My feedback on BCU feedback on my Social Media Projects
I have always believed in constructive criticisms. Actually they are a kind of feedback I appreciate most after sincere congratulations.
To be honest I did not find any hint of constructive criticism in the comment I received about my social media projects by the panel of lecturers who attended my presentation.
On the contrary it looked like a criticism meant to be a mere criticism without any hope in the hell of being helpful to me.
If they did not see that my social media agency having the possibility to exploit the opportunity to make social media campaigns on my own social network was a meaningful business idea, it’d better I speak with my main target group which are companies which already engaged in social media and social media campaigns and found them extremely profitable
In fact I have never presumed to pass on the knowledge on a so broad and growing industry, such as Social Media, in only 7 minutes because I consider “learning” a long and varied process.
Actually I live and work in social media since 11 years. My first approach was a long contribution to the successful Marketing List, directed by Elena Antognazza, many years ago. 11 years passed quickly but I did not waste any of them outside social media. I have always been in there.
As the panel of lecturers attributed the quality of being too open to my Social Network, I can only say thanks to them from the hearth.
Furthermore Blomap is a Generalist Social Network in terms of topics, so it wants to be wide open and leave users free to invent their own way to use it.
As for what differentiates Blomap from other social networks, well it is something I wrongly presumed it was clear as it is based on maps and blogs. Anyway to clarify it again: Blomap is completely based on Geo Localisation of content, people and networks.
You can check here the most interesting Google maps projects and tell me if Blomap already exists.
In general my strong advice to people not understanding a website is to use it.
In fact, we are not speaking of books that you can tell to other people in your own way.
On the contrary we are speaking of Social Media, the most innovative communication channels nowadays.
They are meant to be experienced.
In addition to that my best suggestion for people coming from other industries and approaching social media is to be on social media. If you are not there you cannot get the sense of it.
Well, none of the lecturers attending my presentation ever joined Blomap.
This is supposed to be my constructive criticism to the feedback I received from BCU on my social media projects.
It is due to be done according to my Social Media Natives project, so please do not stare in wonder and surprise. Students’ feedback is something lecturers and teachers from all over the world should start at least to consider to face and to properly answer it.
Hopefully they should consider it helpful to become better lecturers and teachers.
The time of lobbies is over in all industries.
As my lecturer Paul Bradshaw (who was not part of that panel) said: communities which do not want to be open and to continuously change are supposed to die soon.
I could not agree more because we live in the INTERACTION ERA.
What I could expect is a sort of revenge taken by reducing my marks on next assignment as my teacher 20 years ago did for 3 years starting when I told her the class wanted a different learning approach.
Well, I do not care because I am studying to learn.
Normally if someone does not get high marks is because he has not learnt. So it is a teachers’ work to make the student notice what he hasn’t learnt.
Of course my question is: what haven’t I learnt?
Do you think my question will be answered?
I am not so confident about that…are you?
Web-development and usability improvements
The web-developer completed only today the html link functionality for Blomap because he had holidays and other commitments. All usability improvements are pending. I have to accept the delay and let it accept to the team
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