Amy Sinclair is a public relations officer for the city and county of San Francisco. She has 14 years of experience running pr for San Francisco. She helped develop the government become involved on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
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What surprised me the most about the speaker is the amount of experience she has had with San Francisco. She also takes care of many different aspects of social media and new media for the county. She not only runs most of the profiles for the city and county. To go along with that she also runs most of the blogs.
I really didn’t understand that in a job like that, you are extremely busy with all the different events and things on the Internet you have to take care of. I don’t even know how she was able to come to Whitewater and give us a talk with how busy she must be.
The best part of her presentation was when she explained what one must do in order to get people citizens involved. You have to make your posts actionable. Posting questions are something that gets people involved with your Facebook or Twitter profile. You can get comments on your Facebook page or you can get people to re-tweet your tweets.
This didn’t really change any of my views of social media. I already knew most of the points she discussed and I really didn’t learn anything entirely new. I enjoyed seeing how someone else used social media in their work and that was the most enjoyable part of her presentation.
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It is amazing how much work is done just to keep up any social media site. Who has time and patient to sit there and go through all of the comments, like the people who make YouTube videos, yeah they are just regular people making crazy videos, but who would want to sit there and read all the comments they get.
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed how she integrated social media in her work place. I am glad to see that there are companies expanding in social media. Getting a job in this field would be something I would love to do. I don’t think I could ever be bored at work because there are constantly new applications coming out.
ReplyDeleteI personally know off hand how much time it goes into managing social networking sites even for one organization. I do not want to have to sit at a computer all day everyday just to make sure that every suggestion, improvement and question is address. That can be exhausting. No wonder Amy only has about seven tweets to her name.
ReplyDeleteI too can't imagine how much time goes into her job and how she had the time to come to Whitewater and speak to us but I'm glad she was able to. I also thought one of the most interesting things that she talked about was how it's so important to get citizens involved. I myself give my opinion and answer questions to some companies and popular bands that I have on Facebook.
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