Toys R Us Meets Social Media

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Spring break...can't come soon enough

There is one time of the spring semester I look forward to the most: Spring Break. Unlike most people I don't look forward to it for the warm weather or the cool vacations planned. I look forward to it for the simple reason of not having to deal with school or homework for an entire week.

Unfortunately I don't have any fun, cool plans for Break. Well, I'm going to my grandparents' house, which could be considered fun depending on what happens. Mostly I'll just be sitting at home with playing Wii and hanging with the friends I haven't seen in a month. Should be nice.

Well that's my thoughts on Spring Break. Hopefully I'll be able to upload some cool pics from Ozark Mountains. Northwest Arkansas is home so some of the most beautiful sites, if you know where to look.

Social Media Overview

I this one was pretty cool.

Social Media Overview

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Explaining Social Media to Those Who Just Don't Get it - Lucas Walker

I thought that this was an interesting slideshow. Sure it's things that we have already talked about, but it was still interesting to look at.

Explaining Social Media to Those Who Just Don't Get it - Lucas Walker

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Survey of Iowa Wesleyan

When looking at the results of my survey of students and the media they use, I found that there are some who still use older forms of media.

A trend I saw when going through the surveys was that those surveys I knew were taken by some of the older students on campus, were a majority of the ones that still read a newspaper or a magazine. Of those who read newspapers, most read the Des Moines Register and the Burlington Hawkeye, and read the paper, in print, within the last week. When it comes to reading a newspaper online, a few more people said that they had read an online paper within the past few months.

As for magazines, many people I surveyed said that if they read magazines it was magazines like Sports Illustrated, People, Cosmo, and Us Weekly. Most said that they had read a magazine in print within the last month but not many claimed reading an online magazine.

I was not surprised by the results for those who listen to AM radio. Very few people had listened to AM radio in any way, and those who had, hadn't listened in at least a week.

Almost all those who were surveyed claimed to have listened to an FM station on the radio, with a variety of stations named. About half of those people said they had listened to the radio using an antenna within the past month, most of which was in a car. I was surprised that not more people hadn't listened to music on an iPod or MP3 player, with less than half saying they had listened to one within the past few months.

There were many different TV stations that came up in my results more than others, such as CBS, USA, and TLC. Since the national change to digital stations, many had not watched TV via antenna since that change occurred. Internet videos aren't as popular as I would have thought, but there were several that had watched a video within the last week online.

Overall, this survey was interesting to give out and see the results from. Seeing on paper the difference between the number of those who use newer forms of media verses the number of those who use older forms is a little shocking. It just goes to show you how much technology is changing our daily lives.

Oh...snow.

I have come to realize how lazy I have come when it comes to New Media PR. It has been a few weeks since I wrote a blog, so this is me catching up on stuff.

I have come to realize how pretty, yet rather annoyingly slick, our campus becomes during the winter. I love how beautiful our campus becomes after it snows, how the trees look when the snow and ice is all over the branches. Yes, that may be a crazy thing to say, and may not exactly make sense, but I think it's true.

If only that beauty didn't come with the slick sidewalks that cause people to fall. Unfortunately nothing can be done about it. The maintenance people do all they can to make the sidewalks safer to walk on. It just sucks sometimes when it comes to getting across campus in the snow.

The only other thing I dislike about the snow right now is that it seems to be snowing EVERY SINGLE FREAKING WEEK!!! I don't mind the snow, but I don't like how it seems to be snowing at least once a week nowadays. Ok, well now that I got that off my chest, I won't rant about snow any more.