#the game has a control diagram that tells you which button allows you to read the books of ys (R3) | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

artificialqueens · 5 years

Text

Powerless Part 8 (Branjie) - athena2

A/N: Thank you to everyone that’s still reading! I’ve finally fed the children some fluff after all this angst! This chapter has so much fluff it lowkey made me wish I could draw so I could draw some parts of it. Thank you so, so much to @youre-a-kite, for your support and amazing feedback with this. I would appreciate and love any comments or feedback you have!

Brooke has been asleep for three days.

The doctors at the base removed the bullets from her abdomen and thigh. They found and removed a GPS tracking chip in her left shoulder after Vanessa mentioned it. They controlled the bleeding, stitched her up, put her on antibiotics. She’s hooked up to monitors, her life reduced to lines and beeps and numbers, and her chest rises gently, but she still won’t wake up.

Vanessa shivers as she remembers holding Brooke in her arms as the blood gushed out of her and her breathing got faint and her eyes slid shut and didn’t open again.

No one knows what the latest shot from the lab might do to her. Vanessa’s ears shut down at Silk’s long-ass explanation of the drug and its possible effects, and all she got out of it is the worry currently buzzing inside her.

She’s taking a break from the crime-fighting and part of her is relieved. She honestly doesn’t care if the world goes to shit when the world did this to Brooke. Let the burden of protecting it make someone else’s shoulders tense. She spends every second next to her bed, chatting about everything and nothing for Brooke’s deaf ears, her own form of whistling in the dark, so Brooke doesn’t wake up alone. A’Keria stole Silk’s prized comfy chair for her to sit in, both of them acting appropriately puzzled and innocent when Silk chucked a soda bottle across her office in anger and led a witch hunt, complete with pitchfork, for the thief.

She’s dozing in the chair, which is truly worth anything Silk could do with that plastic pitchfork, forcing her eyes back open because every time they close she sees Brooke bleeding in her arms, only this time Vanessa didn’t get her to base fast enough. She ignores her heavy limbs and tells herself she’s fine, that she’s used to little (or no) sleep, and this way she’s guaranteed to be awake for Brooke.

“Vanessa?” A’Keria patters across the floor. “Silk wants to talk to you. It’s important.”

“But Brooke-”

“It’ll only be a few minutes.” A’Keria is apologetic, and Vanessa understands there’s not a question involved.

She huffs and puffs her way to Silk’s office like a middle-aged white lady whose coupon was expired.

“This better be good.” She crosses her arms and digs her heels into the ground.

“Vanjie, we can’t find anything on Brooke.” There’s a tone to Silk’s voice that Vanessa doesn’t like.

“What are you trying to say?”

“It’s just a little…suspicious.” Silk ticks points off on her fingers, and Vanessa knows she’s been sitting on this a while. “She wakes up in the lab with no memory. She said the lab ‘helped’ people like her, but where are they? She never mentioned anyone else, and there’s only a few costumed villains in this city. We can’t find anything about this lab, and don’t you think it’s weird they’re not looking for her? We found one recent report of a plane that crashed in an ice storm, but she’s not on the flight manifest. Facial recognition got nothing. Not to mention all we have to go on is a first name–”

“Well, I’m sorry I didn’t get her social security number when she was bleeding to death in front of me!”

“Vanessa,” Silk tries. “I’m just saying, how do we know she was on the plane? What if that’s another lie the lab fed her and told her to use when someone questioned her? How do we know everything she told us wasn’t just lies they made her believe?”

Vanessa’s stomach churns. She doesn’t like what Silk is implying, but she has to admit it could be possible.

“Are you saying we can’t trust her?”

“All I’m saying is I haven’t made it this long in the game by believing everything I hear.”

She thinks of Brooke sleeping in her arms, gulping hot chocolate like a little kid, smiling like she was afraid to. The way Brooke’s eyes fought through their shadows of pain and lit up like the sun when she remembered her name. That Brooke would never lie to her. But if she didn’t know she was lying…

Vanessa distracts herself with the plane diagram on Silk’s computer screen.

“How many people were on the plane?”

“Sixty, all with some ballet company.”

“How many does it hold?”

“Sixty-one.”

“But you don’t think that’s suspicious?” Vanessa demands. “One empty seat. What if it was Brooke’s? She said they took her from the crash. What if they deleted her records? The whole plane went down, and with the record gone, no one would know she was there! That empty seat was Brooke, it has to be.”

“The plane crashed last March,” A’Keria cuts in. “Frost appeared eight months ago, at the end of November. They could have kept her there, training her, making sure their drugs worked, before they set her out. It fits with the time frame,” she concludes and Vanessa could kiss her.

She can tell they’ve swayed Silk, or at least given her some doubts, which is sometimes the best you can hope for.

“Keep looking. Please, Silk, I…I love her.” It’s the first time she’s told anyone else, and any doubt she might have had is gone as the words leave her. She loves Brooke, and she doesn’t care who knows it.

Vanessa speeds back to Brooke’s room, trying not to be disappointed when she’s still asleep. She’d had some overly hopeful fantasy that Brooke would be wide awake and ready for another kiss when she got back.

She drops a careful kiss on Brooke’s forehead. “Please wake up, Brooke,” she whispers. She nestles into the chair, praying she won’t fall asleep, but she does. —

Vanessa shoots awake in the semi-darkness, wall clock reading 6:17. She’s unsure if it’s morning or night until a shaft of morning sun breaks through the window and punches her in the face. She gets up to close the curtains when Brooke’s finger twitches.

Brooke’s eyelids are fluttering, breath quickening, and Vanessa’s heart leaps when those green eyes meet hers for the first time in four days.

“Where…” Brooke rasps. Her eyes flit around in fear, and Vanessa understands at once. Waking up in a strange bed with no memory of how she got there…

She repositions herself so Brooke can see her. “You’re not at the lab, I promise. I’m right here. You’re safe.”

Brooke looks wearily at her, fingers fumbling at the IV. “No, you wanna leave that in, okay?” Vanessa takes her hand before she does any damage to herself. “That’s helping you, I don’t know doctor shit, but it’s okay.”

“V-Vanessa?” she asks, voice sounding like she’s had a cocktail of gravel and broken glass, breathing still ragged.

“It’s me. I’m here. You’re safe. No one’s gonna hurt you.” She gives Brooke’s hand a light squeeze and grabs a water bottle from the nightstand. “You want some?”

Brooke nods and Vanessa holds it to her mouth while she sips slowly, breaths calming.

“Do you remember what happened?” She knows she has to call a doctor, but it’s been four lonely days and Vanessa just needs to hear Brooke’s voice, needs to see that she’s okay.

“I…my name. My name is Brooke.”

“That’s right,” Vanessa lays encouragement over her desperation. “Anything else?”

Her eyebrows knit together in concentration, but she seems dazed, and there’s a glassy, far-off look in her eyes making Vanessa’s chest tight with worry. She’s about to press the call button when Brooke’s shoulders heave.

“I remember he hurt me and I…I…”

“Oh, Brooke,” she soothes. “It’s okay, it’s okay.”

Vanessa blinks back tears, her heart sinking. She doesn’t know how she was naive enough to think Brooke would wake up with a perfect memory and her trauma wiped clean. Brooke will need help to get through what the lab did to her, she knows that.

“Vanessa, I don’t feel good,” Brooke says quietly, lowering her head.

“I’m gonna get someone to check on you, alright? I should’ve called sooner, I’m sorry. Does anything hurt?”

She shakes her head. “It’s too hot.”

Vanessa has Silk and a doctor in the room in seconds. Brooke flinches away and curls in on herself when she sees the doctor, breath catching in her throat and soft whimpers falling from her lips as she trembles.

“It’s okay, she won’t hurt you. I’ll be right here with you the whole time. I got you, I promise.” Vanessa squeezes her hand tighter and Brooke grips back like Vanessa is her lifeline.

“I trust you,” Brooke replies, an echo of days and several lifetimes ago, and Vanessa’s heart lightens.

“Heart rate’s a little elevated,” Dr. O’Hara explains the monitors for Vanessa’s benefit as she pulls a thermometer from under Brooke’s tongue.

“99.7,” she announces, shooting a glance at Silk that Vanessa can’t read.

“That’s not too high, right?” Vanessa asks hopefully.

Then Silk informs her that Brooke’s normal temperature is 95.6, and Vanessa allows herself to panic. —

“There’s no infection. Doctor thinks it’s a residual effect of the drug. It’s like it needs to burn through her system before it’s gone. Her bloodwork is different from the first sample we took, so this must be a new formula. Probably why she’s reacting to it like this,” Silk explains as Vanessa applies an ice pack to Brooke’s forehead.

She nodded off just after Silk left this morning and has been asleep since, drenched in sweat and mumbling unintelligibly as the number on the new monitor rises steadily, currently hovering around 102.

“I think it should pass in a few days,” A’Keria muses. “When she talked to us, she said the drugs made her feel weird at first, which is why she was so out of it when she fought you. Then she would sleep, which she’s been doing. This is the rest of it. Since she went every week, I’m figuring this’ll wear off by Sunday.”

“She’ll get through it. She can take higher temperatures because of her powers like you can, Vanj,” Silk pats her shoulder in a rare display of comfort.

It’s nice to think this could all be over soon, but that still means days of sitting here uselessly, watching Brooke thrash around and sweat and futilely putting ice packs on her.

Shooting fire out of her hands has never seemed so stupid.

She is powerless. —

A’Keria was right. The fever starts to break Saturday afternoon, hours after it hit 105 and A’Keria had to drag Vanessa away from Brooke’s bed while the doctors put ice on her.

By that night she’s back at safe levels, and it’s another waiting game. Vanessa wears out the tile floor wondering how much Brooke remembers and is still up when Brooke coughs awake, instantly holding water to her lips and gripping her shoulder comfortingly.

“Vanessa, I remember something else,” Brooke says once she’s able to talk.

“What is it?”

“I love you.”

Vanessa leans down as Brooke stretches up and their lips meet after what feels like years. Brooke’s lips are cool and yet Vanessa melts at their touch. She shivers with delight as Brooke’s hand roams down her spine. Brooke is here, she’s alive, and whatever happens, they’re together. She perches on the edge of the mattress and lays her hand on Brooke’s chest, feels her heart race with excitement beneath her touch.

They’re interrupted a few minutes later when Brooke’s heart monitor goes off. —

Brooke is released Tuesday night, and Vanessa takes her to the safe house Silk set up for them. A’Keria even went to their apartments and stocked the cozy space with their own stuff, and Vanessa collapses onto her familiar brown couch with a sigh.

Brooke stands in the doorway, picking at her nails.

“Hey, you wanna sit down? Or we could go to bed if you’re tired,” she offers. Brooke is like a skittish animal, eyes darting around nervously, and Vanessa keeps her voice low and even.

“Um, bed is okay. Can I get changed?”

“Of course you can. A’Keria brought your clothes, they’re in the second room down the hall.”

Vanessa changes into her own pajamas and raids the kitchen, drooling at A’Keria’s chip selection.

Brooke comes back in gray pajama shorts and a white T-shirt, and again Vanessa marvels at how much smaller and more vulnerable she looks when she’s not in her suit.

“Anything you want to eat?” Vanessa asks as she rips open a bag of chips.

Brooke shakes her head.

“How about toast? You really should eat something,” Vanessa insists lightly. Brooke has lost weight, not just over the past week but in the months since they first met, and Vanessa can feel Brooke’s ribs whenever she rubs her back.

“C-Can I have hot chocolate too?”

“You can have all the hot chocolate you want.”

Brooke eats her toast while Vanessa crunches on chips. They’re in her bed that A’Keria had moved in (she conveniently only had time to bring one bed, not that either of them has complained) and it’s so much like that night Vanessa is half-expecting the lab to burst in and take Brooke away from her again. She forces the thought away. They’re safe now. The silence is comfortable, and peaceful, and Vanessa lets out a breath she’s been holding for well over a week, feels the tension slowly dissolve from her limbs. On Friday they’re meeting with Silk to indulge her love of “debriefing”, but they had the next two days to themselves, and Vanessa could be content with this for two days, maybe even for her whole life.

“You doing okay, Brooke? Anything you need?”

“No, I’m good. Um, Vanessa?”

“Yeah?”

“Sorry, but are we…what are we? Like, you know…”

Vanessa’s been asking herself that same question, and she honestly doesn’t know the answer. She’s still trying to wrap her head around the fact that she is in bed with a woman she would’ve happily punched in the face a month ago.

“I know what you mean. We can be whatever we want to be. If you want to go slow, get to know each other better, we can do that. If you want to go fast, we can do that too. I love you, Brooke, and I’m comfortable doing this either way.”

“I love you too,” Brooke breathes. “I think…I think I want to go slow.”

“Then we’ll go slow. Take it a day at a time. We don’t need all the answers right now. We’ll do what feels right, okay?”

Brooke nods, stifling a yawn.

“Get some sleep, Brooke. We can talk more tomorrow.”

Brooke nods again, burying her head in the pillow. She’s asleep in minutes, and Vanessa puts her chip bowl on the bedside table (you never knew when a midnight craving would hit) and quickly follows suit. It’s been a long day.

She feels like she’s barely closed her eyes when a shout lurches her awake. Brooke is thrashing around beside her, asking someone to please stop hurting her, and Vanessa places a cautious hand on her shoulder.

“It’s okay. You’re not there. It’s just a dream.” she repeats softly until Brooke bolts up in the bed, panting, shirt damp with sweat, cheeks wet with tears.

“I’m sorry,” she whispers.

“No, Brooke, don’t apologize. It’s okay.” She holds Brooke to her chest, puts the blonde’s head on her shoulder until her breathing becomes steady again. She falls back to sleep with her arms wrapped securely around Brooke, ready to fight her nightmares away. —

They live the next two days like royalty, laying in bed and eating chips, taking breaks for soft, salty-lipped kisses. It’s not until she’s in bed with Brooke, their legs tangled together, Brooke laughing at something she said, that Vanessa realizes she wasn’t entirely happy before. She wasn’t miserable, exactly, but she knows she hasn’t cared for another person, or for herself, really, since before the fire.

Now that the drug is out of her system, Brooke’s head is a little clearer, and between her glimpses of memory and Vanessa filling in the blanks, she is able to reconstruct the night before the lab’s ambush.

Vanessa remembers every second of that night, the image of Brooke beside her and the softness of Brooke’s hair as she ran her fingers through it permanently engraved in her brain. She knows Brooke is still a little fuzzy on some of the details, but she also knows that Brooke still loves her, and she lets it be enough for now.

The debriefing goes on far too long, in Vanessa’s opinion, and Silk has a mile-long list with Brooke’s answers to her questions, which probably aren’t as helpful as she hoped.

Brooke was allowed on one floor of the building. She only interacted with the doctor and the General. She doesn’t know anyone’s real names. She never saw other people there. She knows there was snow on the ground when her plane crashed and that the leaves had changed colors when she started doing her missions.

The legal issues are taken care of. Under the Superhero Protection Act, Brooke was within her rights to defend herself against the General and the doctor, even though Brooke, who has her knees up to her chest the whole time, goes rigid in her chair and keeps muttering I’m bad as they explain this. She didn’t sleep at all last night, and Vanessa hopes seeing Dr. West on Monday can help her.

Dr. West–Nina–used to be a superhero herself, West Wind, back in the day, but retired to practice psychiatry and spend time with her wife. She’s dealt with cases similar to Brooke’s and A’Keria had recommended her, knowing she’d be gentle enough for Brooke.

Vanessa runs her thumb over Brooke’s hand. Things are going to get better for them. She knows it. —

Vanessa wakes up to an empty bed and the scent of vanilla wafting through the apartment, which means Brooke had a nightmare. She’s taken up baking when she can’t get back to sleep after. She says it helps calm her, and gives her instructions to follow, which she likes. She’s gotten better the past few weeks, and Vanessa smiles as she remembers the disastrous first attempt when the smoke alarm woke her at 3am and she had to defrost their stove after Brooke panicked and shot ice at it so it didn’t catch on fire.

There’s vanilla cupcakes on cooling racks, and even though Brooke has deep purple bags under her eyes and her cuticles are chewed up, Vanessa waits to mention it.

“Cupcakes, huh? She fancy. You stepping up in the baking world, boo.”

Brooke’s smile doesn’t meet her eyes.

“Did you have another nightmare?”

Brooke’s face falls. “Yeah. I’ve been out here since 4,” she admits.

Guilt washes over her as she realizes that she slept through it, that Brooke had to deal with it alone, but that could mean the nightmare wasn’t intense enough to wake her, which is hopeful.

“You know you can wake me when it happens. You don’t have to suffer alone,” she puts on her concerned voice, making sure to never yell at Brooke or make her feel bad for this.

“I bother you almost every night. I wanted to let you sleep.”

Vanessa goes quiet. She knows Brooke has been working on this with Nina. Trying to understand that she’s not a burden and she’s not a bad person for asking for help. She also knows that, even though Brooke is doing a lot better with the therapy, the lab’s cuts run far too deep to be healed so quickly.

“Well, let’s try one of these cupcakes,” she puts on a smile and stuffs one into her mouth. —

“Vanessa?”

“Yeah?”

“So, Nina said it might be good for me, but I wanted to ask you, um…”

“What is it, baby?”

“Do you think maybe we could get a kitty?”

“Of course we can. I’ve always wanted a cat, actually. We can go to the shelter tomorrow if you want.” —

A colorful ball of fluff masquerading as a cat paws at the front of his cage when Brooke walks by. The shelter worker lets him out, and he immediately latches onto Brooke’s leg. She sits on the floor and reaches out a hand, then hesitates, teeth sinking into her bottom lip as she looks at Vanessa questioningly.

“Oh, you can pet him,” the worker thankfully supplies before Vanessa has to explain that Brooke is still used to asking permission for everything she does.

She strokes his fur tentatively, smiling as the cat begins to purr.

“I think he likes you,” the worker says. “His name’s Henry. He was brought in with another cat, and they’re kinda friends now. This here is Apollo,” he explains, opening another cage for a gray cat to strut out. This one also nuzzles against Brooke, who pets a cat with each hand and grins in a way Vanessa has never seen.

“They like me,” she whispers incredulously.

Vanessa smiles at the worker. “We’ll take them both.” —

The next month passes by both slowly and quickly. The days seem long and indistinguishable when living them, but when Vanessa looks back at the end of the month, she sees how much things have changed, how different every day has been leading up to now.

Brooke is understandably wary of taking medication, and Nina says they can ease into the idea later if needed, but even just being away from the lab, going to therapy, and taking care of herself is working wonders. She makes it through the night once, then twice. She eats more. She talks beyond just answering questions. The skin around her nails begins to heal.

She still has her bad days. Still has nightmares, still says I’m sorry more than one person should, still calls herself bad for things she’s done. But when they finally have a Sunday where Brooke doesn’t jump out of bed and scramble to go to her appointment, Vanessa cries tears of joy in the bathroom.

And Brooke is making her better too. She goes to her own session with Nina. She starts to think about her mom more, and even talks about her. She digs the memories up from where she’s buried them and lets them see the sun. Nina mentions that helping at the animal shelter might aid Brooke’s progress, and Vanessa goes with her because she’s not quite ready to do something like that alone yet. She institutes Sunday brunch, which her mom did when she was a kid, and she creates her own sort of family, Silk the grumpy uncle who yelled on holidays and A’Keria the cool aunt that always got you the good presents.

They take things slow, like Brooke asked for. They talk for hours at night, Brooke listening intently to stories about Vanessa’s family, helping alleviate some of the ache. They cook dinner together, and Brooke massages her shoulders, and she eases Brooke into sleep with gentle neck kisses and holds her through the nightmares. Vanessa’s never taken a relationship this slow. Usually she ran through them like a blaze, the heat and passion consuming her while the flames grew, and if she happened to make a few girlfriends (or buildings) crumble from her heat, so be it.

But Brooke is a cold winter snow, a slow and quiet chill fiercely penetrating through your heavy coat and bulky layers of clothing straight to your heart, taking your breath away if you weren’t used to it.

Vanessa hasn’t felt this kind of joy, this pure bliss, in years, and she knows Brooke feels the same way. Which only makes it that much worse when Silk corners her with an idea one day.

“Vanjie, I have a plan but we’re gonna need Brooke. Frost, really,” Silk begins.

“I have a bad feeling about this, but what is it?”

“Well, I think we need to destroy the lab. If you and Brooke went in together, we could get records, information, we can get those doctors in custody and make sure there’s no building to return to. So they don’t do to someone else what they did to Brooke.”

Vanessa runs a hand through her hair, mind already weighing the dangers of this. “What makes you think she would want to go back there? Do you really think she should go back?”

“That’s up to her. We could really use her knowledge on this. Doctor says she’s okay physically, but I don’t want her health at risk, and if her or Nina don’t think she’s ready, we can wait. Just ask her.”

And Vanessa says she will, but the days go by and she still hasn’t. Brooke has been doing so well. The nightmares have been less violent, and she’s happy. They’re both happy. Will bringing this up ruin it all? Steal her happiness, make her get bad again? How can she even ask Brooke to go back there?

Over two weeks later, when Silk brings it up again, Vanessa knows she has to ask. But that night Brooke has a nightmare so bad she shoves Vanessa off her and it takes her torturous seconds to realize she’s not the doctor, she’s not trying to hurt her. Brooke’s tears soak into her shirt, Vanessa’s heart rips in two, and she knows the question won’t make it past her lips. —

She is able to keep the question secret, planting it down deep and ignoring it in favor of Brooke’s safety and contentment, but all it takes is one moment, at a godforsaken debriefing, for it to break through the dirt, demanding an answer.

“So, Brooke, what do you think of the plan?”

“Silk,” Vanessa hisses, but it’s too late.

“What plan?”

Vanessa sighs as Silk ducks out of the line of fire. “Brooke, Silk wants to infiltrate the lab and destroy it. I was supposed to tell you, but I didn’t. I’m sorry.”

“Why didn’t you tell me?” Brooke sounds hurt and Vanessa never wants to hurt her.

“Brooke-”

“C-Can we talk about it later?” she asks, and Vanessa nods.

“Okay. Um, Silk, I want to hear about this plan. Please.”

Silk never passes up an opportunity to lecture, and Vanessa gets herself comfy before she starts. Silk should really pass out snacks if she wants people to pay attention for this long.

Brooke’s face is blank and unreadable as Silk drones. She nods once it’s done, eyes downcast and bottom lip between her teeth. She lifts her head up when she’s ready, and Vanessa isn’t sure what she wants Brooke to say, but she’ll support her either way.

“I want to do this. Let’s bring down the lab.”

#rpdr fanfiction #brooke lynn hytes #vanessa vanjie mateo #branjie #angst #hurt/comfort #lesbian au #superhero au #powerless #athena2 #tw mention of blood #tw implied PTSD #tw therapy #concrit welcome #submission

19 notes · View notes

eldritchsurveys · 4 years

Text

877.

5k Survey V

201. Put these creatures in order from what you would least like to be reincarnated as, to what you would most like to be reincarnated as assuming reincarnation ended up existing AND you were given a choice. Female human, male human, dolphin, house dog, caterpillar, manta ray, wild dog, vulture, oak tree, rock. >> No. I only know what it’s like to be a human, so of course I have no way of telling what other creature I would most want to be. I wouldn’t even have the same level of consciousness, so how would I even... know that’s what I was... this question is too many levels of “???” for me, I’m moving on. 202. What do you feel unworthy of? >> I feel unworthy of a lot of things. I’m not going to delve into that here, right now, thanks. 203. Would you rather be remembered for having done something for humanity or being a really nice person? >> I don’t care, dude. 204. Which do you value more: science or intuition? >> Why... would I value one over the other... this isn’t even a dichotomy, ugh. 205. Your best friend and your significant other are in the hospital at the same time with the same ailment. Who do you visit first? >> Oh, man, I’d wondered how long it would take for this survey to get to the kinds of questions that make me want to tear my hair out.

206. Does the universe revolve around human beings? >> It legitimately baffles me to think that some people could answer “yes” to this and not think that was weird. I am rabidly curious to know what leads someone to believe that. 207. If you are no longer a virgin, do you wish you still were? >> I literally do not care. 208. Who is your favorite poet of those who are alive right now? >> I don’t have one. 209. What is your favorite song from the 90’s? >> I like a lot of songs that were released in the nineties... 210. If you were in alphabet soup what letter would you be? >> I wouldn’t be a letter. Because I’m a person, you see. 211. Do you believe in fairies, ghosts, aliens, angels, dwarves, elves, etc.? >> Out of this list, I think my favourite stories are those about faeries and those about aliens. There have been some interesting angel ones too, and I definitely enjoy a good Tolkien-style fantasy (particularly of the video game variety). Aside from that, I know a few people who might describe themselves using some of these words, and I am willing to also think of them in those terms. 212. What makes you want to be someone’s friend? >> I don’t know, I rarely think about it. Mostly because I’m not sure how friendship even works. 213. Do you troll around the Internet harassing people anonymously for fun? >> No, that doesn’t interest me. 214. Have you ever seen the movie A Man Who Fell to Earth? >> Oh, I love that movie. Bowie is so young and tempestuous and otherworldly (I mean, obviously, huh) in it! 215. What is your favorite line from a movie? >> I don’t know. 216. What’s your favorite video game? >> I don’t have one, I play a lot of video games. 217. Have you ever taken something that wasn’t yours? >> I used to shoplift, so, yes. Also, one time I stole a Watchmen comic from someone’s house. *shrug* Don’t ask, all I have is the memory of the event, not any of the emotion or reasoning behind it. 218. What is one phrase people say that irritates you? >> Just one??? --Actually, I can’t think of any off the top of my head, I just know that there are plenty. 219. You allow strangers to read your diary, but would you let your parents read it? >> --- 220. Hot steamy bubble bath or quick in and out shower? >> Quick in and out shower. 221. Are you allergic to anything? >> No. 222. What is your favorite Terminator movie? >> I haven’t seen any of them. 223. What is your favorite fast food? >> --- 224. What would someone have to do to get you to never speak to him or her again? >> I don’t know. 225. Would (or have) you ever whip someone or be whipped by someone in bed? >> I’m pretty sure I’ve done it before (my memory is flaky on it but I know I’ve been to a lot of kink events and I’ve held a lot of floggers, so at some point one thing had to lead to the other), and I certainly wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to do it again. 226. Have you ever said ‘I hate everyone’ and really meant it literally? >> Of course not. (I mean, I’ve said it. Of course I didn’t mean it.) 227. Why do some people want to get more money than they could ever spend? >> Because their society has taught them from a very early age to value money and the acquisition of wealth as the highest of all virtues, and that their self-worth is directly tied into how much capital they can control and how many people they can subjugate in the service of money. 228. Have you ever won a carnival fish? >> No. 229. Did it live more than a week? >> --- 230. What’s the best sounding accent a person can have? >> --- 231. What’s the most boring thing you’ve ever read? >> I’ve read a lot of boring things... 232. Do you prefer buttons or touch screens? >> Touchscreens have been a part of my life for long enough that I’m largely used to them, but when it comes to doing anything involving the intensive use of a keyboard, I will always prefer physical buttons (and a full computer keyboard most of all). 233. Do you think there is a lot of similarity between the Harry Potter books and the Lord of the Rings series? >> A lot? Not really. They’re both fantasy series, and of course they share a few common fantasy and “Hero’s Journey” type tropes. But to me, that’s where the similarities end. 234. Would you consider yourself to be naive? >> Not particularly. 235. Which of your friends is most likely to go to jail? >> --- 236. What is the smallest amount of money that could be in a public toilet that would make you reach in and grab it? >> I would not do that. Ever. The very suggestion makes my insides shrivel and my skin itch. 237. Would you ever wear real fur? >> Probably not. I’m just not terribly interested in fur clothing, and the only reason I could see to wear it is if I lived in the Arctic or somewhere like that. 238. Arachnophobia or Eight Legged Freaks? >> I’ve not seen either one of those. They sound like very similar movies, though... 239. What are your feelings about police officers? >> My feelings are largely negative. 240. what is your favorite line from a song? >> --- 241. Is fifty dollars a lot of money? >> That depends on context. Several layers of context, even. 242. Do you like the band Front 242 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_242)? >> I don’t remember what they sound like, it’s been a while since I listened to that kind of industrial. Always reminds me of the Cybertron parties that VF put on. 243. Would you rather have fame, money, or self-satisfaction? >> Having enough money leads to a feeling of stability, which makes the attaining of self-satisfaction more likely. I hear some guy named Maslow made a diagram about this. 244. What’s your middle name? >> Shadow. 245. What is the absolute limit, the craziest thing you would do for a million dollars? >> I wouldn’t do any crazy thing for a million dollars. 246. Are you good, evil or neutral? >> I’m unaligned and unalignable. 247. Should ebonics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonics) be considered a language? >> AAVE is considered a dialect, which is what it is. God, I haven’t seen the word “Ebonics” in years and I was very happy about that... 248. What color is your bedroom? >> The walls are off-white. What color would you like it to be? >> I don’t care, dude, it’s an apartment. I’m not going to be living here for the rest of my life.

249. When are you planning to move to a new home? >> We’re not planning for that right now. 250. If you added up the cost of everything in the room with you, approximately what would it come out to be? >> I don’t fuckin know, man.

#surveys #survey #5000 question survey

0 notes

bahrrss-blog · 6 years

Text

Physical Prototyping #MalmöUniversity #2019

Introduction - 22 January 2019

This is a series of journaling for the course of Physical Prototyping purposes / the class is led by Johannes Nilsson)

I see prototyping as a fundamental idea utilised in a structured procedure fabricating a physical portrayal of your plan thought… and nothing more intricate than that. It's a convenient device to see your structure become animated, even as a low-devotion item made out of cardboard and paper. By making it three-dimensional, it's enabling yourself to really communicate with the subject.

I learned that prototyping with necessary materials such as paper, cardboard and video is long established in the field of interaction design. It’s also essential for designers to clearly understand how prototypes ‘work’ and their own motivations for prototyping. In this regard, design literature and critical reflections help to contextualise prototyping practice. And this is because we have introduced to Louis Valentine’s (Valentine, L. 2013) definition of Prototyping.

Early prototyping is basic as it holds vow to a solitary thought, prototyping by illustration, lo-fi, unnecessary models are typically used. Numerous assortments can be made, and it keeps the engineer "understanding the issue " instead of impulsively "dealing with the issue", finally, it prompts continuously innovative and quality structure. All things considered, the bits of learning Clint surrendered summed prototyping to be not a technique, be that as it may, a position or philosophy, it's doing structure, and not a phase, it's flimsy, material, and experienceable, ultimately, originators essentially model to fathom the condition, the substance, and the thought.

Clint gave more bits of information concerning Prototyping. Its progressively critical part turning around the portraying properties of prototyping: temperamental, material, and experienceable. That prototyping is used to appreciate a "condition", with an extent of procedures utilized, models hope to relate, understanding, and to recognize essentials and necessities, It's in like manner significant to keep an issue. The troubles for prototyping join it being unfit to verbalize understanding; it needs language, power, and reflexivity to do all things considered.

What have I realized?

Prototyping is extraordinarily appropriate in setup practice, and it beats the exacting significance of "prototyping" as an action. Going before this session prototyping was, for the most part, a method which I realized that engineers and originators experience as a creative strategy to impersonate thought in low-commitment without truly putting an over the top number of visualities.

Prototyping urges you to address potential issues of your last thing before truly making it. That being expressed, my doubts were tried as I fundamentally watched is at a basic and critical bit of an organized technique; anyway not the reason for its centrality.

What is the physical prototyping?

Last week's lecture presented the idea that prototyping is the most potent form of transition of your ideas. The change from blurry plan to clean and polished for our thought. My position as a student studying Interaction Design makes this an essential skill for me.

So, prototyping helps us communicate ideas clearly. Prototyping is basically a visual way of thinking. What I have learned is that the prototype can be tied in with comprehension if and how it is conceivable to accomplish something, addressing inquiries regarding the experience of utilising the framework or responding to questions concerning what job it satisfies in the client's life. It also relates, a lot to who the client is. We as a group have chosen to focus on clients who are having an active and dynamic lifestyle. This helped us a lot to think of what type of design could help out and improve their lives.

Arduino Introduction - 28 January-2019

What is Arduino?

We started with pre-made Arduino set. A set of tools that are made in Italy. Each piece of the toolset has multiple functions.

Arduino board designs use a variety of microprocessors and controllers. The boards are equipped with sets of digital and analogue input/output pins that may be interfaced to various expansion boards or breadboards and other circuits. Basically, Arduino is an: ‘’open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. It is possible to tell the board what to do. You can do so by sending a set of instructions to the microcontroller on the board, and this is done by using Arduino programming language, based on Wiring, and the Arduino Software IDE, based on Processing.’’

Arduino is the tool for quick and ‘’easy’’ prototyping. And, we as students in IXD, we had a chance to combine our knowledge of programming and create 3D physical prototypes! For the course of Physical Prototyping, we used Arduino Micro 5V MAU’s starter kit. David, the lecturer, introduced us to the web editor and the client which we needed to register and install.

With this button installed and functioning, we could proceed and work on so many potential projects. While installing the button and trying to make it work, I encountered several challenges, mostly the breadboard being confusing on its own, and where to plug each wire. With the assistant of a TA, I was able to figure out that the breadboard is made up of rows of metal clips, called terminal strips, and each piece is electrically connected. Which means if you stick a component to the board’s hole A1, it will be electrically connected to the holes B1-E1, but not A2 because that’s in a different column, and it won’t be compared to holes F1-J1 either, because they are separated by a gap.

After learning some of the basics, my group and I chose Run3 as our game to design a controller for. I found the game engaging and exciting and we all felt that it can make a nice collaborative experience with the right tools. The first thing I could think about when ideating was the natural motion of the character in the game, which was running, and the first thought was to design something that players can control with their feet. Also, the game affords the ability to control the direction by two people, as the players can walk on the walls and the ceiling, which gave us the idea of making different buttons that control right and left turns. Finally, we decided to add a “high-five interaction”, where the players have too high five each other to make the character jump. That adds the element of excitement and make players interact with each other as well as interaction with the game together.

The main challenge here is not being able to understand what to do under vocal command, after looking at diagrams provided on screen (as well as these learning cards that a researcher gave out while she was conducting research during class), I was able to understand the components better. Why is this button relevant? Buttons can represent the mouse-click motion as well as a key-press motion. So with this knowledge, we can build our own game-controller and use them to interact with and control a game of choice found online! The exercise for today was to form a group of three and create a multi-player collaborative, interactive computer game using only CARDBOARD. We are to create our own keyboard-based game-controller that utilises interactions such as tilting, balancing, shaking, squeezing, jumping, hugging, throwing and so on. The goal is to create something unique instead of simple buttons.

After brainstorming with members of my group Liam and one girl that I forgot to ask for a name, but she was from Product Design.

We wanted an interaction that involves the movement of our legs and feet, simulating the “running” motion. For example, we brainstormed multiplied ideas, but we settled with the one that is most challenging and yet not overly difficult to achieve in a short period of time.

Our final plan was to create two feet seesaws with a cardboard base and wooden boards that are more sturdy on top. Each board represents a leg so that two players can play together, then, since we needed four control buttons, we decided that when we lean forward on the board, we will come in contact with one button, and another when bending backwards. That makes four buttons with two seesaws. The building process of this game will be written on a separate journal entry, titled “ Run3“, read this entry if you’d like to see our end result.

Sound

In this lesson, I learned how to make sounds with my Arduino. First I made the Arduino play a 'musical' scale and then combined this with a photocell, to make a Theremin-like instrument that changes the pitch played as we wave our hand over the photocell.

Sound waves are vibrations in the air pressure. The speed of the vibrations (cycles per second or Hertz) is what makes the pitch of the sound. The higher the frequency of the vibration, the higher the pitch.

More details about Arduino worth remembering

We used the wires, and button for the breadboard. Connected them with different areas. The button is doing what two cables would do together. We used Eduintro, it pre-installed code on Arduino that allows us to do different activities on Arduino physical kit.

Once the kit is connected with all the buttons and wires, the next important step is to write the code for the actions that we want our Arduino to perform.

We have learned what is the serial library, this is used once we want to send full sentences back to the computer and look at them on screen. This is used mostly when we require more than just two functions, like on and off.

What we did next with the serial library, we initialised it and improved it, depending on the way we want it to perform. For example the Serial library - Serial.printIn("Pressed"); is used to perform the action if the button on our Arduino Breadboard is pressed.

Processing - 1 February 2019

A new programming language? why is that necessary?

As soon as David announced that we’d be learning Processing as a new language I fell bummed about having to learn another programming language alongside all the programming we’re doing already in the programming courses. This journal entry aims to reflect on the two days spent on exploring the Processing software, its language, as well as how it works with the Arduino. I also aim to find the answer to why Processing is important to learn as designers. Below is a video shared by the Processing foundation that introduces the newest version of Processing.

What did we do?

David began by introducing vaguely what Processing does and how it is useful. As designers, we use or learn to use Processing as it’s a flexible software sketchbook popularly used as a language of coding in the context of visual arts. According to David, Processing is “used to create animations, simple UIs, games, and proof of concept to many ideas.” Therefore, it’s crucial to learn it as a UX design student. More details on processing and why it’s relevant will be touched upon below.

PROCESSING

On day one, David showed us some projects and generative art in which designers, artists, or programmers have created using Processing, they were absolutely stunning and that really showed the program’s capabilities. David guided us through a series of coding examples on Processing, the processing language is a revised version of Java simplified for amateurs in programming. The examples included drawing a line, drawing our own initials, changing characteristics along the way, expressing colour, creating graphical primitives such as ellipses, drawing in layers, creating interactive programs, making items move, and so on. Other exercises include making a clock, making a bouncing ball animation, utilizing conditionals, adding images, animating images, etcetera. You can really do a lot with Processing and the graphics it’s capable of generating is endless some generative art!

Day two of Processing consists of a lecture about using Arduino with Processing followed up by a workshop taking up the latter part of the class to create a game/any interactive artefact set in a specific context that utilizes some sort of a timer, the timer is to be created with Processing and with the knowledge combined from using the Arduino with Processing, to create something fun and interactive. This project with the timer will be discussed in another journal entry that can be found here. In addition to it being a programming language for visualization, Processing is also an open source language and development tool for writing programs in other computers. It’s useful when you want those other computers to “talk” with an Arduino, for instance, to display or save some data collected by the Arduino (source). David guided us through basic examples of communication between Arduino and Processing. Why is this useful? This comes in handy for when you want to write both Arduino and Processing programs and have them talk to each other, it works best for communicating simple information.

A little more information regarding the software:

Processing is a programming language based on a simplified Java syntax, hiding all the ugliest aspects of “proper” Java and making it effortless to get started with code-based experiments with a minimum of code experience. It’s a non-threatening tool for amateurs, hiding the complexities of compilation etc. from users who don’t need to know about them.

For students and enthusiasts Processing allows them to create computational sketches without being intimidated by tedious Java syntax.

For professionals, Processing is a Java framework providing support for a wide range of creative code activities, from interactive tools to data visualization or sensor-driven applications (like the basic application we did). Accessed as a proper Java package hierarchy, Processing is a well-designed code API that makes basic tasks trivial and facilitates the introduction of advanced techniques by providing an extensible library framework.

Processing is extremely useful for many things to many people, all dependent on your perspective. It is a flexible sketchbook software and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts, as I’ve mentioned above. It promotes software literacy within the visual arts and visual literacy within technology. Students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists use Processing for learning and prototyping. Therefore, as an Interaction Design major undergoing a Prototyping course, Processing is a useful tool that is crucial for growth as a designer.

Video prototyping - 4 February 2019

Netflix gesture:

Netflix Gesture was one of the assignments needed to be done in the prototyping course. we got prepared for the project by doing a small-scale video project, Netflix gesture, which was really fun to do. When I got my first laptop I use to spend days and weeks locked in my room and make re-edit videos from my favourite movies. I would make them in a way that that would look better in my eyes. Making videos is not as easy as it seems, and telling a story with vides can be very hard. Fortunately, I could slightly improve my skills in video-making after I and my classmate, Fariborz, produced a 1 min long video about how to interact with Netflix’s

Here is the linked version of our work. website.https://youtu.be/3zamNtGmu_I

Furthermore, video prototyping continues. This is my team.

We got introduced into an entirely new sphere of prototyping. Video prototyping. This type of prototyping use video to illustrate how users will interact with a new system. The goal is to refine a single system concept, making design choices that highlight and explore a particular design path.

Video prototypes are organised as scenarios that illustrate how people might interact with future technology in a realistic setting. Video prototypes build upon several design resources created in earlier design exercises. The use scenario acts as the foundation, telling a specific, realistic story about how real people would interact with it in a realistic setting.

Some video prototypes use a narrator or voice over, others use only title cards, and still, others rely on the actors in the video to explain what they are doing, either through natural dialogue or through a ‘talk aloud’ procedure. Interactive video prototypes offer a new variation. Here are some examples: Please take a look:

youtube

Video prototype for Smart Water Bottle - Malmö University

Group dynamics - 8 February 2019

In a group dynamics seminar, we talked about task-related processes and transactional processes. These activity related to common project and goal oriented interactions. They can per se be different from not goal-oriented interactions.

The main focus is to pile goals and distribute them properly according to the competences of the members of the team. This relates if we are in school, but, in a job, environment money changes social oriented interactions.

In the class, we were divided into groups, every group got a rule to discuss and reflect on. The rule we got was “the slacker”, a member that is loved by everyone even though he/she shows up late and doesn’t do the tasks assigned to them. I didn’t find the activity very useful, it felt like one of those activities that we have to do without seeing the benefits of doing them. Of course, the team process is very important when holding any project, but the exercise wasn’t very helpful in teaching us about team process or engaging us in team building activities. We have done a similar activity in methods 1 course, but it was a bit more useful then as we were doing it with our group members. Also, making the group contract wasn’t any better, it didn’t feel like any of us wanted to do it, but we had to force ourselves to. That can be beneficial as we don’t always work with things that we like, though I still don’t feel like the assignment helped me in learning about team process. I think that it would have been more useful if our groups got a small project to work on with a short time limit, and we reflect on our group work afterwards. Any type of activity that involves us working within a team under pressure and reflecting on the team process would have been more beneficial for us as learners.

Paper prototyping - 11 and 15 February 2019

Paper prototypes continue to be not only viable but also widely used. In this blog post, I’ll talk about when to use them, why they can help, and how to make one to suit our own needs.

This is the first image in our process of the sketching storyline. I always find it very exciting and fun to work with the materials and build what we have in mind. Suddenly, everything turns out to be different, the size of the prototype, its weight, the way it looks…etc.

When sketching it on the paper, it seems that everyone in the group has the same idea, but when we start making it, everything changes.

When we have and we communicate it verbally, it is very hard for the other person to visualise it, but when we sketch it, visualisation becomes a lot easier.

As you can see, we did involve every more important scenario.

Though, I found out that communicating an idea just by sketching can be deceiving, as every person will interpret the sketch differently.

What is interesting with working with your ideas visually, is that you get to see all constraints and all advantages. It gives a chance for your ideas to disregard themselves and leave you with a clear thought of one single good idea.

Reflecting on Physical prototyping - 18 and 23 April 2019

Increasingly, as designers of interactive systems (spaces, processes and products for people), we find ourselves stretching the limits of prototyping tools to explore and communicate what it will be like to interact with the things we design. "Prototypes" are representations of a design made before final artefacts exist. They are created to inform both the design process and design decisions. They range from sketches and different kind of models at various levels — "looks like," "behaves like," "works like" — to explore and communicate propositions about the design and its context. This text is what I was most fascinated, and what led me to work more in during this course. I am not sure where I read it, could be online or some of the book literature, but it is something I placed in my physical journal and now wrote it back here on my digital journal. So far this was my favourite course in this Programme. I feel like my knowledge of design and prototyping overall just drastically expanded.

And, just before I conclude I will tell a little bit more about the last lecture on Experience and prototyping using previous knowledge.

Why is Experience Important?

In the exercise today, we were split into three big groups, and we were given a design brief, with a very little time to make an experience prototype. This exercise was one of the most frustrating activities for me so far. The instructions were very clear, but working in very big groups, for a very little time is difficult. It took us a lot of time to decide what to do, it didn’t seem like everyone is involved or on board with the discussions. I think that we should have divided the work into small tasks within our groups, so every 2-3 people will work on a task, but even to agree to that will take some time for such a big group. I usually get frustrated when we work in big groups, where it can get chaotic with a lot of discussions. I mentioned early in the journal that when we have ideas in our head it is hard to communicate them, having 10 people talking about ideas will take years of endless discussions. Unless we split the work and make our ideas more real by sketching or prototyping, it will get very messy. I think that the exercise can be better if the supervisor makes it clear that for such big groups and short time, the group should divide the tasks within themselves.

Sumup:

During the course, we had the opportunity to take part in some lectures with different topics but most importantly about prototyping. Lectures held by Clint and he introduced the concept of prototyping by providing us with some fresh insights about physical prototyping.

We got familiar with the concept of prototyping via earning some knowledge about why, when and how we can prototype.

prototypes are often used in the final testing phase

to find new solutions

to find out whether or not the solutions are good enough

to find out how users will interact with a product

physical and tangible product instead of a nonphysical idea

not so expensive to fail

Two types of prototyping: low fidelity and High fidelity

Low fidelity: cheap and quick, general view of the product, fewer details than high fidelity, too basic, do not show the real finished product, do not interact in an advanced way

High fidelity: similar to finished prototype, more details, a designer can see how the users interact, hard to change an element in it

0 notes

a-livebingo-blog · 6 years

Text

Social Media Marketing Guide for Beginners

Social Media Marketing is the procedure for gaining web and attention traffic through the cultural media sites. During this process, usually creative content to attain the masses through publicity coming from a third-party trusted source must be created in order for individuals to share this content of their curiosity with others and create a vicious chain that would make business cover and go beyond the marketplace audience intended. Every online marketer needs to have a goal, a product, something and a cause to promote through the vast and overwhelming World Wide Web. If you have those ideas defined in your mind already, then congratulations! That could be probably the hardest part of entering into the social media challenge, and from now on, each and every effort will donate to reach those goals effectively and flawlessly until you put your ft on the Social Media Guru status.

The Social Mass media world is wide and more comprehensive than ever. It really is a very strategic marketing platform that reaches different cultures, ages, religion, sexes, places, interests and such, it is therefore made by it an ideal vehicle to attain and target the right audience and achieve total success. Depends upon won't care about video gaming, for example, but only the social individuals who video games is part of their interests. If you target male viewers with ads of high heel shoes on sale, maybe a few of them would proceed and buy a pair or 2 for his or her wives, but a pair or 2 is not precisely the type of impact you want to have. Therefore, you focus on certain group ages and certain other factors that cause some services and products, videos and information to go "viral" First, we need to know the basic social media sites Facebook Holding a lot more than 900 million users, if you are already a Facebook consumer this might not be really not used to you, but there are several features worth mentioning. You can create a devoted business interact and page directly, and free, with your customers uploading free pictures, products and video clips of the service you want to provide or the merchandise you are trying to sell. That way, you can build a data base of individuals which will share your posts with their friends and for that reason create the constant chain. Many of these social media sites have mobile integration so people whether it's a portable PC seamlessly, a desktop, tablet or mobile phone get always connected with media in a real way that you need to take advantage of. People get on Facebook, in any situation, while commuting, in the park, in the home, at school, at the job. Then you're there, marketing your business for it to be shown in the news feeds, and you'd be there, continuously doing the mind trick game to the point that people will see something attractive and worth checking according to their interests. Many big companies like Starbucks, Microsoft, Apple, Rockstar, Pepsi etc. are carrying out the same, and it works perfectly! Blogs Blogs are a simple way for people to communicate in a semi-professional way when it comes to quality of articles. Quality content is the key to an excellent writing and therefore always, a great blogging. There are several blogger CMS (content management service) where one can get yours ready to go for free in under 5 minutes, some of these are Blogger, WordPress and the most user friendly one probably, Tumblr. One of the tricks here's knowing your target audience, your market, who you are targeting and what you want to perform with that. Now it has to do with some Search or SEO Engine Optimization knowledge, which is in other words, using the proper keywords to rank as high as feasible in search engines i.e. Google, Bing. It needs to be related to your posts and at the same time, you have to make sure you use a keyword search tool to check your competition and quantity of search this given keyword has. The cheapest your competition and highest amount of queries it gets in per month, the far more convenient for you. If you were to advertise your website holding a ongoing service of technical support chat, you would have to make the keywords extremely specific so people that are searching for your program would find you initial. It really is, for example technical support for Windows, then you'll have to include specific words, as going a bit more straight to the real point. Since the competition will be really high and Windows tech support team is a wide content, you would concentrate and go the specific services your product gives further, therefore, adding additional keywords to go right to the point would be the most successful way to do it and you would rank higher in a search engine and people would find your product easily. From "Technical Support Chat" to "Technical Support Chat for Windows 7 and XP" you can view how we are narrowing the concept of the program you offer making it more specific, detailed and then competition of support for mobile operating systems, cellphones, Mac, iPhone, Windows Vista, Home windows 8 and such, are left behind and those sites offering the providers you're not related to won't steal your probabilities to be found for people that are merely looking for chat support for Home windows 7 and XP. Once understood the keyword idea you can proceed and develop articles on a weblog that would be easy to find on a search engine by including the right tags. Then we have the Social Media integration in the weblog space again. There are various options to share this content of your site. Many Content Manager Solutions like Tumblr have the social media buttons to talk about and like or dislike. You should look for your options to allow them (in the uncommon case they are not enabled by default) so every post of yours would have the control keys for share on Tweeter, Google+, Facebook etc. and Reblog within the blogging network you are affiliated to. With great quality and attention catching content you are encouraging visitors to share your stories on other mass media sites like the ones mentioned previously plus you posting them and there you have got outstanding chances to reach a wider audience. Twitter A fast growing, very popular social media site. With over 340,000,000 tweets a complete day and around 140,00,000 users worldwide, this platform is quite appealing to companies and business as well as for celebrities, musicians, actors, everybody! A tweet is a note of 140 characters maximum that one can create and post and supporters can read and discover any time within their news feeds. Discuss it, interact directly and begin new conversations is among the plain things that make this system extremely successful. The way they follow Kim Kardashian and read and discuss everything she tweets in a full day, the same way they can do with advertising and marketing campaigns about brands and items of their interest. 140,000,000 users to target the right audience may sound like a difficult task, but seen it from the other side of the coin, which means more potential clients for a continuing business. Once you enter the mentioned previously vicious chain of any sociable media site, things simply keep coming along by themselves and very first thing you'll notice is a huge selection of hundreds of people involved in your brand, discussing it, reviewing it and telling others about events, broadcast and such. Linkedin Possibly a not so popular platform which makes it boring for some social people, but an extremely professional and strategic one for the others. Some people won't spend extended hours chatting or talking to other about silly, trivial items, instead, this social network goes straight to the idea. People on Facebook and Twitter for example, follow anyone of their curiosity with regard to socialize along with businesses and companies just, but Linkedin is supposed to filter and leave the fun behind to target deeper in professionalism in public media. In Linkedin, you could be section of the people searching for a job/ service, or component of a company offering a job/ assistance. You can create the personal profile with your professional information regarding yourself, studies, get in touch with information, passions, certifications, identifications etc. or, create a business or company page, same manner as you perform it on Facebook or Twitter sufficing the same purpose: share information about your brand, provider, product and keep your followers and audience up to date with the latest details about your company. YouTube YouTube is an extremely interesting platform. People go watch movies of any sort or gets redirected by any website which has a backlink to it or search engines. Once people is there on a given there you involve some more "Related Movies" on a column on the right side of the display. Clicking from video to video enables you to find things you by no means thought you would discover, interesting topics, funny videos, how-to sort of videos, publicity etc. Your chances to be seen are overwhelming and you may also get people subscribe to your Channel, which is in additional terms, your very own YouTube space where you upload your movies. Some individuals find it a lot more interesting and simpler to just view a video rather than reading a whole article. The resource is had by you of visuals. In the event that you were to market fashion clothes and that is the purpose of all of your social media, you can, along with other choices, upload a video with people modeling your clothing, redirect people to your primary business site, recommend people to talk about your video, a subscription for future video improvements, to visit your "fashion blog", like your web page on Facebook, stick to you on Tweeter, Google+, Linkedin, etc. Close your eyes and try to visualize the Tree Diagram of the whole Social Media marketing strategy and how it gets to potentially reach each and every corner of the internet. Ambitious, isn't it? Google+ A fairly new comer in the social press site battle, Google+ offers integration of a number of services including Gmail, Google+ Basics, Google+ Circles that let you share details or "statuses" in ways Facebook does, but has much less popularity so far. You possess the "Stream" feature related to Facebook's Information Feed that would enable you to see what others are up to, an option for following very similar aswell to Tweeter. The service is very appealing to business and professionals networks due to the exclusivity and integration of services. You create a Gmail account for example, and if you don't disable it, by default you get access to all these assistance and a profile ready to be edited with a picture, contact info, etc. You have access to the whole Google+ network including currently mention Gmail, YouTube, You+, Circles, Basics and actually the well-known search engine saving and displaying results to the many relevant things to you. It is convenient to get a spare Google+ take into account any Social Media Marketer because it's potential features and because no supply is too little or too much in marketing. Might possibly not have the same influence, a 30 seconds ad on Television than a small billboard on a bus, but the more you get the message sent the greater results you shall accomplish. Social Media Stats According the new 87 studies carry out on social media up to 2012, this process from companies to customers called B2C or Business to Community is continuing to grow and reached 16% of customer engagement but provides potential to grow to 57% in the next 5 years. More than 30% of the worldwide human population is now online permanently or have some type of eventual usage of the web. More than 1/5 of consumer's leisure time is being spent on the social media sites, achieving an approximate of 250 million tweets and 800 million Facebook statuses updated each day. Only in the usa, a lot more than 80% of online energetic users spend their on cultural media sites or sites. 60% of people uses 3 or even more digital forms of research product comparison, prices and information about intended purchases, being 40% of these done via social press sites like Facebook or simply redirected from one of the sites leading to even immediate interactions with suppliers about offers submitted. Around 56% Americans have one to three profiles in a social media site being 55% of these aged between 45-55 and having at least one profile SEO (SEO) facts 70% of the links search users click on are organic. 46% of all searches are for information regarding products or services. Half of most local queries are performed on mobile devices. 66% of clients use search and on the web research to find regional businesses. There are 863 million websites globally that point out "SEO." There are 9.1 million searchs conducted including the acronym each full month, with the top two phrases being "SEO companies" and "SEO company." More than 60,000 Twitter users include "SEO" within their bios, there have been 13 million blog articles published that include "SEO" in the name, and Amazon.com carries almost 2,700 different books about SEO 75% of searchers never scroll at night first page of outcomes. 93% of online encounters begin with search engines. B2B businesses that maintain active content material like SEO and running a blog applications increased their total web site traffic, typically, by 25% during the past year, while those who neglected SEO experienced an average 15% decline in overall visits. 21% of all time spent online is spent on web queries. The big three se's Google, Yahoo and bing! are among the five most-visited sites on the web. Due to the fact AOL is #7 and Ask is certainly #10; five of the top 10 most-visited sites on the internet are search engines.

To conclude, Social Media Marketing is definitely a field where professionals and amateurs in advertising can come across and put their personal ideas and plans implementing their very own techniques. There is no Social Media Marketer university or university degree, this knowledge that should be acquired by considerable research, it needs to be constantly employed and tested in the desired field. It really is a revolutionary technique that has removed the old TV marketing techniques shifting it to the online market. The percentage of individuals that prefer to go surfing on a pc or capable gadget versus people that watches TV grows steadily every single day. Statistics show Social Media Marketing in a lesser impact percentage when compared to legacy ways to promote, but the potential it offers and room for growth is in without doubt overpowering and could be more improved and interactive than Television has been for the past decades. Become familiar with more about free services

0 notes

bestfishingreel78-blog · 6 years

Text

Social Media Marketing Guide for Beginners

Social Media Marketing is the procedure for gaining attention and web traffic through the sociable media sites. In this process, usually innovative content to attain the masses through publicity from the third-party trusted source needs to be created in order for individuals to share this content of their interest with others and create a vicious chain that could make business cover and go beyond the market audience intended. Every web marketer needs to have a goal, a product, a service and a cause to market through the huge and overwhelming INTERNET. If you have those ideas defined in your mind already, then congratulations! That may be the hardest component of getting into the social media challenge probably, and from on now, each and every effort will contribute to reach those goals effectively and flawlessly until you put your ft on the Social Media Guru status.

The Social Mass media world is wide and more considerable than ever. It is an extremely strategic marketing platform that gets to different cultures, ages, religion, sexes, locations, interests and such, therefore it is made by it the perfect vehicle to attain and target the proper audience and achieve total success. The whole world won't care about video gaming, for example, but only the social people that video games is part of their interests. If you target male audience with ads of high heel shoes on sale, maybe some of them would move and buy a pair or 2 for their wives, but a pair or 2 is not specifically the type or kind of impact you want to have. Therefore, you focus on certain group ages and certain other factors that cause some services and products, videos and information to go "viral" First, we have to know the essential social media sites Facebook Holding more than 900 million users, if you're already a Facebook user this might not be really not used to you, but there are many features worth mentioning. You can create a dedicated business interact and page directly, and free, together with your clients uploading free pictures, products and video clips of the service you want to provide or the merchandise you are trying to sell. That way, you can create a data base of individuals that will share your posts with their friends and for that reason create the constant chain. Many of these social mass media sites have seamlessly mobile integration so people whether it is a portable PC, a desktop, tablet or mobile phone get always linked with media in a way that you ought to take advantage of. People log in to Facebook, in any situation, while commuting, in the park, in the home, at school, at the job. Then you're there, marketing your business for this to be shown in the news feeds, and you would be there, constantly doing your brain trick video game to the point that people will find something attractive and well worth checking according to their interests. Many big companies like Starbucks, Microsoft, Apple, Rockstar, Pepsi etc. are doing the same, and it perfectly works! Blogs Blogs are a simple way for individuals to communicate in a semi-professional way with regards to quality of articles. Quality content may be the key to an excellent writing and therefore always, a good blogging. There are several blogger CMS (content management service) where you can get yours up and running for free in less than 5 minutes, a few of these are Blogger, WordPress and probably the most user friendly one, Tumblr. One of the tricks here is knowing your target audience, your marketplace, who you are targeting and what you would like to accomplish with that. Now it has regarding some SEO or SEO knowledge, which is quite simply, using the right keywords to rank as high as possible in a search engine i.e. Google, Bing. It needs to be related to your posts and at exactly the same time, you have to make sure you make use of a keyword search device to check the competition and number of search this given keyword has. The lowest your competition and highest amount of searches it gets in per month, the far more convenient for you personally. If you were to advertise your website holding a service of technical support chat, you would have to make the keywords very specific so individuals who are looking for your assistance would find you 1st. It is, for example tech support team for Windows, then you'll have to include specific terms, as going a bit more straight to the real point. Since the competition would be high and Windows tech support team is a broad content really, you would concentrate and go the precise services your product gives further, therefore, adding additional keywords to go right to the point would be the most effective way to accomplish it and you would rank higher in a search engine and people would find your item easily. From "TECH SUPPORT TEAM Chat" to "TECH SUPPORT TEAM Chat for Home windows 7 and XP" you can view how we are narrowing the concept of the services you offer which makes it more specific, detailed and competition of support for cell operating systems, cellphones, Mac, iPhone, Home windows Vista, Windows 8 and such, are left out and the ones sites offering the solutions you're not linked to won't steal your possibilities found for people that are simply just seeking for chat support for Home windows 7 and XP. Once understood the keyword concept you can proceed and make content on a blog that would be easy to find on a search engine by including the right tags. Then we have the Social Media integration in the weblog space again. There are plenty of options to share the content of your blog. Many Content Manager Solutions like Tumblr possess the cultural media buttons to share and like or dislike. You need to look for the options to allow them (in the rare case they aren't enabled by default) therefore every post of yours would have the control keys for share on Tweeter, Google+, Facebook etc. and Reblog within the blogging network you are affiliated to. With great quality and eye catching articles you are encouraging people to share your stories on other media sites like the ones mentioned previously plus you posting them and there you have got outstanding chances to reach a wider audience. Twitter A fast growing, extremely popular public media site. With over 340,000,000 tweets a complete day and around 140,00,000 users world-wide, this platform is pretty attractive to business and companies as well as for celebrities, musicians, actors, everybody! A tweet is a note of 140 characters maximum that one can compose and post and fans can read and find any time within their news feeds. Talk about it, interact directly and start new conversations is among the plain things that make this platform extremely successful. The way they follow Kim Kardashian and read and talk about everything she tweets in a full day, the same way they can do with marketing and advertising campaigns about brands and items of their interest. 140,000,000 users to target the right audience may appear like a trial, but seen it from the other side of the coin, which means more potential customers for an ongoing business. Once you get into the already mentioned vicious chain of any sociable media site, things simply keep coming along by themselves and first thing you'll see is a huge selection of hundreds of people engaged in your brand, talking about it, reviewing it and telling others about events, broadcast and such. Linkedin Possibly a not so popular platform making it boring for some people, but a very professional and strategic one for the rest. Some individuals won't spend extended hours chatting or talking to additional about silly, trivial stuff, instead, this social network goes to the point straight. People on Facebook and Twitter for example, follow anyone of their curiosity for the sake of socialize and also businesses and companies just, but Linkedin is intended to filter and keep the fun behind to focus deeper in professionalism in cultural media. In Linkedin, you can be section of the people looking for a job/ assistance, or component of a company offering a job/ assistance. You can create either a personal profile together with your professional details about yourself, studies, contact information, passions, certifications, identifications etc. or, create a continuing business or company page, same way as you do it on Facebook or Twitter sufficing the same purpose: share details about your brand, program, product and keep your followers and audience up to date with the latest details about your company. YouTube YouTube is an extremely interesting platform. People go watch movies of any sort or gets redirected by any site which has a backlink to it or se's. Once people is there on confirmed there you involve some more "Related Videos" on a column on the right side of the display. Clicking on from video to video enables you to find things you hardly ever thought you would discover, interesting topics, funny videos, how-to kind of videos, publicity etc. Your chances to be seen are overwhelming and you will also get people subscribe to your Channel, which is in additional terms, your very own YouTube space where you upload your video clips. Some individuals find it way more interesting and easier to just watch a video instead of reading a complete article. You have the resource of visuals. If you were to promote fashion clothes and that is the purpose of your whole social media marketing, you can, along with other options, upload a video with people modeling your clothing, redirect people to your primary business site, recommend visitors to talk about your video, to subscribe for future video improvements, to go to your "fashion blog page", like your web page on Facebook, adhere to you on Tweeter, Google+, Linkedin, etc. Close your eyes and try to visualize the Tree Diagram of the complete Social Media marketing strategy and how it gets to potentially reach every single corner of the internet. Ambitious, isn't it? Google+ A new comer on the social mass media site battle fairly, Google+ offers integration of a number of solutions including Gmail, Google+ Essentials, Google+ Circles that enable you to share details or "statuses" in a way Facebook does, but has less popularity so far. You have the "Stream" feature identical to Facebook's News Feed that would enable you to see what others are up to, a choice for following virtually identical aswell to Tweeter. The service is very appealing to professionals and business networks due to the exclusivity and integration of services. You create a Gmail take into account example, and unless you disable it, by default you have access to all these program and a profile prepared to be edited with an image, contact info, etc. You have access to the whole Google+ network including currently point out Gmail, YouTube, You+, Circles, Basics and actually the well-known internet search engine saving and displaying leads to the many relevant things to you. It is convenient to possess a spare Google+ account for any Social Media Marketer because it's potential features and because no resource is too little or too much in marketing. Might not have the same impact, a 30 seconds ad on Television than a little billboard on a bus, however the more you get the message sent the better results you shall accomplish. Social Media Stats According the new 87 studies execute on social media marketing up to 2012, this approach from companies to customers called B2C or Business to Community has grown and reached 16% of customer engagement but offers potential to grow to 57% within the next 5 years. More than 30% of the worldwide human population is now online permanently or involve some kind of eventual usage of the web. More than 1/5 of consumer's leisure time is being allocated to the social media sites, reaching an approximate of 250 million tweets and 800 million Facebook statuses updated each day. Only in the United States, more than 80% of online active users spend their on public media sites or blogs. 60% of people uses 3 or more digital kinds of research product assessment, prices and information about intended purchases, being 40% of these done via social press sites like Facebook or just redirected from one of the sites resulting in even immediate interactions with suppliers about offers posted. Around 56% Americans have one to three profiles in a public media site being 55% of these aged between 45-55 and having at least one profile SEO (SEO) facts 70% of the links search users select are organic. 46% of most searches are for details about products or services. Half of most local queries are performed on cellular devices. 66% of clients use search and online research to find local businesses. There are 863 million websites globally that talk about "SEO." There are 9.1 million searchs conducted including the acronym each month, with the top two phrases being "SEO services" and "SEO company." A lot more than 60,000 Twitter users include "SEO" in their bios, there have been 13 million blog articles published that consist of "SEO" in the title, and Amazon.com carries almost 2,700 different books about SEO 75% of searchers never scroll past the first page of results. 93% of online encounters begin with a search engine. B2B companies that maintain active content material like blogging and SEO applications increased their total website traffic, typically, by 25% previously year, while those who neglected SEO experienced the average 15% decline in overall appointments. 21% ever spent online is allocated to web queries. The big three search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo! are among the five most-visited sites on the Internet. Due to the fact AOL is #7 and have is normally #10; five of the very best 10 most-visited sites on the web are search engines.

To conclude, Social Media Marketing is normally a field where experts and amateurs in advertising will come across and put their personal ideas and plans implementing their very own techniques. There is no Social Media Marketer university or university degree, this knowledge that should be acquired by intensive research, it needs to be employed and tested in the desired field constantly. It really is a revolutionary technique that has removed the old TV marketing tactics shifting it to the web market. The percentage of individuals that choose to go online on a pc or capable gadget versus individuals who watches Television grows steadily each day. Statistics show Social Media Marketing in a lesser impact percentage compared to the legacy ways to promote, however the potential it offers and room for development is in no doubt overpowering and could be much more improved and interactive than Television has been for days gone by decades. Become familiar with more about SocialBoosts

0 notes

oftheseafoam-blog · 6 years

Text

Social Media Marketing Guide for Beginners

Social Media Marketing may be the procedure for gaining attention and website traffic through the cultural media sites. During this process, usually creative content to reach the masses through publicity from the third-party trusted source needs to be created in order for individuals to share this content of their curiosity with others and create a vicious chain that could make business cover and go beyond the market audience intended. Every web marketer requirements to have a goal, a product, a ongoing assistance and a cause to market through the huge and overwhelming INTERNET. If you have those ideas defined in your mind already, then congratulations! That could be probably the hardest part of getting into the social media challenge, and from now on, each and every effort will donate to reach those goals efficiently and flawlessly until you place your ft on the Social Media Guru status.

The Social Mass media world is wide and more comprehensive than ever. It really is an extremely strategic marketing platform that reaches different cultures, ages, religion, sexes, places, interests and such, therefore it is made by it the perfect vehicle to reach and target the proper audience and achieve total success. The whole world won't care about video games, for example, but only the individuals who video games is part of their interests. If you target male market with ads of high heel shoes on sale, maybe some of them would proceed and buy a pair or 2 for his or her wives, but a pair or 2 is not specifically the type or kind of impact you want to have. Therefore, you focus on certain group ages and certain other factors that cause some ongoing services and products, videos and news to go "viral" First, we have to know the essential social media sites Facebook Holding more than 900 million users, if you are already a Facebook user this might not be really new to you, but there are numerous features worth mentioning. You can create a dedicated business web page and interact directly, and free, together with your customers uploading free pictures, products and movies of the service you intend to provide or the product you want to sell. That way, you can create a data base of people that will share your posts to their friends and therefore create the constant chain. Many of these social mass media sites have seamlessly mobile integration so people whether it is a portable PC, a desktop, tablet or mobile phone get always linked with media in a real way that you need to take advantage of. People get on Facebook, in any scenario, while commuting, in the park, in the home, at school, at the job. Then you're there, promoting your business for this to be shown in the news headlines feeds, and you'd be there, continuously doing your brain trick game to the idea that people will find something attractive and worthy of checking according with their interests. Many big corporations like Starbucks, Microsoft, Apple, Rockstar, Pepsi etc. are carrying out the same, and it perfectly works! Blogs Blogs are an easy way for people to communicate in a semi-professional way when it comes to quality of content material. Quality content is the key to an excellent writing and for that reason always, a good blogging. There are plenty of blogger CMS (content administration service) where you can get yours up and running for free in less than 5 minutes, a few of these are Blogger, WordPress and the most user friendly one probably, Tumblr. Among the tricks here is knowing your target audience, your market, who you are targeting and what you would like to accomplish with that. Now this has to do with some SEO or Search Engine Optimization knowledge, which is quite simply, using the proper keywords to rank as high as feasible in a search engine we.e. Google, Bing. It needs to be related to your articles and at exactly the same time, you have to make sure you make use of a keyword search tool to check the competition and number of search this provided keyword has. The lowest the competition and highest quantity of searches it gets in a full month, the more convenient for you. If you were to advertise your website holding a ongoing service of technical support chat, you would need to make the keywords extremely specific so individuals who are searching for your services would find you initial. It really is, for example tech support team for Windows, then you need to include specific words, as going a bit more straight to the real point. Since the competition will be really high and Windows tech support team is a broad content, you would concentrate and go further the specific services your product presents, therefore, adding extra keywords to go right to the point would be the most effective way to accomplish it and you would rank higher in a search engine and folks would find your product easily. From "TECH SUPPORT TEAM Chat" to "TECH SUPPORT TEAM Chat for Home windows 7 and XP" you can view how we are narrowing the concept of the services you offer making it more specific, detailed and competition of support for mobile operating systems then, cellphones, Mac, iPhone, Windows Vista, Home windows 8 and such, are left out and the ones sites offering the solutions you're not linked to won't steal your possibilities found for people that are merely seeking for chat support for Windows 7 and XP. Once understood the keyword concept you can proceed and create content on a blog that would be easy to find on search engines by including the right tags. Then we have the Social Media integration again in the blog space. There are various options to share the content of your blog. Many Content Manager Services like Tumblr possess the public media buttons to share and like or dislike. You should look for the options to allow them (in the rare case they are not enabled by default) so every post of yours would have the control keys for share on Tweeter, Google+, Facebook etc. and Reblog within the blogging network you are affiliated to. With great quality and eyes catching content you are encouraging people to share your stories on other press sites like the ones mentioned above plus you sharing them and there you have got outstanding chances to attain a wider audience. Twitter A fast growing, very popular social media site. With over 340,000,000 tweets a time and around 140,00,000 users worldwide, this platform is quite attractive to business and companies aswell as for celebrities, musicians, actors, everybody! A tweet is a message of 140 characters optimum that one can create and post and followers can read and find any time in their news feeds. Discuss it, interact directly and start new conversations is among the plain things that make this system extremely successful. The way they follow Kim Kardashian and read and discuss everything she tweets in a full day, the same way they can do with marketing and advertising campaigns about brands and items of their interest. 140,000,000 users to focus on the right audience may appear like a difficult task, but seen it from the other side of the coin, which means more potential clients for an ongoing business. Once you enter the talked about vicious chain of any social media site already, things simply keep coming along independently and very first thing you'll notice is a huge selection of hundreds of people engaged in your brand, discussing it, reviewing it and telling others about occasions, broadcast and such. Linkedin Possibly a not so popular platform making it boring for some people, but an extremely professional and strategic one for the rest. Some people won't spend long hours chatting or speaking with various other about silly, trivial stuff, instead, this social network goes straight to the idea. People on Facebook and Twitter for instance, follow anyone of their curiosity with regard to socialize and also businesses and companies just, but Linkedin is intended to filter and leave the fun behind to target deeper in professionalism in sociable media. In Linkedin, you can be portion of the people looking for a job/ assistance, or component of a company offering a job/ service. You can create either a personal profile together with your professional details about yourself, studies, get in touch with information, interests, certifications, identifications etc. or, create a continuing business or company page, same way as you do it on Facebook sufficing the same purpose: share details about your brand, support, product and keep your audience and followers up to date with the latest information about your company. YouTube YouTube is an extremely interesting platform. People go watch video clips of any sort or gets redirected by any site which has a backlink to it or search engines. Once people will there be on confirmed there you have some more "Related Movies" on a column on the proper side of the display screen. Clicking on from video to video enables you to find things you never thought you would find, interesting topics, funny videos, how-to kind of movies, publicity etc. Your chances to be seen are overwhelming and you may also get people subscribe to your Channel, which is in other terms, your very own YouTube space where you upload your video clips. Some people find it way more interesting and simpler to just watch a video instead of reading a complete article. The resource is had by you of visuals. In the event that you were to promote fashion clothes and this is the purpose of all of your social media marketing, you can, and also other choices, upload a video with people modeling your clothes, redirect people to your primary business site, recommend visitors to talk about your video, to subscribe for future video improvements, to go to your "fashion blog page", like your web page on Facebook, follow you on Tweeter, Google+, Linkedin, etc. Close your eyes and make an effort to visualize the Tree Diagram of the whole Social Media marketing technique and how it gets to potentially reach each and every corner of the internet. Ambitious, isn't it? Google+ A new comer in the social mass media site battle fairly, Google+ offers integration of a variety of solutions including Gmail, Google+ Essentials, Google+ Circles that let you share info or "statuses" in a way Facebook does, but has less popularity up to now. You have the "Stream" feature identical to Facebook's News Feed that would enable you to find what others are up to, an option for following virtually identical as well to Tweeter. The service is very appealing to professionals and business networks due to the exclusivity and integration of services. A Gmail is established by you account for example, and unless you disable it, by default you have access to all these ongoing support and a profile ready to be edited with an image, contact info, etc. You get access to the whole Google+ network including currently point out Gmail, YouTube, You+, Circles, Basics and also the well-known search engine saving and displaying results to the many relevant things to you. It is convenient to possess a spare Google+ account for any Social Media Marketing expert because it's potential functionality and because no supply is too little or an excessive amount of in marketing. Might not have the same influence, a 30 seconds ad on TV than a small billboard on a bus, but the more you get the message sent the better results you shall accomplish. Social Media Stats According the brand new 87 studies execute on social media marketing up to 2012, this process from companies to clients called B2C or Business to Community is continuing to grow and reached 16% of customer engagement but provides potential to grow to 57% in the next 5 years. A lot more than 30% of the worldwide inhabitants is currently online permanently or have some type of eventual usage of the web. More than 1/5 of consumer's leisure time is being allocated to the social press sites, achieving an approximate of 250 million tweets and 800 million Facebook statuses updated each day. Only in the United States, a lot more than 80% of online energetic users spend their on public media sites or sites. 60% of people uses 3 or more digital forms of research product comparison, prices and information about intended purchases, being 40% of these done via social mass media sites like Facebook or simply redirected from one of these sites resulting in even immediate interactions with suppliers about offers published. Around 56% Americans have someone to three profiles in a public media site being 55% of them aged between 45-55 and having at least one profile Search Engine Optimization (SEO) facts 70% of the links search users click on are organic. 46% of most searches are for information about services or products. Half of most local queries are performed on mobile devices. 66% of clients use search and on-line research to find local businesses. There are 863 million websites globally that talk about "SEO." There are 9.1 million searchs conducted including the acronym each month, with the top two phrases being "SEO services" and "SEO company." A lot more than 60,000 Twitter users include "SEO" within their bios, there have been 13 million blog posts published that include "SEO" in the name, and Amazon.com bears almost 2,700 different books about SEO 75% of searchers never scroll at night first page of results. 93% of online experiences begin with a search engine. B2B companies that maintain active content material like SEO and blogging programs increased their total website traffic, typically, by 25% previously year, while those that neglected SEO experienced the average 15% decline in overall visits. 21% of all time spent online is allocated to web queries. The big three se's Google, Yahoo and bing! are among the five most-visited sites on the web. Considering that AOL is #7 and Ask is certainly #10; five of the very best 10 most-visited sites on the internet are search engines.

To conclude, Social Media Marketing is usually a field where professionals and amateurs in advertising will come across and put their personal ideas and plans implementing their personal techniques. There is no Social Media Marketer university or university degree, this knowledge that needs to be acquired by comprehensive research, it needs to be employed and tested in the required field constantly. It is a revolutionary strategy that has taken down the old TV advertising tactics shifting it to the web market. The percentage of people that choose to go online on a computer or capable device versus people that watches Television grows steadily every single day. Statistics show Social Media Marketing in a lesser impact percentage when compared to legacy ways to promote, however the potential it provides and room for development is in no doubt overpowering and could be much more improved and interactive than Television has been for the past decades. Get to know more about free services

0 notes

elevatorupcompany · 7 years

Text

What's good right now

Elevator Up has a well balanced venn diagram of interests, hobbies, and skills. This week our team put together a list of things making positive waves in their current day to day.

Emily, designer

Facebook Events: The Discover Section My primary use of Facebook is finding all sorts of events happening locally. I’m particularly fond of Facebook’s option to discover events not only by location but by date. This has been awesome for planning for friends visiting or to check out events while traveling.

Signo Pens As a journaler, a doodler, and queen of annotations on nearly everything, a set a killer pens has been a real heart warmer. Is that brown-black ink you ask? Why yes, how subtle and easy on the eyes is that!? Brand of choice: Uniball Signo (0.38mm)

Bowling I can’t stop. Bowling is cheap, the beer is cheap, it brings friends together, and the expectations for success are fabulously low. My current go to is Clique Lanes: late night bowling for nearly pocket change. Who’s in?

Andy, developer

Founders Azacca Named after the Haitian God of agriculture, the Azacca hop has a tropical aroma with hints of citrus and mango, and a touch of caramel malt for a sweet backbone. Azacca is my current favorite, non-lawnmower beer. Salivate at: foundersbrewing.com/our-beer/azacca-ipa/

Zillow.com Realtors are great at many things. Hiring people to write usable web apps is not one of them. When looking for property for sale, I skip the local MLS app and go straight to Zillow.com. It's just as up to date (often more so), much easier to navigate and has superior mapping and list functionality. Related: there is no real estate left for sale in Grand Rapids. Find your McMansion at: zillow.com

Frontier Ruckus A Michigan-based multi-instrumental foursome playing melancholy power pop. Mathew Milia's honest and raw lyrics paint painful pictures and landscapes of lost loves. Their back catalog is available on Bandcamp, and the new album dropped this February. Listen: music.frontierruckus.com/album/eternity-of-dimming

Tori, studio manager

Essential Oils + a Diffuser I’ve been getting into the essential oil scene. I love how many healing uses they have on the body and mind. A diffuser kicks it up a notch as another way to get the beneficial effects of essential oils without placing it on your skin. Feeling crabby? 3-4 drops of lemon oil. Need help falling asleep? Use lavender and run it before bed. Find it here: amazon.com/dp/B01AEPWY86?psc=1

Tropical Everything Bring me your lovely bunches of coconuts...why yes, I do like pina coladas. Ever since coming back from Costa Rica, I can’t...get...enough...tropical things! I’ve noticed that travel is a big inspiration to the things I cook. I’ve always loved coconut and in Costa Rica, coconuts are aplenty. They pop up in most of the dishes and drinks. So, I’ve been pinning all sorts of coconut and caribbean recipes, inspired by what I ate there.

Huckberry I was introduced to Huckberry about 3 years ago and fell in love despite it being a site for men. Huckberry is a men’s store, magazine, and space for inspiration and community. It speaks to 20 to 30-something guys who “lived in the city but lived for the outdoors” and features unique and high quality products. From clothing to gear to home goods to art, there is a lot of thought and research that goes into the brands they feature. It is my go-to source for gift inspiration for anyone, and yes, they are starting an arm of the company just for us LADIES. :)

Amelie, community manager

AirBnB Every time I travel, I use AirBnb. I love discovering nooks and crannies of towns and getting tips on eateries and nightlife directly from people who live in the area. Plus, it doesn’t hurt to stay at great homes and see the way people live, what their style is like, and bring some of those ideas home. Pictured above: Bucktown, Chicago.

Improv Comedy I had heard about the benefits of learning the basics of improv on podcasts from fellow coworking professionals and have been generally interested in learning more about how it might infuse in my daily life. In December, I signed up to take the basics session and in April, I’ll be in the advanced class. Since I’ve begun practicing, I’ve noticed a huge improvement in my listening skills, coaching, and overall stress level. The basics of improv revolves around listening, teamwork, and making the other people in your group look good. Sound familiar? ;) I’m looking forward to participating more in the local scene, and continuing to see shows when we travel around. Pictured above: Curious Comedy Theatre, PDX. This is the actual scene that made me fall in love with improv.

Solid tunes Music has always been engrained into my life in one way or another. Sometimes I come home from work, plug in, and close my eyes for a good hour. It really helps me reset. My husband and I began having “creativity night” on Saturday nights during the winter months. Sometimes I spin records, and sometimes I put on a playlist, but either way, we set up a bit of a cowork at our kitchen table to get shit done. Whether we’re reading, writing, drawing, or chatting, we get to practice some of the things that make us, us and live a little slower.

Henry, program manager

March I love comics and graphic novels because of the creative content they offer and the unique position as an interesting storytelling medium they have. I’ve been doing research on the south during the civil rights movement because it seems like an interesting setting for fictional stories. I was recently referred to the March series as a great read to get an understanding of how to capture the climate during that era in a graphic novel. I definitely recommend this series for anyone who wants a good graphic novel.

Sketch I know I’m late to the party on this one, but one hole in what I’ve learned for web development is being able to work with designs someone else has made and turn them into functional sites. I’ve had a little experience with photoshop, but was recently told to check out Sketch by Jeremy Abrahams who teaches the Modern Web coLearning course. After playing around with it for a bit, I’ve enjoyed using it and would like to boost skills so I can even help put new assets together for future coLearning campaigns.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Technically this isn’t out yet, but the anticipation alone has been an obsession in itself for me. This game will kick off the launch of Nintendo’s newest hardware, the Nintendo Switch which you can play both on a big TV at home and on the go pretty seamlessly. More importantly though is the fact that Nintendo is taking Zelda back to it’s open world roots with a beautifully designed world where you can actually go to any of the landscapes you see on the horizon.

Mike Miller, designer

A ruler One of the most overlooked tools in a designer’s toolset is the ruler. Alignment is critical when designing user interfaces and a ruler helps you get a little more realistic idea when planning out designs. I’ve been using rulers in my design process for quite sometime, but lately it has been getting some pretty heavy use! Any old ruler would do the job! This one just so happens to be one my dad used back in the day.

NBA Jam - Super Nintendo I had some buddies over a few weeks ago and we were all playing a handful of old school emulated games when one of my buddies said we should try NBA Jam. Next thing I knew we were in heated 2v2 tournaments yelling quotes from the in game announcer like “He’s on Fire!” and “Boomshakalaka!”. The game is super easy to pick up because it has 3 buttons, and you can play it on pretty much any PC or Mac using this emulator. It also works with Xbox 360 controllers and Playstation controllers. Definitely worth reminiscing of the old days.

Uppercase Macbook Keyboard Cover A super common thing that happens to someone’s macbook keyboard is that the lettering on the keys wears out and fade. I recently replaced a super cheap $2 macbook keyboard cover with the Uppercase cover. It’s pretty much perfect. Doesn’t take anytime to “break in”, protects your keyboard from fading keys, and might even save your computer from a Redbull spill. Buy it yourself: amazon.com/UPPERCASE-Ultra-Clear-Keyboard-Macbook/dp/B007FL6100

Jim, developer

Speciation Artisan Ales I love my beer, and sours in particular. Speciation Artisan Ales recently opened up in Comstock Park and quickly capture my heart (and taste buds). They are a small brewery focusing on small batch sours and farmhouse ales, specifically doing bottle releases once a month. They don’t currently have a taproom (hopefully one day), but the two releases they’ve had so far have been delicious.

Joel, product manager

Nest Camera + App I’ve had a Nest Cam setup inside our house for about a year now and love how clear it is. The fact I can log in from anywhere and see what’s going on inside my house is a whole new level of security and peace of mind. For Christmas I got an outside camera and I installed it at our main entryway. I’ve setup alerts within the Nest App for specified coverage areas and it even tells me when it detects a person at my door. I can’t wait to install about three more around the perimeter of my house.

SmartThings + App In the same vein as the Nest Cam, I have a number of sensors and switches in my house that I can control with the SmartThings app. Automations allows me to trigger an action when specific conditions are meet. For example I have 4 automations that turn ON and OFF my outside lighting at specified times. I have them scheduled to turn on 1 hour before sunrise in the morning, then turn off 30 minutes after sunrise. The same type of schedule is set for the evening: 30 minutes after sunset through to 3 hours after sunset. Another major feature is that I can open both my garage and front door remotely. So if I need to let a contractor in to do some work, or our neighborhood dog walker, I can do it on-demand. That kind of power over my house is freakin’ awesome.

Kendell, developer

Myo

I am a big fan of alternative user input products. Most recently I have been toying with some controllers called Myo’s. I have been using them to connect a storytelling experience to a set of projectors displaying planets and moons from our solar system. The myo’s detect subtle electrical signals that are emitted from the muscles in your arms as they contract and relax. Check it out: myo.com

Chris, marketing and communications manager

Childish Gambino “Awaken My Love” This guy, Donald Glover, first he’s an actor then a rapper, then his newest album “Awaken My Love.” Yeah, it came out last year, but I still listening to it all the time. The vinyl comes out April 28 so that’s something else to look forward to.

Television There are so many good TV shows, but you have to go to Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime to get them. There are too many to list, but “The Night Manager” is one of my recent favorites. Hugh Laurie, is damn creepy. One of my other favorite genres is British cop dramas, check out “Luther”, “Happy Valley” and “Broadchurch” to get started.

Criminal Podcast There are also a lot of great podcasts. “Criminal” stands out because the concept is simple - there was a crime. They are true crime stories. Various people share their stories. They are always interesting, sometimes sad and sometimes funny. Phoebe Judge, the host, has one of the most soothing voices ever. Bonus. Check it out: thisiscriminal.com

What is your office loving right now?

~Emily, Designer

#recommended #teamculture #interests

0 notes