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Welcome to my Social Media for Social Change Campaign blog, I am LUCY from ARMENIA and I am an alumna of FLEX(Future Leaders Exchange Program).
Please continue to visit my Social Media for Social Change Campaign blog. As a member of PH International’s Global New Media Lab Program, I want to start a movement which will help to make my country cleaned up.

Saturday, February 28, 2015

GNML-just an abbreviation or ...?

Do y'all know the feeling when you're so excited about doing something that you don't even realize how the time passes by? That's me now.
I can't believe that this whole sessions , busy weeks , deadlines are over now.
So , let me tell you about my GNML life.

I became a BLOGGER.
When I say blogger I literally mean a Blogger. I never really liked Blogger and I opened my personal blog in Wordpress but I was not able to do it for this one so I had to try. It was not that weird and actually I learned a lot of details.Besides that I always wanted to be a blogger who works for the community.In Armenia we use blogs(in general) a lot because sometimes when you don't have a right to talk, you can always write what you want to say.I think when I'll go back to Armenia I'll try to help my friends to use their blogs as a social change resource.

Twitter is not that much popular in Armenia, it's kind of new thing so there are not many people who use it but it still helps a lot. Armenians who are all around the world use twitter as a source for communication and we use it to spread news more quickly. In Armenia teenagers mostly use twitter to "talk" with their favorite artists and I would never imagine using it for a social campaign.

YouTube is really popular in Armenia.Sometimes people videotape everything they see and upload it to YouTube and they share it with their friends and they send it to TV channels  and you can see it on TV the next day!!I had fun making the Elevator Pitch video, editing it , talking to camera and trying to explain your whole point in 60 seconds.

Facebook rules Armenia! It's the most popular social network in the whole country. We had a lot of campaigns that archived their goals by just using Facebook. I used to administrate some social campaign pages so this session was fun for me!

Instagram is not that popular in Armenia and I would never imagine me uploading a picture on Instagram about cleaning the environment instead of  a selfie with a best friend.I don't think it's the best way to archive my goals in Armenia but it can be helpful later because Instagram is just starting to be popular.

LinkedIn was the hardest session for me! It was a new thing for me and it took me a while to adjust it but I understood the mechanism and i actually found out that a lot of people that I know who are succesful and they do some things to make our lives in Armenia easier have LinkedIn.

This whole 10 Sessions were the most enjoyable homework I've ever had. It made me think about the little details of the big problems that my country had. It introduced me the real picture of the world and I got to know about a lot of problems that my friends have in their countries. It was a great experience! I started to use social media for what it's supposed to be used. I knew that Social Media has a big power on people's life but this Sessions taught me how to be the part of it.

For me the most challenging experience was LinkedIn session because I've never used it before . I felt like it's too formal and organized for me.I felt like I already have a company that does a lot of campaigns in Armenia and I had to introduce me, so it was really really challenging.

In the future I plan to... Okay , let's start from here.I'm not planning to do something with those social networks or the knowledge I got from these sessions,I'm already doing it. I really want to change a lot of things in Armenia and I already started ...

Thank you GNML! Even though sometimes I was too tired of the Google Alert emails, even though I was stressing about the deadlines and even though sometimes I was lost trying to embed my accounts to my blog I ENJOYED THIS MONTHS with y'all and I'm pretty sure that GNML team will not let us "to rest" in our countries either ... So ,I'm ready to be the change I want to see !
GO GO GO GNML!!!

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