Strive Notes

I am back from my holiday! All over far too quickly as usual, but what’s new?
Back to work….

1.Social Media 101: Five Lessons You Can Follow from Your Desk.

I choose this one because of its obvious benefits. Help with blogging, Delicious, RSS feeds and social networks all of which I have been using since starting at Strive. I haven’t had the opportunity to go over all the points yet but am working on it “one bite at a time” just like it says.

2. 10 Simple Rules For Online Success

I came across 10 Simple Rules For On-line Success and it made me laugh. I was in the middle of complaining that I couldn’t think of anything to write today, post holiday blues I think, when the words “stop whining” and “focus” jumped out at me. I carried on reading and also found “improving once is almost as useless as not improving at all” something am probably guilty of sometimes, all in all I found it quite helpful.

3. Facebook face-off

There will most likely always be something about Facebook in my blog posts as I, like many, am addicted to the debates and views that surround it. This one Facebook face-off interested me because if I am not mistaken Richard Bailey is a Lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University where up until June I myself was a student. I don’t see the problem with it personally like a fellow reader commented what is the worst your lecturer will discover about you, that you “get drunk and party a lot” doesn’t take a rocket science to work this one out.

However we did have an incident of a lecturer commenting on something he saw in a friends photo album much to her embarrassment and annoyance last year. Yes I see the educational benefits in the student, lecturer, Facebook relationship as long as that is as far as it goes? Although we know that you are aware of our partying habits this doesn’t necessarily mean we want you to go out of your way to witness it. Students, like lecturers, are entitled to private lives too and as long as everyone knows the boundaries then there shouldn’t be a problem?

4. But what can little ol’ me do about the death of PR?

Articles and blogs like this always grab my attention. Naturally being new to the field I like to take in as much as I can surrounding it, good or bad. I don’t think I have enough experience or knowledge of past and present PR to comment personally but I found it to be a good read nonetheless.

5. ITV’s Rugby World Cup coverage: should have done better? – ITV’s coverage did not always do justice to an excellent sporting event.

Straying away just a tad, but something I found interesting was overage of this weekend’s sporting events by ITV. Was ITV up to scratch, were there too many adverts, did ITV spoil the viewing with lack of analysis and support? Or, by making it simple and opening it up to the ‘average Joe’ did it make it a better watch? Either way it was a terrible weekend for us in the way of sport. I don’t think anyone can debate that. However, after listening to my male family members debating the coverage at length I was thinking…who cares? I then came across across this post and it seems, actually quite a lot of people do….

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