Final creative gallery

Alright 303.. here is my final creative gallery...

first i made a business page on Facebook. Using this page i did a few things,
1. uploaded videos and pictures
2. wall post
3. gained fans
4. discussion boards
5.published specials.
using Facebook was effective in creating a name for my business, i was able to reach a large amount of people with my made up bar and gain recognition.

Facebook page is linked here

After creating my Facebook page i linked the two together to get my blog page for the bar. The blog can be viewed by everyone and list a number of similar information already listed on the Facebook page.
Using the blog page for CLUB MJ was an addition to the Facebook set up that allowed me to reinforce what was already expressed on one to another.

Blooger page Linked here

facebook page

Trailer

I have changed my idea since the first trailer, i would have to say an image would be best,

Facebook Ad

Creating a multimedia author using Facebook advertising allows a business or company to reach a mass amount of people at once. It takes information from a users profile and pinpoints the right advertisement that fits that specific persons interest, hobbies, relationship status, age, sex, race, and other information available to users through Facebook.
another image would be

ad creator

both could be good for the gallery but im not to sure!

music

paper

paper

so when i uploaded it to google docs my citations got all messed up but i hope everything is right even with my insight ones. Finally done.. :)

Travel

View travel in a larger map

Short fiction

Short

after

You would do it to if you heard the noise that he makes when he plays. I was making the world a better place!

The Scarlatti Tilt before

He is awful, i hate it it sounds like nails on a chalkboard. I am going to smack him in the face with it.

The Scarlatti Tilt

“It’s very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who’s learning to play violin.” That’s what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.

possible creative gallery

i was thinking of making an ad for facebook and creating a product for customer to view and seeing if i can get feed back for it. so kind alike a survey stating if its something people are interested in and what not. Not really sure how i am going to go about doing that but that's what i'm feeling would be a good choice for me with this creative gallery.

After viewing some examples from last semester im still unsure.

I like the collaborative theme. Having multiple people work to to create something interesting is a great idea. I like thinking of a blog post similar to the lost project, what if you lost something but geared more towards my project. That's a great concept for a creative gallery. I like Jessica's video about the callbo for graffiti. the fact that its rel and is a running record of the work she put into her work is one thing that draws me to it. I would like to do that but i'm not sure how i could turn it to my topic. Ive always thought it would be funny to make a facebook page out of card board and wear it. If i have the time which i do i might recruit someone for that, itwould be on the funnier side of things.

rough draft

heres my awful paper.. :(

i like my topic i feel like its pretty solid but i need to support why i think its good and positive for businesses. i need to work on my thesis statement and make it stronger.I don't even think i have a full thesis statement yet. kinda just a cluster of thoughts.
um i hate it... i don't like any of it right now it needs way way way more work. I wish i had more time its not even finished.

i haven't put Shirky's argument in on social networking so i have 3 pages of actual text, averaging out to be 1000 words short of what we need so luckily i have time to fix and finish because i'm gonna need it.

youtube author

youtube allows a number of users to upload interesting videos or video blogs about themselves sharing their life. Its a visual creative way of allowing people into your interest and life. Facebook is a communication back and forth style of multimedia

everyone is familiar with the "Leave Britney alone" blogger who was so emotional over all the hype about Britney and her life that he made a very emotional blog over the false statements the media was printing. Can one say that this makes Chris an author. A multimedia author on top of that. Yes he is creating something original and placing his face to the object but many people have recreated this blog since he has posted it.

Would on say that guys or girls singing and remaking songs that have already been released is a form of authorship. Granted there is the users own twist to it but it is not using their own original thoughts or words. But it a sense it is still being publish, does copyright fall into play here, and if it does then how.

For me i feel that to be called an author on youtube is to create something original. The charlie bit me, original and funny in a sense but is an everyday occurrence. Granted it was its own video it has been recreated so many times and placed back on to youtube. The video we watched today in class, definitely a form of authorship, something original and took tons of time to make.

Logical Mapping

here is my logic map

in class blog post

i would probably lean more towards social media. Social media is geared towards social interaction. Since i am looking at online social networks and how businesses use it to their advantages i think that taking key elements from "Here Comes Everybody" will help add to my paper and support my topic.
I'm still working on the main topics of the paper and trying to narrow down what i feel a multimedia author is but so far i feel that it is an author who can branch out over all media aspects. Facebook, twitter, fan-fiction, the news, audio, music, and any other form one may think of. Being able to excel and more then one field, (multi) is a crucial aspect to what possibly makes a multimedia author. I feel that it does enable room for creativity. An author is not tied down and able to spread their wings and experience new and enlighten pieces of the media. The option is what makes it work and gives a positive reaction. In regards to online social networking and the how businesses use it in a productive manner, it allows them to reach thousands of people for a small amount of money. Not only is it a more effective option but it also saves the company money and gives them more alternatives to the tradition norms of advertising.

One sentence to explain my topic:
Facebook: creating a new face for advertising. how hard and how effective is it?

arguments:
facebook has made it possible for businesses to establish themselves. It has changed the traditional terms of advertising and allowed companies to reach thousands of people everyday. We as users are exposed to these ad's and 1/2 the time we are unaware of it. Its an effective way for businesses to get their products out and about on the main stream market. Facebook has changed advertising and made it easier for a small business to get their message out.

anno bib

Cohen,Julie E."Privacy,Visibility,Transparency,and Exposure."The
University Chicago Law Review 28 Dec.2008:181-201.JSTOR.Web.1 Mar. 2010

Whether we believe it of not when we place information online there is always that factor that it becomes visible to everyone. Julie Cohen article, “Privacy, Visibility, Transparency, and Exposure” is a perfect example of how privacy is violated online. Using examples from different doctrines such as the Privacy doctrine, Cohen effectively reiterates her point on how easily accessible personal information is and how in turn some use our information to expose us.
This article is a credible source and holds a good amount of information on how our privacy is breeched as we use the internet (leaning more towards social networks) for our own personal use.
Looking at some of my other sources you will notice a number of them state that Facebook allows advertisers to use the information you place in your profile to target certain member for products. I find it interesting what Cohen states about this and how the privacy doctrine in a way goes against this. Its particularly gear towards my topic since facebook has a contract with all users stating that the information place on their page can be used. This includes pictures, background information, interest, hobbies, and even relationship status. I am going to take this information from the article and use it as a way to play devils advocate and argue about the precautions facebook had to take when creating this new platform for advertisements.

"Could Facebook Change Web Advertising? : NPR." NPR : National Public Radio:News& Analysis,World, US, Music & Arts:NPR.Web.23Feb.2010.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15994984

Could Facebook really change web advertising? A radio show from November 5, 2007 zoned in on Facebook’s new partnership. The host on the National Public radio pulled information on Facebook being used for business promotion. Facebook in 2007 was pulling in 15 billion dollars and with this new partnership they have developed will average out making more then that. The radio show goes through a number of background information on the actual aspect of Facebook and what each page may contain. Chiming in on how popular Facebook is with students in general, the host pulled 3 students from Berkeley who admitted to using their Facebook countless times a day. 3 students were interviewed in the show and asked to enlighten listeners about the content within their pages. Once each student had introduced their information Cyrus Farivar announced that the three are "volunteering information that advertisers dream about, especially because they're in the highly sought after 18 to 34-year-old demographic". Pulling some executive directors of companies and their views on the situation adds strong support to my argument, “marketers can use and advertisers can use to get to you at a very different level - at a point in which the time is right for the message." David Blum stated within the interview.
This source does pose some limitations. Although it is an interesting piece of information it is only a short exert of supporting details to help prove my argument. On the other hand with its small exert of information it is full of details that support my topic. It is important for people using Facebook to realize that what they place on their pages are being exposed to companies who then us that information to promote a product of interest.
This resource is useful to my project simply because as I stated before it is on point with my topic. I am looking at the different ways companies’ use Facebook as a means of promotion versus just a form of communication with peers.

Dickenson, Jacqueline."Stuff History: The Past as a Resource in the Production
Of Advertising Material."Advertising & Society Review 10.3(2009):Project Muse. Web. 1Mar.2010.

Jacqueline Dickenson did a study on the effectiveness of recreating old advertisements and what works when it boils down to it. By running a number of old advertisements and the new recreations of them she came to the conclusion that people struggle with creating advertisements due to the limited platform they are given to work on. Being well aware of the history behind an ad does in turn make or break the success. An example given within the article is the M&M ads on TV. We all know and love the classic aspect of it and that is what makes it so effective. The level of familiarity consumer has with a product allows comfort to be present.
The study is well developed and has some limitations in regard to online social networking. I feel as if this study can provide evidence on what works within advertisings and help me to establish a base for where advertising is in regards to social networks. Is it working effectively, or is it just taking up space. This study may be able to point me in the right direction for some key underlying ideas.

"Facebook's secret rate card-Feature-Gawker."Valleywag-Gawker.1 Mar.2010..

What does a company have to pay to buy their way onto facebook? A rate card by definition is a document detailing prices for various ad placement options. Believe it or not facebook has recently stooped to that level. On February of 2010 a rate card for Facebook was found. Although Facebook’s representatives have tried to deny that this popular online social network has began to participate in Rate Cards once confronted about the newest findings Barker quickly changes her story, stating "I just don't think it's a rate card in the traditional sense." Starting with different opportunities for sponsorship facebook offers companies an effective form of advertising to a young demographic (18) to a more established demographic, (34). Within the article, they allow readers to view the different prices, opportunities, and package deals that companies can invest in.
I feel that this source is a great and definitely supportive source for my topic. Although I am not geared towards only one online network it is interesting to see how much companies are willing to pay for a small advertising spot. I feel that this is an important source; it adds actual numbers to my research and allows for a dependable source of information.
Some viewers are unaware that the advertising even exist on online social networks but it’s important for us as viewers to be aware of what we are being exposed to. Its an interesting concept and a neat idea that not only are these very popular online networks used as a form of communication but now we see more so that they branch off into other areas as well like a form of advertisement.

Klein, David . "SEOmoz | Facebook Advertising - An Opportunity for Deep
Targeting at Very Low Cost." SEO - Search Engine Optimization | Tools & Software to Rank Better. 11 Mar. 2009. Web. 1 Mar. 2010.
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Everyone is aware that there are a number of sites you can buy advertising on. The one perk to facebook is that you can set the demographic of the consumers in which you are trying to reach. The filter action allows you to “target your ads to a specific age, sex, and even things like what school they attend or their sexual orientation.” This technology is bound to make Facebook’s newest platform a true success. Within the article a display and instructions on how the target generator works is present. Going with age, sex, education, workplaces, relationship status, and interest allows a business to zone in on what exact customer they are searching for. Information on why it has become so popular is key as well and listed for the reader towards the bottom. These reasons include:

The demographics are far more accurate than most data (age, sex, gender preference, relationship, etc.)

The "approximate reach" number gives you great insight into your target market size (even if you never place an ad)

The article is a very well written and information filled piece. With graphs, illustrations, and supporting details this is sure to be a positive attribute to my paper. I intend on taking the information given on the actual target filter and using that as a away to generate a well developed topic.

Optimum 7."Facebook Marketing and Advertising." Internet Marketing Services and SEO Company. Internet Marketing Service. Web. 1 Mar. 2010.
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The introduction of pages for businesses. A page is a way to create a profile for a company which will allow you to post advertisements, weekly ads, coupons, and even weekly specials for certain member of you page. They are a free form of promotion, you can suggest people become a fan of the page but you cannot ask people to be friends or to be fans of it, strictly suggestions. Groups and events are both another branch of effective ways to promote information for business.
Even with these groups, event, and pages facebook still has other forms of advertising to offer for business. Applications do cost money but they allow you to purchase advertising tools, which can expose your organization to new users periodically throughout the day.
All of these are effective ways to use media as a form of advertisement in regards to Facebook. This information present in this article shows that there are other options on facebook that make it easy for promotional needs. Using facebook as a form of advertisements will benefit the organization and allow their product or ad to reach thousand of people every hour.
This is helpful information and gives me more tools to build upon with my argument. I am able to see how what else facebook has to offer for businesses.

Shuaib, Jawad ."5 Money Making Opportunities on Facebook." Social Media
News and Web Tips – Mashable – The Social Media Guide.28 Jan. 2008.
Web. 1 Mar. 2010. .

Facebook’s new platform is allowing a new a great new opportunity for marketers to get involved with online social networks and dive head fist into a youthful thriving market. The top five opportunities that facebook brought to different companies, small businesses, and marketers attention was one, to sell. By sell the platform would allow these advertisements to strictly be viewed by people who were interested in the products. The second was to develop. This means that companies can use the developer forums to post jobs on Facebook. Advertising allows the business to cross promote to consumers in the same online network. With this the company is able to zone in on the demographic they are looking to sell their product to. Micropayments which allow advertisers to use a PayPal account to make payments. This makes it easy for the user to get their ad on facebook and paid for fast and no hidden fees. Lastly it allows for an opportunity to receive investments from Bay partners for example, for new ideas that you may feel are the next best thing.
With all the new advances in Facebook that are coming into play for advertising it looks to be a very profitable field for both ends of the spectrum. This article offers 5 interesting new ideas that facebook it throwing into the mix for advertisements and how it can benefit both facebook and companies that are interested. I intend on using these five opportunity to support my argument that online advertising is become more popular and effective at the same time.

Zuckerberg, Mark. "Facebook |Advertising." Facebook., 4 Feb. 2004. Web. 1
Mar. 2010. .

Facebook Advertising page. It makes advertising simple for all types of businesses. The page gives a brief overview of the benefits from using Facebook as a tool for advertising products for different types of businesses. Using the example that you can connect with real people the overview states some benefits as “Reach over 400,000,000 active Facebook users”, and even “Create demand for your product with relevant ads.” Not only does it give you a step-by-step detail description of how to get your ad on to Facebook, but it also allows you to track progress with real time reporting, track what users are clicking on your ad, and make changes to reach the audience you are looking for.
To prepare yourself to create an ad you will need to have the following:
Link
Ad message
Photo
The step-by-step includes the following:
Step 1: Design Your Ad
Step 2: Targeting
Step 3: Campaigns and Pricing
Step 4: Review Your Ad
Along with the creation of an ad a company or small business can regulate or manage an existing ad on facebook. This makes it easy for the business to see how effectively their products are coming across to viewers/
Having access to this sight is very important. It holds the option of creating an ad and going through the process that companies go through when using facebook as a form of advertising.
This helps me better understand my research topic and what information and how much time goes into creating an advertisement for an online social network. Above all of that it always introduces benefits that I was unaware of when it comes to facebook advertising.

reaction

my topic keeps changing but i think Ive zoned into what i am really interesting in in regards to online social networking. The past two days Ive been researching some aspects of facebook and twitter, and even myspace and how businesses can use these to their advantages to get mass attention with their new products. Today i was looking online and their is actually an online course you can take through facebook to learn how to create fan-pages, groups, and show to use facebook and twitter for promotional needs. Not to long ago the founders and marketing unit of facebook held a seminar in front of a select few companies to promotes the use of their online network for promotional needs. not to mention they have recently developed sites that have a number of instructions for companies to aid in the use of online social networks for business. truly interesting and has definitely caught my attention the past 4 days!

topic

Facebook originally started out as a tool for college students to keep in touch with friends and family as they embark on their four year journey so they could still carry a piece of home with them. Now we see that it can be used as a tools for business to make money off of by promoting products on it, for high school student, and even for older adults to reunite with their high school friends. With this growth and diversity introduced under facebook more manuals are being published as a tool to understand the benefits of this online social network and how to use it to ones advantage. Some debates brought up on this subject lean towards facebook actually being a positive and productive way to promote new technology to younger audiences and if so do these manuals really help the next facebook user. Through research i have gathered a number of information on manuals offered out there. "facebook for dummies" is an actual thing and many new comers have bought this manual to help the in their experiences. Normal when we hear ____ for dummies with think computers, Shakespeare, even math and science. I feel that it is a productive way to learn new information on facebook.

Reading

What is a Multimedia author? its hard to determine what defines an author in terms of multimedia. Everyone has there own view point which is why it is difficult to determine copyrights laws within society.

Taking an example from the reading is one person writes and preforms a song, but passes away after it has been made into a hit, how do we determine is it is raging against copy right laws if someone wants to pay tribute to the person. Right now since Micheal Jackson's passing, a number of recordings artist are taking his old tracks remixing them and making them into something new as a gift and remembrance of the pop king.

Copy right laws are outrageous, quoting someone on your twitter in all actuality is technically plagiarism due to the fact that it is not properly cited but how many people would you have to penalize for these actions, a ton. Think of all the users on facebook, at one point or another every single one of them have quoted someone in their profile, status, or wall post. How do we determine the difference between the two.

I found the article interesting but in my opinion a multimedia author is someone who has been well established in a number of media forms, books, magazines, websites, blogs,and other significant new media sources. I believe that the only credible grounds for infringement on copyright laws are the ones that have been published and state all information need to process a proper citation.

Dradt of trailer

so its not great but it sure is a start

So after doing some more research i am still trying to focus in on one specific aspect to social networking, so far i am looking into the popularity aspect of it and how it has become so popular over the past couple years, i have also looked in to the age range of the popularity and why most of these sites have become so popular.
This is gonna see kinda of odd and funny but for my actual trailer i was thinking pf making a video of my friend meeting new people with a "facebook page" cut out on.. kinda of werid like is aid but i think it would be funny and also is some reason why people know each other so it makes sense in an overall bigger picture. That's all i have so far.

in class topic idea

Popularity of social networking: how fast has popularity of social networking grown. How does this affect our media ideas.
Facebook: is it a good or bad thing for the world to be connected in this aspect. Is it a good or bad concept for us to have instant messaging email, photo up load, and a profile all in one?
Plagiarism: where do we draw the line between what is our own idea and what we take from other. If i use someones quote from twitter did i plagiarize there work, the longest poem ever written taking post from twitter and using it in their poem is that plagiarism, do they contact and ask that person if they can use it or is it just a free for all. What defines plagiarism in regards to that aspect.

Topic Idea

I’ve been working with social networks as the basis for what I feel is a good topic for us to go towards. So far with working with Diigo the majority of the sites I’ve been interested in are sites geared towards facebook, myspace, and twitter. These networks that are a major form of communication and information flow (and currently the most popular form of social networking) and how popular they have become over the past couple years.
The amount of time that a student spend on these networks are what makes this topic so intriguing. I even recently read a time magazine article about how facebook is more popular then adult entertainment sites within the 18 to 24-age range. On top of facebook being more popular then adult entertainment, it is also becoming more a more popular form of communication over emailing. Think of how easy and fast it is to communicate back and forth. These networks combine the capability or instant messenger, email, photo uploading, and blogging all in one. It is a network that allows society to keep up on family members friends, and even strangers near and far.

Tenner response

I found Tenner's article, "Rise of the Plagiosphere" a very interesting concept. It is a neat comparison between the biosphere and Darwin's idea of evolution with the Plagiosphere and how it will eventually damage a writer’s ability to be creative. The last line within Tenner's article states, "at least they left us the illusion of the originality of our words. Soon that, too, will be gone." this being a very powerful concept but true never the less. For example lets say I choose a popular idea for the main focus of my paper, the chances that someone else has already written a paper on this idea are very. Given that our main focus to the paper is the same you are bound to find similar sources and ideas that yes, maybe someone else had done in the past. If I was to write a paper on the recent earthquake in Haiti, and I use the phrase "the earthquake in Haiti is a horrible disaster that destroyed thousands of peoples lives." there would be at least one or more articles or papers with the same idea. It is a common idea expressed by numerous people.
With this said it helps me lean towards a topic for our class. After reading the two articles I developed some guidelines for what we should pick. Something that allows a creative expression, can be used in multiple ways to help develop multiple ideas, is a universal interest with the class, and how some diversity factor so devil advocate can be played for a more interesting approach.

Why do you use (or not use) the web? What's your relation to the web - love it, hate it, fear it, rule it...?

I use to web to help stay connected with important events and things going on in the world that effect me. Not only does it keep me connect with world events but it helps me stay connected with my family and friends. I love the web. it has been a great help for me with tons of things like school, work, and life in general. Without it in some cases for me communication would be lost.

First post

just trying this out