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Friday 18 February 2011

Time to get Twitter I think...

We had a guest speaker in our lecture today, DoJ graduate Lauren Currie. Lauren graduated in product design, and now co-runs a small business with her friend Sarah (I can't remember her full name, sorry...) called 'Snook', which focuses on service design. When she asked who knew what this was, I was pretty embarrassed to see the number of people who did know, considering I didn't have a clue. However, she went on to describe what exactly it is that her business does and how it helps people. Instead of me trying to explain it all though, here is a link to their website - see for yourself!


Lauren was also really trying to stress the importance of social networking, whether it is over Twitter or Skype, basically you just have to 'get yourself out there' - a frightening thought. To force your presence onto people? Sounds daunting, but when you think about it really it is no different to the every day situations we face without giving them a second thought.  Here's a question - why is it that we can all sit on the likes of Facebook each and every day for hours on end, communicating with people constantly, giving our thoughts and opinions without personally being asked, yet the idea of maybe... Writing a blog post for example, can really stump us? Consider the fact that if someone is on your blog, chances are that they are interested to see what you have to say. Facebook? Not so much. So maybe it's time to stop getting so worked up at the idea of writing a blog post and use it as a tool to get your ideas across. 
I know I have kind of gone off on a tangent but I guess that is what lectures are for, getting students thinking for once! 
Anyway, I think all who attended the lecture could see that Lauren has been pretty successful so far. She has done a great job with her business and has had some opportunities that many could only dream of, deservedly so as she has worked very hard from what I could gather. So good on her!

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