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Reverse Engineering Post: Sponsored Ad on Social Media
Posted in COMM-315 on Nov 21, 2017
This post examines the pros and cons of a social media post from a company that was advertising on Facebook. The ad is from MuleSoft and it is trying to get you to download their e-book.
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Reverse Engineer Post: A Social Video
Posted in COMM-315 on Nov 09, 2017
While looking for a video to analyze, I came across this one ad on Facebook I had never seen before. It looked interesting. The ad is for Raw Shorts, a company that lets you create short videos on-line. They seem to be perfect for Social Media and using pre-built animation.
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Reverse Engineer an Article Promotion
Posted in COMM-315 on Oct 24, 2017
While looking for things to potentially write about, I saw an ad about the “5 Best Social Media Blogs” from a site I was not familiar with. After clicking on the link it took me to a blog that I was surprised with. It had some very good information on it. AS soon as I clicked on the ad, the ad disappeared and I was not able to get a screenshot of the ad I clicked on.
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REP - Brand that has designed their social channels well.
Posted in COMM-315 on Oct 10, 2017
The brand I am analyzing is that of a company I have followed for a few years and have used their products and services. The company is called SUMO or SUMOME (Sumo Me). They got started with a site called AppSumo. The entire premise behind AppSumo was to promote deals from other people and help drive business to your site. Sumo started out of the AppSumo site. Sumo.com now sells the tools that they developed for AppSumo.com that helped them drive their business.
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Personal Manifesto
Posted in COMM-315 on Sep 28, 2017
This is a big part of my personal manifesto. I will be updating each item with more details as time goes on.
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Analysis of Social Content Blog site
Posted in COMM-315 on Sep 27, 2017
Analysis is of https://www.copyblogger.com. This is a site I have been read for many years and one of the few blogs I read on a regular basis. They do quite a bit of social media marketing from their blog. The main purpose of what they advertise is that anyone can become a blogger. Their entire site is dedicated to giving everyone advice on how to become a blogger and promote their blog to the world. They do keep it down to earth and give you the struggles you will have to overcome to be successful in each area they teach you about.
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Social Media Campaign Analysis
Posted in COMM-315 on Sep 19, 2017
What makes a good social media campaign? This is an analysis of the one done by NASA called #AYearInSpace. I analyzed #AYearInSpace that followed Astronaut Scott Kelly, spending a full year in space. NASA’s #AYearInSpace campaign. This was about two astronauts that spent a full year in space and what happened to them. Astronaut Kelly constantly tweeted, posted content to Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and SnapChat. The objective was to bring to light what an astronauts in space does and to get more people interested in what NASA is doing. NASA did gained thousands of new followers. during this campaign.
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Portfolio Project - Week 13-14
Posted in COMM-130 on Apr 05, 2017
This is a compilation of all the projects that we did during this semester. I have added an additional one I did for a good friend of mine based upon the class work. I started by going through the feedback from the teacher and other class members and making changes to the projects to include into this final. I started with the first one and went through them one by one and made the changes that could be made based upon the feedback. See the Updates Description section to read about all the changes I did in each project.
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Brochures -Week 11 & 12
Posted in COMM-130 on Mar 28, 2017
I decided to do the brochure for a friend of mine that has been thinking about doing one. I thought this would be a great way to get something done for both the class and his dental business.
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Web Page Mockup - Week 10
Posted in COMM-130 on Mar 09, 2017
Design a web page mock-up using Adobe Photoshop. This is a new business that is a smartphone app that allows professionals and clients/patients communicate much easier. This site is to educate the people on the app and to gather sign-ups etc. The audience is two fold. The first is for the professional and the second is the professionals clients. Basically anyone over the age of 14.
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HTML & CSS Coding Project - Week 9
Posted in COMM-130 on Mar 01, 2017
Code a custom web page with HTML and CSS. There was no real critique process for this assignment. I did show it to a few family members to get their initial reaction to make sure that the page did not look weird.
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Infographic Project - Week 8
Posted in COMM-130 on Feb 23, 2017
Create and organize an infographic using data that we have collected on any topic of our choice. The process I went through in creating this graphic as interesting for me. I love data and so I have a lot of data sets in a wide variety of areas. The hard part was deciding what data to use and pair it down to just a few items.
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Business Identity - Week 7
Posted in COMM-130 on Feb 15, 2017
We had to create a logo for a company/service/organization and establish a visual identity across the letterhead and business card identity. The top thing learned is that most people I asked have no clue about what an icon is supposed to do and how you get it to become a recognizable icon. Most of the big brands that are household names have spend millions of dollars getting their logo to become such. In a small market you need to convey something a little different and not so cheesy like most small businesses do.
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Montage Project Week 6
Posted in COMM-130 on Feb 09, 2017
Our project this week was to create a montage with a spiritual message to it. We had to use three images and blend them all together. I was thinking about what I wanted to do and I came across the scripture and thought of the images. The image of Christ and Moroni were a definite and the one of the scriptures was one I had to look for. Tools that I used was Adobe Photoshop. I use layer masking, adjusting the levels of light on the main image and the brightness in a couple of areas. I used the lasso tool with a 200 pixel feather to cut out the images of Christ and Moroni to put on the main image.
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Photo design Project - Week 5
Posted in COMM-130 on Feb 01, 2017
By using photography skills and Photoshop editing, create a full bleed poster using good design technique and use of fonts, colors, and images. The process I went through was to look at all the things around where I live. Since I have been doing so much with our horses, I decided to do something along those lines. I did a quick Google search for quotes about horses and decided on one. That help determine the items in the picture.
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Photography Activity - Week 4
Posted in COMM-130 on Jan 28, 2017
This assignment was a lot of fun. I did learn a lot about taking photos and how to better use my camera. I do have to take photos of office spaces etc at times for my job to put them onto websites. Most people have no idea what a good photo is and how to enhance it with Photoshop. This assignment gave me a few more ideas to use. All of the images except the office lobby are from my own property. With 5 horses, we live on 5 acres of land. The office lobby is from a dental office that I updating the website for. I took close to 200 photos trying to get the focus correct for the foreground/background focus shots and that was not easy. To get the focus shots correct, I had to turn on the Macro option on my camera and it took close to 50 photos before I learned how to do it semi-correctly. I still need to practice with that.
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Prezi Presentation Assignment - Week 4
Posted in COMM-130 on Jan 26, 2017
This assignment was to create a Prezi presentation using https://prezi.com website. The presentation is to be an instructional presentation on a topic of our choosing. I thought about the various things that I could teach about in a fairly quick manner. The ideas I had were Welding, Replacing a car radiator, Ham Radio essentials, and Horses. At the start of the project I was planning on doing all these things on the Saturday at the start of the project. These would have all been easy for me to document. I decided on horses because it was the easiest to take the photos I was going to need to use.
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Magazine Cover Assignment - Week 3
Posted in COMM-130 on Jan 19, 2017
The description of the assignment was as follows: We are new interns and have been tasked with creating a magazine cover. The cover had to feature ourselves as the main topic. We had to use good design principles with layout, color, alignment and fonts. The process that was used to do this assignment was a hard one for me. I personally do not like to have my picture taken, have people look at me etc. Deciding on the theme was a hard one in that I do a lot of very different things. Since the last four months most of my free time has been take by an upcoming Hamfest (Ham Radio event), I decide to do a magazine cover from one of the magazines for the hobby.
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My Intro - Week 1
Posted in COMM-130 on Jan 08, 2017
This is an introduction video that I had to create to introduce myself to the COMM-130 Visual Communication class at BYU-Idaho.
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Which Computer Type, which is best for me?
Posted in Miscellaneous on Dec 15, 2016
Which operating system is the best one? I get asked this a lot and the answer is it depends on what you want to do. Are you going to be doing a lot of number crunching like an accountant or financial advisor? Will you be doing multi-media editing such as movies and audio files? How about just surfing the web doing shopping, e-mail, and writing the occasional document? These are all the main basic uses that over 90% of users fall into. You need to identify which one fits you the best.