Contently Voice Mid-term Proposal

Within my pseudonym I have written post about a number of different types of advertisements including, commercials, billboards, and advertising strategies amongst companies. Most recently I did a wiki entry on gun advertisements in the mid to late 1900’s. I enjoyed writing this more than any of my previous post. This wiki entry allowed me to translate my passion for history and imagery into writing that has present relevance in today’s society. On the contrary, my original idea for my pseudonym was to write more inclusively about advertisements both past and present. Which still has relevance, but it is harder to identity because it is still happening. I am satisfied with the my blog’s tone as well as my “Contently Voice” pseudonym however moving forward with my online presence I will not focus on present day advertisements.

I found myself learning more about American culture in the “gun fun” post than all the post before.  This is accredited to the fact that the effects of present day ad’s are still happening. It reminds me of the line in the movie “Social Network”, “ “trying to end the party before you know what it is”.  In laming terms, I felt like with contemporary post I was writing about something that is not done developing, which is kind of tricky. In the wiki entry post I imagined myself living in a time where guns were nationally embraced and advertised about. It gave me goosebumps to read about yet that same feeling ebbed my curiosity to go on. I wanted to know the who, what, where, when, why and how.  I started to understand the culture of guns in America more objectively, because men, women, and children grew up with the ideology guns were good. It gave me a different perspective, which I still can appreciate. And with the history of advertising in this country, I know there are thousands of more cases like this.

With this new focus of writing Contently Voice the pseudonym and the blog will continue to represent one another.  In the first six weeks of this coarse my pseudonym’s purpose was to drive traffic to the blog. My pseudonym reflected the same tone and ideology that existed on the blog page.  The new challenge for my pseudonym will be to reflect the shift in the writing on the blog and ultimately the blog’s direction. Through my tweets, my follower will recognize the shift in the content. This refocus in content will also be reflected on the blog. The relationship between the blog and pseudonym will reinforce each other.

The reworks of past post will be a creative challenge. I am looking forward to it, especially my bio, which I meet several challenges with. It lacked a central focus, which a lot of readers picked up on. It was too much information all over the place.  As I have rewritten and rewritten some more, I’ve learned you don’t need to say everything, just one thing extremely clear. This is the evolved approach I am taking moving into the next weeks.