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The 2023 Social Media Workshop and Live Tweeting

 Last Friday, we as students got to partake in the #ONUSMWorkshop23. Honestly, I do not know what my expectations were, or what they were supposed to be, but when the clock hit 4:00 pm, I felt grateful to have the chance to attend and listen to the people I listened to.

For my live tweeting assignment, I attended the presentation by Dr. Phipps. First, I want to say I attended this for the sheer fact that he is one of my current professors and I think he is great. I am not in his podcasting class this semester, nor have I ever taken it, so I thought it would be cool to hear him talk about the subject. He started off by briefly touching on his past with owning multiple television and news stations. He then shifts to talk about the iHeart Radio podcast awards from 2022. Something I took away from this was seeing the many different categories of podcasts. You can literally start a podcast about anything.

After this, Dr. Phipps discussed what it takes to become a successful podcaster. He asked the crowd what we think is the most important skill to have. No one said what the answer turned out to be which I found to be surprising. The most important skill to have for creating a podcast is passion. This made so much sense to me after hearing the fact. How is someone able to constantly pre-produce, produce, and post-produce a podcast again and again without having the passion to do it? Without having passion for it, you likely will not get far down the road. Phipps then mentioned this exact thing by informing us that many podcasters rarely make it to the third episode. A couple of things could lead to this such as burnout, low engagement, and even impatience. 

Some of the most important things to consider when making a podcast have to do with why you ultimately want to start this podcast, your audience and who you want to reach, your topic, your podcast name and your platform. As Dr. Phipps mentioned, Spotify is a great platform for podcasting as they introduced "Spotify for Podcasters" earlier this month. As mentioned earlier, I did live tweet his presentation on my second twitter page, which my username for the account is: Cade_Higgins_56. Twitter page

I enjoyed taking part in the workshop and being engaged with the speakers. It was nice to hear many of the same things we have talked about and learned about so much in this class up to this point.  







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  1. AnonymousMarch 28, 2023 at 3:37 PM

    Chase Coburn: Great insight into how Twitter uses advertisement. I think twitter is kinda sneaky when using ads because when I use twitter it just depends on the day when seeing ads.

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  2. Ryan MinottMarch 29, 2023 at 1:30 PM

    Great post Cade! I found the workshop to very informative as well and I had a great time learning about podcasts!

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