Social+Media+Monitors

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I worked on this by myself :( but the benefits of that had been being able to explore with my own time and fooling around with the different functions/illusions that the presentation software allows. The idea of this (research) project came to me when I was reading a blog post from Google Reader who provided a link to an amusing list of Social Media Monitoring/Data Collection companies that were available to any corporations who wanted to enlist their spy services. ;) [Wiki Master Link:[| http://wiki.kenburbary.com/] ] The thoroughly engaging intentions and methods of these Monitor Solution companies inspired me to get involved with them in their //online activism//. Thus, I set out to identify and investigate a dominating pattern for the kind of technology social media monitor companies used to sell to interested companies. These companies have certainly been way ahead of me, they have already taken a keen interest in the value of online, social media data. By taking advantage of the popular interest our global population loves – social media networks, they have been able to create data and from aggregation of the online global community, they have been able to identify trends of significant online behaviour, whichever that correlates with the invested company's x interests. Pictures are definitely easier to represent a bunch of numbers, so pictorial graphs are used to more easily recognize and trend patterns in consumer tastes or behaviours. This kind of identification and patterning ensures companies will arrive at effective outcomes in marketing strategies/campaigns when they have clear information and knowledge of the kind of preferences our society will be appealed to. I presented my project with Prezi, I loved the way the presentation looked after I completed the project. Although I had to get used with the ergonomics of the software functions and struggle for a while. Though be not discouraged! Like McLuhan and Freire, these two guys basically suggest that you can only act and change when you participate and empathize. Subsequently I have stopped my previous survival strategy of avoiding in our overwhelming generation of advertisements and technology. In light of my own progressive self-education, I feel liberated and more empowered! Hahaha… I have also enabled the “reuse Prezi” option so that others who are interested in what I did may edit it, improve it, or use anything from the presentation they like to improvise any kind of content inside. Prezi allows its users to publish their presentations, this is one of the highlights of the program. It catches on to the idea of sharing online, feedback and also allows the author to share their presentation through various other social networks.
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