Digital Frontiers

This is it. I am not long for this world; welcome to my last supper. Please grab a seat and dine. I have a few regrets and a few secrets to tell, but I want for nothing more than your audience. What can one do at a last supper besides pray, eat, laugh and cry?

As a graduating senior writing my last blog post for this class, I can look back and smile at what transpired. Originally, I took this course to hang out with Jeff Goetz and Adam D’augelli while learning a bit about the future of marketing. By the end, I just wanted to hang out with Jeff and Adam and Nick Lamberth while making jokes about the future of marketing. They times they are a-changing, eh Bob Dylan?

I was legitimately surprised by the effect of user-generated content; we ARE marketing. Also, I was surprised by the low effect I actually have on the world of media and how little I impact the world–fame is quite hard to come by. Burrito Bros didn’t suddenly become the hippest restaurant in town because Jeff and I gave them a Facebook page. Good publicity takes time and luck, I believe.

Directly because of this class, I created a blog about my life and a twitter about my jokes. Add these two things up with my facebook (the entirity of my social media presence) plus two dollars and you can buy a small coffee at Starbucks! Obviously, I carry no false pretenses about garnering fame from these small outlets, but I definitely enjoy the forum for my creative ventures that my blog and twitter provide.

Overall this has been an intriguing class. It is a case study in itself as the students create the content for the website and grow the social media presence of the Media-Savvy instructors Adam and Nick. I enjoyed it and I’m also glad to be moving on, glad that this is my last post. Eat, drink, and be merry at my last supper, everyone. One of my strongest memories of this class was eating a Pancake Sandwich at Bagels Unlimited (don’t try it), what about yours?

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