Missy's Media Adventures

  This summer, I have dabbled in blogging. I’ve always thought about how easy it would be to be a content creator, and thought that people who do this as a full time job have it so easy. Boy, was I wrong. Coming up with ideas for posts that would be somewhat engaging was way more difficult than I had previously imagined. I definitely have a new found respect for those who blog or create content of any kind… without any prompt.   So, what’s next for this blog? Honestly, not sure. Truthfully, it will probably fall by the wayside and become another abandoned blog in the interwebs. Ideally, I might occasionally update it and treat is a reflection for my own education and professional experiences. What should I do though? That’s a completely different question. The right move for my blog is to take the skills (and the slight confidence) I learned through blogging and work on creating content on other sites with more foot traffic. I think my first step though, will be to take a step back fro

  After spending this summer learning about and interacting with Web 2.0 tools, I was curious about the future of Web 2.0 and how it might evolve in the future. I came across this NPR article by Bobby Allyn discussing Web 2.0’s impact on news sites. The headline is what drew me in: “Hard times are here for news sites and social media. Is this the end of Web 2.0?” I was thoroughly caught off guard and surprised by the headline.   The end of Web 2.0? After I spent the last twelve weeks learning about it? Impossible!  The highlight of the article was different news programs closing: Vice News Tonight, Buzzfeed News, Gawker, and Vox laying off part of its staff. Further, Allyn postulates that the rickety standing of these top sites leads people to believe that Web 2.0 as we know it is coming to an end. But then the question is raised, what comes next?   I don’t know. And neither does Allyn. The way people communicate via the internet shifts. People continuously develop smaller communities

  Now, this by no means an exhaustive list of Web 2.0 tools. This is just a list of the ones I liked and a little bit about it.   LinkedIn – This tool is great for professional networking and learning about different topics in industry. I added more people to my network, and interacted with people’s posts, sending them to people and commenting when I could.   Reddit – I have played with this tool before, but it has really grown in popularity for me the last few months. I like being about to sort content by a topic (subreddit) and interact with posts in a specific community without being inundated with a huge variety of posts  Pinterest – Picture and graphic sharing platform. I like this for the gallery style images and organization of ‘pinning’ items to different boards.   Blogging – This one doesn’t have a specific tool tied to it, but I used blogger. I grew to enjoy blogging and used it as a reflective activity and organizing thoughts based on different readings, interactions, and oc