Last Blog: BFF

Brittany and I have known each other for so long. We meant back in Elementary, in the 3rd grade. We were both in the same class. During Elementary we were pretty good friends on and off. We became best friends in the 8th grade. We had the same teachers during our 8th grade year. 

So far Brittany and I have known each other for about 15 years. We are pretty different people, shes is an extrovert were as I am more introverted. She thinks more with her heart was me I am more logical and think with my head. Even though we are different we have this uncanny ability to say the same thing at the same time. This can get pretty weird, its like get out of my head. 

Even though I am an only child, I can honestly say that Brittany is a sister from another mother. We have just gone though so much, heck we even argue about things which if I think about it is pretty stupid. But she is one of those people who love to argue about anything. And me who likes to be right about everything but at least I can admit it. 

Over the years we have been though some pretty interesting scenarios. Going though guy troubles is definitely one of them, of course I was more of the should to cry on. 

The main tradition we have is going on trips, because I am an only child so I just invite her on some of my vacation. We went to Arizona before my sophomore year, for my moms 40th birthday. We also have gone to Florida, and actually we went this spring break.  

The other thing we would do is going to sports game, we have gone to three Indianapolis Colts games. We also have gone to so many concerts, from Taylor Swift to 3 Doors Down.    

We also were dorm mates at EKU. We though our freshman year of college together. Than she decided to move in with a guy that she though she "Loved" and went to Moorehead and I ended up going to UofL. Of course now in 2011 she ended up at UofL as well so now we get to graduate from college together. 

Relfection: Awesome Class

This semester I've learned so much about social media. I also can't believe that after this semester, I am done with college. I will definitely be using what I've learned from this class to the future. 

My favorites topics we covered were managing your online reputation. It really makes you think how one presents themselves, that its important to make sure you think before you post. Whether its on twitter or on Facebook. The example we gave in class was interesting as well, about the Justine, who tweeted about Africa. This shows just how fast one tweet can get around. Before we talked about the tweet itself I actually saw it before we talked about in class. I just couldn't believe some one could be so thoughtless.

During this semester we also had a lot of guest speakers. These speakers were great, I've learned so much from them. I especially like Lizelle and Melissa presentations. I liked Lizelle's because she talked about how she is utilizing social media fro the Dallas Mavericks, she also talked about how she got the job as well. I liked how the Mavericks were using Vine in a lot of their content online, being they are the first pro team to adapt. Melissa's presentation on crisis communication was really interesting, she showed us the top 10 rules to crisis communication and how using these 10 rul



es can help a company in a crisis, come out the other side without to much damage or reputation loss. 

Over all the blogging we had to do was fun and got me thinking about different topics I could write about. My blogs that are personal don't really have a theme, they are more just what I am interested in and what I have done up until now, especially with traveling. I hope to continue blogging, my goal is at least once a week. Hopefully I can post something more frequent but I think I'll start small and expand when time goes on. 

The two major papers we wrote gave me some insight. With the managing online reputation paper, I really got to see how much I actually am invloved. I realized with this paper I should probably post more and show that I am in fact on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Also that I even blog with Blogger. The other paper, was the Google Glass and proposing an app, that definitely got me thinking. I liked being able to explorer a new wearable technology, needless to say Google Glass is very interesting. 

During this semester we got certified in HootSuite. This is pretty awesome because we have the chance to be certified and have the option to continue to use HootSuite in the future if we chose to. 

The last area I enjoyed was our social media campaign proposals. This helped by giving me actual hands on expereince and actually coming up with ideas for a real client. Its interesting to see idea that could help some with a childrens book. 

Overall this class was awesome and I learned a lot.    

Ole Bull State Park

My family in the past has always gone camping. Whether at a small camp ground called oil creek or my favorite location to go camping Ole Bull.

Since I was about 8 years old, my family on my mom side are the ones who would plan our camping trips. We would go for about a week during the summer. My favorite part was being in the cabin that the park has available. Its pretty huge it has about three rooms and most rooms have bunk beds. The cabin can fit about 10 to 16 people pretty good.

One camping trip me and my cousin camped out in a tent instead of the cabin. I love camping here because its so quite and there are so many trees around. Also I love how its a big family gathering. We haven't gone back to Ole Bull since 2007. The cabin has to be reserved up to a year. I hope possibly we can go back in 2016 if possible. There some pretty good hiking and there's a creek that's pretty darn cold, but me and my cousins would still swim in it. Some people might now really enjoy going, because at the park, there's no cell phone reception at all. To get some you have to go to the nearest city which is a good half hour a way, so no twitter or Facebook is possible. But I've always gone there so young and when I was 16 the last time we visited, I never really was dependent of my cell phone and wasn't really using social media, it was probably MySpace, back than. Of course that could all have changed, there could very well be cell phone towers near the park depending on the phone carrier. It has been 7 years since I last been there.

It would be pretty awesome if I could get my family to go back. We could try next year, we would have to call in June or July, to see if the cabin is even still available. But it would definitely be pretty cool to be able to see all my family, its been years since we all been together in one place.

March Madness. March Mayhem.

March Madness. March Mayhem.

So looks like both Kentucky and Louisville made it to the Sweet 16 and they are playing each other. We now have another battle of the bluegrass. This city is going to be dead, except for the bars on Bardstown Rd and other bars location. Also any restaurants that have Televisions, pretty much everybody is going to be in a bar, restaurant, at the game or at home. 

I can be honest, this is the only time when I actually watch games. I try to watch some games during the regular season but most of the time it doesn't happen. Its because I am a bandwagon fan, because I've been a Kentucky fan ever since I've moved here. Its just I've so busy, but never too busy for March Madness because its awesome and it only happens once a year.

Its so weird being a Wildcat fan and going to UofL. But I don't care, I'm going to school with my blue on. On Friday its going to be interesting to see how many people have on Blue and who has on Red. On social media its already blown up, ever since Kentucky won against Wichita State, people have posted things about Kentucky and their are people posting things about Louisville. I can say their are some funny posts where fans are dissing each other.

Friday during the game is definitely going to be interesting to watch on social media. Especially Facebook and twitter, I can see hashtags becoming a worldwide trend and people wondering what is going on in Kentucky. Also the visual content that is going to be posted, not only on Facebook and Twitter but on Instagram too. I can see us breaking Twitter with all the content going on. Also it will probably be going on until the next day because whoever wins gets bragging rights.

I am super excited for the game in general but I will definitely going to pay attention to the feed on Twitter and Facebook. 

Though I hope people do realize that no matter how much one argues about who is better, its pretty much a never ending battle.

Dedicated to My Cat: Blue

Spring break was a great break from school. I did absolutely nothing related to school. I did go on vacation. I went to Florida. Spent time on the beach and did some shopping. Luckily my grandparents live down there so we had free boarding. Even though Florida was awesome coming home wasn't so great.

My past blog I did one on my pets. My dog, Elvis we brought him with us to Florida. But my three cats we had a cat-sitter come over and check on them, basically to make sure they had clean litter boxes, water and food. The oldest cat blue, when we got home from our week vacation, wasn't looking too good. Now blue is usually pretty alert and jumps around on the furniture. This time he just to me looked really weird. I said something to my parents about him and said he looks really bloated. Well we had to unload our van because of the snow storm and the car top carrier which was frozen shut. After we got every thing we needed to do done. We decided that taking Blue over to the vet would be a good idea. Unfortunately I didn't think he was going to make it. I think my parents though he just had something blocking his bladder. But it was more serious than that the vet mention it could be kidney failure or even cancer. I wasn't with them at the vet but they decide to put him down. Spring break was awesome but coming back was pretty depressing and having to put down one of the family pets is so sad. Of course Blue is in a better place because the poor thing looked like he was in pain and he was so old, putting him though any tests would have been unfair to him specially it being kidney failure or cancer.

I do miss him. He was a great cat. Blue had so many different quirks. We he was younger he didn't like moist food. I don't know why he was against eating it. Than one day he decide that I want some moist food and starting eating it. Another quirk was as a young cat he didn't like strangers he would always hide but I guess as he got older he didn't care. He would start coming out more and more.

We determine that Blue must be about 20 years old. That is pretty old for a cat. I remember getting from my aunt because she couldn't take care of him and his sister Angel, who is also still alive. He lived with us when we were in Ohio and when we moved here. So Blue has been a part of our family for about 16 or so years.

It was a depressing thing to come home to and I wish he didn't pass away so soon from coming home to spring break. It is definitely weird being at home and not hearing him trying to jump to the other side of the counter.

The grey and white cat is his buddy Sammy (Captain Chaos)

     

HootSuite Part 2: I'm Certified

Now that we are back from spring break, its time to get back in the groove of things. I can be honest its taken me about the whole school week to get back into school mode. I also gotta get back into the blogging mode.

Before spring break I got HootSuite certified. I finally announced being certified on twitter today. I do think Hootsuite is a good tool for business. The only thing about getting Hootsuite certified is the test was difficult if you didn't pay attention to the videos. The videos I felt sometimes were interesting than boring, I think this is because the video showed more towards a business side than personal use.

I really like Hootsuite, I do think its a program that I could use in the future for businesses. I also like it for personal use and being able to keep track of both my Facebook and twitter accounts. I can also keep track other accounts that I get more involved in like Google+ as of right now I don't really use Google+.

The process of getting the certification was actually pretty simple. All you had to do is watch several videos and than take an exam. This was pretty easy because the exam allows you to take it as many times as you want. It only took me about two times to take the exam and pass it to get certified.

        

Dream Vacation: Italy

Ever since I can remember I've always wanted to go to Italy. I've already been out of the country once to Australia, but that trip was pretty much planned out. Going to Italy is one of my items on my bucket list. Hopefully in the next's several years I will be able to afford a trip there.

I would love to stay for a month and just explore all the tourist locations. I also would love to find those "secret" locations that every destination would have. The main spots I want to see is the Trevi fountain and the Colosseum in Rome. Another place would be the leading tower of Pisa. Then I would love to visit Vatican City, Florance and Sicily. I would also love to sample the food in Italy.

 I don't really know why I was so obsessed with Italy. When I was younger I would get certain presents for my birthday and Christmas that would revolve around Italy. One year I got a calender, with certain tourist spots. The place always fascinated me, all the rich history and how buildings are really old; older than any place here in the US. The landscape too, was another thing that I loved, I thought that it was really pretty in postcards. I always wondered what it would look like in real life and actual be able to visit Italy. 

Another aspect I would love to see is not only the old buildings or history but the architecture. It's so different than any other place especially here in the States. Its even different than in Australia.

I can't wait until I have the money and the time to be able to go to Italy.