Facebook

Facebook has taken over the world. Facebook is a social networking tool that allows you to integrate every person that you are friends with as a part of your life. You can upload any type of media as well as, post information regarding your location and who is with you. I think Facebook is very limited. You can only see and communicate with the people that are friends with you. It’s a great tool to spread information among people who share similar interests or friends, but not so great if people don’t have you as a friend or subscribe to your updates. Facebook has become a very big part of the lives of the people who use it. There’s a lot of interpersonal situations that Facebook has developed many problems because of. For example, a lot of relationships (personal, romantic and professional) have been compromised because of the lack of privacy and the constant exploitation of information regarding how linked that person is to their Facebook page. Many if not most companies and organizations use Facebook as the direct way to interact with their demographic, customers. Some even use it as their main website or webpage. It is a great tool, to keep in touch with your contacts that aren’t in your demographic. For instance, if you have friends in a different country or different state, you could easily communicate with them for free. Rather than the “old fashioned” snail mail or post cards. You can simply leave a message on their wall and communicate with them. I’m not the biggest fan of Facebook, I use it often but in regards to using it for professional or media purposes, I think it isn’t as necessary as other platforms.

Twitter

Twitter has created this type of 140 characters or less environment. Twitter is an application that is available all over the world, on either a mobile platform or the use of a computer. You can “Tweet” a message or a status in 140 characters or less. Personally I think Twitter is the most powerful social networking tool. With most businesses and organizations being on Twitter, it takes very little effort to talk about a company, product, person and announcing it to your followers. You in fact are able to contact anyone who is in your interest indirectly. This creates that network. If you are sending out a tweet with a “#” this makes it a public tweet. So anyone who uses a certain word or phrase with the same “#”, this enables anyone who uses the same one, in the entire Twitter network. One of the biggest things about Twitter is that you need to learn to lingo. There are certain ways to utilize it to the maximum. Some people who are not patient or just want an easy to learn/use platform, may be turned away from Twitter. For those people Twitter will be just like another Myspace or Facebook status updating app. Twitter is a great way to share media among your followers as well as anyone in your interest that may want to know about that knowledge as well. Recently, I’ve used Twitter quite often and have made more of an effort to learn the lingo, and my efforts have been paying off. I’ve acquired many more followers and some of my recent “tweets” have been retweeted by some people I don’t know but support my postings!

Week 1 Assignment

The aesthetics of your blog or website is crucial towards the direction and evolution of a large expanding audience. If you keep your blog very basic and plain, you will only attract your friends and your family. If you design it with an elaborate or well thought out color scheme and template/design, you will attract people no matter what. Then once you add some insightful blog-type of material or input, people will look forward to seeing what you have to say and will eventually look forward to more posts of yours in the future. The audience you are aiming for will very likely line up with the interests that you will be posting and blogging about. The more you break down your blog information, the more and broader of an audience you are reaching out to. What I usually do, is to make sure to write down in one word what exactly I am talking about or referring to. Once I do this, I add these "one words" as tags. Anyone who is writing or reading in these one word categories or tags, will read your post as well.

About Mike Cohen

About Mike

I’m Mike Cohen born and raised in Brooklyn(Canarsie), New York City on February 21, 1985. This past spring, I rode my Felt Z100 road bike from La Jolla, California to New York City to celebrate the past six years cancer free. I organized, fundraised and mapped out the entire excursion, every step of the way. With the help of a few friends and awesome people in my life, we raised a ton of money to help us get across the country. Over 3,168 miles and 125,000 feet of elevation climbed, not only did I obtain brutal farmers’ tan lines and rock solid calves, I obtained fearlessness. Ever since my return, I’ve built my life back (from having sold and given away every solid possession of my life) to the point of me returning to my motivational speaking and public figure career direction. I am focused on developing my innovative and passionate ideas into various means and continue to find ways to expressing the power of passion and having a goal to reach for.

Please continue reading this blog to follow me in every step/pedal along the way.
Health and happiness,

Mike