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Thank you for reading my first blog post!
I am a Business Communications major at Walden University. I am also a licensed Cosmetologist and have taken a Life Coach course. I love helping women feel better about themselves and enhancing their self-esteem. I have a Cricut machine that has been collecting dust for the past two years. I enjoy crafting, but I just haven’t made the time for it. I would like to eventually turn my love for crafting into a small business.
After reviewing the 50 Rapid Fire Tips for Power Blogging” on pp. 159–163 of The Social Media Bible , I would like to create a blog, post relevant info often, incorporate videos to make it more personable, learn how to market and sell, become more engaged on social media and connect with more like minded individuals, be more accessible and commit to attending blogger events.
I hope to broaden my social media awareness and learn strategies to broaden my audience and build another stream of income.
The Case of Rodney Reed
The power of social justice, social media and major celebrity has worked in the favor of death row inmate Rodney Reed, who was scheduled for execution on November 20, 2019.
On Friday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously recommended delaying his execution after new evidence has come to light in his 1998 conviction for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites.
In 1998, an all-white jury found Reed (who is black) guilty of sexually assaulting and murdering the 19-year-old white woman, whom according to the Innocence Project, he was romantically involved with.
Stites was engaged to be married to local police officer Jimmy Fennell—who witnesses recently said confessed to having “to kill my [n-word]-loving fiancée.” (Fennell is white.)
Reed supporters pleaded for a much deeper investigation into the murder—and possible corruption—asking Governor Greg Abbott to spare his life.
The POWER of Social Media turned this case around for Mr. Reed. For example, Kim Kardashian West took to Twitter and has repeatedly used her social media/celebrity influence (or clout) to push for clemency in the case, helping spark national interests in what has been considered the latest example of a miscarriage of justice. “How can you execute a man when since his trial, substantial evidence that would exonerate Rodney Reed has come forward and even implicates the other person of interest,” Kardashian tweeted to the lawmaker last month. “I URGE YOU TO DO THE RIGHT THING.”
Reed’s friend Tiffany McMillan, who has been on the frontlines with his family fighting for justice applauded the halt of Wednesday’s execution.
It was she who started the change.org petition that set off the #FreeRodneyReed campaign, gaining more than half million signatures in the process.
Change.org executive Molly Dorenzenski said Reed’s good news “shows the incredible power of people’s voices.”
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