SMP Final Blog Post.

1. Summary and evaluation of activities as a Social Media Producer.

During my time as a Social Media Producer, I have done a spectrum of activities that ties in with my role.


Firstly, for my tutorial, I have taken upon the role of a Tute Liaison, this requires me to attend meetings outside of the normal tutorial time and meet up with the other liaisons from the Online Feature tute, the Facebook tute, the 360 Broadcast tute and the Pool tute. What I will do is to update them of what is happening within my own tute; the Federation Square tute, as well as inquire what the other groups are doing for their respective areas. An example of what goes on can be referred to my blog post as it was my turn to take down notes:

http://revelationsofazombie.blogspot.com/2010/05/last-tute-liaison-meeting-notes.html

Secondly, I was also part of the Events group for my tute and was made to handle the final proceedings of the event at Federation Square. We had meetings to discuss the runnings of the event and took part in planning on how to arrange for the event at Federation Square. I took part actively by being one of the emcees, next to Brodie on the night of the event. I was a little nervous as it was my first time appearing on a public event in a foreign country, but I am glad that things turned out well. Here is a link showing me and Brodie on stage during the My Tribe, Federation Square event:


http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=109208215792097&comments=

Next, for my plans on getting my friends to post up their works, for my group that writes poetry and short stories, although I have continually tried to get them to post up some of their works, they kept putting it off and even until now, they have not posted anything up. It is very hard to try to get them to post something without sounding pushy at times. It is the same for my friends who do cosplay. They have not posted up any pictures. Even for my plan to involve my polytechnic back home, I never got any reply from them and hence that avenue had to be dropped.


In an attempt to get my friends to post up their works online, I have taken it upon myself to post up my own works online to try to motivate them to post up some stuff online. I have a total of 19 posts up on the Pool website. They are a combination of 3 poems, 5 pictures on Cosplay, 4 pictures of Muay Thai aka Thai Boxing, and 7 pictures of my different tribes that I belong to. These are all done in a desperate attempt to get my friends to post their works up on Pool. Here are the links to all my posts on Pool:

1. http://www.pool.org.au/text/nivlac/ode_to_g

2. http://www.pool.org.au/text/nivlac/angry_chair

3. http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/behind_the_scenes

4. http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/muay_thai

5. http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/treasure_what_is_important

6. http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/cosplay

7. http://www.pool.org.au/text/nivlac/divine_insanity

8. http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/tastes_of_home

9. http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/glare_of_killing_intent

10. http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/the_calm_before_the_storm

11. http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/brains_and_brawns

12. http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/trying_to_cosplay

13. http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/the_lich_king

14. http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/naruto_attack

15. http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/final_fantasy

16. http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/the_night_sky_back_home

17. http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/take_me_away

18. http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/lie_back_and_relax

19. http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/couple_toilets

Although none of my friends posted up their works on Pool, I managed to get some of the people on Pool to comment on my works that I have posted up on Pool and I have replied to them, hence I feel that I have done my part as an Social Media Producer. Being a good Social Media Producer to me, means that even if results are not what I expected, I continue to push on and contribute in my won way whatever I can do. Here is a link on one of my posts with lots of comments and feedbacks:

http://www.pool.org.au/image/nivlac/cosplay

For my PP1 group project, we thought up of creating a social media platform using Tumblr to gather pictures, audio, visual and written works of the different things that people are very interested in. Spending time, effort and money into their 'object of worship'. As many people have their own Tribes, they have different things that they 'worship' within their Tribe as well. For example, a Tribe of Footie fans might worship a particular Football club. Music enthusiasts might worship a particular band, and more.

I have recorded sounds from churches as that is the most direct form of worship and have come up with many different poems revolving around the things that people worship as will be seen in the presentation later in the weeks. Here is the link to the page:

http://whynotworship.tumblr.com/

2. What I have learnt about the role of a Social Media Producer.

First of all, the job of a Social Media Producer is more challenging than I initially thought it was. First you have to think of what social media platforms there are in order to reach your target audience. Tools like Facebook, Twitter, blog sites and more can be used to interact and reach out to your target audience.

Currently, Facebook seems to be the easiest, cheapest and most effective way of reaching out to most audiences due to the sheer amount of people who have a Facebook account. There are no fees needed to set up an account and most of the people who use Facebook might stumble upon the page.

When it comes to rallying the crowd, it can get frustrating at times when you do not see anyone posting up things despite repeated sincere requests for them to get something up. This is definitely a problem that many fellow Social Media Producers face when they are trying to get feedback or contributions from people and they simply do not bother or keep on procrastinating.

3. Self assessment for my Social Media Producer task.

In light of what I have done and learnt for this task, my individual assessment mark will be 91/100.