LAST POST – Digital footprint’ analysis, evaluation & recommendations

Hello everyone.

Today is the last post for this subject Digital Communications Management. It has been a great pleasure to post weekly content and learn myself while possibly teaching others. So for my last blog post, I have put together a 6 and a half minute video that evaluates a website named HoMie. All the information is explained throughout it and sums up a lot of what I have previously learned.

Thank you to the people who have been with me along the way and to the ones that have only recently joined. Hope you enjoy and will talk later.

Video URL: https://vimeo.com/294151972

Beer and BBQ Festival Proves to be a success

On Saturday the 25^th of August, Mackay was greeted with its first ever Beer and BBQ Festival held at Harrup Park in South Mackay. Hosted by the Harrup Park Country Club themselves, the festival brought together locals and people from outside the Mackay region to socialise and have a fun day full of entertainment for everyone. Sponsors that supported and helped this event take place included the 100.3 Radio Station, Triple M 98.7 and Porters Mitre 10.

Harrup Park Country Club

100.3 Radio Station Vehicle

For anyone who did attend the festival, they’d be sure to agree that there was no shortage of entertainment played out throughout the day. Mackay’s Best Sausage and Chilli Eating competition took place which drew the attention of many attendees. The other main event was the music competition where many bands and singers took to the stage to show off their talents and prove who was the best.

One of the many bands preparing for their new song.

As far as the beers go, there was without a doubt more than enough to go around. 12 breweries were present at the festival. A fun fact that was mentioned throughout the day was that there were at least over 40 different beers and ciders, which ranged from local to the most common across the country.

One of the brewery stands found amongst the Festival

The festival didn’t stray far at all from the BBQ theme. There were many foods stands that served different types of sausages, burgers, chips and more. One spot that seemed to do very well in particular was the kebab stand. This much like the brewery stands, was always busy throughout the day attracting many hungry mouths which was perfect for people drinking.

Twitter post by Tylah Kinbacher

Live music was also played while all activities and small events occurred. While being amongst the crowd, we got some feedback from the people themselves. One individual named Dan Rinaldo from the Far North Queensland area in Ingham had this to say, “Heaps of good songs being played from live bands and that which is good.” He continued to state that previous festivals in his experience usually do not play the best of music, though he was impressed with this festival’s choice of music.

The Festival overall was a great success and it is safe to say that this will without a doubt be making a return in future years. Judging by how much fun people had and how they were talking about the event, this will definitely help support this all occurring again. The First Beer and BBQ Festival 2018 was one to remember.

Check out the video: https://vimeo.com/290217516?activityReferer=1

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LinkedIN – First Impressions

After never before using LinkedIn, I finally had set up an account and looked through how the basics work. First impressions of the site are that it is very customizable, leading to the ability to see the jobs that you are interested in and see what they have to offer. This is the main advantage that the social media platform holds. Another advantage that I found is that people can communicate. Business are able to share their news and content with not only people and customers, but other businesses.

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Sharing ideas and getting them out there seems to play a huge part in LinkedIn, and because of this is the main reason that it works well for businesses. Not only the ideas but showing off projects and designs is great. Practically any piece of content that can attract people to your profile and business is available to be done on this platform.

If I were asked if I would recommend this website to anyone trying to expand their own brand, website or business, I would definitely say yes. Apart from getting used to the site and finding out all the other less known skills it has to offer, it is great for all people in this position wanting to work with others and share content.

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Social Credibility Podcast

Hello everyone, today’s post is something a bit different. Below is a quick 2 minute podcast which goes over what social credibility is and it’s importance with online communities. Go check it out and see what you may learn.

2 Minute Podcast – Social Credibility

Podcast Transcript

“Hi everyone, today I will be explaining social credibility and why it is so important for online communities. Now first of all, we live in a different world then older generations before us. A lot of advertising and marketing was done face to face or at least somewhat physically, whether it was through newspapers, posters, meetings and so on. Though in this day and age, things have changed and whether people like it or not, we all have to adapt and get with it to move forward in business. There are countless people online in social media platforms that like to keep updated with certain subjects. This is where online communities can thrive and make the most of reaching out to their customers and branding their sites. However, this cannot be done right without social credibility. This basically is what makes the audience at the end of the day feel like they can most of all trust the site that is producing the available content. Furthermore, the content itself of course is extremely important. If it does not contain good and decent quality, this can put off the viewers and affect the brand. On top of this, the content should be released at a consistent time. Engaging with the audience and keeping them updated is what will make the viewer interested and eager to see what is next. Now as I have talked about in my previous blog posts, there are obviously many different social networking platforms that exist, and knowing how each one works differently to the others is crucial in gaining social followers. Respecting the different limitations and rules that exist is important, though testing those limits and figuring out creative ways to show content on each one is what can determine the size of your audience. That is it for me today, so to all of you listeners out there tuning in thank you very much, hope you have learnt something new that can benefit you in the future and good luck.”