LO3: Understand how global industries use social media

Why is social media a useful tool for global industries when managing a project or campaign? 

• Social Media is a useful tool because to allows them to reach a mass global audience. 

• You can monitor the public opinion for instantaneous feedback. 

• Ease of collaboration, you don't have to be in the same location anymore. 

• You can give updates to your customers and get them to interact. 

Folksonomy - Where you see instances where you encourage your audience to interact with your post 

LO3: Requirements:

-How to develop a project

Apart from personal and social by prosumers and grassroots productions, social media is increasingly used by media professionals, to generate ideas for projects and use online tools and social mediators collaborate:

What is a prosumer?

Someone who both produces and consumes media 

What does grassroots production mean?

Grassroots production is an authentic original product that is created by some form of prosumer. An example would be people sending in their own videos of information/events to a news channel. 

Name three documents/ software's taught in U2 that are you to manage a project/ production in the pre-production stage.

Production Plan/Schedule - Can organise your assets, also shows deadlines/milestones.

Visualisation Diagram - Useful for any kind of print campaign. 

List and explain at least 3 benefits of project management and collaboration through online methods (globalisation)

Pick at least three and give a summary of their uses. The resources that are classified as subscription-based tools still have a bullet list of key uses and can therefore still be used.

19. Teamlab

Can be used for internal team collaboration as it encompasses multiple computing features blog, forum, wiki, bookmarks.

29. Podio 

Organises any aspect of business operations, from team communication to project management and even scrum-like software development. 

22. Kapost

Kapost is a cloud-based platform for managing content and campaigns

I have decided to choose Podio as I feel that it is the most effective for my work. Despite it being a subscription only with no free trial this isn't a problem.