Please Professor, May I have an A?
When I started this blog, I wanted to use it as a means to communicate the many stresses facing millennial job seekers. I had planned on using it as a way to work through my own challenges and chronicle my experiences throughout my journey to employment. Never could I have imagined gaining so much traction with my classmates, developing what Howard Rheingold might call an online or virtual community.
So, my blog may have become an online community for those of us in class that spent most of the semester looking for jobs. But, the blog was also a spreadable resource, discussing the various ways in which you can market or share yourself with potential employers.
Spreadability depends on increased collaboration across ["producers," "marketers," and "audience members"] and a blurring of the distinctions between these roles."
--Henry Jenkins
While the blog solicited participation within the site, it always encouraged the audience to become content creators, using any number of the tools below, and connect with their potential employers in a new or unique way.
But, I think what has made this blog so successful is it's use of media convergence and transmedia storytelling. Each post was riddled with links and included at least one image making it a more enjoyable experience for the reader. Each post combined the more traditional medium of writing with new media representations of the topics discussed within the writing.
The more new media I added to the blog, the more visitors came to view it. The blog was a part of transmedia storytelling because each post pieced together various mediums from multiple outlets creating a convergence of media and creating a new experience for the audience.