So after the tedious task of setting this blog up (and coming to the realisation I lack any technological skills beyond Facebook) the time has come to start writing.
It’s fair to say that I, like so many other media students, have attempted to start a blog. The concept of a blog begins to arise, the niche market is in sight, the name and theme are envisioned and then… BANG! The enthusiasm fades and so to the chance of that wonderful blogs birth.
My idea to start an online journal has been revisited over and over, and the constant nagging of my Mum to get work out ‘there’ is forever haunting me. The insufferable reminders that “Potential employers will Google your name Felicia” and “You are so good sweetie, show the world what you’ve got”, would motivate anyone to start a Blog, right?
Well not me. Fear and apprehensions stop me every time. How the hell do I write for a blog? What the hell do I write? The concept of being rejected by audiences, and my work going unheard, suppresed any natural ability.
If that fear was hell, then Network Media is heavens Archangel dragging me back to the surface of reality.
The first Lecture (oh excuse me I mean Symposium) was a vision of god- a blogging god that is. I came to the sudden realisation that we would be exploring the EXPLICIT and TACTIC knowledge of the open, unbinded world of blogging and suddenly it hit me – this is what I needed to aid my already embedded writing skill!
This idea was reiterated through Adrian Miles’ Blogs in Media Education: A Beginning.
It’s as simple as 1, 2, 3!
1: building an online identity.
2: support interconnection through, hashtags, comments options and links.
3: Link it all together with a knowledge of network literacy.
Add a hint of your personality and you’re good to go!
Time to get those seeds of thought planted!
-Felicia-
Image sourced: Photo courtesy of an Anonymous Account on Flickr.
