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Embarkment on a Vegetarian Path

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Reflection:

This was a very engaging and interactive experiement. I enjoyed expressing myself through my writing the series of tweets and experiencing it through different mediums has made it more and exciting. It bacame a way of sharing my story with a larger audience who may be primary vegetarians and vegans, and secondary, really anyone who has an interest in making that change. Allowing my audience to know me in a quick yet personal way quite challenging. Also challenging was going beyond the limitations of Twitter to turn a few tweets into a powerful tool where the story is divided over several tweets while keeping it cohesiveness. Learning this technique has added a new dimension to tweeting and it made me look at tweets as not just individual messages but connected to a larger spread of information.  I feel that my experience was a success and the feedback was quite positive.This only makes me want to experience more in different ways. It was interesting to think that if the tweets were posted over several days or even weeks, would the audience come along for the journey? I also feel that the audience are now a part of a large collaboration with me and can engage in the writing, editing, publishing, and reading stories.

Analytics:

Being new to Twitter, other than using it last semester in class and previously for class projects, the idea of posting it all over and linking it to other sites is quite new to me. I posted 15 posts which contained 3 photos. I find that the photos increase the likes and the discussions even more than just the text. My analytics is low because I have a lot to learn about optimizing my tweets for user engagement but this is a challenge I will happily participate in.

Archiving “Moving While Gaining Momentum”

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Reflection:

This was a very interesting experience for me being that I have had no interaction with Twitter other than reading tweets from other social media sites. This digital storytelling experience allowed me to tweet a story which I think I could write about. Looking back on my story, I think I was able to capture and retell the story as well as I could have taking into the consideration the affordances and constraints of Twitter. I believe that my story was successful in the sense that I was able to capture and engage an audience into participating within my story and having them actively take part in my tale. I was also successful in the aspect of not only telling a story but having very descriptive pictures to go along with it. In other ways I failed, for instance the use of emojis or emoticons did not come off as well as they would have due to my own lack of realization that they would not translate well on other media sources that were not Apple products. Also, the abbreviated language which I used made parts of the story hard to comprehend and understand which I believe took away from parts of it that were really important to the overall story. All in all this digital storytelling experience has taught me two things, that I must at all times be aware of the language I am using whether verbal or pictorial and how that language will translate over various mediums. With that said I think I will practice more digital storytelling on twitter as to become more familiar with the media platform and to practice how to effectively tweet.

Analytics:

Being that this was my debut on Twitter, I was able to post about 20 Tweets and engage 4 people, and also encounter about 3 spam pages who liked my tweets. I managed to post about 10 images which is the most amount of images I have posted on any social site in one sitting. My analytics for this project are rather low because I was only able to engage with the people who were a part of it although I tried using hashtags and such.