Wednesday, August 5, was a rather significant day for me. Significant not because, I had recently finished a 65 page paper that demonstrated how as a journalist and radio co host, I developed an extensive social network were I was the major HUB, and used Facebook extensively in media and on the radio program, Take Issue.
Not significant because, I had just submitted the final paper for an upper division mostly theoretical, social networking class writing,
"the media industry is a complex social network that is collapsing and to bring synchrony and emergence to this chaotic network, an internet media enterprise Hub, that collects and disseminates information back to the social network through the convergence of broadcast, online (print) and radio media all controlled by free software can be used.”
Wednesday was significant because, of Paul Dunay’s blog entry posted, on the Marketing Prof’s Daily Fix, Time to replace your Online News Room with Facebook.
The author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies, Dunay said, the idea to use a blog as an online news room was one of the panel discussions at the 2007 Marketing Profs’s conference.
Dunay writes,
”Think about it. You can set up a Facebook Page for your business, use the Notes feature to upload all your press releases from your site automatically from your RSS feed (see chapter 5 of Facebook Marketing for Dummies), add a bookmarking service like Del.icio.us as an application or widget, add photos or import photos using the Flickr application and add Videos or import them via the YouTube application. And BINGO you have the same thing just using your existing social media presences and wiring them together and its free.”
The words of his blog entry were significant because, they gave credibility to the theories that I have been studying formally since Jan. 2008 and presented in two separate papers that I had just finished and submitted for academic credit.
More importantly, the words of this veteran of social media opened the door wider to the theories of social networking by recognizing the importance of a hub in a social network.
“But best of all you take your news room from being an island on your own website or worse hosted on someone else’s website like on WordPress and move it to a place like Facebook where millions of people can interact, comment and discuss the news if they chose to do so, said Dunay.”
Wednesday was a significant day.
