questions: What are the advantages and disadvantages of social media? How might knowing these advantages and disadvantages alter how a person might use social media? One advantage of social media is the ability to stay connected to friends and family‚ especially those you may not see often. You can share photos and even host events which you can invite your friends to. Social media is also a good way to meet new friends and share interests with others. Most social media sites offer groups that you
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Tracking Social Media The Social Media Tracking Centre and the 2011 Nigerian Elections Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation About the Authors Dr. Judith Burdin Asuni is the Executive Director of Academic Associates PeaceWorks‚ a Nigerian NGO working in the fields of conflict management‚ peace and development and peace education. Dr. Asuni has researched and written extensively on conflicts in Nigeria‚ particularly in the Niger Delta. AA PeaceWorks has established a social media team to engage Nigerian
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Social media is a way of connecting people or a medium for sharing ones ideas. It’s technologies takes different forms like internet‚ blogs‚ forums‚ social networks etc. The qualities social media possess are reach‚ accessibility‚ immediacy‚ permanence. Today’s younger generation depend on social media completely as they prefer to be connected with the world through social networks like facebook‚ twitter etc. If we look up the statistics 93% of youth are active users of internet and 73%
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The advantages: Based on my own experiences‚ there are several advantages for marketers to use social media as part of their marketing communications strategies. Social media represent a revolutionary new trend in communication. More and more people begin to use social media to communicate. It is freer‚ more convenient‚ faster and cheaper than the old ways‚ people also can get more information what they want‚ what is more‚ people can get in touch with their friend easier. For the company‚ it can
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5 Must-know Disadvantages of Social Media: The wrong online brand strategy could put you at a viral social disadvantage and may even damage your reputation‚ i.e‚ when you make a mistake offline‚ a few will know but when you make a mistake in front of hundreds or thousands of you online audience‚ most of them will know! Using social media for marketing and advertising could be more time consuming than companies expect. In order to get social media’s full effect‚ you need to understand
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unplugged with social media. I am sure those too will join soon as well since social media is not just a platform for easy and simple advanced online marketing‚ it is also the revolution of our century! Many people have tried to capture the importance of social media. In today’s post‚ we will introduce to you the most must-know advantages and disadvantages of social media so you’ll be aware of how to use it in the safest and most valuable possible ways! 5 Must-know Disadvantages of Social Media: 1. The
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Television: Advantages: Convenient and Flexible: The television is a convenient and flexible advertising medium‚ owing to its widespread popularity and the ease with which a message can reach millions of viewers internationally and nationally. Television advertising allows advertisers the flexibility to use various approaches and different combinations of audio‚ video and text to make ads memorable and emotional‚ depending on the product or service or the target audience. Strong Impact: Television
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1 Developing Communication Strategy Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Types of Media Different media have different strengths‚ weaknesses‚ drawbacks‚ advantages and costs. An effective communication strategy usually uses a mix of at least 2 or 3 different types. Choice of media and format depends on: 1. your audience(s) √ 2. your budget √ 3. the communication channels best for your specific audience(s) and √ 4. how long the communication intervention will continue 5. and how critical
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Nowadays information is accessible to almost everyone in this world. We can exchange ideas and broaden our horizon with the help of the means of communication & Media such as comics‚ books‚ radio‚ television‚ film or theatre. However‚ I believe not all these provide good quality information and I will try to analyze them. First of all‚ I would like to compare two ways of broadcasting information‚ namely TV and books. In my opinion‚ books are much more useful than Tv is and I believe there are
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Disadvantages Of Social Media Social media can be define as “"a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological‚ multi -faceted‚ and technological foundations of Web 2.0‚ and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content." We are living in a world in which the social media is common and available to us. From Google to Facebook‚ the world has embraced the new tools that help us interact each day no matter where we are. The first disadvantage of social
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