased. After evaluating the story I realized that I do support her values and her faith and opinions, but the fact that she wasn't doing her job I didn't really agree with. I don't support Homosexuals, but I don't have anything against them or hate them, but she should probably be in a different profession. Coming into the post I had already made it up in my mind what stance I was going to take even before listening to On the Media. I just knew I was going to take the side of Kim Davis, which I did, but after carefully reading it I went about it in a different way and articulated it differently.

Political Pope: This post was dealing with the Pope and his visit to America and weather he is playing a role in the political race this year, in this upcoming election. This is one post I can say for sure I was certain and unwaivering in my stance. From  a spiritual stand point, and gut feeling point of view I just don't like the pope, not even a little bit. When I got to the portion that requires me to state my position and how I feel about the issue I did let my inner most feelings about him dictate how I responded and what I was going to post. I don't necessarily think that it is wrong, but I definitely felt emotional and it definitely struck me personally which led to my post.

Race Problem or Sin Problem: I remember this post like it was literally yesterday because I felt so strongly about it. I remember I got excited and also a little riled up because I have experience with the particular topic. I was almost going to respond off of pure emotion, that is until I watched that video, and in watching it I was able to get more in depth and not just look at it from my perspective but from a worldwide perspective, and that is what kind of steered me away from just stating the cliché "Black or White".  I had to move away from the emotional side and the learned opinions of so many people that have influenced me, and I had to see it from myself. That is why I said it is more of sin problem than a skin problem.  Attitudes like that are learned, and me with the background I have and growing up with a personal relationship with God I didn't look at from a strictly race driven issue, but I viewed it from a spiritual side and realized that the Devil has an influence on these people. That was the only way I could look at it without just posting an influenced post. The reason why these issues seem much worse than what they are is because of the way the media manipulates and distorts what the people are seeing. We truly only see what the media wants us to, or permits us to.

I chose these four posts in particular because I did notice that out of all of my posts I felt strongly about these and had predetermined opinions and outlooks on them. I appreciated this because I was able to go in and see where maybe I was biased, or unwaivering, or showed examples of attitudinal response. It might not be so for others, but I know for me personally an assignment like this kind of humbles me in a sense and makes you check yourself and ask the question, are these opinions really mine, or are they the voice and attitudes of and external influence? For the most part I felt like I posted rationally and with my own opinions, but there were definitely times where outer influences played a role in my response.

On the media: PlayBoy

Physical: Hugh Heffner created the playboy brand and playboy mansion in the early 1950's. The motivation for this is movement was to have woman modeling in the nude or sexually tempting cloths to basically entice and appease the thoughts of most men! Basically the beginning of sexual entertainment.

Psychological: Playboy gives some woman a false sense of awareness and reality when it becomes to beauty and confidence. The brand has kind of made woman feel or think that they have to look that way or present themselves that way in order to be beautiful or attractive. It kind of alters the perceptions of men as well, because as men some of us see theses woman and expect the woman we talk to, to look like that and act like that

Cultural: Sexualizing woman has been apart of our culture for a long time now, and playboy isn't the only company to dive into it. The internet is even worse if not the same thing! Now a days Sex has become something important or something that seems to be a necessity now and more for recreation than love!

Social: Playboy has been the medium for nude woman and half naked woman for the longest time, so now that they are covering up these woman it has become a huge social epidemic and to some it is a catastrophic event and blasphemous. The company could potentially lose money because of this change in tradition and that scares a lot of people.

Temporal: This magazine is and was the front-runner for all magazines and things of its kind and everybody wanted to be as successful as Playboy and now someone else may take the top spot because playboy has changed the tradition.!

I don't think Playboy is a good thing regardless, but I do think its better that they are covering up the woman, though, they shouldn't be doing it all. I think that they may lose a lot of support and popularity because of this, but it could remain the same because of the respect Hugh has in the industry as a sex mogul! I think that they should do away with it just because of how it can rot the minds of young men, because before I got saved I know how it used to mess with my mind and how it affected my thought process and it is not good at al because you're not focused on what's important and you have an unrealistic expectation of woman and what a woman should be like. Close the center folds and open up a bible!

Climate well informed: Never payed attention!

I remember watching the debates with George bush and Al Gore as a kid and I remember not seeing Al Gore for a little while after that! When I did finally see him again he was talking about climate change and the effects of global warming! He was always warning us about the polar ice caps melting and water levels potentially rising to catastrophic levels. Based off what I remember I was kind of concerned, but it didn't really bother me because I think I was too young to really even care! But now As I have gotten older I have started to see the changes with the climate, the weather, and the environment!

I have lived in Utah my whole life and I have never seen rain or storms quite like the ones that occurred here this summer! I have never seen lightning strike so close. This summer the lightning was absolutely crazy and almost striking in the city. Just last night on the way back from Salt Lake, the rain was absolutely horrendous and blinding. I have never seen anything like this in my history of living here. The lightning was literally lighting up the whole sky striking near the apartments, and then all of a sudden you have tornados hitting in Colorado, when has that ever happened? But away from the weather I have noticed that it is constantly getting hotter and the winters aren't as cold as they have been. Like last spring in St George; it was kind of cold but not ice cold, that is until it started snowing, and not a little bit of snow but a whole bunch of snow hit in St George. So I do support the idea that the climate is changing, but from a spiritual aspect I think all of these changes are apart of Gods plan and the front runner to the final day of judgment!

Hmm. . . Here is an interesting video from Bill Nye

Well Informed: religion 3.0 Be spiritual not religious?

Religion can be defined as a belief, worship or praise to a higher power or personal God. In recent months religion has been in the center of everything that has been going down in the word; the most prominent at the moment are Christians and Muslims. You have the issue with Kim Davis and homosexuals, and then you have the pope coming to America as if he is a rock star, and then you have attacks by radical Islamic groups carrying out destructive attacks. In the midst of all of this I have noticed it has caused people to hate religion all together because now absent minded people generalize all people of faith and or particular religions as pushy and basically terrorists. There are so many different religions out there now a days, you have Mormons, Christians, Muslims, Baptists, Jehovah witnesses etc. . . so you can see why so many people are confused and turning away from religion because so many religions are trying to tell everybody they are wrong instead of trying to bring people to truth.

The one thing I have noticed about religions in this modern day is that they are trying so hard to promote their religions and market why their religion is the only truth, but they forget what is really important, and that is Jesus Christ. That's just it, hes the answer, the explanation, and the all of it. If you aren't preaching Jesus but claim to follow God then you are not abiding in truth! To know the father is to know the son and to know the son is to know the father (Matt 11:27). The media has a huge grip on the minds of people when it comes to religions, especially Christianity. The media often portrays Christians, as all hypocrites, hateful, judgmental, gay haters, and do as I say not as I do people. There are people like that, but those people are not Christian. A Christian is someone who knows that they are weak and leans on the Lord, and a Christian strives everyday to live like Jesus, showing love and compassion.

The worst about this is that we (Christians) are made out to be "Homophobes" and people who hate homosexuals. That is not true at all. As I stated before if you do hate those people you are not a Christian. I Know for a fact that I don't hate them I actually love them, but I just don't agree with the way that they choose to live. I understand that the hypocrites give Christians a bad rep but it is not fair to generalize all in that same category.

Spiritual not Religious: I think religions is good because it keeps your morals and values in check. It is a good way keep you in line, but also a good way to keep you honorable towards God, but it can be a negative as well. I don't like religion or religious people at the same time because religious people were the same people that killed Jesus. What do you mean religious people Darius? I am talking about the people that want to be seen openly praying, being seen in high places, practicing a ritual, and living holy only on Sundays like most pastors, bishops and church leaders today. If Jesus was walking the earth today (he is alive and well) the people would crucify him again because he didn't obey the religious rules that man had set but he obeyed the words of the father!

This brings me to my next point in that people have twisted religion from what it was originally founded on and have turned it into a fleshly thing instead of its original form which is spiritual. "Those that worship God must worship him in spirit and in truth," (John 4:24). To me that is why so many people have it wrong because they are leaning to their own understanding instead of leaning on the Lord for wisdom and knowledge (Proverbs 3:5-6) because if you are not in tune spiritually it is impossible to please God and move in the right direction. An example of this is racism in churches. In the LDS church black people weren't allowed to hold a man given priesthood until the 70's which to me sounds like God was racist up until the 1970's which is false because God doesn't work that way. This is an example of being in the flesh and not in the spirit because anybody that has any type of holy ghost knows that the spirit would never condone that.

Conclusion: When you look at religion through the eyes of flesh you see religion as having no power, being bound by rules, and many other factors but if you do in truth and in spirit there is absolute freedom because where the spirit of the lord is there is liberty ( 2 Corinthians 3:17). God is so loving that hey gave us the gift of free will to either serve him or go our own way! I am a Christian but not based on the title of my religion but by the way I live my life; Christianity is a way of living and a fun lifestyle to live at that. Being in a religion doesn't mean you have to walk around serious and dead all the time, but instead it should bring joy and happiness. don't let the media fool you in the way it presents religion because it can fool you into resenting God. Anybody can tell you one way is the truth but only God can show you the true way.

Well informed: Privacy 2.0

Privacy is defined in simple terms as a person who secludes themselves and information about themselves, from people and selectively express themselves. I didn't research an article but I did skim read here and there and based off information and settings I have observed. Privacy inst what it used to be. Now a days the things that you think are private really aren't though they look and seem as they are. I like to look at social media, and technology when it comes to this particular topic.

 Social media websites are supposedly meant to keep particular information about you private, and sharing with those what you want to be shared about yourself, thus somewhat fitting the true definition of privacy. You can post whatever you want to social media, especially Facebook, but at the same time you can't because someone is always watching. Though you shouldn't be posting negative things anyway, if you do an employer or someone who holds your fate in the workplace may come across something by accessing your social media profile and see something that they don't like which can lead to being dismissed from the job, suspension, or even a pay cut but either way it just doesn't seem really private to me. Now I definitely support someone who doesn't want a person doing unethical things on social media, or speaking out against the company to work for me either, but on the logical side, at-least from my perspective, that proves to me that social media isn't that private. I really noticed this with the NCAA because they are constantly monitoring everything you do as an athlete. They monitor your social media accounts what you do outside of football and a multitude of other things. As a student athlete you are constantly on your toes because one slip up can get you booted so at the end of the day there really is no real privacy, which is strange given the fact that we are not paid but students first.

Technology is also something that invades privacy. As humans we have the right to be private and not put all of our business out there. With the new smart phones privacy has kind of become not as important or non-essential I guess! Phones are always tacking your whereabouts and I have watched a few videos about how some of our phone calls are being recorded by the government, and I am not trying to sound like a conspiracy theorist but I believe this to be true that the government knows where we are at all times. Things that we search, talk about, and post on social media are always constantly floating out there though they were supposed to be deleted. And now a days it is so easy to steal someones identity it starts to make you question if privacy is real at all. How is it possible for these people to access your information if we have privacy?

Here is a video that I found about privacy!