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Individual Report, IM2

Creating, maintaining and promoting the social media project ‘Dashboard Cassettes’ has proved to be a very successful exercise in not only engaging with communities, but also developing and expanding on my existing skills in social media practice, creative writing, graphic … Continue reading

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The Final Tumblr article with ultimate playlist

For the final post on our Tumblr site for Dashboard Cassettes, we have decided that it’s important to keep the post quite succinct, this is in order to encourage the viewers to read the article and comment and the final … Continue reading

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Presentation, my role

For the presentation our group is giving at the lecture, I’m going to be taking care of the intro, what the project is about, and the report on the success of our project. here’s the callout that we used which … Continue reading

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Twitter may not be for me……but works for my music

Although I can see the value in Twitter, in terms of Keeping touch with friends, promoting your band, business or event, I just can’t see myself using it on a regular basis like I do with Facebook. There are a … Continue reading

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Tumblr…smaller posts, more often?

While our Facebook account is doing extremely well in terms of engaging users and getting people to ‘add’ us as friends, and Twitter has been going reasonably well, we only have a handful of followers for our Tumblr account. Unfortunately, … Continue reading

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A tour diary?

Now that we’ve established a good number of followers for Dashboard Cassettes, particularly on Facebook, we need to start introducing some new content for the participants to follow and comment on. Yesterday it dawned on me that friends of mine … Continue reading

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A Good Music player

We thought it would be a good idea to have a playlist of the ‘top ten songs’ for each terrain that the users could flick through and comment on without having to leave the page. This is not only easier … Continue reading

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Engage the user!!!

While our topic of Music on the road and the mixed tapes that go with various terrains is something that attracts many people, as most people are music lovers and have been on some sort of road trip – no … Continue reading

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Country article up on Tumblr, how to entice the users?

After creating our first article for our road trip through the countryside, we now need to try and get our Facebook, Twitter, myspace etc. groups to read the article and hopefully respond to the chosen top 10 songs and even … Continue reading

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A picture tells a thousand words……..if you can see the damn thang!

Having good pictures is essential for getting people interested in our project, both for the seeding Material on Facebook/twitter and for the Tumblr articles. However, I seem to be having trouble uploading images to my Country article that I created. … Continue reading

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