Cover It Live

Promoting Social Change through Theatre

Social Media Tips

6 Ways To Find Stories and Readers with Social Media in minutes

1. Pay attention to popular trending topics to see what is on everyone's mind

2. LINKS ARE YOUR FRIEND!!!!! Include links in your posts to your blog, story or any other information you want people to see. Links are enticing, people feel compelled to click them!

3. Posts links to your blog on face book and twitter as soon as you create a new post

4. Become allies with other popular bloggers and promote each other

5.Ask your friends and followers what they care about or they have any input on a subject... the comments will overwhelm you.

6. Don't think of a character limit as a bad thing. Think of it as an opportunity or a challenge to get as find a new creative way to attract readers to your story or post. Find the most provocative parts, slap on some alluring verbs, and leave something to the imagination and you'll have readers anticipating your tweets.

These tips were inspired by Journalism Next by Mark Briggs.

First Model UN Speech

This Winthrop Life Interview

Gossip

The story I chose to listen to was a story about gossip. The story had a lot of different angles. In the first act one of the producers of the show and her husband recalled and an experience they had with gossip at a hair salon. 

The second part involved a young woman from Malawi explaining how people there depend on gossip to save their lives. With so many people infected with HIV in Malawi gossip is sometimes the only way to find out who is safe to go out with and who is not.  There was also a professor from U Penn who hired local people to record all the gossip and other things they heard about aids so that she could compile the journals into a research project and publish them. 

The last portion of the story was a short story written by Rebecca Makkai. The story was about a reality television producer who was asked by her boss to try and use gossip to make two contestants on fall in love.

I felt that this story really embodied the narrative devices that were discussed in class and on Campfire Journalism. The story was interesting and had multiple angle like the three interviews with very diverse people and the short story. With the interviews the host wad very engaged in the conversation and and kept the people being interviewed engaged and interested as well as the audience.  I felt the addition of music that mirrored the theme of the segment really helped pull everything together as well. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/444/gossip

Winthrop University celebrates the life of MLK through service

On Monday Jan. 16.  208 students volunteered to do  various  service projects in the Rock Hill area.

The MLK celebration at Winthrop also included a candle light vigil and celebreation of liffe event on campus to unite students and community members in honor of Dr. King.