BLOGS
I have managed a variety of blogs for both school and personal interest. While some are no longer active, they served beneficial purposes for my education and helped me develop my skills in the area of blogging. I have listed them below in order of active to least recent.
Live Life Virtually
http://livelifevirtually.wordpress.com/
Topic(s): Virtual Worlds
​Launched: December 19, 2013
Status: Completed
Purpose: Course assignment to discuss select course readings on virtual spaces and our experiences in Second Life.
Summary: Having already experienced a lot of Second Life on my own prior to this course, I initially used this blog to explore my past experiences with those discussed in the course readings. I also used this blog to discuss the development, creation, and proposed expansion of my virtual identity research project.
Rapunzel's Adventures
http://rapunzelsadventures.wordpress.com
Topic(s): Health, Nutrition, Fitness
​Launched: March 26, 2012
Status: On Hiatus
Purpose: Personal Interest
Summary: When I started on my journey to improved health, I was actively searching out information on new studies around health and wellness. I educated myself through seminars and workshops on everything for proper training form to nutrition. Through discussions with others in my communities, both online and offline, I felt the desire to share my knowledge and launched this blog to do so.
RunDiStyle
http://rundistyle.wordpress.com/
Topic(s): Endurance Racing, Costume Design
​Launched: February 14, 2014
Status: Completed
Purpose: Course assignment to explore a topic of personal interest following strict guidelines in terms of posting times, attributes, and requirements.
Summary: The purpose of this blog was to fulfill strict requirements within each post demonstrating proficiency in blogging diversity and well as following an overall progression through the select topic. In my case, I selected costume design for endurace racers, starting from idea through to design and ending with creation.
Social Media Succinctly
http://socialmediasuccinctly.wordpress.com/
Topic(s): Social Media, Organizations
​Launched: September 11, 2012
Status: Completed
Purpose: Course assignment to explore topics around the use of social media in organizations and namely for the purpose of engaging customers.
Summary: With this blog, I covered a variety of case studies where organizations either successfully or unsuccessfully attempted to use social media as marketing tools. Most cases found that companies struggled with reaching clients through these new avenues but a select minority managed to execute social media strategies that significantly benefited their agendas.