Meditation

What is Meditation?   Why Meditation?

Many people have different view of meditation.

Buddhist may think about a group of monks sitting together in silence and keep on following footsteps of Buddha.  

Christian may think to use meditation to get closer to God.  If you never try to it, you may still be wondering “Why meditate?

Meditation is a means of transforming the mind. 

•  There are many things in life that are beyond our control. 
• We learn to turn our focus within and stop our minds jumping around. 
• Meditation is the way to develop wisdom and insight; we need a calm, clear and concentrated mind.

• We can learn how to transform our mind from negative to positive and from disturbed to peaceful.

Let's start with a simple meditation technique

Meditation for Beginner

Read more information: http://meditation.dmc.tv/

roaming around blogger and my mind

I'm roaming around our blog spot and learning stuff by bumping into it. This bumping feels uncomfortable and clumsy, but I get thrilled when I figure something out.

There are many things I haven't yet figured out, like: why my photo won't load in our blog area. Somehow I ended up in my Google account settings and loaded my photo there, thinking I would find it on our blog page. Well, it didn't show up on our blog page. I have no idea where it is showing up. I was able to navigate back to it, and I tried to delete it, and couldn't. When I find my patience, I'll return to my Google account settings, find the help icon, and ask it how to delete my photo.

(Andrew, I'm wondering if there will be any type of in-class, hands-on demonstrations for Twitter, etc. )

Jud, Celia, Jake and I met with Chris to discuss our project. I left our discussion feeling overwhelmed. I'm wondering if we're supposed to discuss our project on this blog site, or develop another one. Or maybe I should just email them my thoughts and concerns. Team, I'll email you sometime tomorrow. It was a great meeting and I'm looking forward to working with you.

Despite my grumbling about bumping into things, I am really excited to learn how to use social media as a tool for advocacy. And I did learn how to post a blog today!

~Lucy

1/21/2012 Citizen Alumni Group Exercise

January 21, 2012 Group Exercise (Citizen Alumni Group)

1.  Traditional marketing was about advertising through network media with a broad based statement about a company's product.  Scott recommends using plugged in bloggers with smaller and more targeted audiences for a company's specific product.

2.  Marketing is about delivering content at just the precise moment than an audience needs it.  The convergence of the marketing and PR departments is a concept that reaches buyers directly.

3.  Our reliance on oil and gas is a major example of the "Me First" capitalism we see.  Our oil prices are relatively cheap in comparison to European Countries and most of America continues to mindlessly waste oil as we continue to complain about increasing oil prices.

4.  Finding the balance between self-interest and greed.  We can use social media to promote awareness of greed and the negative effects it has locally, nationally, and internationally.  Using our personal social media sites that we use to connect with others, we can promote awareness.

5.  The particular need of our organization is to connect with alumni within the community to bridge a greater sense of community.

Milgram's Obedience to Authority Experiment

A newbie writes a post

Hmmmm.  I'm a newbie at this myself so let's just see how this looks.  I've got a blog idea in my head but nothing that would be useful in this class.  Mine is about travel and sharing the in's and out's of flying that I've learned about working PT for Delta Airlines.  The secret to easy travel is to not over pack.  Just saying : )

A Work in Progress

This is the first blog entry that I have ever written.  To be completely honest, I am not entirely sure what a blog is.  I do know that it's a web-based journal.  I am confident that I'll know more by the end of a few more classes.  I hear words like blog, wiki, podcast and tweet everyday.  I know the basic function or use of these things but putting them to use for my own educational success is something very much new to me.

I'm not an old, grumpy man longing for the days of the typewriter and the rotary telephone.  I am 34 and use Facebook to keep tabs on my Army friends that are all over the world.  Twitter to me is something for famous people.  I am open to learning more about Twitter and its purpose.  I do grow tired of texting and the very annoying and lazy acronyms that are widely used with social media.


 This class will hopefully help me navigate through the world of social media and its positive and constructive uses.  I hope to build skills that will enable me to communicate productively and with purpose.  My social media skill level right now is limited to "checking in" with friends and family.

What I am hoping to learn/gain from this class

What I am hoping to learn/gain from this class: COMM 485 – Communicating with New Media

As I understand it, we are supposed to have a minimum of six blog posts for this class.  I am not sure if we are supposed to begin our own blog page, or if we may post here…

I am trying to make a habit of getting a jump on things when I am moved to… and this morning I was ‘nudged’ by Andrew’s  words yesterday about a blog post… so here goes.

I have created one blog before (this past November) http://printheuk.blogspot.com/ and I post to it irregularly. I have not exactly stuck to the subject matter for which it was created… and I hope to change that with time, experience, knowledge and focus.

So, for this class…

I am excited to learn about the variety of new media tools that are available to us as communication professionals.  I hope to learn how to take a message (or messages) supporting an idea or cause, and develop, shape and channel that message into the specific media in which it will be dispersed.

I have not extensively used a wiki before to communicate, but more importantly, to consolidate thoughts, words and ideas from different people into a single coherent message.

I am interested in:

·         Learning how to begin, maintain, and develop a blog into a solid, focused tool for communication. 

·         Developing a better understanding SBCC and the participatory paradigm.

·         Beginning with a nearly non-existent, unknown organization/project, and finding out how far we go in the development of a campaign of advocacy in 16 weeks.

·         Learning how to effectively communicate and idea online, and how to change/shape the form of the message based upon the media in which it is presented and the audience to which it is directed.

·         Find out how to effectively use Twitter (as it seems to simply be Facebook in shorthand).

Just some thoughts as I begin a day of studying and project work.

Great day all!

Nik