Monday, April 19, 2010

New iPHONE left at bar?



I recently read an article on MSNBC about an iPhone found at a bar. Yes I know cell phones are left at bars every night. However this cell phone was not your ordinary device. Apparently this was the "new" iPhone supposedly to hit stores in June 2010.They believe this is the new iPhone because the bar it was left in is Redwood City, only 20 miles from Apple headquarters. Apparently Apple has not responded to these reports. I've asked many friends what is so great about this new iPhone and I was told it is just better. Ill take their word for it. While reading the article they described the phone as being bulkier but able to do all the same functions. The reason for the bulkiness is because of the larger battery. The mystery still remains if this actually is the new iPhone. I think it is safe to say that there is somebody out there very upset because they lost some very important equipment.

VS Pink Nation Member



As I mentioned in my pervious post, Victoria's Secrets PINK Collection is having a contest for Universities to win a PINK Part at their school.The contest is down to two schools, Rutgers and West Virginia University. To nominate your favorite just go on to this website and vote. I think this is a great idea for Victoria's Secret to do. They will have famous bands playing all day. I would love for this to have happen at our school, or even at a nearby school. VSPink Twitter account is constantly giving updates of the winner. When you go to the website they have a clock count down as well.

I think that VSPINK is doing a great job with social media. I just became part of PINK nation and hopefully I will be receiving some prizes with their contest giveaways. On their website they interacted with Facebook as well letting people become friends with them. They are interacting with their customers and really getting their product image out to the public. By having a Twitter account and Facebook page is only connecting them even more with the younger generation, and that's what PINK nation is all about.

Monday, April 12, 2010

John Dawe Visits Class


In our last class we had a guest speaker named John Dawe. He recently worked at Solid Cactus but now has his own business called Dawe Consulting Group. One of the tasks he mentioned to us that he recently completed was a political campaign for Judge Tina Polachek Gartley. When she decided to run for Judge social media was just coming out of the wood works. Not many political campaigns were focusing on Facebook or Twitter announcements. John decided that this would be a great way to gather a whole new crowd of voters through Facebook and Twitter. He would post reminders on her Facebook page letting them know where she was speaking and when they could vote. They had over 1000 friends on Facebook. He also did the same thing with Twitter, posting updates and pictures. This helped her campaign out tremendously because it was cheap and easy to do. I think using social networking for political campaigns is a great way to let your fans know when exactly to vote and what she stands for. People use the computer every day and this is just one more was to get the message sent across. In the end Tina Gartley did win the election and John even said, his social campaign was a huge factor in the end results.

PINK COLLEGIATE SHOWDOWN




Victoria's Secret Pink announced that they are going to host PINK's most amazing party of the year at your school.They are starting round one of the showdown with 59 lucky campuses and need your help narrowing it down each day until there is one school standing! All you have to do is go to this website and vote for the school you want to win the party. On Twitter they have a count down of the days to remind participants when the winner will be chosen, which will be April 20th. So go to this website, sign in, and vote away!