Twitter Podcast

 

For this assignment, (Linked here or streaming above), our group was asked to produce a podcast that both showed that we had learned the skills needed to accomplish a task like this, as well as have the podcast cover a topic that is relevant to our studies in social media and web 2.0.  We all agreed that, because of the great deal of attention it has been getting lately, Twitter would be a good subject to cover.  Overall, I would say that our project was a success.  We began with an introduction, which laid out what we would be covering in the podcast.  Each member of our group then took on a different aspect of the micro-blogging service to analyze.  Then concluded it with our findings.  The entire podcast was recorded in my living room on my MacBook through GarageBand.  We didn't even need any extra equipment since the laptop has a mic built in.  After recording, we converted it into MP3 format and uploaded it onto our blogs.  

Show Notes

Social Media Today

00.14 Juan begins to introduce the show.

00.38 Juan introduces the various topics that will be discussed on the podcast.

00.42 Sara begins to talk about the use of Twitter for journalists.

01.49 Juan transitions topic to Kirby.

01.58 Kirby begins to talk about the advantages of Twitter for the average person.

03.01 Juan transitions topic to Joe.

03.12 Joe begins talking about the advantages of Twitter for business. 

04.38 Juan ends the show.

05.13 Podcast ends. 

 

Twitter: I still don't get it... :(

Not too long ago I gave in and joined Twitter.  If you are unfamiliar with what Twitter, think of blogging, only a lot smaller (micro-blogging) and only answering the question "What are you doing?".  I didn't join because I have saw a use out of it, but did so simply because everyone else was doing it  - I just wanted to be popular :( -.  Anyway, I still haven't found any truly good use for it in my day-to-day life.  Believe me I tried.  First I looked for anyone i knew with a Twitter account.  This was a lot harder than I expected.  There isn't really a good searching ability on Twitter.  You can't look by E-mail or school/employer like on Facebook, for example.  And even when I did find an account with a name I recognized, they often didn't have a picture up or listed their city, so I couldn't tell which of them were people I knew (if any of them were) and which just happened to have the same name.  I did finally manage to track down my friend Wayo.  Ironically, I did this, not by looking up his name, but instead by typing in my own.  Evidently, my friend had run into the same problem as me because he was following the Tweets of someone who shared my name, but was NOT me.  I called Wayo up and we straightened everything out.  Well I decided to give up on friends and look for celebreties that I might want to follow.  This however, was also a bit disappointing.  I found that all of the celebrities I would care to follow, they all fall into one of two groups.  Those who Tweet way too much and constantly fill up your page, such as Jim Gaffigan and The Onion, or those who don't use Twitter at all, like Kristen Bell. (* The third group would be fake Twitter accounts like Tina Fey's).  I would really like to be into Twitter, seriously!  In fact, not liking it makes me feel kind of old.  But I guess its just doesn't have a useful purpose in my day to day activities.  Still, if Twitter does something about the problems I mentioned, who knows!

(Twitter pages of Jim Gaffigan, The Onion, Kristen Bell, *fake-> Tina Fey)

LOL, this sums it up really well: