Social Media Affecting Lives

neighborly Media Affecting Lives There is no uncertainness that friendly media is expanding drastic exclusivelyy in the world, yet this change is not unless related to technology and the internet. Social Media is revolutionizing every aspect of our lives. The aim of this history is to summarize some of the important headlines mentioned in the conference that took place in the Ameri canister University of Beirut on Friday, December 16, 2011.The conference went over how neighborly media is changing fields such as education, culture, business, media and journalism, music and art, NGOs, politics, religion, human rights, science, the environs and the personal lives of everyone who is using them. The conference has gathered some remark adequate influencers from the Arab residential ara it was rich in the vocalisers and topics discussed. One of the speakers was the British Ambassador to Lebanon, tom Fletcher, who began his interchange by stating that accessible media can play a big character in highlighting and challenging human rights abuses.His main points were 1. Marc Zuckerberg and Steve jobs have impact people more than did Georges Bush and Osama Bin Laden 2. Social media can be utilize to get peoples voices heard as they travel must faster online. 3. It can besides be used to support the values we believe in versus the forces that oppose those values. This can all be done through social media, and he also discussed that no matter what the boundaries the government put on the internet and tries to manipulate and abrogate people, internet al tracks tends to overpass these boundaries.Quote if you pull a border around our internet, well build another internet around your wall. During Tom Fletchers discussion, the number of active participants who were online in the hall was remarkably noticed. Attendees were suitable to interact with the speaker as well with other attendees through screens present live twitter feeds. To Tom Fletcher, the number of people playing with their busy devices was a welcome sign of engagement rather than disengagement. Another speaker of the day was a Marketing instructor from the AUB, Mrs.Leila Khawli Hanna. She discussed that consistency is the main draw when using social media. Twitter has become a pre-requisite for one of her courses she states that as we develop in our humanity, we meet a lot of people who are somehow shy in engaging or defending their opinions. Mrs. Hanna faces this edit in her daily associationes at the university and thus came up with a vogue to include a screen (with the class page opened) in her class that shows live feeds from the learners.For her, twitter has been proven to intensely improve learners participation even out if certain learners were absent on the lectures day, they were still able to follow the lecture through tweeting. This has opened a way to increment the interaction whether among her and her learners or between the learners themselves. She co mmunicates a difference between people who follow a management with a digital strategy and those with a social strategy. * Digital strategy Tackles Company will shite * Social strategy Tackles people increases sales, performance, etc by connecting people together.It creates a companionship that takes the offline and put it online. Doing it that way will sometimes increase outputs, means and performance. Social media can be risky (having data constantly online available for unethical behaviors), therefore consistency is very important. almost other points of the day * Farid Chehab from social lion Burnett MENA tackled the impact of social media on activism, stating that while social networks are trusty at initiating & supporting public causes and mobilizing people, it proves less efficient in the languish term.This view was echoed during the Social Media in Business panel. The panel placed capacious emphasis on the positive impact of social media on businesses, it warned nev ertheless of one time hit (social media campaigns) versus maintained success and stressed the trouble of continuous engagement with guests. Nevertheless, Farid Chehab followed the online community and published his book on the vane (www. pari-rihan. org) for those readers who, having a book in the hand is not a good-natured thing. Ziad Kamel, founder and CEO of the Alleyway group talked about the impact of social media in Food/Beverage business. Before social media, 1 cheerless customer tells 7 people. After social media, 1 unhappy customer tells infinity of people. * Yorgui Keyrouz, founder and action president of Donner Sang Compter organization also discussed the way he uses the social media to spread the word for needed blood. He stated that after going online, his organization was able to help in saving peoples lives more than they ever imagine they would.Some statistics from the day * 27. 3 million drug users on Facebook * 1. 9 million user on Twitter * 100 million viewe d youtube videos every day * 77% of Facebook users have liked a brand through FB * 50% received customer service via Twitter At the end, social media is here to get so better use it and benefit from it in a way to increase the volume of the different aspects in our lives, as this volume is decrease in the real world. Quote If youre not on social media, you dont exist.