Women Working in Sports and Media Presentation

For my Senior Seminar class, we had to do a 20-30 min presentation of any topic related to the field we wanted to go into. The topic choice that I picked was researching women working in sports and media. With this, I found percentages relating to the areas of media that women work in compared to men. 

The numbers showed that men work mostly in all areas of media compare to women. The percentages aren't as shocking then you think, but it puts a perspective that media is a male-dominated world and that women have to try ten times harder to get into the field.

As a girl that wants to work in sports production, it shows that you have to work ten times harder and be able to do your job as best as you can. It also shows that you have to understand what you are going into. That you have to make the best of the situation that you are in and that it is all for one and one for all when you get the job in media as women compare to anything else. 

Below you can click on the link to see the powerpoint presentation of the project.

Women Working in Sports and Media

Boston - Photoessay - Here Comes April and the Boston Red Sox

Here Comes April and the Boston Red Sox

April is a busy month for Boston. It’s the start of playoffs for their hockey team the Boston Bruins and for their basketball team the Boston Celtics. But most importantly its the start of Red Sox baseball. The Red Sox are one of the oldest teams in the MLB and the city of Boston love their sox's. Some cities have two teams to pick from so the fanfare isn't as big and the city has to pick the team they love the most, but with Boston, they have one team and they love them. 

Friday, April 14th, I spent my day at Fenway Park, the stadium that the Red Sox play in. To be from New York, you are the number one target, they hate people from New York but to be outside made me notice the love they have for their team and the city of Boston. As happy they are in the month of April with baseball being back, it also brings back memories that happen on Patriots day of 2013, The Boston Marathon bombing. Walking through the city to get to Fenway, you saw people who lived in the city and volunteers help set up for the Marathon like nothing happen 3 years ago. You saw during the game everyone is talking about Monday like a normal day. It shows the meaning of Boston Strong and how much this sports team means for them

Walking through Fenway Park you saw the history and everything that you don't see at any other stadium. You saw how the past and present come together to make a great baseball game experience. The month of April is called for baseball, hotdogs, beer and for a city to come together to cheer their team on to another World Series ring and to see more memories made and let the bad ones fade away but keep the past with them in little memories.

Game Ticket - Tampa Bay Rays visit the Boston Red Sox - Score Ray - 10 Sox - 5

Fenway Park in placed right in the city of Boston. Everything around the staduim is almost simialr to the history and how old the stadium is.

Walking to the park - you can tell how old the stadium is and the history behind it - they havent changed anything major to the stadium since it was build

This jersey was hung in the dugout after the bombing - representing Boston Strong and the support the city had from the Red Sox - this gave them the power to actually win the World Series that season

All retired numbers in the Red Sox history - number 42 is retired all over the league for Jackie Robinson

All the World Series and Division Championships that they have won in the 116 years that they have been a team in the MLB

The city of Boston vie from the Green Monster - the tallest wall in all of baseball staduims - to sit up here you have to enter a raflie - could take years to get a seat

Only red seat in the outfield seating - farthest home run hit in Fenway - hit by Ted Williams

Jersey worn after the Boston Marathon Bombing - signed by all the players - only wear these jersey with the words BOSTON on the chest on Patriots day.

Warming up in the field before the top of the inning starts. 15 - Dustin Pedroia

Fan watching the game - Rays up at bat - Sox in the field

Pitcher Rick Porcello pitching in the game - He was the started - Won the Cy Young last season

Fans doing the wave - happens throughout the whole game

Fans reaction to the Sox player getting a double.

Why We Look at Twitter Analytics

Why We Look at Twitter Analytics

March 8, 2017

   Twitter is an outlet for a lot of people to use to gain an audience and talk about what they want with getting peoples reactions and opinion right away at times. But Twitter also has a way of making you realize you don't have that many followers as you like or people don't like the issues or the same topics as you. When you go on your twitter you never really think about all of this but at the same time you do when someone talks about how many retweets someone has or likes, and it makes you think why are they getting all this attention on something that you also are talking about and like. If you go under your profile you can click on analytics and it show you all the actions you have done throughout the years that you have used Twitter and you can see where you have gotten more followers, people took interesting in your account or your tweet and how many retweets and likes you have. Also, you can see what your top tweets were every month and almost see what your audience wants to see from you compare to what they might not want to see from you. My information was a little all over the place but not as bad as I thought it was going to be. To be honest, I don't fully care about social media and what people think, I use it to keep track of friends, family, my favorite athletes, and teams. Sometimes its an outlet to let angry or love out but not usually I don't like people knowing what I feel on certain topics because sometimes it starts something that doesn't have to be bigger than it already was.

  Some info I got from my Twitter analytics for these past 28 days that my tweets of 26 went up 333.3%, my tweet impressions of 4,116 went up 151.0%, my profile visits of 694 went up 24.6%, I was mention in 2 tweets and that follower os 131 that I lost 2. Within the seven days of March, my top tweet was "Watching the Rangers powerplay is like listening to someone tell & they can't complete the story cause they are all over the place...." with had one like and earned a 100 impressions. I haven't gained any new followers this month so far but in my March summary is two tweets, 763 impressions, 211 profile visits, and no new followers. When I looked at my summary for the whole month of February it was a lot different than March since its only the 8th day of the month. My top tweet for the month of February was "Social Media Monitoring Assignment - Public Opinion of Trump" which had no likes or retweets but it gains 495 impressions, it also gains 11 engagements. My February summary is that I tweeted 25 times, had 3,576 tweet impressions, 611 profile visits, 2 mentions and lost 1 new follower. 

Looking at the two months and seeing the different a few weeks into the month and a whole month shows that if you keep tweeting and engaging with your audience that more people will find your profile, see if they like what you are posting and made comment or follow you because they want to see more from you. I know when I see new followers on my account I look and decided do I want to block them or follow them or just not worry about them. If they have the info I don't really care about I don't worry about them but if they are a weird account that I don't want to see my stuff I will block them so I feel more comfortable with my information being out there. Twitter analytics makes you really think about everything that you are doing on social media and how you should truly use the content and make sure you are truly giving your audience the information that what to read and see when they are going through there newsfeed.

Blogging/Microblogging

Blogging/Mircroblogging

March 6, 2017

    Social media is an outlet for anyone to use to promote and share their ideas. Sometimes we use social media for sports, fashion, music, entertainment, politics or anything that can be talked about with a group of people. This weekend I went through all my social media outlets, I've noticed from my twitter to my blog that everything I talk about is related to sports like hockey, football or baseball or it is about photography and the beach. I didn't realize that when I went through most of my followers new and old that most of them are sports accounts tweeting or posting pictures about everything that is going on within those sports. Or that I follow people who post pictures of the beach or city as I do in my free time exploring New York or the Hamptons when I'm home on the weekends.  

   For our homework, we had to study the habits of two people we follow in their expert areas. So when I went through my twitter I picked two sports on is the New York Rangers Twitter account @NYRangers -(https://twitter.com/NYRangers) and the other account I looked at was Bar South N Celly - @BarSouthNCelly (https://twitter.com/BarSouthNCelly). These are two hockey accounts but they are totally different in so many ways but they are in the same expert area. The New York Rangers account tweets solely about the Rangers, what the team is doing, the score of the game, whose scores, the outcome and just interesting facts about the team. Their habits are to keep the fans and other teams update to on what the team is doing and how the impact they are having in the community and the hockey world. They are experts in Rangers hockey and not any other team in the league, which shows why everything in the weekend and all this time that I've been following them has just been about Rangers and the coaches, players, the rookies, prospects and anything else that they can relate to the team. While Bar South N Celly, is also a twitter account about hockey, it is an expert area is everything that is going on in the hockey world not just one team or the NHL. While looking at this account this weekend and all the time I've been following them when they started following me on twitter. They post videos, pictures and memes, and gifs of stuff that happen in pee wee hockey games to the NHL. They are projecting to a bigger crowd in that they aren't sticking to one area. They are experts with this because they are following all hockey fans from fans of every NHL team to college teams to pee wee teams. You see the impact on these two accounts on its followers because even though you might not like something they say or do in the long run they are giving you the information you want to see. Some can be good and some can be bad but it works everything in the end.

   Also looking through these accounts and others I realize that my niche and everything is mostly sports but my followers are mostly friends, family but sports accounts. My bio on my social media accounts don't always have what my interest are in but my profile or header photo does show my interest. I also noticed my niche but what I tweet and post about, even looking through Facebook I've noticed I post pictures of Rangers games or wanting to be at the beach or somewhere on Long Island. The impact of social media and blogging is something bigger than we really know until we go through everything we have and realize we really group ourselves with certain people and block out everything we don't want to see or hear about.