Saturday, September 4, 2010

Brainstorming Is A Bitch


I just came out the shower. Whenever I'm in the shower I tend to think about my work. Why I do that is anybodies guess.

I was thinking what I should be doing with the social media section for my on-campus news paper, The CHIMES. I have to admit that I was pretty stumped for the past few days trying to come up with something to do with Facebook and Twitter. I had been thinking that there wasn't a lot to do with Twitter and Facebook. You post what you are doing, or eating, or...ew...and what not, then you post a picture of something extremely random and you're done. But then I remembered, there are apps! Twitter has a slew of sites available to turn it into something different than what it was designed for. Facebook has thousands of applications which can change the tides of my thoughts.

I want to give my staffers some kind of work. I don't want them just posting things and that being it. I want them to do some research and find ways to prove my old thoughts wrong. Maybe I'll get them to find apps every week, like an App of the Week or something where they look for new applications to improve students productivity or usefulness of Facebook and Twitter and write small 250 word articles explaining them.

I want to make things better and more fun for them and myself.