This is part 5 in an arc based on my last visit with the UMass Lowell Strategic Management students about a week ago. I shared some questions I asked them in Notes from UML's Strategic Management Class - Q&A, Part 1. This is the fifth posting of answers and we start with a little dissent.
2) how does/will the TrueUML site contribute to meeting that goal?
I personally don't think the TrueUML site will have THAT much of an effect since it will have pretty much the same contents as our MySpace. I'm sure we are not going to do anything different. Maybe if we redirect TrueUML site to the MySpace page, then I think that's okay. TrueUML.com is definitely easier to remember than www.myspace.com/trueuml. I agree that if the two sites have much the same content, one is superfluous. A question, then, is "Should the two sites have the same content?"
3)The YouTube site?
Now this I think is the best way to get exposure since they get so many hits a day. I've seen people as old as 60 doing a video blog and kids as young as 7 acting goofy on cam. Also, instead of doing a text blog on MySpace, we can do video blog. All you need is a webcam. There are so many different markets here that we can target. Easiest way for people to find our videos is to make our keywords/tags short and precise. We can copy the link or embed the html code onto forums websites. Again, I agree. YouTube will get much more traffic in general than TrueUML. I think the difference is in what kind of traffic each site will get. YouTube is the mall, TrueUML is a store in the mall. So this leads to another question, me thinks, "How can we get people walking through the mall to come into our store?"
Excellent points leading to more questions. Good work and nicely done.
Links for this post:
- Media Strategies blog posts
- Social Network blog posts
- UMass Lowell blog posts
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