Blog 2

This weeks reading was awesome! I learned and was refreshed on a lot of the material. The texts were about how to use digital and media and crafting electronic messages for intended audiences. The texts explained how they are used and why we should use them in professional and informal circumstances. It covered emails, Instant Messages, Short Messages, blogs, and podcasts. I have used most of these mediums in my previous businesses, but I was enlightened to the formal etiquette of emails and social media. In the past, I have often used Social Media like Facebook and Instagram to plug many of my events and promotions to my followers, but never had an overwhelming response. I think it was an “aha” moment for me when I read that social media post should incite more of a conversation than advertising blast of information. With this insight I plan on rethinking my social media posts for my business ventures in the future and look forward to tracking its effects on my followers. I think that I have also been a naive promoter of quantity is better than quality in my electronic media. The reading shed light on the steps a lot of professionals go through when posting or sending any writing on electronic media.  They use a simple 3 steps of planning, writing the subject matter for a particular audience, and ending with a review of the writing and a fond farewell. These examples of the professional writing process were supplemented by the understanding rhetoric reading, which addressed the writing identity an author of any writing should assume given their audience and the issues that they are writing about. For instance: I am writing a blog. My audience is my professor and my classmates and even though it’s a public blog the writing I am posting is intended to speak to the criteria of the group or audience I am writing for.  I am in effect wearing my insightful and introspective student hat for these postings.

How do some of you readers and classmates see how our reading this last week relates directly with our blogs?

Let me know!

Thanks,

-Kyran