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I’m not saying that the internet or new social media have a negative impact in our lives. What I’m trying to say is that new social media is getting more and more personal. For that reason, businesses should go with what’s right and make things personal again. 
The Effect of New Social Media
So, what do you think about the role of new social media in your life?
All this talk about viral videos inspired me to make a viral video of my own. That is why last September 10. I made my own viral video:
Did you enjoy the video?
Anyway, I decided to channel my inner researcher and decided to make my own experiment. My hypothesis is that the video will have more hits if it were promoted beyond my personal network.
How will I prove my hypothesis?
Step 1: Post video on the 10th
Step 2: From the 10th-16th, promote video to friends and observe the number of hits
Step 3: Publish Results of the 10th-16th viewing (see below)
Total views: 127
Statistics:
Figure 1.1 How many times has this video been watched?
Figure 1.2 Views-USA
Figure 1.3 views-Asia
Figure 1.4 views-Europe
Figure 1.5 views-Africa
Figure 2 How are people finding this video?
Figure 3 Demographics
Step 4: Join various forums and social networking sites populated by my target audience (music, loving youth)
Step 5: Publish Results of the 19th-27th viewing
And from data gathered… we’ll be able to see if there will be a difference in the videos popularity.
Will they want to be emooooo after this? 
With the emergence of the Internet and the current addiction of people to video sharing sites, the appeal of the boob tube is somehow faltering. YouTube, Vimeo, Veoh, and whatever video sharing sites (or even internet tv) is what’s in today. Face it, our society is somehow vain that is why we want to be stars of our own show.
With that being said, Have you ever watched viral videos? Well if you haven’t, watch the clips below and immerse yourself to the “classic” YouTube videos that garnered about a bah-jillion hits.
BUT BEFORE THAT… watch Weezer’s music video to have an overview of the clips that’ll follow. Enjoy.
Pork and Beans by Weezer
Now you’ve seen an overview of the “classic” YouTube videos, why not watch some of them… full length? 
Frustrated scientist? Try Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments
Because I know you love to symphatize with your idol… Leave Britney Alone!
Things you can’t do with your body:
Daft Bodies- Harder, Faster, Stronger
How about hands?
Daft Hands – Harder, Faster, Stronger
Wanna get on your dancing shoes?
Evolution of Dance
Epic Fail: Afro Ninja
Think you can sing Chocolate Rain?
Can decide what shirt to wear?
Rodents can be stars too! Dramatic Gopher
Channel your inner geek: Star Wars kid Drunken Jedi
Oh my Numa, Numa
When you see or hear the abbreviation “OC” you would immediately think that it stands for Obsessive Compulsive. You know, Obsessive Compulsive? The psychological disorder wherein a person seems to have unbreakable rituals or else the person will go gaga. Anyway, that’s not what this is about. OC will be defined here as ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION.
Prologue
If you don’t know me you probably don’t know that Organizational Communication(OrCom) is the degree I’m trying to finish. But that doesn’t define what OrCom is, does it?
When I was filling-out my college application to the University of the Philippines (UP), I was haphazardly filling out the course choice part. My course choices, if I remember them correctly, are behavioral sciences, communication research, arts management, and of course, Organizational Communication.
Organizational Communication is actually my first choice. Remember me saying that I was filing out the form haphazardly? Well, I was because my first choice is the course that I know nothing about. Not exactly nothing, I do know that it is something about communications in organizations but then that’s just a circular definition.
What is Organizational Communication?
As a would-be communicologist, the main definition we use for Organizational Communication is that of Gerald Golhaber’s (1993), which is:
Organizational communication is the process of creating and exchanging messages within a network of interdependent relationships to cope with environmental uncertainty.
If you don’t speak OrCom, the definition may be quite daunting. Use my definition instead, it works right? But honestly, the best definition of OrCom would be by experience and/or example. So let me share (you don’t have a choice) my top 3 (for now!) experiences/ favorite memories as an organizational communication student.
#3 ¿Hablo Español?
The Organizational Communication program at UP-Manila aims to produce well-rounded communication students. A clear evidence of that is the mandatory learning of a foreign language. I learned Español. Si! Si!
Learning Spanish was a whole lot of fun. Like Dora the Explorer fun but with a 16 or 17 year old in mind. The whole process is not the ordinary language class. What we did was we listened to Spanish songs (e.g. No Me Ames, Eres Tu) and produced our own Spanish plays.
The whole Spanish experience made me aware of how language, or culture per se affects the whole communication process. In OrCom, you are taught to be a communicator who is careful or mindful of the message you are disseminating. For, as we all know, verbal [and non-verbal] cues are quite powerful (think Marie Antoinette or Karl Marx).
#2 Fever Pitch
OrCom aims to hone your communication skills. I think one of the ways that test our skills is when we do pitches and/or presentations. I learned here in OrCom that you are just as good as your last report. Therefore, each time we present we actually try to outdo our last “performance.”
I have this professor who is obsessed with perfection ( I commend him for that). He wants to make sure that whatever we do should be beyond what we think we can do. So in the classes handled by this professor [that would be Communication Processes & Organizational Structure (OC 142) and Public Relations (OC 105], most often than not, the students own the “stage.”
I like the feeling of reporting in front of my peers not because I am a ham. But it, little by little, help me combat my speech anxiety. I have jitters whenever public speaking is involved. This very orcom experience of public speaking is one that I like for I know it will be really useful for me in my not-so-far future.
#1 The Ultimate OrCom Experience?
I don’t know yet. A lot, I believe, could still happen though I have barely have six months as a student of this course. However, I think being an OrCom student right now could, maybe, qualify as my ultimate OrCom experience.
