Rousta-plan Summary

I want to use social media in Austin, TX to promote the dance company at the University of Texas called The Roustabouts. To promote performances and fund-raisers around campus using tweets to followers and Facebook messages to fans. Promoting our company website roustaboutsdancecompany.com is another way of connecting with UT students and other dancers. Roustabouts is a UT organizations and in order to be ask to perform at university events we need to become a part of the community by getting our name heard and recognized. Posting videos on our website as well as YouTube is also helpful in promoting our name!

Social Media Paper topic

Dancers need a place where they can go to see all aspects of dance in one place…

I want to introduc new, up an coming dancers to other fellow dancers. By using Facebook to get the name out to a mass audience with a Fan Club. The fan page will have links that lead to my blog page. All dancers with a common passion can share and discuss the many sides to the art of dance.

On the my blog, I will collaborate all of the new videos, music, events and performances for all types of dancers. I would take live video of myself interviewing choreographers asking about what inspires them and post on the blog as well.

Also on the blog page, there will be a place where dancers can make comments and share their stories of inspiration.

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HERE ARE SOME PICUTRES OF OUR SEMESTER OF PERFORMANCES SHOWCASING EVERY STYLE OF DANCE!

Click here to view my slidshow.    http://www.flickr.com/photos/48960679@N03/show/

Hip Hop

Contemporary

Future of Social Networks…

It happened to Myspace, and it could happen to Facebook too…

        Everyone knows that Myspace was the 1st major social network that took a way to connect with others around the world to a new level. However, Myspace could not keep up with the changing wants and needs of the users. As soon as Myspace blinked, Facebook came into the picture with a more user-friendly social network. Myspace users were dropping their accounts and joining Facebook. Facebook is now the #1 social network site, but if they don’t keep updating it and giving users what they want, then some other social network is going to take its place.

Here is a Piechart showing the Myspace Vs. Facebook users:

     I think that is exactly what is going to happen in the next five years. Something new and exciting is going to pick up slowly and then phase out the “yesterday Facebook”. Facebook is going to get old to people and a new generation is going to want their own social network. No kid likes to use the same thing that their parents used, right?

     Because Facebook is very popular right now, it may take a few years for the users to switch over to something else. However, from past trends of social media, I think if another social network is find a new way of interacting with others over the internet, then it won’t take long for people to learn.

Myspace’s Tom Joins Facebook!  http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/myspace-tom-facebook/

Lose your keys?!?! No Worries! Key Finder can help you find them!

Here is how it works:

1. Press the Find Keys button.
2. The phone will give you a list of all the places they could be.
3. Check off which places you’ve looked until you find your keys!

News from the Dance World

JUST DANCE!

There are many t.v. dance shows on that are becoming more and more popular everyday.

 For example:

• So You Think You Can Dance?
• Dancing With the Stars
• America’s Best Dance Crew

But in the real dance world…dancers do not always get the spotlight of television. So we rely on social networks like Youtube and Facebook to show off our talents and creativity. I want to show you all styles of dance from dancers that are working hard to live their dream!  I will show you videos from maily from Youtube and some from Facebook.

Some of these videos will be of dancers and choreographers that I have discovered and others will be of me and people I know personally and want to share with you!

1st person I want to show you is a hip hop choreographer named Luam. She has a unique style of hip hop that is hard to find. Her website is awesome and she even has her own blog! Hope you like it!

CHECK OUT THESE AWESOME VIDEOS OF LUAM’S CHOREOGRAPHY !  Luam.net The dance world needs more people lik her…

Apple vs. Microsoft

Two computer companies dominate the computer and technology industry.  Apple, with Steve Jobs as the CEO and Microsoft with Bill Gates as the CEO. These two competing companies have very similar, yet different styles of management, development, and product. Microsoft is the computer company that developed before Apple. Because Microsoft was the first computer company to have personal computers it became widely successful. However, a young man by the name of Steve Jobs wasn’t going to let Bill Gates be the only successful computer company.

After watching some videos of each company’s development and how each CEO  managed things, I realized Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are very different. Steve Jobs of Apple, was a more motivational manager and Bill Gates of Microsoft was more competitive. Bill Gates is said to be very smart,  hard-working and known for his strict management of his company. He is very competitive even with his own friends.

Steve Jobs on the other hand, is known for being more about innovation of new products and knowing what the consumer wanted. He knew that competing with Microsoft was not the way to become successful. Jobs needed to make his product different from anything that Gates would produce. Apple software and hardware would look nothing like Microsoft’s software and hardware. Apple’ software is said to be more user-friendly than Microsoft’s software. Microsoft was more complicated to use by the average consumer. Because their software was so different, people tended to either choose Apple or Microsoft PCs…this was a huge gap between the two computers.

Here is video of an advertisement Mac vs. PC:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqZ8AqmLPY  It makes fun of how complicated PCs can be.

Today, Apple is the company to beat. Apple now had successful computers, but they didn’t want to stop just there. Apple has a wider range of products to sell, such as the ipod music player, the iphone, and itunes. Having more than just a great computer made Apple become even more successful than Microsoft. The Apple company ran under Steve Jobs are continually innovating the technology industry. Every time they come out with a new product and people begin to buy it, you turn around and there is a new cooler, more advanced product coming out and that is why they will be successful for many more years.

Roustabouts

Roustabouts is a pre-professional dance team at the University of Texas at Austin. I have been on Roustabouts for 4 years now, and I have been the director for about a year! I absolutely LOVE dancing with a passion!

We do all styles of dance:

• Hip Hop
• Jazz
• Contemporary
• Tap

Visit our website!    roustaboutsdancecompany.com

“Learning to walk sets you free. Learning to dance gives you the greatest freedom of all: to express with your whole self the person you are.” 

- Melissa Hayden

History of the Internet

I watched a video in my Social Media course about the beginning  of the internet and I found it very interesting!

It’s amazing how far the technology of computers have come in just a few decades…

Computers started out as HUGE message processors as just a way to communicate from one machine to another, then later became PCs…and now they’re in the hands of most Americans today! Unbelievable!

 

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This is my first blog ever! My name is Sara. I am excited to start sharing with you my interests and things going on in my life!!