Entry 10

Response to Podcast "Freakonomics: "Twitter is a 2 Way Street"

According to this podcast, it comes up a question: Is Twitter a Two-Way Street? This question means if you want more followers, do you have to follow more followers? Duncan Watts reveals a very interesting phenomenon that people who have top followers also follow a lot of people like Lady gaga, Britney Spears. Many people do not characterize Twitter as a social network, but we have to admit that it really exist reciprocity in a sense.

However, if these famous people do not follower many people, they will also have top followers because people focus attention on them. We are interested in their life and want to know more information about them. Therefore, there is no doubt that we can follow more people as a way to get more followers. More importantly, we need to have a good management on our twitter and provide interesting content to attract more people. I think that’s the most necessary thing that we need to do. 

Wikipedia Edited

Here is the Wikipedia page about Cixi. Cixi is my hometown, so I am very familiar with this area.

This section introduces the famous people in Cixi. However, I find Yang Xianjiang is not in the list. Yang Xianjiang is a famous educationalist who born in Cixi. He did a lot of contribution on education field and donated many schools in Cixi. I think it is necessary to add his name to the list.

Here is my new edited page link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cixi_City#Notable_people

my Infographic

I choose  TEDTalk is "Why we have too few women leaders" delivered by Sheryl Sandberg

Outline

A:     Sheryl Sandberg first expresses woman’s lucky in modern times but also points out the unfair phenomenon towards women.

B:     She comes up another issue that women face harder choices between professional success and personal fulfillment.

C:     She gives three suggestions to women who work in the workforce and analyze each with persuasive examples

        I: sit the table

        II: make your partner real partner

        III: don't leave before you leave

D:      End by Sanderg’s hope, our generation cannot change the situation. She hopes the next generation can change the statue of woman in workforce

My infographic model

Cite: http://www.payscale.com/cms-images/default-source/default-album/women-in-stem-careers-infographic.jpg?sfvrsn=2

What’s useful:

I like the basic layout is very clearly and appropriate tone, words and images combined with perfectly

What’s not useful:

Much statistics analyze is too burdensome. I need to delete some information.

How does this model accommodate the content:

 At the beginning of this infographic, there is a woman’s picture, I can add elements as what a woman in workplace looks like. In the analysis of statistic part, I can show the statistic that women are suffering unfair situation in workplace. Finally, some useful suggestions given to women in workplace can be added to the final infographic part. 
Here is my design on my infographic first draft

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Entry #9

      About the ways that Twitter bots be used in your story 

I think conflict is a significant element in the story. Every story narrative needs conflict so that people will have more interest to see this story. Our group is creating a company on dessert named “Candy Crush”. Dessert shop will easily be associated with first love and beautiful thing. There should be lovers becoming protagonist in our story. Originally, they fall in love with each other because of meeting in “Candy Crush”. Gradually, they have conflict with each other. The boy wants to make girl happy by giving ice-cream from “Candy Crush”. There should be a lot of conflicts between them in order to get more people’s attention. The main clue runs through the whole story is always “Candy Crush”. The advantage of Twitter bot is automatic. For this reason, the conversations between them will be published quickly and the plot will develop quickly.

As for other ways to use twitter bot’ conflict, first, we need to follow some famous people who have a lot of followers. Twitter bot needs to leave comments on the famous people regularly, like “I know a very delicious dessert “candy crush”, here is the link share.” In addition, it is necessary to follow some desserts expert. Act like a consumer that introduces great desserts shop for people. As for some key terms, like #delicious# #dessert# #candy#, Twitter bot also should make good use of these terms to attract people’s attention. 

Entry8

Response to Infographic Thinking Workshop

With the development of the society and technology, infographic has become a new way to deliver information effectively. According to the article, Infographic Thinking Workshop, I have a better understanding of infographic. “Infographics have become the key to changing culture and conventions as far as information consumption”. Compared with traditional ways, infographic can transfer complex information into vivid picture, which makes readers easy to understand. Therefore, it is quite necessary to hold Infographic workshop.

As for me, I want to join in infographic workshop. I think it needs certain skills to create a great infographic. It is not easy to summarize the content not leave out important points. Learn to summary is the essential thing to do. Simple picture does not mean anything. Under the principle of obeying author’s meaning, we also need to clarify ideas by showing infographic vividly. Readers also should have a different feeling towards reading an infographic compared with reading an essay. That should the direction where we should put our effort in. In addition, it is significant to draw people’s attention and interact with readers in a simple way. These skills should be learned in a infographic workshop. 

My Tedtalk Infographic

I choose  TEDTalk is "Why we have too few women leaders" delivered by Sheryl Sandberg

Outline

A:     Sheryl Sandberg first expresses woman’s lucky in modern times but also points out the unfair phenomenon towards women.

B:     She comes up another issue that women face harder choices between professional success and personal fulfillment.

C:     She gives three suggestions to women who work in the workforce and analyze each with persuasive examples

        I: sit the table

        II: make your partner real partner

        III: don't leave before you leave

D:      End by Sanderg’s hope, our generation cannot change the situation. She hopes the next generation can change the statue of woman in workforce

Reasons why this is a good TEDTalk

Sheryl Sandberg gives this lecture to the women who work in the workforce. She uses her personal experience and other people’s experience to show the phenomenon that women’s low statue in the workforce. Unlike other feminists complain about the social discrimination towards women, speaker emphasizes on the mental angle. She thinks women can get promotion by change their own views. This speech plays a role on inspiring women to fight for them, so it is a good Tedtalk. 

Reasons why it is a good subject to turn into an infographic

First of all, this subject has certain audience and has a very clear theme towards women statue in workforce. Then, the speaker also says some real statistics to support her ideas. The statistics can easily show in the infographic visually. It is significant to make an infographic to show speaker’s idea vividly. In the meantime, it is necessary not to leave out important points in the content. 

Alphabet

I find many different interesting alphabets. I spotlight the letters so that audience can see it clearly and I edited these pictures into heart-shaped.
Here is my resources link:http://www.ixinwei.com/html/life/picture/2011/1115/1535.html