Megan Lowe's Blog

       In Chapter Six, we learned about how building connections through apps like Twitter, is crucial to building your online presence, but also useful when it comes to building connections/networking with others online. An important quote that stood out to me in this chapter, was on page 100 where it said, "Shift occur from what you know to who you know from who you know to what who you know, knows. The value is in understanding how to tap into and leverage others' knowledge and experience once you figure out what fellow community members know." I 100% believe that having connections pertaining to your education, your interests, or your career, makes you gain new experiences, and learn more than you might already know.     When it comes to my career path in Event Planning, knowing and having connections in my field is very important. I have to know people who have planned many events, owns a particular venue, has other connections that they could get me c...

slides app smackdown   For my App Smackdown, I chose the app Facebook. Facebook is a social media app that is used mainly to share photos/videos with people you have as a friend. While this app is mainly used for this, it also has many other features. You can sell and buy almost anything you can think of sort of like a huge garage sale where everyone sells everything to each other. You can also create your own advertisements that will show up on other peoples feed depending on their interests. As well as buy tickets to a concert, book a reservation for any type of business you're interested in going to, and sign up for different groups.  With my career path being event planning, Facebook will definitely be a tool that I will use often. When it comes to planning events, a lot of marketing goes into making those events possible. People need to see advertisements to become familiar with the event and be influenced to go. On Facebook, you can create ads and collect income from the...