Blog 6

How is social media and social networks changing us and how we communicate?

Check my VEDIO!!!!!

 Social Media http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxy-oUG3hfM

Is social media good or bad for students? We can't answer this complex question with a simple yes or no. Students spend a lot of time on different social networks everyday, is that really necessary? Social media is now a vital part of life, and academia needs to learn how to effectively take advantage. When social media is integrated with academics, studies have shown serious positive impact on students.

Blog 5

Please Watch this video 

http://www.ted.com/talks/howard_rheingold_on_collaboration.html

By Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration

    What is collaboration?  I think it means every members are working together to achieve a goal. Therefore, every role will does collaboration play in working with others and solving problems. Top to the CEO or governor, down to the worker or producer. This is a very deep subject that could go of in plenty of directions of discussion. However, many times it's hard to show to all parts involved in a relationships what the common benefits are and convince them to cooperate.
    We depend on a symbiotic relationship with others around us in order for us to prosper while at the same time always attempting to move beyond our competition. We depend on the symbiotic relationship with our competition to move beyond our competition. One of the greatest ability humans have is cooperation.
    The recent improvement in technology has provided the world with high speed internet, wireless connection, and web-based collaboration tools like blogs, and wikis, and has as such created a "mass collaboration." People from all over the world are efficiently able to communicate and share ideas through the internet, or even conferences, without any geographical barriers.People from all over the world are efficiently able to communicate and share ideas through the internet, or even conferences, without any geographical barriers.




Another way to collaborate：

We definitely need this in our modern life.

    

Blog 4

Two videos are relate my topic today!

1: http://www.junta42.com/resources/what-is-content-marketing.aspx

2: http://www.slideshare.net/juntajoe/10-social-media-tips-social-media-starts-with-a-content-strategy

What is content marketing? Content Marketing means creating and freely sharing informative content as a means of converting prospects into customers and customers into repeat buyers. The first video show a perfect definition about CONTENT MARKETING --- Attract and Retain Customers. 


And why it is so important to organizations or companies? Customer bring the profit to company. Therefore for every companies, the most important factor is the customers, attracting and keeping customers is becoming increasingly important. Compared to other carriers in the network, content marketing can be rendered in various media of animation, text, video, sound, etc., more attractive to the target customers. 




Some key takeaways from the presentation:


1. The key to social media is understanding that no one cares about you.  They care about themselves. If you deliver consistent, valuable information to your customers (or followers in this case), they will care because you made it about them.  Most brands get this wrong.


2. That means that publishing, and developing a content strategy that revolves around your customers' informational needs, comes first. Without content, using social media as a distribution mechanism and conversation starter is pretty pointless.


3. What's your secret sauce?  Find the place where your customers' informational needs intersects with your niche expertise. You can build a strategy on that.


By JOE PULIZZI

Blog 3

Valentine’s day “ Feb 14 “, don’t you have a plan yet. Come on its not too late in this generation and growing technology, even a date can happen using internet. Have a look at the video on “Social media saved valentine’s day” by Socialnomics. This video helps how to make use of different social media to save guard your Valentine’s Day. Have a look at the below video, you will get a clear idea.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vY9Nd3Pft8

I love this video so much! It is interesting and get my attention.


    After watching this video you realize that maybe there is a good use to Social Media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Groupon, and others than simply promoting your company or posting the intimate details of your everyday life with the world. This video provide a very fun and unique perspective into social media that I find myself overlooking all the time.
    Its a good time to stop and think about other clever ways like this that you could use to promote your business via social networking, maybe create a few campaigns around valentines day that covers something similar in this video, or begin to think up creative ways to promote your business for next winter during Christmas, its never too early to get out there and test your ideas and see what works and what doesn’t.
    On the other hand, this video shows another funny phenomenon in our new generation. What is real social mean? Social Media Revolution has changed our life. We live in the age of Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google – strong forces which guide the way we behave, work, have fun and live our lives everyday. Erik Qualman from Socialnomics has a deep understanding of this social media change and has created some amazing videos which highlight the ongoing social media revolution.

Since so many people are playing their smart phone rather than talking with each other during the party, now in China, there is a new way to prevent it happen and start to become popular. We called it "DieDie Le", which means before start the party, people should put their phone together, who tough the phone first, who will pay for the bill.

Blog 2

Over the past several decades, young people’s media environment has changed in several ways. Changes include increases in both the number and kinds of media available, in the number of choices each medium offers, in the fidelity with which symbols and images can be transmitted, and in the degree of privacy with which each medium can be experienced. Technological advances have put young people in constant contact with their peers via cell phones, instant messaging, e-mail, and pagers. Not only have new media appeared, but older media have evolved, offering more channels more vividly than ever before. 


Chinese authorities have blocked Internet access to Twitter, Flicker, Bing, Live.com, YouTube, Blogger and several other sites. That means I can't use this blog when I back to China! :(
As far as solutions for evading the block go, you can find some advice here and here. Furthermore, Twitter may be working if you’re using third party apps to access it, such as TweetDeck.  
Since our government block so many social networking, therefore we create our own one. We have Chinese version facebook, called Renren (www.renren.com); Chinese Twitter, Weibo (www.weibo.com); Chinese Google, Baidu (www.baidu.com); Chinese Youtube, Youku (www.youku.com). 
Here is a Video I found, just shows how powerful social media is and how China is transforming into a socialist state faster than the Government can handle. Watch this video from CNN – Global Public Square (GPS) with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (a very intelligent man!).


http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/01/14/gps.wen.jiabao.intv.cnn?iref=videosearch


watch what he says about the internet: 16:00 (I think he uses Google vs Baidu )
watch what he says about democracy and socialism: 23:00
i suggest u watch the whole video.


For example, Sina’s Weibo, is China’s popular microblogging site, grew to more than two times the size of Twitter last month, Sina Corporation (SINA) chief executive Charles Chao said recently. Sina said it has 250 million registered uses on Weibo. By comparison, Twitter has slightly over 100 million. People use it every day as Twitter. I have one, so I will spent more than 2 hours on it everyday. Actually, some Chinese people doesn't care about those "foreign" social networking. First of all, English isn't our first language, so many people still doesn't know how to say it. Secondly, the "copy cat" social networking somehow has gone beyond the original one. Calling Sina's Weibo “Chinese Twitter” is downplaying the superiority of Weibo. For users who use both Twitter and Weibo, Twitter is no comparison in terms of feature, performance, and usability. Try Weibo and you will see the difference. Twitter has a lot of catching up to do here. 
American NBA official organizations report that they have more followers in Chinese Sina Weibo than in Twitter. NBA promoted their Weibo in just three months and reached more than 2.5 million followers, and the Twitter, they have been operating a few years, but less than 2.4 million followers.
Sina’s Weibo had more than 5 million users in early March 2010, according to global marketing and media relations firm Oglivy. By the end of the first quarter 2011, the Weibo population swelled to 140 million users, the company said in an earnings statement dated May 11. Sina’s Weibo has nearly 8 times more users than Twitter. In 2010, Twitter had approximately 17 million users in the US, according to an Edison Research report called Twitter Usage in America 2010. Even if Twitter doubled in size this year, which is unlikely, its Twitter account numbers would be dwarfed by Sina accounts alone. In fact, according to Edison, Twitter has around 20 million users as of the first quarter 2011.
(http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2011/05/17/chinas-weibos-vs-uss-twitter-and-the-winner-is/)


Citizen media is become more and more important in our New media. Not only stars, more and more organizations, officials, foreign institutions have also set up the Weibo. It is more quickly than through third-party websites and media reports. 
But there still have an interesting thing, which is there only has one twitter in the world, but China have two "twitters". As the Video said, QQ, the China's largest Internet service. It's looks like MSN or facebook chatting.  According to their user base, they also open the Twitter service. So including Renren, sometimes people will have more than three social networkings. 

Blog 1

1. What these concepts mean to you? 


Social networking has encouraged new ways to communicate and share information. Social networking is an act of engagement. Groups of people with common interests, or like-minds, associate together on social networking sites and build relationships through community.
And I think New Media including broadcast, Internet and Print Media.


More Interesting Information:
The main types of social networking services are those which contain category divisions (such as former school-year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with MySpace, Facebook, Twitter andLinkedIn being the most widely used in North America;[2] Nexopia (mostly in Canada);[3] Bebo,[4] Facebook, Hi5, MySpace, dol2day (mostly in Germany), Tagged, XING;[5] and Skyrock in parts of Europe;[6] Orkut, Facebook and Hi5 in South America and Central America;[7] and Friendster, Orkut, Xiaonei and Cyworld in Asia and the Pacific Islands.


http://socialnetworkinglab.com/2009/04/06/social-networking/


2. Are they related or different? 


I believe that social networks are the new media. 


3. How do you believe social networks and new media have and will change how we communicate with one another?


The first is that communication is no longer one way. Sure, we had letters to the editor and you could have your own public access television show, but for the average media consumer, there was no real chance of being heard before New Media. That’s definitely new for most of us.
Secondly, the time compression is phenomenal. For example, it might takes a long time to edit and print the magazine and newspaper, also have to spent another day to ship before anyone can even read. But today, you post, you get hit. That fast. Sweet. 
I’m sure there are other differences, but being able to be heard quickly by people who are communicating with you is what sets New Media apart for me.




PS:  I still believe that far more people are writing than reading. -_-!