#SMEcom Presentation Recap

 

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For my Social Media Theory and course with @DR4WARD, three classmates and I came together to teach our class about social media e-commerce (#SMEcom). My #NewhouseSM4  social commerce team finished our presentation this past week and is retiring the #SMEcom hashtag, and I have learned A LOT about the awesome technology

we have available and the social commerce industry. Our presentation made over 119,000 impressions with an audience of over 28,000 the moment it ended, and the hashtracking report grew more hours later. It was pretty cool to see how much of an impact our little class presentation made in the Twitter-sphere.

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Throughout the #SMEcom curation, preparation, and presentation, I’ve learned so much about new social commerce technology and trends. Keeping up to date on social commerce news with my Google Reader was incredibly effective, and I feel that I’ve taken away a great deal of knowledge about an influential and significant industry in today’s society. It was extremely helpful to have a Pearltree for curating news articles, interesting blog posts, and worthy visuals for our presentation [the Pearltree for #SMEcom can be found clicking the pearl below].

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Beyond Pearltrees, my team used a handful of social media tools to keep connected, work from home, and continue the process of preparing our work. Google Docs was used to create slides with real-time editing and communication; Google Hangout was used on more than one occasion to review Keynote slides and share our progress with Dr. Ward; Hootsuite made it easy to follow our hashtag before, during, and after the presentation; and Twitter made it amazingly convenient to contact industry professionals and reach out to them for insight. In addition, Storify was used after the presentation to recap the live-tweeting done by @izzo_michael and the rest of the #NewhouseSM4 class [here's the Storify for our presenation].

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I can guarantee that I’ll be using these social media tools for future projects. Out of them all, I found Google Hangouts to be particularly fun; we were able to pull up our Google Docs, insert apps to collaborate, and we had to option to record the whole thing to upload to YouTube (or our blogs, if we so did desire). Through #SMEcom I’ve made some new connections, learned a great deal about social commerce, and implemented some really cool technology into my productivity and teamwork. Below is the slideshare presentation for #SMEcom- enjoy!

 

PearlTrees: Goodbye Bookmarks?

I became introduced to PearlTrees by my #NewhouseSM4 social media instructor @DR4Ward

a few weeks ago, and it is slowly changing the way I navigate online. PearlTrees is a website that allows you to visualize and hold on to websites and online content in groups (or “pearl trees”). The concept is more or less a bookmark website for your online curation, and it allows you to create “pearls” (much like bookmarking a page) under specific groups (bookmark folders).

The site takes much getting used to, and it’s confusing structure can easily drive one away from using it at first. It took me a while to understand exactly how to use the site; but once you know the basics of the website, “pearling” becomes efficient and enjoyable. My favorite part about using PearlTrees has been the accessibility of sharing content in team projects. When gathering research and compiling online content for team projects, PearlTrees has made it so easy to share gathered websites and visualize the flow of content gathering. Instead of emailing my team mates an endless list of hyperlinks, I can simply “pearl” a site and my team mates can instantly view, add and comment on the content I have curated.

My experience with PearlTrees has just begun, so I cannot give a true critique of the website. I am excited to see if and how I incorporate the site into every-day use, and I believe PearlTrees will be perfect to help me manage content for projects or work.