My take on the 25 best Twitter Accounts for Social Media Marketing

http://hub.uberflip.com/h/i/2233164-25-twitter-accounts-to-follow-for-social-media-marketing

This great article is littered with people and companies to follow to keep you engaged in what is going on in the Social Media Marketing world. Companies we have engaged in with class like Mashable, Hootsuite, and Econsultancy. It even includes people, like Gary Vaynerchuk, author of the very interesting Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook! I look forward to using this list in the future to capitalize on the things I learned in class and hopefully keep them with me throughout my career in the always evolving world of Social Media.

Playoff Season Has Started in D.C.

The NHL and NBA playoffs have begun. That’s good news this year for the two teams that occupy the Verizon Center in our Nations Capitol. The Wizards and Capitals are both in the playoffs at the same time since the early 2000’s. Good news for the city and their owner, Ted Leonsis.

The playoff season got off to a slow start thanks to the Capitals last night and the Mr. Hyde version of their extremely talented team. I say mr. Hyde because of how passive and boring to watch they are. Usually when you make this comparison the Jekyll is the bad side, but the capitals need a little more Jekyll in their game to play to their maximum potential. They need to play mean, Ovi plays mean every night, and he brought it last night you know he’s going to in the playoffs. But the rest of the team was soft, and that’s too bad, because we just gave home ice back to the Islanders. Need to win Friday and take care of the rest from there. Not time to panic, but someone needs to get mean.

The wizards will begin their postseason push early Saturday on ESPN. Im not expecting much from this group, I’m cautiously optimistic they can escape the first round, but it’ll be hard to overcome a bone head coach to get much farther than that. Wittman holds this team back, and John Wall’s stardom, dominance, and leadership overcomes most of that, but Bradley Beal needs to be let loose, let the man eat, because he’s 21 years old and hungry. I realize he may not be 100% but PP takes too many shots from him and he doesn’t play enough alongside Wall. Figure it our Wittman, cause this team is going to be good soon.

My Experience With a Beta Version of Google Glasses

Back in 2010 when i was a high school junior I had just gotten the hottest new android for christmas. As i was exploring all the ins and outs of my very first smartphone i stumbled across the app store and begin downloading all the free and interesting apps that I could find. One of those was an extremely early edition of google glass, maybe even the first.

Here’s how it worked, once you selected the app it would automatically open to your camera and ask you to take a picture of whatever it is you wanted to know more about. Say you pointed it at an xbox, the google glasses software would recognize that product give a quick summary, list places you could buy them and how much they would cost. Know i picked an xbox because that is a fairly recognizable item, from my experience the glasses had trouble identifying objects that were not very popular, something I found interesting. However if whatever item you were trying to find out about more in depth had a barcode the google glass technology doubled as a bar code scanner and would retrieve select information through that.

While i did not find the app very useful it was cool to play with, show off to friends, and use it as a talking piece, but it did not have any value to me personally. I think it is cool to look back at large apps when they were startups or even large companies when they were just getting off the ground and seeing exactly what kind of thing they were trying to accomplish at the beginning and what they are focusing on now.

Opening Day Countdown: 4 Days

The Major League Baseball season begins Sunday night, and once Monday comes around there will be baseball just about every day for the next seven months. Some could care less, some not at all, but for me opening day is one of the best days of the calendar year. Spring is finally arriving, pools are opening and summer is just around the corner.

But baseball is going through a change in command this season, welcoming in a new commissioner for the first time in over twenty years. Rob Manfred replaced Bud Selig at the end of last season and he has some ideas that will hopefully speed up the game so they do not last over 3 hours, and make it more fun of an atmosphere in the ballpark. They’re challenging issues that present themselves for the future of baseball, but what if it isn’t really broke? Yes, the demographic is much different then any other professional sports and the engagement they get from 18-30 year olds is not ideal. But owners are obviously still making money if they are offering 220 million dollar contracts almost every offseason for the past four years. That number is going to skyrocket in the coming years by the way, because players like Bryce Harper, Mike Trout, Kris Bryant, and many other young superstars are going to get off their rookie contracts and want to get paid and they know they can get paid in baseball. So, again maybe baseball thinks they have a problem with their demographic, but if 34 years old, second tier catchers can sign contracts up to 80 million dollars then baseball is doing just fine. Ask the owners about their television deals.