What I've leaned - Business Communications

In June 2012, I made a decision to take business communications and it was a great decision. I've taken several communication courses over the years which have all seemed to be kind of cookie cutter courses. This course has been very interesting in that it allows you (forces) you to expand your thoughts in how you are expected or wish to communicate with other individuals or organizations. It is imperative that everyone in society always be willing to change or improve how they communicate. Over the past several years social media has dramatically increased awareness in the United States as well as other developed nations. As an assignment of this course, I was required to create a Twitter page. At first, I was not that excited about creating it as I really wasn't aware of how the page worked. Honestly, creating the Twitter page has changed how I get my information. I am now following the BBC and CNN for most of my news. Nowadays, so many of the television anchors and others seem to think its okay to give their opinion of any situation. I prefer to read my news and make my own decision. The ability to receive the notifications as they are happening is awesome. I can't say there is anything that didn't affect how I communicate that I've learned throughout this course. I've even recently spoke with some people for which I am employed requesting they expand their thoughts in how our organization utilized social media for notifications. It is imperative that any business stay on task with this type of media, things are changing/updating so quickly now that some companies even have a person or group of people just to update their media outlets.

I enjoyed this course very much and look forward to the remainder of the course.

Derrick Collins - Week 11