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jubileebloom · 2 years

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just some ramblings about name stuff before I get in the shower

I love having an "online name." It gives me something to be called, even if I don't have many who would, and it lets me do those things that are like "your [x] name is based on XYZ of your name" without giving away my real name online. It's awesome!

My name, Odina Bonfire Rose, has a bit of a story to it.

It all started when I was 13 and thought I was going to be a small youtuber, because I was 13 and didn't know how the world worked and grossly overestimated my capacity for productivity. We've all been there at one point or another, or at least a good amount of us probably have. I decided to name myself after my ponysona, because I wanted to make MLP theory videos, and back then my ponysona's name was Imaginer. Being raised in a family of math nerds, I named my youtube channel Imaginer 31415.

But... after a while, I didn't like the name Imaginer anymore. I am a very imaginative person, but that felt too on the nose for a name, even in MLP name terms. So I think I just googled "names that mean creativity" or "[x] gods of creativity" and somehow that led me to Odina? I don't remember how that all went down, but somehow I decided on Odina, despite it being a very human sort of name to give to a cartoon horse. But I liked it, and decided to add Rose for a connection to nature and to symbolize love. A bit Mary Sue of me, maybe, but I was a much more kind and optimistic person back in the day and I guess it did somewhat reflect myself. I also made this tumblr around that time for an inktober, and thus the name remains.

I'd also made a reddit account under the name Imaginer 31415, but I abandoned that after a while. Later on, I made a throwaway reddit account, not because I was going to do anything bad or personal with it, but just because I didn't want to admit to using reddit. I know the stigma it has, and some of the community there definitely deserves it, but I was mainly just there (and still am) for another place to post my art/writing/discussions/what have you. On a whim, I named the account EmotionalBonfire, because I was a very emotional person and I thought it reflected on me well. I then ended up getting a bit attached to "Bonfire" as an online moniker, so when I eventually made an AO3 account (and later a twitter), I put myself down as "Bonfire Rose."

(Side note: yes, I capitalize AO3 but not reddit, twitter, or youtube because I generally have more respect for AO3 than any of the others. Just a little thing I tend towards. Not that I don't respect tumblr, because if anything it's become less of a hellsite than the other places, but it just doesn't feel like the sort of thing to be capitalized. Anyway.)

I liked Bonfire Rose, but especially after getting back into MLP, I still wanted to keep "Odina" in my name. That being said... I'm not sure if I like that as a name anymore. I have no idea what I would want to change it to, though. And I feel like I still have to keep this name. Although I also felt that about Imaginer, even though I eventually gave it up.

I don't know if it's because "Odina" doesn't feel much like a pony name, or if I just outgrew it, or maybe my gender and I running into communication problems is playing a role in it. I feel that way sometimes about my irl name too, but I'm still very attached to my name and I do want to keep it for now. Even if a lot of new people I meet don't pronounce it correctly. I love my name because it's more unusual, but it's also hard when I've corrected someone multiple times on how it's pronounced and then they still mispronounce it, and honestly at this point I've stopped trying to correct people, even though it hurts to have someone never say my name right. I'm just tired.

Anyway. Point is, I decided my online name should be Odina Bonfire Rose, with Bonfire acting as my middle name that I sometimes go by. I've thought about going by my irl middle name before to avoid all the pronunciation issues, but it just didn't feel right. It's still special to me, just... not as my main name. I dunno. I've fiddled with nicknames and stuff before but nothing really feels right. But Bonfire works. Or Bon. I like getting called Bon.

But I'm not really sure what to do about this whole name thing. Maybe I'll change it. Maybe I won't. I want something that really feels like me, but it's hard when I don't know exactly who or what I am.

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luxflora · 2 years

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i am always taking music recs. you can always send me a message or an ask and give me a music rec. i never don't want music recs. i tend away from country, metal, and rap, but none of those are hard lines, i still want your music rec. my preferences are for pop, alt, and classic rock (and instrumental tracks of all stripes), but again - i want all music recs. music recs are my love language

i do not reblog donation posts, though i may reblog promotional posts from artists or writers that i am already following. I have now turned off asks because there are too many blogs which are either scams or people who do not respect my policies.

Any post tagged as "myposts" is a post i wrote. "personal log" indicates it as a kind of journal or diary post, though frequently without context (or with context in the tags or notes). if i don't want something reblogged i will either say so in the post or in my tags, otherwise feel free to reblog or reply to things.

If I tagged your post as "batfam" - for a long time I just tagged literally every DC post as batfam, bc that was the lense through which I interacted with DC, but I'm aware some people find that annoying (valid), so these days I more use it for anyone who is either based out of Gotham, wears the bat symbol, or is primarily associated with Batman/Bruce Wayne or a member of that group (ie, Talia al Ghul would get tagged as batfam). This is not meant to tag a post in the batfam 'genre', it is simply what I use for that group of characters.

Also i sometimes speak about myself in the plural but i am not a system, i just use the royal we. i'm also not jewish (raised evangelical protestant christian, now mostly atheist but i respect that religion has cultural value & religions are not inherently evil. Evangelical Christianity sometimes challenges that notion but I am biased against it) but i seem to follow a lot of jewish people so i will sometimes rb posts that reflect that.

To connect with me elsewhere: I am on AO3 as luxflora, Reddit as u/luxflora, and Discord as lesserprune. I may yet resurrect my twitter, deviantArt, and livejournal accounts, but I haven't just yet. If you want to connect with me on any of those sites (or dreamwidth, where I don't yet have an account but have considered), please shoot me a direct message and I'll get on it. I also (for now) occasionally post gaming to youtube or stream on Twitch. Still need to update my youtube but I recently update my Twitch to match my Discord as lesserprune.

I am planning to create a carrd and possibly a linktree in the next few weeks/months (current date: Nov 8, 2023). Who knows, maybe I'll even get my ass in gear and DIY a website or geocities site or whatever the fuck. Also on my radar are bluesky and pillowfort but I haven't checked either out just yet. Might also look into more blogging and forum style websites. If you have a favorite you want me on shoot me a DM, I'll check it out.

Please, especially if we're mutuals or if we've had friendly chats (or just left comments on tags in each others' reblogs), don't hesitate to friend me elsewhere or message me! If you do connect with me elsewhere and it's under a different username, shoot me a quick message on here and let me know. I love you guys so much and I'd hate to completely lose the friendships and community I've found on here.

Also if you're a TMA fan and you want to tag a post of mine as a TMA entity you are ALWAYS welcome to do that. I picked up TMA brainrot in 2023 so I feel the urge and I understand the urge and the urge is beautiful and should be followed.

#myposts #my one rule is i dont have spotify & i dont want spotify #if you're sending me something from spotify please make sure i can see it without spotify #if you send me a spotify playlist & i can see the songs on it i'll look them up individually elsewhere

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welcometomy20s · 3 years

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June 30, 2021

Coco (and Lulu’s) Legacy

Coco wrote the book on how to be a Hololive member, from front to back. She plotted out how one can amass an audience, how to interact and build a worldwide fandom, how to integrate ideas of the audience to the grand narrative of the company, how to deal with tee-tee and pairings, how to cope when YouTube strikes you down in its impunity, and how to cope when Cancel Brigade comes to destroy your work, along with how to bring a more cohesive workplace, how to protect yourself from the unmooring of identity that is inherent in VTube, and finally how to leave when you are in a rollercoaster that is only going up. Coco wrote the book and now we follow.

AsaCoco was brilliant from its outset. Having a place to know the ins and outs of various members of Hololive was a great way to connect the rabbit hole. But there is a deeper reason for the brilliance. I talked before about how the major tension in VTube is one between the corporate back-end tradition of Japan colliding with the audience front-end tradition of YouTube. AsaCoco is something directly in line with that second tradition. The visual language of YouTube is different from those of movies. A jump cut in a movie denotes a different idea than a jump cut on YouTube. Movie critic complaining about jump cuts in vlogs is like a Spanish reader complaining about a sentence in English being awkward. Of course it is, it’s in a different language. Unlike movies, which come from theatre and literature, vlogs’ lineage comes from news broadcasts. Many of the early web successes were styled in a news format (rocketboom, Ze Frank, What the Buck and so on…) One does not complain about the jump cut between different presenters in a newscast, and so one does not complain when a similar thing happens in vlogs. But the point is that AsaCoco harkens to the audience-based tradition.

One might write off the ARK arc as an aberration, but I think ARK did add something constructive to Hololive and VTubers as a whole. I like to think of ARK as a training wheel for Minecraft. Minecraft is relatively challenging compared to ARK. Minecraft speedruns are mildly impressive, ARK speedrun less so. ARK is actually like the middle ground between Monster Hunter and Minecraft. You can play ARK like Monster Hunter, gather a bunch of friends to hunt monsters, or like Minecraft, build your own zoo or house or so on… And in that flexibility, one can easily learn how to tell a compelling narrative in an open-world setting. Pekora’s war criminal tendencies developed there, Miko’s ‘pon’ nature was crystalized there, and so on…

Holohouse was an underrated achievement. At first, the idea feels like the natural extension of their idol nature. Idols live together, so why not virtual idols? But having virtual idols living together comes with additional benefits that Nijisanji should note.

Stalking is an awful thing, I know since I experienced and have done something similar in my past, but stalking is also a desperate thing. And desperation tends to abate when people are more open about themselves. One of the articles talking about Coco’s graduation infamously notes the mystery of Coco’s identity, which is chucklesome since Coco’s identity might be the most open secret in all of Hololive. This was in line with Hololive’s more open policy, several of Hololive members do their own personal work on the side, while in many early companies, this was forbidden. Nijisanji’s background is less open than Hololive, perhaps due to the number and less mass attention, and that leads to stalking being a more adventurous one. One that livers have to deal with more alone, while for Hololive, it’s likely people would catch and perhaps even tar the perpetrator. More attention means more risk with less excitement.

Holohouse also protects aggressive fan behavior by introducing VTuber solidarity. With more offline collabs, the people would know each other more personally and therefore have a ground of contacts in which to alert suspicious behavior. Safety in numbers.

Holohouse also brought us KanaCoco, which was a lesser known pairing until the couple ring story, and now it has become one of three big couples of Hololive, the other two being NoeFlare and OkaKoro. The big three all have a different style of their tee tee. KanaCoco is the type of a longtime buddy. Both Kanata and Coco struggled with familial and economic circumstances, and they are both struggling under the same roof. And within that struggle comes comity and friendship. It’s not love in your typical sense, but it is a type that would lead to marriage and childrens… but the current LBGTQ+ status in Japan is pretty bad, so tee tee and hush hush it is.

In a sense, KanaCoco provides for an excellent cover. It is one of the most inspiring portrayals of woman-woman friendships in media and it would be one of the more enduring aspect of Coco’s legacy as it passes down through the generations.

[Note: This somehow became an apologia of the past week. Well, I do like to show my thinking with my behavior, perhaps to my detriment, so… just be warned.]

For the past week, I was hyping about the fact that Gura passed Kizuna Ai to become the most-subscribed VTuber. And I made the point, not through immaturity, but because I realized this coincided with Coco’s graduation. Without Coco, there wouldn’t be Hololive English, or Gawr Gura, and therefore this event would not have happened. This, therefore, was one of the last great accomplishments of Coco. An indelible mark of her foresight and perseverance. A realization of her plans. So, in a sense, this was one of my ways of celebrating Coco’s career, albeit in an admittedly twisted way.

But beyond Hololive English, there was the famous Meme Review, which has a weak lineage with the early meme review series from PewDiePie. Now for the digression, whoever ends up at the top gives us a flavor for that specific era, since one naturally assumes success means finesse and would try to emulate the style. Vlogbrother’s visual style and mannerism was largely lifted from Ze Frank. PBS Idea Channel famously emulated Ray William Johnson’s background to his own ends. And Kizuna Ai was famously inspired by PewDiePie at several points in her career. Which is why PewDiePie’s Congratulations felt right as a tribute. One of the big shared characteristics of the two was the lonely years at the top. PewDiePie is probably going to be longest reigning ‘King’ of YouTube for a while (of course, depends on if Cocomelon catches T-Series in due time) and at the time his reign was abnormally long. Most people hold onto the top spot for a year or two, so it felt odd that PewDiePie was untouchable for so long. Similar things must have been raised for Kizuna Ai as well. Many people must have felt that Kizuna Ai just did not represent VTubers at the current time.

So, when competition showed up, of course people were excited. It felt like it was time. I believe PewDiePie’s Congratulations was not a simple diss track, although it’s formatted like one, just due to the culture at the time. So the hypothetical Kizuna Ai version would be extremely light-hearted. The ‘diss’ would be your typical “she’s short”, “she’s hydrodynamic” and so on… it would be clear there is no actual bad blood, and the song would be welcoming of the new era. Era, as I said before, brought on by Coco.

Back to the Meme Review, meme review was great as it centered reddit as the base for the fandom, rather than twitter, which is a horrible platform to bring a sense of communal welcomeness. Reddit is probably the best functional place for stuff like this, even though we all know it has its host of problems that needs to be resolved.

What is the most important stream in Hololive? Well, some people would point to Aqua and Coco’s The Raft stream, which is a poignant encapsulation of a stream. The dramatic counterweight to the other greatest stream in Hololive, Korone’s all-english Mario stream. Aqua and Coco are always the odd pairing, but it could have worked, and it might have been beneficial. Aqua is one of the most shy people in Hololive, and Mio is already busy with Ayame and Subaru, so the best person might have been Coco.

But China. There were two big beneficiaries from China in Hololive, one was Fubuki and the other was Aqua. While Fubuki, in Coco’s last months, famously went out of her way to intertwine herself with Coco to directly redirect her audience, like the mensch she is, Aqua always struggled with her audience retention, therefore played shy with Coco.

Edit: Well, my initial final impression was… what a wonderful finish. The interview portion was well-meant, but honestly a little formal. When the 4th Gen went together, is when the stream turned into something special for me, and the final performance was actually really well-done. Coco went out like an idol, which makes sense. For whatever provocation Coco perpetuated, Coco only did them out of love. And ultimately Cover knew that. Coco’s final month was a warning and a reminder.

Can I talk about all the different tributes lately? In some sense, Usaken Summer Festival is part of this… for an organization that is immensely popular, I just adore how Cover and their talent always has this drive to throw everything and see if it works. I noticed this during Golden Week. Golden Week in Hololive was jam packed. There were great events, Mio’s morning stream was astounding, leading to one of biggest growth spurt for Mio. Miko’s drawing collab was absolutely hilarious, for such a simple and seemingly hastily put idea. One of the people in a forum commented on this and affixed something that left my mind… what did Nijisanji during the same week? Even I was surprised by how little Nijisanji did that Golden week. They barely did anything!

The innovative spirit does give them trouble, more than it is worth, but Cover never really stopped its momentum, even when most other companies would have stopped a long time ago! This is the greatest thing about Hololive and Cover, the most redeeming feature. One that would serve them well. Coco wrote the playing book, let us pray that Cover sticks to them, because the fall of Cover comes the moment they stray.

The Pre-Coco era was about a company struggling to get their idea through. The Coco era was about writing the playing book. So the Post-Coco era will be about remembrance, it’ll be a struggle to keep the memory of what the playing book is. It’ll be about them being Hololive as they become part of the global zeitgeist.

#vtuber #hololive #kiryu coco #web talk #Thoughts

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archiefm · 5 years

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... claws my way up from hell once more and vomits onto the dash.... hello. its nora. i used to write rory bergstrom, but if u were here before that u might remember me as greta or alma putnam or..... som1 else.... an endless carousel of trash children..... this is finn, who i actually wrote for an early version of this rp abt 5yrs back now...... grits teeth..... so forgive me if im rusty i havent written him in a long time but seein honey boy gave me a lotta finn muse n im keen to get Back On The Horse yeehaww...

DYLAN O’BRIEN / CIS-MALE — don’t look now, but is that finn o’callaghan i see? the 25 year old criminology and forensic studies student is in their graduate year of study year and he is a rochester alum. i hear they can be judicious, adroit, morose and cynical, so maybe keep that in mind. i bet he will make a name for themselves living off-campus. ( nora. 24. gmt. she/her )

shakes my tin can a humble pinterest, ma’am....

finn has a bio pasted at the bottom (n written in like.... 2015.... gross) but it’s long so if u don’t wanna read it here’s the sparknotes summary..... anyway this was written years ago n a lot of it seems really cliche and lame now but..... we accept the trash we think we deserve

grumpy, ugly sweater wearing, tech-savvy grandpa

very dry sense of humour and embraces nihilism.

if ron swanson and april ludgate had a baby it would be finn

he was raised in derry, just south of dublin.

from a big family. elder sister called sinead. he also has a younger sister (aoife), a younger brother (colm), and a collie named lassie because his father lovs cliches (finn hates cliches but loves his dog).

his father was a pub landlord and his mother worked at the market sellin fruit n veg when they met but got a job as a medical receptionist when she had kids cos it meant she cld be there with them in the day and work nights.

his parents met when they were p young and fiesty and rushed into marriage cos they were catholic n just wanted to have sex. his family were literally dirt-poor, but they had a lot of love i guess

hmmmmm his relationship w his father wasn’t the best cos i can’t write character who have healthy relationships w their parents throws up a peace sign. yh, had a pretty emotionally distant, alcoholic violent father n so gets a lot of his bad habits i.e. drinking as a coping mechanism and poor anger management from him BUT anyway

as a kid he was never very motivated in class, he always had a nervous itch to be off somewhere doing something else. struggled under government austerity bcso there just wasn’t the resources to support low income families where the kids had learning difficulties n needed support. fuck the tories am i right

his mum suggested he try sports to help w his restless energy but he was never any good at football so he took up boxing and tap dance instead. he took to tap dancing like a fish to fuckin water. as adhd n found this as a really good way to use his excess energy in a creative way

had a few run ins with the police in his early teens for spray painting and graffiti, but he straightened himself out n now actually considering becoming a detective inspector??? cops are pigs.

he had a youtube channel where he posted videos of him tapdancing and breakdancing as a kid, basically would be a tiktok boy nowadays, n had like... a small fanbase in his early teens. attended several open auditions unsuccessfully, until he was finally cast in billy eliot when he was fifteen.

during billy eliot he began dating an italian dancer called nina. they became dance partners soon after and toured across the republic with various different shows (inc riverdance lol the classic irish stereotype). their relationship was p toxic tbh, they were both very hot tempered people and just used to argue and fight all the time.

he went semi-pro at tap dancing, and nina couldn’t stand being second best so she moved back to italy with her family. ignored his texts, phone calls, etc, eventually he was driven to the point where he used his savings to buy a plane ticket, showed up at her house and she was like wtf?? freaked out and filed a restraining order accusing him of stalking.

he was fined for harassment and then returned home to derry, but after the incident with nina he quit dancing for good and finished his leaving cert before heading to university in the US to get as far away from nina and his past life as poss. and basically since he quit dancing to study forensics (death kink. finn cant get enough of that morgue. just walks around sayin beat u) he’s become a massive grump and jsut doesn’t see the good in people any more.

u’ll find finn in an old man bar drinking whiskey bc he is in fact an old man at heart or sat on his roof smoking a joint, drawing wolves and lions and skeletons and shit, playing call of duty or getting blazed or at the corner of the room in a house party ignoring everyone and scrolling through twitter. is a massive e-boy. always up-to-date on memes and internet slang. has reddit as an app on his phone

not very good at communication. rather than solve his issues by talking, he’d prefer to just solve them through fighting or running away from his problems hence why he has come halfway across the world to get away from an issue which probs cld have been solved w a few apology emails.

takes a lot to phase him, but when his beserk button gets pressed he can become a bit pugnacious like an angry lil rottweiler. in his undergrad he was in a few fist fights but doesn’t really do tht any more as he doesn’t condone violence.

in the previous version of this rp he was hospitalised like 5 times. pls, give my son a break. stop tryin to kill him. he literaly got a bottle smashed over his head and bled out all over his favourite angora rug that was the only light of his life

works at the campus coffee shop n always whines about how he’s a slave to capitalism. always smells of coffee

lives off campus with an elderly woman named Marianne, and basically gets reduced rent bcos he makes her dinner / keeps her company. they have a great bond

fan of karl marx. v big on socialism

insomniac with chronic nosebleeds

cynical about everything. too much of a fight club character 4 his own good n has his head up tyler durden’s sphincter

always confused or annoyed

statistics

basic information

full name: finnegan seamus o'callaghan nickname(s): finn age: 25 astrological sign: aries hometown: derry, ireland occupation: phd student / former street entertainer fatal flaw: cynicism positives: self-reliant, street smart, relaxed, intelligent, spontaneous, brave, independent, reliable, trustworthy, loyal. negatives: hostile, impulsive, stubborn, brooding, pugnacious, untrusting, cynical, enigmatic, reserved.

physical

colouring: medium hair colour: dark brown, almost black eye colour: brown height: 5’9” weight: 69kg build: tall, athletic voice: subtle irish accent, low, smooth. dominant hand: left scar(s): one on the left side of his ribs from a knife wound that he doesn’t remember getting cos he was drunk distinguishing marks: freckles, tattoo of a wolf howling at a moon allergies: pollen and the full spectrum of human emotion alcohol tolerance: high drunken behaviour: he becomes friendlier, far more conversational than when sober, flirtier, and generally more self-confident.

psychological

dreams/goals: self-fulfilment, travel the globe, experience life in its most alive and technicoloured version, make documentary films, help the vulnerable in society, grow as a human being.

skills: jack-of-all-trades, very fast runner, good at thieving things, talented tap dancer, good in crisis situations, dab-hand at mechanics, musically-intelligent, can throw a mean right hook and very capable of defending himself, can roll a cigarette, memorises quotes and passages of literature with ease, can light a match with his teeth.

likes: the smell of the earth after rain, poetry, cigarettes, shakespeare, whiskey, tattoos, travelling, ac/dc, deep conversations, leather jackets, open spaces, the smell of petrol, early noughties ‘emo phase’ anthems.

dislikes: the government, parties, rules, donald trump, children, apple products, weddings, people in general, small talk, dependency, loneliness, pop music, public transport, justin timberlake, uncertainty.fears: fear itself, drowning alignment: true neutral mbti: istp – “while their mechanical tendencies can make them appear simple at a glance, istps are actually quite enigmatic. friendly but very private, calm but suddenly spontaneous, extremely curious but unable to stay focused on formal studies, istp personalities can be a challenge to predict, even by their friends and loved ones. istps can seem very loyal and steady for a while, but they tend to build up a store of impulsive energy that explodes without warning, taking their interests in bold new directions.” (via 16personalities.com)

full bio (lame as fuck written years ago..... pleathe...)

tw homophobia

born in quigley’s pub on the backstreets of sunny dublin, young finnegan o'callaghan was thrown kicking and screaming into the rowdy suburbs of irish drinking culture. the son of a landlord and a fishwife, he never had much in the way of earnings, but there was never a dull moment in his lively estate, where asbo’s thrived, but community spirit conquered. at school, finn was pegged as lazy and unmotivated, though truly his dyslexia made it hard for the boy to learn in the same environment of his peers and only made him more closed-off in class. struggling with anger management, finn moved from school to school, unable to fit the cookie-cutter mould that school enforced on him, though whilst academic studies were of little interest to the boy, he soon found his true passions lay in recreational activities. immersed into the joys of sport from as young as four, finn was an ardent munster fan and anticipated nothing more than the day he could finally fit into his brother’s old pair of rugby boots.

his calling finally came unexpectedly, not in the form of rugger, but through dance. to learn to express himself in a non-academic way, he began tap dancing, finding therapy in the beat of his soles against the cracked kitchen tiles (much to his mother’s disgrace). it wasn’t a conscious choice, finn just realised one day that dance was something that made him feel. a king of the streets, finn made his fortune on those cobbled pavements – dancing and drawing to earn his keep. by default, finn became a street artist, each penny he earned from his chalk drawings saved in a jam jar towards buying his first pair of tap shoes. though many of his less-than-amiable neighbours called him a nancy and a gaybo, finn refused to quit at his somewhat ‘unconventional’ hobby, for the young scrapper found energy, life, and released anger through the rhythm of tap. soon he branched out into street dance, hip hop, break dancing, lyrical, his days spent smacking his scuffed feet against the broken patio into the night.

when he was thirteen he took up boxing, and as expected, his newfound ‘macho’ pastime conflicted with his dancing. the boxers called him ‘soft’; the dancers called him ‘inelegant’. he felt like two different people; having to choose between interests was like being handed a knife and asked to which half of himself he wished to cut away. he couldn’t afford professional training in dance, with most schools based in england and limited scholarships available. instead, he made the street his studio, racking up a small fanbase on youtube. when he was fifteen he made his debut in billy eliot at the olympia theatre in dublin. enter nina de souza, talented, beautiful and italian; ballet dancer, operatic singer, genius whiz kid, and spoiled brat. she was selfish, conceited, hell bent on getting her own way, and every director’s nightmare. finn fell for her like a house of cards. he’d always had a soft spot for girls who meant trouble. and so their hellish courtship began.

by the time they were seventeen, the two young swans had danced in every playhouse across the republic. they were known in theatres across the country for their tempestuous personalities, their raging arguments with one another, their tendency to drop out of shows altogether without any notice, yet the money kept rolling in and the audiences continued to grow. for three years, their families continued to put up with their hysterical fights followed by passionate reconciliations. he was too possessive, and she was too wild. their carcrash of a relationship finally came to a catastrophic halt when nina broke off the whole affair and returned to italy with her family. for months finn tried to contact her, yet his phone calls, texts, facebook messages were always ignored, until finally he was driven to drastic measures and used his savings to get a plane to her home town. when finn turned up uninvited at nina’s house she freaked out – and rightly so – she contacted her agent, accused him of stalking her, and had a restraining order placed against him. finn was arrested, held in a station overnight, and charged with harassment before he was allowed to return to dublin.

after the incident with nina, finn lost the fight in his eyes. he became far more hostile, far less likely to retaliate with his own fists, and picked fights not for the thrill of feeling his own fists pummel another into a wall, but for the sensation of his own brittle bones cracking. he dropped his tap shoes in a dumpster, stopped talking to his friends, followed his father’s advice and went back to school to complete his leaving certificate. a few short months later, and finn was packing his bags, saying his bittersweet goodbyes, and travelling half-way across the globe to be as far away as possible from his past self, his mess of a life, and most of all nina. it seemed somehow ironic that the boy who had been cautioned by the garda so much during his youth for spray painting, busking without a liscence, and raucous parties would become the grumpy, aloof overseas student studying a degree in criminology; that his once reckless spirit could be crushed so easily.

of all things that finn could be called, straightforward would never be one of them. ever since his first days in atticus, the boy was pegged as hostile, hot-headed, cynical, rude. he seemed to spend more time in his thoughts than engaging in conversation. like a ticking time-bomb, finn’s anger was of the calm kind, liable to explode without a moment’s noticed. his unpredictable personality make him something of an enigma to those who aren’t amiable with the lad, though hostile as he may appear, he harvests a good heart. loyalty lies at the centre of his affections, and whilst his friends are few in number, he makes a lifelong partner. somewhere within finn, there’s still some fight left, but mostly he has recognised that his hedonistic lifestyle did little to leave him fulfilled – mostly, it just emptied him out – and over his three years at university has resigned himself to a nihilistic predicament.

if u wanna plot with me pls pls pls im me or like this post!! i am always game for plots i love em so excited to write with you all here r some ideas

study buddies. finn is now a phd student so has to start takin shit seriously. he gon be in the library every day doing that independent study. if he had ppl who were also regular library goers n they get each other coffees to save time.... tht wld be sweet

ppl who love techno dj sets and going super hard on the weekends!!! fuck yea

friends with benefits. exes on bad terms. ppl he tried to date but couldnt because he’s always emotionally hung up on someone else. spicy hook up plots

ppl he met touring?? maybe ppl who were also in the entertainment industry..... anyone got a character who is ex circus hit me up

does anyone else study criminology / forensics / criminal psych / law? phd students sometimes lecture so he cld be an assistant lecturer / tutor if ur character is in a younger year

gamers !!! social recluses !!! hermits !!

finn goes to the skatepark and all the young boys there think he’s a gradnpa which he is!

#huntingtonintro #is tht the tag....... idk..... msg me xo

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4 Theories on the Psychology of Prejudice

I have received several questions from readers recently on the psychology of prejudice. Where does it come from? Why are racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of bias so common? And why do these things seem so difficult to change? I taught college courses in this area for several years, and here are some of the main theories I covered. Note that theories on prejudice have changed significantly over the last century, so we’ll also explore how they have evolved during that time.

In the 1930s and 40s, psychologists took a psychodynamic view on prejudice and attempted to explain it in very Freudian terms. The basic idea was that prejudice stemmed from authoritative parenting styles and that children respond to this situation by projecting the anger that they have at their parents onto outgroups instead. Research has never really substantiated this theory, though, so it’s not considered to be a compelling explanation today and I don’t think it’s really worth diving into much further.

In the 1950s, we saw researchers begin to take a personality approach to studying prejudice. The main idea was that some people just have “prejudiced personalities.” This view arose out of the events of World War II and the Holocaust. Psychologists wanted to understand why and how the Nazis committed the atrocities that they did. This led to the development of authoritarian personality theory, which is characterized by unquestioning obedience toward, respect for, and submission to authority figures.

This type of personality is thought to develop during adolescence and, like psychoanalytic theory, has a lot to do with the way people are raised—basically, it develops through trained obedience to authority. This willingness to submit to authority is really seen as what underlies prejudice and discrimination—these people are basically just doing as they are told, even if that means being aggressive toward other groups.

While people tend to think of personality traits like this as being pretty stable over the lifespan, I actually conducted some research in graduate school finding that authoritarian tendencies can shift in response to changes in the social context. For example, they increase to some degree during wartime periods when people perceive significant social threats [1].

The personality approach to understanding prejudice is one that remains popular to this day, both inside and out of the field, and authoritarian personality theory in particular has seen renewed interest with the rise of authoritarian politicians around the world.

In the 1960s and 70s, many researchers started taking a socio-cultural approach to prejudice, looking at the roles that culture, society, norms, and group memberships play. For example, some of these researchers attempted to explain prejudice through the lens of group competition over resources.

This is where the classic Robber’s Cave experiment emerged, which you probably learned about if you ever took an introductory psychology course [2]. Researchers took two groups of kids to a summer camp. They separately bonded and formed group identities, and then the researchers put the groups into competition with one another for trophies and awards. They found that a vicious rivalry emerged very quickly. There was name-calling and aggression—the kids even burned each other’s team flags.

The researchers found that they could reduce conflict and tension by getting the kids to work together on achieving common goals. For example, when the food and water supply to the camp was threatened, everyone had to come together to find a solution—and in the process, cross-group friendships formed and the rivalry dissipated.

The main idea stemming from this study is that prejudice and bias stem from the fact that social groups are in competition for resources all of the time and that this is what ultimately underlies conflict; however, the key to resolving prejudice has a lot to do with finding shared identities and coming together to work on common goals.

More recent approaches to understanding the origins of prejudice have taken a social cognitive approach, with some looking to implicit biases, or the non-conscious processes that might underlie prejudice. The idea here is that people can be prejudiced without even consciously knowing or recognizing that they’re acting in a discriminatory way.

This led to the development of the Implicit Association Test (IAT), which purportedly measures the non-conscious, automatic associations we have have with different social groups. Specifically, the IAT looks at how quickly and consistently people associate positive and negative words with different social categories, such as Black/White, men/women, gay/straight, etc.

However, the study of implicit bias is something that has proved quite controversial and researchers can’t quite agree on what the IAT actually measures: does it truly capture this concept of implicit bias, or does it just tap into knowledge or awareness of cultural stereotypes? The effectiveness of implicit bias trainings have also been hotly debated. Learn more about the IAT and the controversy surrounding it here.

Other researchers have taken a different social-cognitive approach, looking at the human tendency to be efficient processors of information—we look at the world around us, try to determine patterns, and make judgments and decisions based on those patterns. Many argue that the human mind evolved to work like this and that it’s an adaptive tendency for making sense of and navigating the world.

From this view, the tendency to stereotype (i.e., to make broad generalizations based on limited information) is seen as an ingrained tendency, which may help to explain why it’s so hard to change. In other words, we’re fighting against the way our minds evolved to work. To be clear, this view doesn’t attempt to justify or rationalize harmful group stereotypes—it’s just another attempt to explain their origins, with the idea being that if we want to change things, we need to understand where they come from in the first place.

As you can see, there are myriad views on the psychology of prejudice. Admittedly, this is a very cursory overview and there are even more perspectives than I had time to get into in this post.

Psychologists today don’t agree on just one of these theories or views, either. Different researchers argue for different perspectives, and some of them remain quite controversial.

What do you think? Which views or perspectives are most compelling to you and why? Discuss below.

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[1] Lehmiller, J. J., & Schmitt, M. T. (2008). Intergroup attitudes and values in response to the US invasion of Iraq. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 14(3), 259-274.

[2] Lehmiller, J. J. (2007). Robber’s Cave experiment. In R. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (pp. 761-762). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

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What is Social Media Marketing (SMM)? How to Use it for your Business?

What is social Media Marketing (SMM)?

"What is social Media Marketing":

So what exactly is social media marketing? It is the process of gaining traffic or attention through social media sites. Social media is definitely the fastest growing trend in the history of the world. Be it YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram… people are spending a lot of times on these plat forms. The best part is that this sector has grown faster than the internet itself.Thus, the exponential rise of social media,

what is social media marketing

And with so many people, millions and billions of people are spending so much of their time on social media channels social media marketing becomes a very important way to drive customers to your business.

Now there are so many new marketing channels coming up, Facebook marketing, Twitter marketing,LinkedIn marketing, YouTube marketing and all of them are giving amazing airways. We’ll be going through today’s popular social media channels, howto market to them, what kind of audience you should market to, and what should be your strategy for your social media marketing.

Why is social media marketing important?There are many reasons why you should incorporate social media marketing in your business.

Reaching targeted, niche-oriented audience.You’ll be surprised what kind of targeting you can achieve in this social media channels.

Increase the engagement and response. And it is the perfect channel to create trust, credibility and a relationship with your audience.Now in today’s work ways, there’s so many competitions, the only way to distinguish yourself is to connect to the emotion of the customers or the prospective customers or your audience.

Building Trust , Credibility and relationship with your audience other brands. And definitely a very important trait is the viral sharing.

Viral Sharing Allowing others to share your Content. If you post a viral, then you can easily drive up- the best kind of marketing is when people start referring their services or products to their friends. And this is where viral sharing comes into play, people will share your content and you’ll reach a much newer audience which you couldn’t have reached.

Increasing Website Traffic. Social media is also a very important channel to increase website traffic, and building conversions, now we will be talking more about conversions about what they are, how to setup our Facebook Ad section.

Building Conversions. Even if a brand is nameless, let’s say you are a startup, if you’re opening a new website or a new business.

Raising brand awareness. So social media is an amazing platform to create brand on the internet, to introduce your services or product to the market for the first time.And see even the response rate.There are so many benefits with social media marketing.

Usage of

Social

Media Marketing Now definitely the usage of social media has increased a lot, you can see by the graph itself, like how many people are consuming social media channels. Around 60% people are opening whats-app more than once a day, you can see the similar trend on Facebook and YouTube as well.So these graphs are really giving really important insights that the use of social media is solucrius. So you don’t just start a social media marketing by choosing a platform and start paying for ads. It doesn’t work like that.

Social Media Marketing Start With a Plan

Business Goals: You need to first understand your business goals. If you’re a

B to B company

, that means business to business company, to B to C company, business to customer company… you need to first align your goals, to the kind of strategy you are looking for.If you’ll just start a social media campaign without a social strategy, then in the end you’ll just end up losing money.So this is where the first step of creating a customer avatar is extremely important.You need to know exactly where your customer is, what kind of customer is the perfect customer for you.

Ask Some Question to yourself. Also there are some common questions that you should ask yourself in defining your social media marketing.

What are you hoping to achieve through social media marketing? Like what are you hoping to achieve in your social media marketing.Is it brand awareness, is it conversions?The

Who is you target audience? If you’ve never defined your audience clearly, you will never be able to make a profitable social media campaign.The better you know your audience, the better results you’ll get from your social media marketing.

Where would your target audience hang out and how would they use social media? So you should know exactly where your audience is hanging out. Like are they on Instagram, are they on Facebook? If they are on Facebook, what kind of interest do they like? Which groups do they follow? Are they males, are they females? What is the age bracket? Are 18-25, 25-30?Are the homemakers? Are they doing jobs or are they more into the business? So you should know a lot about your customer. And also your goal should also be aligned with your social media marketing

What message do you want to send to your audience with social media marketing? So these are the multiple questions you usually ask yourself before creating a social media marketing campaign for yourself.

Social Media Marketing - Content & SharesShares are the currency of the social media world, shares are all that matters on social media. So your content must be engaging enough that people would want to share it.That will create the ripple effect, that will create the viral effect. So as you can see in the graph here, this list downs the various contents people share the most. And you can see that info-graphic is something that people tend to share more compared to the other kind of content. But yes listical, like top ten list articles have always been in various viral websites like

ScoopWhoop.com

Buzzfeed.com.

Video is something that’s getting popular in 2019, and I’m sure in the coming years as well, video will be highly popular.

Social Media Trends

You should also know about the social media trend. The first is definitely the organic reach is going down. Now social media platforms want to make money. Like Facebook, the only way the make money is advertisement. So they are making it increasingly difficult for businesses to create their audiences organically.

So they want businesses to pay money to reach to their audience.Even earlier on Facebook page- let’s say you have 10,000 people who like page, if you used to post you will be able to reach a big amount of audience.

But nowadays if you post and you are not boosting your post, you won’t be able to reach a big number of- even if a lot of people are actually following you.So social is moving more towards “pay to play”.

The more money you’ll be paying, the bigger the reach of your campaign.Social media algorithms will always prioritize the advertisements.So the more businesses are willing to pay the better reach you will get.

Best Network for Social Media Marketing?

So now many people ask me about which is the best network for their social media marketing,many of you must already know that there is

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Snapchat

LinkedIn and there are so many others like Reddit, even Quora is getting popular thesedays.

But the answer to this question of which is the best network, there is no correct answer. It all depends upon your strategy. There is no such thing as a best network. At the same time you should know what your goals are, from this social marketing campaign.

Facebook

Launched in 2004, and approximately 2 billion people are actively using Facebook… I can give you so many different stats but Facebook is the big daddy of social media marketing. In my experience, especially for marketers- digital marketers- Facebook is like the best platform to market on.

It has the most targeted ads. And if you’ll be looking at a Facebook ads video, you will understand the kind of targeting options that

Facebook give

You’ll be surprised by the ways you can actually market your products. You’ll start to see the kind of power a digital marketer has in influencing a person into making a purchase. That’s the kind of power, Facebook advertisement has.

You can be asked specifically defining your customers down to the socks that he’s wearing.Yes, that is the power of Facebook ads. I’ll be covering Facebook ads more in detail in our Facebook ads video.

Images will get much higher click rate compared to written content so, whenever you are targeting Facebook as a social media channel, you use more visual contents like images, videos,etc.And also you can use a user-generated content, like give the readers a chance to share something about themselves by offering them a conversation starter.

And also you have to have some personal touch when you’re going on Facebook ads as a social media marketing channel, it is- respond to people’s post, comment them, help them out.You can also create a more personal touch by sharing things about yourself but also you have to keep- maintain an extent to which that you can share.

And in the end it’s all about trial and error, try different things and see which ones are working for your audience.So should you be on Facebook for your marketing channel?If you’re thinking of creating more leads, in my experience I’ve seen that Facebook can be used by all the businesses out there.

Because there’s some kind of advertisement, some kind of branding or conversion funnel were you can start.Just the amount of targeting that Facebook provides it becomes a paradise for a marketer.

You can increase the website traffic, you can increase the brand loyalty, you can unread targeting ads, you can do so many things in Facebook.So if you haven’t started using Facebook, make sure you start.

Twitter

Now let’s talk about Twitter.Twitter also has 3 billion plus user accounts. And 330 million active users and all the other stats like 80% of Twitter users have mentioned brand in a tweet.So specially for brands Twitter is an amazing platform.

Just like I told you that whenever we talk about Twitter it’s more related to brand awareness, so if you’re a starter if you are just starting out, then you can consider Twitter as a marketing channel. And also specifically in the online reputation management, Twitter is an extremely effective channel.

To connect to the customer query, to take their feedback, respond to their feedback and also handle their queries, so I think

Twitter

can be an extremely amazing channel for online reputation management.

You can also try various other strategies like running a conversion campaign or driving traffic to your website.But compared to Facebook, that won’t give a much better arrow around Twitter.

So if you’re just starting out in social media marketing, then I would recommend you to start with Facebook and then move on to Twitter.

Instagram

Now Instagram is supposedly the new Facebook, these days people are moving away from Facebook and going more on the Instagram.

Because of the more visual content and also the video content is really dominating on

Instagram.

He growth of Instagram has been exponential, after Facebook acquired Instagram it has really exploded.

And it has already killed Snapchat. Snapchat used to be its competitor, but now almost all of their features are available on Instagram.

Then again almost 40 billion photos are shared to date and 4.2 billion people are liking the posts.500 million plus Instagram accounts are active every day.So the data is amazing.

Why we choose Instagram for Social Media Marketing?

And the best part about Instagram is the visual content.And people respond much better to visual content compared to a textual content.Just like Facebook you can use it for everything. Be it targeting ads, be it generating sales, be it brand awareness and especially the influence of marketing.

The influence of marketing has exploded in 2018 and I am sure that by 2020 as well, influencer marketing will keep on dominating the social media channels. Especially Instagram, so whenever you are learning Facebook Ads, you can select the placement on Instagram as well.So the same ad will be shown on both Facebook and Instagram.

I’ll be showing you this in our Facebook Ads lesson. So you should definitely consider Instagram in my opinion.It’s an amazing channel to get conversions, for brand awareness, for any kind of advertisement.

YouTube

One trend that has been dominating the marketing world is the video.Even on Facebook, videos have been given higher preference compared to images or text and also just like the impact of videos is much higher than an image.

And also after this huge video reliance with people having access to high speed internet,

YouTube

has started to dominate the Indian market.

Why You Should Be On YouTube?

First of all it captures attention, because video has always been more powerful compared to any other channel of marketing. And it is high traffic volume, YouTube is the second most popular search engine after Google, it has massive traffic.

There are multiple ways to advertise, you can go for the advertisement you can also do an influence marketing, but collaborating with the influences who have the kind of audience that you are looking for.

And the best part about YouTube is that the video creates much more influence compared to images or text, personally for me, I’ll be focusing a lot on YouTube this year.I’ll be running advertisements and we’ll be trying various strategies to see which one is working for me.

So I would recommend for you guys as well to use YouTube as well, in your advertising campaign.

Now let’s talk about

LinkedIn.

LinkedIn is very popular especially in the professional world space.And total amount of LinkedIn users are 500 million so it’s not a small number.People think it’s not that popular, but yes, LinkedIn is an extremely popular website.One very popular question is

Is LinkedIn worth trying?

Honestly in my experience and working with clients as well, I’ve seen that LinkedIn gives much better results if you’re going with B2B, when your target customers are more businesses and not B2C.

LinkedIn also gives you a lot of precise targeting options so you can target your prospect customers in various ways. You can also use LinkedIn groups to establish your business as an expert on certain topics. If you’re just starting out with social media marketing, then I won’t recommend you to go directly into LinekdIn.

I’ll still recommend you to first try, at least the Facebook and Instagram, and once you’re familiar with all those platforms then you can move on to LinkedIn and try this one.

LinkedIn Ads

But if you’re a B2B company you can directly go into the LinkedIn Ads. And I think they’ll be the best kind of advertisement for your business. There was also a survey done on the effectiveness rating for the B2B social media platforms.

And LinkedIn came up with the top.So especially with the B2B businesses, LinkedIn is the perfect opportunity and the perfect social network to drive their customers.

Snapchat

It gained a lot of popularity, but recently it has been going on a declining trend because Instagram is dominating the market. And almost all the features of

Snapchat

is also available on Instagram. Not all of them, but still Instagram has taken a big chunk of the Snapchat audience.

Going with the numbers, approximately 300 million monthly active users. More than 10 billion daily Snapchat video views. And active Snapchat users open the app 18 plus times every day. So the numbers are really good and speak for themselves.

Should you be doing Snapchat

Well if you’re target audience is young, if you are going for a very young audience may be 15 – 18 or 15 – 22. If you’re targeting millennial, then Snap-chat is the perfect network for you. If you are owning an e-commerce store or targeting female specifically, because Snap-chat is more dominated by females, young females.

I know about an e-commerce store that made a killing on Snapchat. They were targeting some kind of makeup product and they were heavily advertising on Snapchat. I think they are making millions of dollars per month just through Snapchat ads alone. So if you’re targeting menials, if you’re targeting young people, Snapchat should bein your priority list.

B2B On Snapchat

When we talk about B2B, I won’t recommend you to go for B2B on Snapchat. One another area where you can use Snapchat is the brand awareness. Because again it’s a visual content, the “stories” are videos in nature.So it will create a much more powerful impact. If I would have to give you an order of how to start your social media marketing, then I would recommend you to go for Facebook along with Instagram. And then slowly move on to YouTube as well, and then you can try the other networks like LinkedIn, Twitter and Snapchat.And see what kinds of results you’re getting. And then start pushing more budget to the ads that are giving you the best returns.Here are the social media metrics that you must measure.

Anticipate growth by counting your followers, so the first thing I would recommend you to is to count the likes in your content creation. So let’s say you have created 10 different kind of content phases. So make sure you check which content is getting the best kind of engagement.

Which content is liked by your audience so that you can create more of such content in the future.

Also keep on the user comments because these will give you a very good idea about what people are looking for. How are they interacting with your content. Or may be some, new content ideas as well.

Content share is another very important metric because you need to know how many people are actually sharing your content to their friends.

So these are the few metrics that you can keep a track on whenever you’re doing you're social media marketing.

Tool That You Must UseSo now I’ve listed various of the tools that you can use to create an effective social media marketing campaign.

Buffer

BuzzSumo

Canva

Sprout Social

Hootsuite

Feedly

Audiense

Tweepi

Crowdfire

Buffer, Buffer is used for social media scheduling. So instead of posting on individual networks, you can directly integrate all the social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram all of them on Buffer. I just post once, and the post will be posted down to all various networks.

BuzzSumo is one that we’ll be using for finding good content ideas.It is another important and amazing tool.

Canva can be used for creating beautiful graphics data for free.

So make sure you check all these tools out and see which one suits you the best.The first three I personally use so that is why I’ve added “recommended” on to them.

Conclusion:

So guys this was a short Blog on what is social media marketing. Personally for me, whenever I talk about social media, I primarily focus on Facebook Ads along with Instagram. And we will be covering that in detail in the future lesson.

So make sure you read this Blog because that’ll be highly comprehensive. And I’ll be going through a lot on how to make effective a Facebook Ad. Hey guys, I hope you like this overview of social media marketing. In the next lesson we’ll be covering Instagram marketing. How you can start and skill an Instagram account in very few days.

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Top 10 Powerful Moments That Shaped Social Media History Over the Last 20 Years

Do you remember your first social media profile? Or, how about your first social media post?

My first profile was on Myspace, my first friend was “Tom from Myspace,” and my first post was something like, “Myspace is awesome!”

The rest is history.

Social media has changed and evolved so much since the early days, it’s almost hard to believe how far we’ve come. How people use social media has changed as well. Gen Zs (now beginning to enter the workforce) only know a world with social media, compared to their counterparts – Millennials, Generation X, and Baby Boomers – who can still fondly remember back to the days of snail mail and dial-up modems!

In light of #SMDay (6/30/2017), we’re teaming up with Bitly to share stories and celebrate the positive impact that social media has had on individuals, businesses, and the globe over the last 20 glorious years – all using the hashtag #impactofsocial. Check out the details at the bottom of this post about how you can join in on the fun!

Here’s a look at 10 powerful moments that shaped the social media history.

Let’s dive in!

Top 10 powerful moments that shaped social media history

There have been so many wonderful moments over the last 20 years on social media that it was quite a challenge to boil them down to just 10! But since we’re celebrating the positive impact of social media on people’s lives and on the world for this campaign, these are all particularly meaningful and important moments in the social media history.

Feel free to jump to a certain moment(s) in the social media history!

The Birth of Facebook

Miracle on the Hudson

Going “Viral”

Ellen’s Selfie (and the Nuggets guy)

NASA’s #YearInSpace

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

#BlackLivesMatter

Arab Spring

Community Support during World Tragedies

Natural Disaster Relief

Let’s count down to the top moment in the social media history!

10. The Birth of Facebook

Facebook, the social media network that has an incredible two billion monthly active users (nearly a third of the earth’s population), is the only network that I’ll mention in this post for moments-sake. Given its sheer size, the impact it has made on families, friends, businesses, and world events, I felt as though I might be remiss without a mention of Facebook somewhere!

It’s amazing to imagine what the world might be like if Facebook had never captured the hearts and minds of so many people the way it did. One of my favorite Facebook moments, in particular, is during an early 2004 interview on CNBC with Mark Zuckerberg:

The anchor asks: “Now there’s a new form of cyber matching making, college networking websites. Is this perhaps the next big thing? The Facebook. Mark, if someone was to put the question to you about the magnitude of what you’ve launched; how big do you think your product or service is?”

We all know the rest!

A short six years after this interview (2010), Zuckerberg would go on to become Time’s Person of the Year along with many other accolades along the way. Facebook has changed the way we interact and communicate on all levels and only time will tell if another network will come along and take its place in social media history.

9. Miracle on the Hudson

It was January 15, 2009 when U.S. Airways Flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia Airport in New York and struck a flock of birds on the way up. Moments later, both engines were lost and Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, along with his co-pilot, Jeff Skiles, were asked to pull off the miraculous landing.

When the plane finally landed safely in the frigid Hudson River waters, all 155 passengers on board were safe. The “Miracle on the Hudson” has been called the most successful ditching in aviation history.

But something else happened that day… Jeff Krums tweeted:

http://ift.tt/XCC72i – There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.

— Janis Krums (@jkrums) January 15, 2009

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey told CNBC in 2013 how that changed Twitter and the way people get news.

It changed everything. Suddenly the world turned its attention because we were the source of news—and it wasn’t us, it was this person in the boat using the service, which is even more amazing.

One small tweet began the Twitter revolution. Hundreds of millions of people now turn to Twitter as a source of news, a place to build a following, a place to share your stories and connect with others.

Twitter is also the platform that our co-founder, Joel Gascoigne, successfully built Buffer on back in 2010! This powerful moment in social media history has a special place in our hearts.

8. Going “Viral”

How many of you have sat around with friends or family and binge-watched several classic YouTube videos in a row? I know I have!

What is now one of the largest social media networks on the planet (more than 1.5 billion people log in every month), started with a few viral hits and began a trend that today we might call, “going viral.” This launched YouTube into a massive entertainment hub – complete with TV streaming, movies, music videos, tutorials, celebrities, vloggers, and of course, viral videos.

Let’s take a look at three early videos that helped to shape the viral side of social media history:

Charlie Bit My Finger (Published: 5/22/2007 – 851,140,074 views)

“Chocolate Rain” (Published: 4/22/2007 – 113,787,749 views)

Numa Numa (Published: 12/11/2006 – 26,800,130 views)

Honorable Mention: “Lazy Sunday”

In December of 2005, the first “viral video” appeared online under the name “Lazy Sunday.” It was the second-ever SNL Digital Short aired and featured cast members, Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg. Following its appearance on SNL, the video appeared on YouTube and was viewed more than five million times until February 2006 when NBC Universal asked the site to remove it.

7. Ellen’s Selfie (and #NuggsForCarter)

Ellen DeGeneres’ selfie that took the social media world by storm is the epitome of everything that is awesome about social media.

If only Bradley’s arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars http://pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap

— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014

First, it is the fact that this photo is in “selfie” form which has come to be a staple of how photos are taken and shared across social media platforms. Two, it shows just how light-hearted, yet powerful social media can be. A smiling group of beloved actors, actresses, and performers has the ability to touch the lives of the more than 3,400,000 people who retweeted it and the millions more that saw it. For more than three years, Ellen’s selfie held the title of the most retweeted tweet of all time.

That was until Nevada teenager Carter Wilkerson’s plea for free chicken nuggets from Wendy’s went viral.

HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS http://pic.twitter.com/4SrfHmEMo3

— Carter Wilkerson (@carterjwm) April 6, 2017

The world watched as #NuggsForCarter swept Twitter like wildfire – eventually passing Ellen’s selfie as the most retweeted tweet of all time. And although the #NuggsForCarter tweet never quite reached 18 million, Wendy’s still awarded Carter free nuggets for a year anyways. A win-win!

In my experience, we as social media managers tend to take social media very seriously. But if we can learn anything from Ellen’s selfie and #NuggsForCarter, it’s that social media is meant to be a fun and sprightly place for people to share stories, connect, and be themselves.

If you’d like to hear more about the “Nuggs Guy” and how entrepreneurs and small businesses use social media, check out episode #47 of The Science of Social Media where we chat with Paul Jarvis.

6. NASA’s #YearInSpace

Named one of the most influential social media campaigns of 2016 (and maybe of all time), NASA’s #AYearInSpace demonstrates the wildly powerful ability of social media to document the human condition.

Day 179. The #Nile at night is a beautiful sight for these sore eyes. Good night from @space_station! #YearInSpace http://pic.twitter.com/eAMBZ9p428

— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) September 22, 2015

What made the mission so unique is that NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly has an identical twin brother he was to be compared with (physically) upon his return in hopes to uncover what happens to the human body after long exposures in space.

Astronaut Kelly tweeted continuously using the hashtag #YearInSpace, which was followed closely by millions of intrigued spectators. While tumbling around in zero gravity aboard the ISS, he even hosted an AMA session on Reddit!

This was a powerful moment in the social media history because we were able to experience space first-hand from the comfort of our own homes. People from all over the world chimed in using #YearInSpace to express their support, marvel in the wonder of the cosmos, and share an interconnectedness of human activity.

5. ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was a wonderful testament to the power of social media to make a charitable impact on an important cause. Since 2014, largely due to social media, the ALS Association has raised more than $115 million for research towards Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

It drew the attention of hundreds of thousands of people, including celebrities like President Obama, LeBron James, Lady Gaga, Sergey Brin, Sheryl Sandberg, and Bill Gates. Within the first 15 days of the campaign taking off, the ALS Association had received $15 million in donations from 307,600 new, first-time donors.

What followed was an interesting study into viral content and how organizations might be able to repeat this virality in the future. And while no definite conclusion was made from Facebook’s study and visualization, many attribute the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge success to former Boston College baseball player, Pete Frates, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2012 (helping to explain the concentration).

The Ice Bucket Challenge can help to act as a guide or blueprint for achieving viral success via social media. As TechCrunch author, Sarah Perez writes, “Simply ask the selfie generation to once again turn their cameras on themselves, but infuse that act with a higher purpose” and you have a recipe for success.

4. #BlackLivesMatter

Over the past several years, social media has become an important communication tool for political groups and social movements to organize and take action. One of those social movements, #BlackLivesMatter, has become one of the largest in the social media history. Used more than 12 million times, the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter is the third most-used Twitter hashtag around a social cause.

#BlackLivesMatter is an incredibly powerful example of how a social media hashtag can ignite action in the real world and be tied directly to a major movement. The implications for something like this are huge considering that we are all only becoming more digitally connected by the day.

A quote from Bijan Stephen in WIRED helps to sum it up perfectly:

“In the 1960s, if you were a civil rights worker and you needed to get some urgent news out to the rest of the world, you would likely head straight for a telephone. If you’re a civil rights activist in 2015 and you need to get some news out, your first move is to choose a social media platform.”

3. Arab Spring

I’ll never forget the digital marketing course I took in college that examined social media’s impact on the Arab Spring. It was then, back in 2011 as a student, that I realized the true power and potential implications of social media. Up until that point, I thought social media was only for sharing pictures with friends and family!

There has since been a strong debate over the role and influence that social media played in the Arab Spring. Researchers at the University of Washington examined more than three million tweets, gigabytes of YouTube content, and thousands of blog posts and found that social media played a central role in shaping political debates in the Arab Spring.

“Our evidence suggests that social media carried a cascade of messages about freedom and democracy across North Africa and the Middle East, and helped raise expectations for the success of political uprising,” said Philip Howard, project lead and professor at the University of Washington. “People who shared interest in democracy built extensive social networks and organized political action. Social media became a critical part of the toolkit for greater freedom.”

2. Community Support during World Tragedies

Social media can mean the difference between a few minutes or even a few seconds, and in unforeseen often-desperate situations, a few seconds can mean the world.

Moments after the tragic events in Brussels, friends and family members turned to Facebook and Twitter for information regarding anyone they might have known to be involved.

Following the Boston Marathon bombings, one-quarter of Americans looked to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites for information, according to The Pew Research Center. Boston community members offered complete strangers a warm bed, food, and a shower when roads and hotels were closed (via a simple Google Doc).

Social media also provides essential communication channels after these tragic events. Thinking back to Paris in 2015, social media helped to give many people a feeling of comfort, of solidarity, and of solace knowing that they would not have to face this alone. It acted as a support system even though we were all thousands of miles apart.

1. Natural Disaster Relief

One of the biggest strengths of social media is the speed at which it can disseminate important information to a large number of people in a very short amount of time. For example, after a 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, non-profits and relief groups used social media to mobilize rescue efforts and support the community in various ways.

According to a CNN report, social media – Twitter specifically – became a pivotal tool in the fundraising efforts that raised millions of dollars in aid for the country. By the end of the week, the use of social media helped to raise more than $8 million in relief.

Photo: Yale Economic Review

Haiti is just one of many cases where social media played an integral role in disaster relief. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan (2011), Hurricane Irene (2011), Superstorm Sandy (2012), and the earthquake in Nepal (2015) are examples of the power of instant communication. During Sandy, 10,000 Instagram photos (#sandy) were uploaded per second, many complete with geo-tagged locations!

Social media provides real-time, first-person information so that people and organizations can make informed decisions about where to focus their efforts. A critical piece in ensuring that relief is provided where and when it is needed most.

Over to you

It’s quite hard to fathom that social media is only 20 years young and that the majority of growth and innovation has happened over the last few years. It’s even harder to believe that we’ve likely only just begun! As the world population continues to increase, communities become more connected, and the internet becomes available for more and more cities around the world, we will undoubtedly witness a deeper integration of social media into our everyday lives.

This list doesn’t even begin to cover the hundreds of amazing moments throughout social media history. And so it’s up to all of us to celebrate its positive impact on our lives whenever we can. Let’s encourage each other to not take this incredible tool for granted!

Here’s to 20 more years of powerful, wonderful, and world-changing social media history (and beyond!)

Feeling inspired? We’d love for you to share your story!

How has social media positively impacted you? On June 30th (#SMDay) and throughout the weekend, share your social media story with us using the hashtag #impactofsocial! We’ll be retweeting some of our favorites and picking a few winners to receive some special Buffer swag. We’re also hosting five exclusive Facebook Live chats throughout the day, check out the awesome schedule we have planned below!

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Tom Redman (Product Manager at Buffer) – 7:00am PT, 10:00am ET

Arielle Tannenbaum & Hailley Griffis (Community & PR at Buffer) – 8:30am PT, 11:30am ET

Mark Josephson (CEO at Bitly) – 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET

Brian Fanzo (iSocialFanz) – 12:00pm PT, 3:00pm ET

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Top 10 Powerful Moments That Shaped Social Media History Over the Last 20 Years

Do you remember your first social media profile? Or, how about your first social media post?

My first profile was on Myspace, my first friend was “Tom from Myspace,” and my first post was something like, “Myspace is awesome!”

The rest is history.

Here’s a look at 10 powerful moments that shaped the social media history.

Let’s dive in!

Top 10 powerful moments that shaped social media history

Feel free to jump to a certain moment(s) in the social media history!

The Birth of Facebook

Miracle on the Hudson

Going “Viral”

Ellen’s Selfie (and the Nuggets guy)

NASA’s #YearInSpace

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

#BlackLivesMatter

Arab Spring

Community Support during World Tragedies

Natural Disaster Relief

Let’s count down to the top moment in the social media history!

10. The Birth of Facebook

We all know the rest!

9. Miracle on the Hudson

But something else happened that day… Jeff Krums tweeted:

http://ift.tt/XCC72i – There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.

— Janis Krums (@jkrums) January 15, 2009

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey told CNBC in 2013 how that changed Twitter and the way people get news.

It changed everything. Suddenly the world turned its attention because we were the source of news—and it wasn’t us, it was this person in the boat using the service, which is even more amazing.

Twitter is also the platform that our co-founder, Joel Gascoigne, successfully built Buffer on back in 2010! This powerful moment in social media history has a special place in our hearts.

8. Going “Viral”

How many of you have sat around with friends or family and binge-watched several classic YouTube videos in a row? I know I have!

Let’s take a look at three early videos that helped to shape the viral side of social media history:

Charlie Bit My Finger (Published: 5/22/2007 – 851,140,074 views)

“Chocolate Rain” (Published: 4/22/2007 – 113,787,749 views)

Numa Numa (Published: 12/11/2006 – 26,800,130 views)

Honorable Mention: “Lazy Sunday”

7. Ellen’s Selfie (and #NuggsForCarter)

Ellen DeGeneres’ selfie that took the social media world by storm is the epitome of everything that is awesome about social media.

If only Bradley’s arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars http://pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap

— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014

That was until Nevada teenager Carter Wilkerson’s plea for free chicken nuggets from Wendy’s went viral.

HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS http://pic.twitter.com/4SrfHmEMo3

— Carter Wilkerson (@carterjwm) April 6, 2017

6. NASA’s #YearInSpace

Day 179. The #Nile at night is a beautiful sight for these sore eyes. Good night from @space_station! #YearInSpace http://pic.twitter.com/eAMBZ9p428

— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) September 22, 2015

5. ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

4. #BlackLivesMatter

A quote from Bijan Stephen in WIRED helps to sum it up perfectly:

3. Arab Spring

2. Community Support during World Tragedies

Social media can mean the difference between a few minutes or even a few seconds, and in unforeseen often-desperate situations, a few seconds can mean the world.

Moments after the tragic events in Brussels, friends and family members turned to Facebook and Twitter for information regarding anyone they might have known to be involved.

1. Natural Disaster Relief

Photo: Yale Economic Review

Over to you

Here’s to 20 more years of powerful, wonderful, and world-changing social media history (and beyond!)

Feeling inspired? We’d love for you to share your story!

Facebook Live #impactofsocial schedule (Tune in Here!)

Tom Redman (Product Manager at Buffer) – 7:00am PT, 10:00am ET

Arielle Tannenbaum & Hailley Griffis (Community & PR at Buffer) – 8:30am PT, 11:30am ET

Mark Josephson (CEO at Bitly) – 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET

Brian Fanzo (iSocialFanz) – 12:00pm PT, 3:00pm ET

Courtney Seiter (Director of People at Buffer) – 1:30pm PT, 4:30pm ET

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Top 10 Powerful Moments That Shaped Social Media History Over the Last 20 Years

Do you remember your first social media profile? Or, how about your first social media post?

My first profile was on Myspace, my first friend was “Tom from Myspace,” and my first post was something like, “Myspace is awesome!”

The rest is history.

Here’s a look at 10 powerful moments that shaped the social media history.

Let’s dive in!

Top 10 powerful moments that shaped social media history

Feel free to jump to a certain moment(s) in the social media history!

The Birth of Facebook

Miracle on the Hudson

Going “Viral”

Ellen’s Selfie (and the Nuggets guy)

NASA’s #YearInSpace

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

#BlackLivesMatter

Arab Spring

Community Support during World Tragedies

Natural Disaster Relief

Let’s count down to the top moment in the social media history!

10. The Birth of Facebook

We all know the rest!

9. Miracle on the Hudson

But something else happened that day… Jeff Krums tweeted:

http://twitpic.com/135xa – There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.

— Janis Krums (@jkrums) January 15, 2009

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey told CNBC in 2013 how that changed Twitter and the way people get news.

It changed everything. Suddenly the world turned its attention because we were the source of news—and it wasn’t us, it was this person in the boat using the service, which is even more amazing.

Twitter is also the platform that our co-founder, Joel Gascoigne, successfully built Buffer on back in 2010! This powerful moment in social media history has a special place in our hearts.

8. Going “Viral”

How many of you have sat around with friends or family and binge-watched several classic YouTube videos in a row? I know I have!

Let’s take a look at three early videos that helped to shape the viral side of social media history:

Charlie Bit My Finger (Published: 5/22/2007 – 851,140,074 views)

“Chocolate Rain” (Published: 4/22/2007 – 113,787,749 views)

Numa Numa (Published: 12/11/2006 – 26,800,130 views)

Honorable Mention: “Lazy Sunday”

7. Ellen’s Selfie (and #NuggsForCarter)

Ellen DeGeneres’ selfie that took the social media world by storm is the epitome of everything that is awesome about social media.

If only Bradley’s arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap

— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014

That was until Nevada teenager Carter Wilkerson’s plea for free chicken nuggets from Wendy’s went viral.

HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS pic.twitter.com/4SrfHmEMo3

— Carter Wilkerson (@carterjwm) April 6, 2017

6. NASA’s #YearInSpace

Day 179. The #Nile at night is a beautiful sight for these sore eyes. Good night from @space_station! #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/eAMBZ9p428

— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) September 22, 2015

5. ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

4. #BlackLivesMatter

A quote from Bijan Stephen in WIRED helps to sum it up perfectly:

3. Arab Spring

2. Community Support during World Tragedies

Social media can mean the difference between a few minutes or even a few seconds, and in unforeseen often-desperate situations, a few seconds can mean the world.

Moments after the tragic events in Brussels, friends and family members turned to Facebook and Twitter for information regarding anyone they might have known to be involved.

1. Natural Disaster Relief

Photo: Yale Economic Review

Over to you

Here’s to 20 more years of powerful, wonderful, and world-changing social media history (and beyond!)

Feeling inspired? We’d love for you to share your story!

Facebook Live #impactofsocial schedule (Tune in Here!)

Tom Redman (Product Manager at Buffer) – 7:00am PT, 10:00am ET

Arielle Tannenbaum & Hailley Griffis (Community & PR at Buffer) – 8:30am PT, 11:30am ET

Mark Josephson (CEO at Bitly) – 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET

Brian Fanzo (iSocialFanz) – 12:00pm PT, 3:00pm ET

Courtney Seiter (Director of People at Buffer) – 1:30pm PT, 4:30pm ET

Thank Top 10 Powerful Moments That Shaped Social Media History Over the Last 20 Years for first publishing this post.

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Inspiration

Einstein is quoted as saying, “Inspiration is 1%, work is 99%”.

Inspiration is an extrinsic effect that causes you to become excited and motivated, when you figure out a new way to solve an old problem, or a problem that has been plaguing you for a period of time. Some times, this even means that leaders provide you with a new way that they are going marshal resources to attack a problem.

The tips provide here, are indeed material from other people, but not speeches. At the end of this post, I’ll describe how to use this information to help you avoid depression, by understanding a key part of what depression is.

Learn to Interview:

The first thing I want you to do is, “LEARN TO INTERVIEW!!!” No, you’re not going to be interviewed, sorry .. you’re going to be doing the interviewing. Why, you need information. You need to find job prospects. You need to find clients that can use your services. So, guess what, you need to talk to people.

A good book to start with is, “Powerful Questions”.

But wait, you’re not good at starting a conversation. Here’s a tip, find an excuse to start talking to someone. It’s as simple as asking, “Where’s so and so’s booth? I heard that they have the most exquisite gadget to do XY and Z!” They may not be interested in the gadget, or the booth, but if they respond, you can follow up with another question, “So, what are you presenting here?”

Now you get them to tell you their story. And it’s with their story, that you can dig into various ideas, build a conversation, and before you know it, learn about who their products supports and how. But does this support your specialty?

Who supports your specialty:

Start with your specialty. What is it that you do, and do well? There is a book called, “Strength Finder”, that will help you examine what you have been trained to do, and what you want to do. Review this book and many other books like it to. Now, that you’ve identified your strength, identify the types of professions that your strength needs to succeed.

If you were to build a business, what other vendors would you need to support your business. For most of us, we need electricity, internet, mobile phones, food, and shelter. But, who else supports you. As a graphic artist, maybe you need a paint store, or graphic software, or a tablet. Think about who these vendors are, and pay attention to all the offerings they make available for people just like you.

For example, these vendors like marketing, and are usually open to cross marketing. This type of effort can help you find a lead to a job.

Interview your vendors:

It may sound strange, but your vendors have many needs, and with 6 degrees of separation between you and the next job prospect, you need ideas that are outside the box of “Big Box Job Posting WebSites” to find a lead. Someone out there is looking for you. You need to find them.

If you’re going to interview your vendors on their marketing needs, which non-profits they support, and what types of clients they cater too, you might as well ask them who their vendors are. Who supports them and how. What is their story, or more specifically, how did they choose this particular place to start a shop, and why has it worked for them.

If your vendor is a big box store - Staples, Office Depot, Home Depot, ... then, their story is all the more relevant, as they took a big gamble setting up shop where they did. A physical location is a huge investment. How has this gamble worked out for them? Would the make different decisions if they had to start over? Would they change things if they could? What constraints are they now subject to?

In addition, as them how they support your industry. It’s a sneaky way to learn about other companies that support, but they may have a spark of an idea that can lead you to a job prospect. And, that is what you are looking for.

Global Calendar:

Now that you have a list of vendors who support your specialty, start building a calendar of events that they pay attention to. There are the usual calendar holiday events that every calendar lists, but specific vendors hold trade shows in different cities. There are computer shows, home decorating shows, boat shows, car shows, fur trading shows, leather shows, S&M shows, and so on. When are these events.

Why do you want to know about these events, not only for your industry, but also for your vendors industry, because, it’s the one place - other than a recruiting fair - and a lot of different companies are all in one location, and you can go interview them.

As this post continues, we will look at other sources that can help you fill your global calendar with other ideas on ways you can find job prospects.

Librarys & Book Stores:

Books, magazines, periodicals, fliers, and more ... they all contain information about your specialty and how it has been applied to the world over. Go, get overloaded with ideas on how other people have applied your specialty. How they market it. What events they attend. What groups they belong to. Go, research.

As a librarian for help. They live to help you.

21 Social Websites

Facebook, Twitter, Meetup, FlipBoard, Youtube, Instragram, Reddit, Vine, Pintrest, ASK, Tumblr, Flickr, Google Circles, Linked In, ClassMates, FourSquare, Kik, Tencent, Viber, About.Me, WikiPedia, Stumble Upon, Go Fund Me,

These sites can be though grouped as follows:

Reviews

Events

Goal Setting

Collaboration

Chat

Personal

Networking

E-Commerce

Sharing

Discussion

Marketing

Publishing

PodCasts

Knowledge

Out Reach

I posted in a previous blog that these sties can help you find prospective jobs through crowd sourcing. 6 degrees of separation, never went so fast as 1000′s of people searching for you for a job.

There are many specialized websites that you can use as well. Jobber, NextGig, Viber, Freelance, for just finding work. There are also Apps. Use a discussion format to ASK questions about the job market in your specialty. By using friends and people already interested in answering questions, you will find a wealth of knowledge can be gained through crowd sourcing it.

Pillars of Success:

Pillars in the community, are individuals with 1000′s of connections, vs 100′s. And their connections are primarily local. Some of these pillars become civic leaders by nature, but we will discuss that in the next segment. For now, search through your contact lists to see who you know that know’s lots of people.

Your next step is to interview them. The question is, “How did they become pillars of the community?” While the answer in short may be, “It didn’t happen over night!”, that’s ok. You are interested in their story on how they achieved this success. And, you are interested in other people who they could refer you to, that you could interview.

The more people that know about you, the easier it is to find a prospective job. And, remember, this is about you interviewing them for their story, not you telling them your story. Always politely decline up to 4 times, before giving in to tell your story. It helps to make sure they are truly interested.

Civic Leaders:

Write various civic leaders and ask them for interview time. The same process you used to interview everyone up to this point, should be used here as well. With one exception, you get to tell your story.

Civic leaders love hearing a good rags to riches story, or a story that they can hold up as an example to their peers on why they should champion a cause. Usually, it’s about poor children not getting enough to eat, or pregnant mothers - as both are preparing for the next generation of job seekers. However, if you’re not pregnant and male, you’re job is a lot tougher.

It’s easy for people to call you “Lazy”, “Slacker”, or “Unmotivated”. They may also claim that there are many jobs out there that you “Could Do!”. However, if no one is willing to hire you, then there is no job out there for you. So, back to a civic leader.

The job of a civic leader is to represent you. Therefore, they need to know your story, your struggle, and how they can help you. What resources do you think you need? What opportunities are being kept from you? Are companies being fair when they review your credentials? Are there specific aspects of your life that are not interfering with your ability to get a job - for example - incarceration tends to be frowned upon by many corporations, even if you have 3 masters degrees in physics, programming, and mathematics.

So pick up your pen and paper and write your story. Make it has heart breaking as you possibly can. Once it’s complete, send it to your leaders. Create a video, that you can link with a letter you sent to the leaders on their timelines, and so on. Send it to a book publisher, screen writer, and major motion studio so that everyone notices your story. It might not be your story that they choose, but if it’s a compelling enough story of heart ache, loss, constantly failing where you should be succeeding, and on and on .. someone somewhere will pick it up as an Indy project.

Once that happens, the civic leaders will take notice. Because, they had an opportunity to help you before it became mass public knowledge, but now it will be egg on their face, since they lost the opportunity to capitalize on your grief to raise donations that could have funded their campaign.

Lists:

Now that you’ve collected all this information, place it into lists. These lists should remind you of things you can review when you forget. They should be on paper, though having an electronic version is fine. But you need something you can look at regularly to remind you .. inspire you.

This blog for example has a list, of all the ideas I could write about. But I don’t immediate action items off the list, until I’m inspired to write about them. The inspiration comes as a “CLICK!!! Wow, that makes sense, and I can describe it to others now! =)”

Your lists should have the same effect for you. If you choose to keep a blog about your job search, then review your lists and see what clicks for you that day. Does going to the library click today, or does finding prospective interviewees click.

The possibilities listed above are just some things that could be used to help build your lists and motivate you through inspiration.

Depression

Self motivation, intrinsic or extrinsic, is necessary to overcome depression, and stay ahead of others who are motivated. The problem is, you are 1 person. Just one person, who is working on a problem, “Getting Employed!” This problem is exacerbated further by the fact that every time you get close to reaching the goal - “Being Employed!” - you are rejected. And, thus sets in apathy. “I don’t care anymore! No one wants to hire me!” Which is why the post, “What do I do when no one will hire me?” was written.

Depression creates a fog that causes many decisions in your life to be delayed or not even made, because, “WHY???” Honestly, you’re right. There is no reason to go on. You’ve gone from being optimistic to pessimistic, your no longer care whether you succeed, since no one else does. So, “Why?”

Another way to look at depression, is ... It’s the brains way to trying to figure out how to solve a very complex problem. And, you’ve followed my blog, you know that there are many moving parts in finding a job, as well as staying in a positive mind set.

Another version of depression is depression caused by physical pain. At this point, you should be looking to your doctor to help migrate you to disability, instead of trying to be employed. Physical pain is not an easy subject to deal with, esp in the middle of a post on job searching, so if you are in physical pain, and it is affecting your ability to search, interview, and perform many of the other tasks required to find prospective jobs, then by all means, get a pass, and sit on the bench until you have found a way to resolve the pain.

Self Help Groups:

You are not alone! As much as you would love to think otherwise. You are not alone. And if there was one program that the Unemployment Agencies would implement, is an “Employment Anonymous” group.

This group would be tasked with several things:

It would pair you with a buddy

It would discuss everything I’ve talked about in this blog

It would allow you to express your frustration at finding a job

It would migrate you into business networking, physiological, sociological, or psychological groups as needed

But, until then, don’t be shy, start a meetup group for finding the types of jobs that you’re looking for. Or joining groups that already bring people together in your industry. Be prepared to interview them. Building connections will help you find the buddy you need, and help you locate job prospects.

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The White of November's 11:11 Gateway!!

The White of November’s 11:11 Gateway!!

By Lisa Gawlas

This has been a truly wild ride these last few months. No doubt, we are not about to slow down any time soon. (I really wish it would though lol.) I have not put out any sharings 1, because there was nothing new for me to share and 2, I have been babysitting my grandson while my daughter recovers from surgery and her husband works day-shift. I am out of the house by 4:50 am on most days.

My voice came back just in time for November to start. And what a weird November it is already. The first day of November all I could see in what I call “previews” (imagery before the call happens) is what looks like a spotlight shining down on the earth and flooding it with light. The light is so bright I cannot see thru it. This was consistent for every person on my schedule. The next day, we got an addition within the preview… a left arm (physical reach for life) with a wristwatch on it. The numbers of the watch were blobby and blurry, there were no minute or hour hands. The only thing I can understand about this consistent imagery is… we tend to look at the clock, at the time, the time it takes (for anything) and now, time is becoming less and less relevant in our reach for life. What we want or need.

Yesterday in the previews (no one has had an actual reading yet) it really became interesting because each person added a different element to the preview (unlike the previous 2 days.)

My first lad’s preview was an opening of a curtain, very much like the opening of a play. The curtains themselves were extremely white and what was thru them was another layer of (a softer) white light. Nothing I could see thru tho.

My next lady offered a silhouette pacing back and forth behind the softer white light. So my guess is that the softer while the light is a secondary curtain to the first one. Like a set of shears behind the brighter ones.

I am now wondering if the pacing is us… waiting, wondering and yet, the time is blurred, irrelevant to our desires, for now, information lol. And trust me, I want to know NOW!! lol

My third lady offered something incredible… the only thing of color besides white and silhouette. It was a ring/crown of brilliantly colored flowers. Flowers reminiscent of Hawaiian leis. I could feel the thickness of their petals. This ring of flowers was about the side around as a Frisbee (going to scale of my vision of course) and hung in the center of the stage a couple of feet above where this image of pacing was.

I kept feeling the energy of the crowning of the virgin mary (why I have no idea lol..) Maybe it is the purity of the light and the brilliance (flower colors) of what is to come of the whiteness. Of course, we are heading into and through the most significant 11:11 gateway ever.

Well, my day has already started with readings and I am only getting the finger wag… meaning, not seeing anything. I have a deep inner feeling each day closer to 11:11 the frequency of light is getting more and more intense. Which alone feels exciting, but not when looking directly into it.

Sadly, with the chaos of my days driving to my daughters, not having a voice, babysitting and days not getting home until after 7 pm, I have been really really negligent in my emails and many other things. The times I am at home I tend to take very long (and needed) naps. And just so no one worries, my daughter is fine, she got new boobs put in and cannot lift anything until a week or so from now, including her 26-pound chunky monkey lol. So I did not block off the moon periods or even 11:11, and those days are all booked up. I would strongly advise rescheduling coming into and on the 11:11 (I have a feeling beyond that will be ok) or stay there and we can try and see what we can see.

A few days before m voice came back, I was sitting on the couch and tilted my head to the left and it felt like I dunked my head underwater and my right ear filled up. The next day, the same thing happened with my left ear, Both are still pressurized, with my right ear being super intense and both ringing like crazy. It will be 2 weeks Thursday this “ear thing” has been consistent. My doc gave me antibiotics which helped everything except the ears.

I actually broke down and begged my team to help me understand what is happening. They gave me a dream just before November started. I was painting someone’s ceiling white. In this dream, all I could think about is how great it would be if my son painted my ceilings before I move (I move out by the end of this month.)

We are all working to purify the ceilings of life, raising the frequency for ALL. When work is being done, it is not a time to understand but allow. This is what all the previews in November are reminding us of… allow. Time is irrelevant (unless you have bills to pay lol.) and life is getting a new coat of paint at the highest level for all of us.

On my car ride from daycare to home this morning, I was equally reminded of how incredibly intelligent and communicative our cellular body is and will do all it can to push us where we need to go.

I got insurance on the 1st of Oct and had not yet contacted an ENT to explore my chronic, persistent voice loss. Well, with my ears in the condition they are now in, I called yesterday. The first thing they asked me is if I had an MRI done on my throat and head at all. Nope. My appointment is for Nov 20th!!

I am also being asked to remind all of us to stop thinking we are doing something wrong, or out of alignment, or not working on issues. Sometimes the light itself is so intense, the body reacts the only way it can as it undergoes change.

WE ARE UNDERGOING CHANGE!!!

On that note… I love you all so much and for those of you willing to endure my rescheduling, thank you from the deepest part of my heart and soul.

Oh, and we have decided to change the day and time of our Nations class so we do not have to cancel it. Right now we are looking at Wednesdays at 3 pm and will be confirmed tonight when we meet. So the Nations Tuesday night classes live on (only on another day and time lol.)

Big big big ((((HUGZ)))) filled with light, love and pure excitement to and thru ALL!!

Lisa Gawlas

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