This weeks lecture Titled: Social Media & Your Career was all about how to get your self noticed by the masses and the methods of doing so. This would involve Setting out your goals, figuring out the demographic your after, setting up different social media accounts, preparing yourself both mentally and physically by being a little more “professional” and learning how do deal with negativity and faults.
I personally agree with the lecture on a lot of its points, I feel social media is one of the biggest advantages that this generation of content creators / creative designers has over the last and acts as a way to help build, not only your career, but communities of people who are just like you and are striving for the same goals that you can all work together on which I feel is a great first step into this industry.
Six reasons why the creative industries should get the social network treatment
The post above is about six reason why the creative industry should use social network and in it explain, in a lot more detail, the same and more reason why I think social media acts as a great ways to get your self noticed like: it acts as your visual credentials so when you go to an interview or someone is looking for specific talent you can take them straight to your social media where they can find all your work and access your ability.
Widening your audience is also something I would be something I suggest and by that I mean use more then just face book or twitter to advertise yourself on. With the internet there are many amazing website that allow your express yourself in a number of different and creative ways along with you starting to build a community. These include: YouTube, where you can post videos of your works, blogs, questions, etc and have people leave comments and suggestions, Pinterest, where your work can be seen by a much large, broader audience. and for more specific works, streaming sites like twitch can allows those in the gaming scene to so of live to an audience and build a community around it.
The link above goes to a post that goes into much more detail about choosing the right social media to advertise on based on the person, company, etc, and how you should look out for new and emerging ways of advertising and try to capitalise on them as soon as possible.
Acting more “professional” is the only things im a little confused on. I can understand that acting “professional” can have its advantages especially if someone wants to try and make a career with an already we’ll know name/company. But when it comes to people who work solo I would argue that that it could be beneficial to do the opposite and not act “professional” and by that I mean act with the personality that you want and create and show the things that you want. How this would work is that your acting different and due the the nature of social media that different thing will get noticed quicker that all the same(y) “professional” things.
I hope you enjoyed this little blog of mine.
References
Temin, D. (2013, 3 12). Don’t Waste Money – Make Your Social Media Advertising Smarter, More Original, More Effective. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/: http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviatemin/2013/12/03/dont-waste-money-make-your-social-media-advertising-smarter-more-original-more-effective/
Tomes, M. (2013, 3 19). Six reasons why the creative industries should get the social network treatment. Retrieved from http://www.fourthsource.com/: http://www.fourthsource.com/social-media/six-reasons-creative-industries-social-network-treatment-13513
Luke Wilmot 