Say Something

I decided to something a little bit fun. I put together video that I took around campus and set it to music. The song I chose was "Say Something" performed by Pentatonix. They are one of my favorite groups and I love their rendition of the song. I also added a quote I really liked to the end of the music video. It's a quote by Henri J.M. Nouwen.

"Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving. Still, if we want to avoid the suffering of leaving, we will never experience the joy of loving. And love is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking."

I would love to hear what you think so please comment with your thoughts and if you would like to see more things like this.

Reasons for Measurement

Measure What Matters Chapter 3

When it comes to social media there are a few reasons why you would want to measure what happens on your accounts. Showing managers what you've been doing and how it's working can convince them to fund certain projects or just your organization in general. It can also show individuals that your organization is worth committing too as well. What works on social media can convince individuals but also showing what doesn't work can cause managers to change how things are going as well in order to improve measurements.

Not only is measuring social media important in order to know how things are going but it's also important to let others know and to move things forward. Improving social media communication and real-time is a great way to connect with your target audience as well as managers and higher-ups that need to know how things are going.

Social Media and Guess Who

Many times on social media an individual may say that they are one person but in reality are completely different and you would never know the difference. A simple Google search can find you pictures to send to anyone who asks for a picture and you can say whatever you want about who you are and no one knows the difference.

I recently ran into this problem where the person that I was talking to claimed to be a college age female. As I was talking to them I started getting the feeling that they weren't female at all. Now I could be wrong but from the way they were talking it seemed more like they were male. I'm usually very careful when I talk to people I don't know and in this instance I was even more careful as I was getting strange vibes from the way they were talking.

This kind of ties in with one of my previous posts. Be careful what you say or post on the Internet. Not everyone is who they say they are and not everyone has good intentions. Stay smart and think before you do anything and you'll be fine.

Halloween

For the first time this year I was able to actually participate in Halloween festivities. Before this year I had never really dressed up, gone to a party, or trick-or-treated. This year I got to do all three. On Thursday my boyfriend texted me and said that the party he had originally planned on us going to wasn't going to work out so we decided to just invite some of his friends over and have our own party. Unfortunately this involved completely cleaning his basement. Since you couldn't see the floor when we started cleaning this was quite the chore but we managed to pull it off and had a blast. We even managed to bring two of his best friends together and now they're going on a date.

I also got to go trick-or-treating for the first time with my boyfriend and his younger brother. I actually had a lot of fun and got to talk to his brother more which was fun. We also ran into some friends of my boyfriend while we were out and walked with them for a while. Once they left my boyfriend decided it would be a great idea to run full sprint towards me and hug me. He somehow managed to completely tackle me to the ground in the process. Luckily we landed on the grass of someone's front lawn. A little while after this I realized that my phone had fallen out of my pocket when I fell. I remembered where I fell and was able to send my boyfriend back for it without too much trouble finding the phone.

All in all I think I had a successful Halloween. I brought together an adorable couple, ate lots of candy, and spent time with some really awesome people. Definitely something I will be trying again.