Final Exam Reflective Post

Over the course of the last 16 weeks, BIS 315 has been a really unique experience. I really enjoyed working with the CMMA group as we created a social media guide and recommendatinos for this professional organization. It was a great experience to be able to perform this work first hand on an active group's social media strategy. I think that it was a great reality check for student our age to be able to speak with people in different generations about their views and knowledge, or lack their of, of the social media. I plan on following up from a far to see if they make any active changes to their social media streategy within the next couple of months based on the recommendations we have. I also think that they truly understand now how complicated it is to fully implement an activie social media structure.

Going forward, I will be entering the world of student affairs very soon. While my position will not directly involve managing the social media strategy for a university or college, I will directly be working with college students. I do think that it is important to have an understanding of how social media is constantly changing the way young adults communicate, behave, and collaborate. Both professionally in the classroom and socially in the living environment, interactions are changing as a result of the presence of social media. I believe that my experience in BIS 315 has given me a better understanding of how we can utilzie social media as a productive member of the community instead of to cut down others or degrade communication skills.