all i ever needed to know about social media i learned from the muppets
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It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It’s time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight. Whether or not you were a child of the 70s and 80s, you know the opening lyrics for the Muppet Show theme. You know Kermit the Frog and Fozzie the Bear, Waldorf and Statler, Miss Piggy and Gonzo. The Muppets were not human, but they were terribly human-like. The conflicts on the weekly variety show airing in the late 1970s were the stuff of legend for kids growing up at that time. What can we learn from these puppets who showed us how to be better and worse and everything in between?TRANSCRIPT
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Tonya Oaks SmithJames Montgomery Flagg, via Wikimedia Commons
All I Ever Needed to Know About Social Media
I Learned from the Muppets
#PSUwebflickr.com/photos/jeffchristiansen/5663365028/
Tonya Oaks Smith
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Shari Erwin, Aaron Rester, and Tonya Oaks Smith
It’s time to play the music.
It’s time to light the lights.
It’s time to meet the
Muppets…
#PSUweb
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!@marleysmom by @radiofreegeorgy
Who am I?
#PSUweb
@marleysmom @hendersonstateu @highedweb @youthhomeinc
!
#shoes #positivity #behuman
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Who are you?
flickr.com/photos/highedweb/2922852848#PSUweb
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The principles (principals?)
muppets.disney.com/the-muppets-gallery#PSUweb
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Epiphany?
flickr.com/photos/wisdoms/1484755104/#PSUweb
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*GASP*
Photo by @jacobslaton#PSUweb
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*GASP*
flickr.com/photos/blahsaurous/3796194544/#PSUweb
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HIPPO: We’re bringing in a consultant. He’s a guru, a social guru. I’m sure you can learn a lot from him.
!
YOU: *think*…OMGWTFBBQ
#PSUweb
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Stay green
clikhear.palmbeachpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/fight.jpg#PSUweb
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Shari Erwin, Aaron Rester, and Tonya Oaks Smith#PSUweb
Don’t be a downer
hitfix.com/comedy/10-halloween-costumes-from-the-saturday-night-live-archives
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There’s Life Beyond the Four-Year University
Shari Erwin, Aaron Rester, and Tonya Oaks Smith#PSUweb
Enthusiasm is excellent
youtube.com/watch?v=KlJM4UhbQ7A
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There’s Life Beyond the Four-Year University
Shari Erwin, Aaron Rester, and Tonya Oaks Smith#PSUweb
Nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. When people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is “you like stuff.”
- John Green
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Little people are important
#PSUweb fandango.com/movie-news/15-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-muppets-747498
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Little people are important
#PSUweb flickr.com/photos/themadwifey/3315718162
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Winning takes a team
#PSUweb adventuresofalostboy.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/muppet-mayhem-part-1-the-muppet-movie/
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flickr.com/photos/81475308@N00/12306610704#hewebPITT
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Tumblrs
#PSUweb hsuprofsqa.tumblr.com and reddiealumnisnapshots.tumblr.com
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There will be trolls
flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/8234189233/#PSUweb
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There’s Life Beyond the Four-Year University
Shari Erwin, Aaron Rester, and Tonya Oaks Smith
Statler: I’m Statler. Waldorf: I’m Waldorf. We’re here to heckle “The Muppet Movie.”
#PSUweb
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Weird can work
#PSUweb themuppetmindset.blogspot.com/2011/09/weekly-muppet-wednesdays-gonzo-great.html
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There’s Life Beyond the Four-Year University
#PSUweb
Gonzo: I want to go to Bombay, India and become a movie star. Fozzie: You don't go to Bombay to become a movie star! You go where we're going: Hollywood. Gonzo: Sure, if you want to do it the easy way.
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Listening is important
youtube.com/watch?v=m1kY8CJe4J8#PSUweb
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Humans make the show
npr.org/2011/11/21/142509532/for-muppeteers-it-isnt-easy-being-invisible#PSUweb
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There’s Life Beyond the Four-Year University
Shari Erwin, Aaron Rester, and Tonya Oaks Smith
Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It’s a good life, enjoy it.
- Jim Henson
#PSUweb
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There’s Life Beyond the Four-Year University
Shari Erwin, Aaron Rester, and Tonya Oaks Smith
Life’s like a movie. Write your own ending…
- The Muppet Movie
#PSUweb
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Wrapping it up
clikhear.palmbeachpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/fight.jpg#PSUweb
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Thank you, lovers and dreamers
#PSUweb