Choose Your Topic

Being an avid Jay Z fan and lover of music, I took this photo of my friends poster. Respectable man, definitely blog worthy.


One of my favorite places in Western MA, and its just across the street from Westfield. The duck pond hidden in the back of Stanley Park. Peaceful and beautiful

Personality/ Character Portraits

This is my friend Olivia. She is goofy and has unique style

Campus Life

Done with classes for the day. Headed back to the dorms, a day in the life of a student





Center Piece of Westfield State

Public News Event

Porenzo Hall, Westfield State University. A board announcing meetings and advertising the Law Club, to engage students to try new things.

iPod, favorite flannel, a pair of skinny jeans and my white converse; Usually pretty happy. I enjoy gangster rap, reggae, rock n roll and all the good music that’s still out there. Always laughing at something

Relaxing by the nearby waterfall recently. Pretty peaceful day, life is good here

Starbucks

Starbucks uses Facebook to engage customers especially by emphasizing new and seasonal products that the company brings back due to past success with the product. According to Facebook Success Stories, “Starbucks engages fans by letting them choose which city gets the Pumpkin Spice Latte first”, and by this they hype up the excitement for fall and the return of the beloved Pumpkin spice latte. The company also gets fans of this beverage excited to participate in a contest to try and get their hometown’s share of the pumpkin spice first. This idea has not only advertised the fall and seasonal latte, but has given customers the chance to be apart of what the company produces and when, making individuals in a way in charge of when the products come to their town. Starbucks having a Facebook has helped reach out and inform customers, bringing success to the company. “With more than 27 million fans, Starbucks’ Facebook community is larger than the population of many countries. No wonder, then, that the coffee retailer likes to give these brand loyalists a say in how it does things. Using Facebook, that’s exactly what Starbucks did” (Facebook Success Stories). 

Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc.

Ticketmaster is an American ticket sales company that connects fans and artists across the country and other places around the world. According to Facebook Success Stories, Ticket Master now allows Facebook friends to view where people they know have bought tickets, “Love Coldplay but don’t know anyone who’s going to the concert? Maybe you actually do. Ticketmaster’s new interactive social seat map shows people where their Facebook friends are sitting in a venue so they can buy tickets near them or look for them at the show. And the map app has Ticketmaster sitting pretty.” This system has given clients the opportunity to take advantage of social media and conveniently purchase tickets for an event in a seat that works for specific individuals.

Being an avid fan of music and concert attender, I can see how this seat map publicized on Facebook has and will help the success of the business in the future, “Once people purchase their tickets, they can share their seat tag with friends, triggering a post about the seats on Facebook. The new feature could help Ticketmaster sell some of the 40 percent or so of live-event tickets that typically don’t get takers” (Facebook Success Stories).