9.25.2012

Introduction


Welcome!



My name is Kelsey Paterson and you have stumbled upon my blog for one of my communication design classes. The world is rapidly changing, learning, growing, and connecting which have all greatly been influenced by the Internet. When I think of my relationship with the Internet, I think of social networking and other social medias. Starting from my awkward middle school days of Myspace, I have used certain websites and tools to connect with friends and family all over the world. The way I view, use, filter, and exploit myself online has changed over the years, especially now that I am (finally) an iPhone owner. Now that I am taking a Social Media class, I am going to use  many social media outlets and understand not only how they work, but their strengths, weaknesses, and impacts on our American way of life. 

Currently, I work at a local mortgage company. My title is a "Marketing Coordinator", although I do much much more. Technically I don't believe there is a correct job title for the broad variety of work I do: from using Adobe Creative Suite to design post cards, ads and fliers, to retaining all past clients' information, to using html on our website, to researching the mortgage industry to write articles, sending out mass emails, marketing our local radio segments and posting them to our website, marketing Real Estate seminars, to promoting contests and giveaways, creating a board game explaining how a mortgage loan process works, to answering office phone calls and making copies for people, and a whole bunch more. Whew, I just made myself realize how much I actually do!  This last summer I was in charge of designing and marketing for Paradise Rotary's Relay4Life team. In doing so, the team raised well beyond their goal of $10,000 which went to the American Cancer Society. 

So, back to my blog. The point or theme I am going to therefore focus on for this blog is how I use these social networking/media tools for my job and compare and contrast it to how I see other companies/corporations use them, as well as I how I use them personally. Stay tuned!


Meeting my nephew for the first time 

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