{"id":2397,"date":"2009-06-11T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T18:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/UpbeaT\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2009-06-11T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T18:43:50","slug":"blogut-vs-upbeat-round-2-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2009\/06\/11\/blogut-vs-upbeat-round-2-go\/","title":{"rendered":"blogUT vs UpbeaT, ROUND 2, GO!"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n\nHappy Thursday! Contrary to the title, we're not actually going Rambo<\/a> behind the scenes.\u00a0 Today in installment 2, we talk about the wonders of blogs and social media.\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nhow are the faeries<\/a> doing?\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nThe fairies are placated by chocolates<\/a>\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nwho wouldn't be\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nMmmhmm.\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nHave you guys found that certain subject matter is more suited to blogging than to other media, and vice versa?\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nHmm\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nThere are some things that just can't be explained into words, you know? That's why blogging is so great. I can link to youtube videos or add pictures or videos. I am hoping to experiment with video blogging. v-blogging?\n\nLori:<\/strong>\nYeah embedding videos is awesome. You can't achieve that on paper\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nAlso linking to other articles\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nit continues conversations\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nYou can also put links and people will more likely go to them, because when they're on paper, people have to actually type it into the computer\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nif they even remember to do that\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nyeah. that's why I sometimes wonder if the radio\/tv\/poster ads with big links to unmemorable website links will get hits\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nlol\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nwho's going to sit at their computer and type an obscure link?\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nI often see urls in ads and want to look them up but I always forget to do it\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nit's easier to click a link than type it, it's also easier to write a blog about an issue you saw than to act on it in any other way\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nI think that immediacy goes for everything, really\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nlike this interview.\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nI LOVE THE INTERNET.\n\nYulya:<\/strong>\nand to respond quickly to issues that come up\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nYeah. Maybe that's why Twitter is so popular.\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nInstantaneous news.\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nEven blogs have trouble jumping on news instantly.\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nIt's also instantaneous opinions\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nwhich goes for blogs as well...\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nit's also very digested\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nYes. I tend to ramble on and on and on. One thing I keep having to do is to trim down my posts.\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nIt\u2019s because we're conditioned to write 2000+ words essays.\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nthe founder of BlogTO commented at WordCamp on how the posts that get the most readership are the ones that are short and to the point, and i've found that as well\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nbut then again shorter posts\/articles may have a greater tendency to ignore details or other sides of the issue\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nwhat do you think?\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\n(yeah, clearly I have this issue too \"\"<\/a> )\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nIt depends, but I think that most subjects can be written about sufficiently briefly\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nif not briefly, then in an easy-to-read, organized way\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nYes. Succinct is good. And the posts that have a stance. It's impossible to cater to everyone, and when you try, it's obvious. I find that bloggers who are unafraid of their opinions and ideas get the most readers\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\ndefinitely\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nstrong opinions stir up conversation too\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nBlogs are great, because you write as if you're talking.\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nNone of the academic, up-turned nose tone of voice.\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nThe companies that go for that type of tone turns off readers.\n\nMe: <\/strong>\n...I think I was making a point in response to blogs being easy-to-read.\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nI think I lost track.\u00a0 \"\"<\/a>\n\nYulya:\n<\/strong>speaking of companies, i think it's really cool how almost every group and company has a blog now\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nYes, but is that a bad thing?\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nlol\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\ni think it's great\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nI mean, sometimes companies have social media that doesn't serve a purpose and isn't managed properly.\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nIt's good for people who are interested in the company, and it's good for marketing\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nTrue.\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nand it lets you understand the company's inner workings\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nand, dare I say it, feel a part of it just a little\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nNot only companies, but universities too, have been joining the social media ship\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nMost now have some sort of blog, twitter, facebook.\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nWhat do you think?\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nand also different parts of university communities\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nthe university itself usally has blogs and (maybe) twitter, facebook is more for student groups\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nYeah it;s a good way to keep everyone connected\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nBut does it really? Doesn't it just feel like there are so many things out there and nothings really connected?\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nalthough I wouldn't say that Facebook is necessarily a good tool for anything other than maybe creating events\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nwell, you gotta sort through it yourself and determine what's valuable to you\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nwell I know Facebook was a good way to generate a large response against the recent Star article<\/a> on Trinity college... it's a good way to organize people<\/a> quickly\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nYes - because the majority of students are on facebook.\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nThat's true, but I hate getting invited to groups called \"If this group reaches some number of people, xyz will happen!\"\n\nMe:\n<\/strong>YES, ZOMG YES. Join Us and be part of the Guiness Book Record!\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nlol\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nwhat has blogUT's experience with twitter been?\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nare a lot of people there?\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nWe just joined Twitter<\/a> recently, so we don't have many followers atm\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nDo you see Twitter becoming more prominent in communicating with your readers in the future?\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nmaybe.\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nthe problem is that twitter is, after all, a microblogging site, which doesn't really work if you're already a blog\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nbut it's a good way to spread the word about updates, articles and events\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nYeah, because some people don't subscribe to news feeds, and they also probably don't want to check the website everyday for new posts\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nTrue. There's an article<\/a> that says that the majority of Twitter users are over 35\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nmost \"kids\" don't use twitter, and it's popular because of the intense media hype.\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nThat's interesting. I didn't know that\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nyeah.\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nIt's interesting actually - people assume our generation automatically are computer literate, but I've met a lot of people who aren't, and don't know about RSS or even Twitter or whatever.\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nThere are also people who refuse to use them\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nYes, there are those.\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nThere are some great ways to use these technologies, but they can also suck you in and waste your time, and I think that's whta people are afraid of\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nI'm a sucker for these things, lol. Not to boast but I was on Twitter before it became so popular\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nAhaha. Uhm, well, I'm on Twitter out of contractual obligation.\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nI guess you just have to make sure you get the most out of it\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nI'm starting to warm up to it though.\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nI was put off, originally by a few friends who tweeted about their breakfast.\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nYeah those are the kinds of things that irritate me\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nI think people are moving away from that now though\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nLike they are myspace?\n\nMe: <\/strong>\n(I wish, actually)\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\nwell myspace has evolved too... it's turning into a really useful tool for up-and-coming artists\n\nLori: <\/strong>\nI noticed that\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nYou're right - it is. All these sites are great for their own purpose, and when used properly, is really useful.\n\nYulya: <\/strong>\ncloudid.com<\/a> is one of David Usher's blogs, and he's written a lot about social media nad it's evolution\n\nMe: <\/strong>\nCool. I'll have to check it out.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n\nHappy Thursday! Contrary to the title, we're not actually going Rambo<\/a> behind the scenes.\u00a0 Today in installment 2, we talk about the wonders of blogs and social media.\n\n
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