tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56349234863933091432024-02-18T18:31:02.779-08:00Building. Blocks.These are original posts in which i discuss interesting usages of social media, new social media technologies and my thoughts on how the PR industry is using or could be using these technologies.ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-45386909375195012192010-04-25T13:00:00.000-07:002010-04-25T13:01:15.498-07:00Second LifeA virtual world is an online community in which users take form of Avatars and interact in a 3D environment.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNjzaCd4RbDvWtNJuMRO_yFhfsvQclagUMJtiIctWu901h-hVt8YupsI0aFEOZ5vRK3PnghV35CNtmRt9FWzxRuQiIiRMMUwf0GuEwW7bag3Hi6_qFtCWwlsGCLkv34M-NY_ogtftOeWON/s1600/secondlife_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNjzaCd4RbDvWtNJuMRO_yFhfsvQclagUMJtiIctWu901h-hVt8YupsI0aFEOZ5vRK3PnghV35CNtmRt9FWzxRuQiIiRMMUwf0GuEwW7bag3Hi6_qFtCWwlsGCLkv34M-NY_ogtftOeWON/s200/secondlife_1.jpg" width="187" /></a><a href="http://secondlife.com/whatis/#Start_Exploring">SecondLife</a> is one of many virtual worlds online today.<br />
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SecondLife is a free online virtual world developed by<a href="http://lindenlab.com/"> Linden Research, Inc</a>. Users can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade 'property' and services with one another, or travel throughout the world. Avatars may take any form users choose (human, animal, vegetable, mineral, or a combination) or format themselves resembling their real life characteristics. Each user can create one avatar per account, but users are allowed multiple accounts. Users communicate via Instant Messaging, which can be viewed on the screen in-real-time. <br />
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That's the general synopsis of what SecondLife is.<br />
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What is interesting about this and other virtual worlds is that businesses and companies are establishing themselves, using and participating in them.<br />
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Business are now holding meetings, conventions, presentations, etc in SecondLife communities. It seems like an easy way to bring people from all over the world together for a short time to meet. Some businesses even hold their weekly meetings in SecondLife. Take <a href="http://www.ibm.com/us/en/">IBM</a> as an example:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">"IBM is using the virtual world of Second Life as the next best thing to being there for corporate meetings. </div><div style="text-align: center;">The venerable computer maker has established at least one virtual island in Second Life where it has hosted employee meetings."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Businesses find that they can save a lot of money by meeting in this virtual world verses trying to fly everyone in for an event.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">"This past fall, the IBM <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/academy/index.html">Academy of Technology</a> held two major events in <a href="http://secondlife.com/">Second Life</a>. The first was a specific Virtual World Conference for over 200 members... saved $320,000."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Virtual worlds could prove to be an economical strategy for companies.ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-75444608731802781372010-04-25T12:17:00.000-07:002010-04-25T12:17:42.877-07:00Oprah Mobile Application<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who doesn't know this face?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">As if Oprah Winfrey did have everything already, she now has her own phone application. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Oprah has dabbling in acting in such movies as <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088939/"><i>The Color Purple</i></a> and the <a href="http://www.beemovie.com/"><i>Bee Movie</i></a>. She owns her own production company,<i> <a href="http://harpo%20productions/">Harpo Productions</a></i>. She helped produce the Broadway sensation <a href="http://www.colorpurple.com/"><i>The Color Purple</i></a>. She produces two magazines: <i><a href="http://www.oprah.com/omagazine.html">O, The Oprah Magazine</a> </i>and <a href="http://www.magazine-agent.com/oprah-at-home/magazine"><i>O at Home</i></a>. She has a radio show on XM Satellite Radio called <a href="http://www.xmradio.com/oprahradio"><i>Oprah and Friends</i></a>. She was one of the founders of the television network <a href="http://www.oxygen.com/"><i>Oxygen</i></a> and is now establishing the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100408-707879.html"><i>Oprah Winfrey Network</i></a>. Her net worth is 2.3 billion big ones. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Well, the only reasonable next step was of course making an App. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Oprah's <a href="http://www.oprah.com/oprahdotcom/Oprah-Mobile-Application-for-iPhone-Blackberry-Android-Palm">new app</a> featured on her web page <a href="http://www.oprah.com/index.html">Oprah.com</a> allows you to:</div><ul><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVMalQ8bRDi4K899VGQOZPccceWkMK2ZnWnSvoCusF5_mEYEyrbbsYvblNLRXmGEfnUWxfrmGF3TUwMqHx9T3okyAnVz9zuFI_3fvmfnBjSRd-3wkDNzMC74OiQQ5Hb_DQayOx7gdWr6ny/s1600/Picture+4.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVMalQ8bRDi4K899VGQOZPccceWkMK2ZnWnSvoCusF5_mEYEyrbbsYvblNLRXmGEfnUWxfrmGF3TUwMqHx9T3okyAnVz9zuFI_3fvmfnBjSRd-3wkDNzMC74OiQQ5Hb_DQayOx7gdWr6ny/s320/Picture+4.png" /></a>
<li>View a weekly calender of what's airing on <i><a href="http://www.oprah.com/oprah_show.html">The Oprah Winfrey Show</a> </i>that week.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Receive alerts and notifications about the availability of reservations for <i>The Oprah Winfrey Show.</i></li>
</ul><ul><li>Watch video highlights from <i>The Oprah Winfrey Show</i>, including backstage interviews with your favorite guests.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Access the latest articles and features from Oprah.com and <i>O, The Oprah Magazine.</i></li>
</ul><ul><li>Listen to audio clips from Oprah Radio, including Gayle King, Dr. Laura Berman, Dr. Mehmet Oz.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Share your favorite items via email, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://www.twitter.com/">Twitter</a>.</li>
</ul>And much more!<br />
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This app is available for <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/">iPhone</a>, <a href="http://www.shopblackberry.com/">Blackberry</a>, <a href="http://developer.android.com/index.html">Android</a>, and <a href="http://www.palm.com/us/">Palm</a>.<br />
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So if you're a Oprah Winfrey fan, this is the app for you!ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-23517780097965702992010-04-25T11:40:00.000-07:002010-04-25T11:40:03.484-07:00What the Trend<span style="font-size: large;">Want to know what the latest Twitter trends are?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.whatthetrend.com/top10">WhatTheTrend.com</a> provides the public with up-to-date trends on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/">twitter</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">For example: if you want to know what is currently trendy or trendy today, it provides a top ten list of both:</span><br />
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It looks like in the past month some hot topics have been: <a href="http://www.justinbiebermusic.com/">Justin Bieber</a>, Easter, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327801/">Glee</a>, and Zodiac Facts.<br />
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It also provides viewers with who is most active contributor and what country is the most active contributor:<br />
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It even provides a map:<br />
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If you want more information than this, you have to become a <a href="http://www.whatthetrend.com/pro/signup">Pro Member</a>. It only costs a $450 a month! (sarcasm) <br />
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What The Trend is used mostly by professionals hence the great introductory price. Companies such as <a href="http://adage.com/">AdvertisingAge</a>, <a href="http://mashable.com/">Mashable</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">The New York Times</a>, <a href="http://techcrush.net/">Tech Crush</a> and <a href="http://thenextweb.com/">The Next Web</a> are avid users of What The Trend. Why just today Mashable used What The Trend in a <a href="http://mashable.com/2010/04/24/top-10-twitter-trends-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable%2FSocialMedia+%28Mashable+%C2%BB+Social+Media+Feed%29&utm_content=Google+Reader">blog entry</a>. <br />
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Check it out!ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-62502633812080075752010-04-25T11:10:00.000-07:002010-04-25T11:11:34.091-07:00Social Media Monitoring ToolsThis week I have a social media audit project due in my <a href="http://socialmediaprclass.blogspot.com/">Social Media for Public Relations</a> course. We were provided with a list of ideas and tool we could use for this assignment. Here are some really great tool you could use if you wanted to monitor a company/brand/person/event etc.<br />
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First of all <a href="http://www.google.com/reader">Google Reader</a> is an essential social bookmarking tool. It is a place were you can send all the information from all your monitoring tools through <a href="http://www.whatisrss.com/">RSS feeds</a> and keep it organized and compressed. I use Google reader on a day to day basis.<br />
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Back to the presented topic. Here are some great tools I used for my project:<br />
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<a href="http://www.google.com/alerts">Google Alerts</a>:<br />
Google Alerts tracks the Web for Sites, Blogs, News, Microblogs, videos, and Images. <br />
For this project, I created a Google Alert for any of the above having to do with iPad, iPod, iPhone, iTouch, iTunes, Mac, MacBook, and/or Steve Jobs.<br />
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The Alerts will be sent directly to my Google Reader as-they-happen.<br />
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<a href="http://search.twitter.com/advanced">Twitter Advanced Search</a>:<br />
Twitter Advanced Search gives the option to find tweets based on words, phrases, hashtags, people, places and attitudes.<br />
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Here's what my results feed looks like:<br />
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You can also RSS Feed these results, which of course I did. I highly recommend you do as well. This search also provides 'in real time' results like Google Alerts.<br />
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<a href="http://www.icerocket.com/">IceRocket:</a><br />
IceRocket searches the Web for sites, blogs, news and more for your key words of choice. Here are my results:<br />
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IceRocket provides you with the option of viewing results from today, the past week, month or you can choose dates yourself. It has RSS feed capability as well as the others.<br />
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There are many more site like: <a href="http://www.socialmention.com/">Social Mention</a>, <a href="http://www.boardtracker.com/">BoardTracker</a>, <a href="ttp://delicious.com/">Delicious</a>, <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/">Yahoo Pipes</a>, etc.<br />
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You can also monitor the subject of your choice on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/">Myspace</a>.<br />
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The point of all this monitoring is basically to research and see what other people are saying and reporting on your topic. It is a very helpful research tool, essential for social media savvy university students like me!ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-38825768027022972102010-04-25T10:05:00.000-07:002010-04-25T10:29:42.860-07:00The Democratization of Fashion<span style="font-size: large;">If your a fashion enthusiast and love social media, you'll love <a href="http://chiq.com/">CHIQ</a>! </span><br />
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This week I Finished my Personal Learning Project for my Social Media for Public Relations course. This Project was aimed at providing the student with the opportunity to tailor an assignment to our own learning needs and course related interests. I chose to create a digital media kit for <a href="http://chiq.com/">http://chiq.com/</a><br />
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I believe that Chiq is unique and I am confident in it's mission to reshape the dissemination of fashion. <br />
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<b>Chiq</b> is an online community that encourages women who follow style to become fashion leaders. It is an indespensable resource for fashion dissemination and the Internet's only open platform social networking site devoted exclusively to fashion and online sales. Community members upload photos of their favorite clothing, shoes and accessories and are awarded points from other members who cast CHIQ-it votes for the items they consider 'hot'.<br />
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Now I know this doesn't make much since right now, but let me explain a little further...<br />
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<b>Becoming a user:</b><br />
Becoming a user is simple and best of all it's free! Just go to the Chiq web site and click the '<a href="http://chiq.com/create?goto=user">my chiq</a>' link and it will prompt you to sign in or create an account. <br />
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<b>Once a member:</b><br />
Once a member of the Chiq online community, you can upload and submit items from multiple sources which you believe are fashionable and want to share. It's an easy and convenient way to share your favorite fashions.<br />
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<b>Chiq it:</b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNNk9l-ISy5ye9jacPmbvqP5OH8wN63kGx4rLXGdv9mx9mAbyal0AQaxFXlurFiew-H2VJE_rEB5zLuGXUC26CUKhpnDWdBwF_9UJLBsqHzbSoX9x4_pFAuc32jOcyViociF1JT32FOYqz/s1600/CliqChiq.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNNk9l-ISy5ye9jacPmbvqP5OH8wN63kGx4rLXGdv9mx9mAbyal0AQaxFXlurFiew-H2VJE_rEB5zLuGXUC26CUKhpnDWdBwF_9UJLBsqHzbSoX9x4_pFAuc32jOcyViociF1JT32FOYqz/s200/CliqChiq.png" width="200" /></a>Once a piece is uploaded, other users can vote on the item with the "chiq it" icon.<br />
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<b>What's it for?</b><br />
With users consistently uploading new items daily, everyone can keep up with what's new, trendy, and successful. Further, not only do members help determine what is showcased, but they also have the opportunity to network with other users who are passionate about fashion. <br />
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<b>What all does the site entail? </b><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Chiq provides an up-to-date feed of what users are uploading.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB0VZOghhOVHyNsYhasMiPE9GXPEyOVBLhjsNRsvINDzytPDZas7yzeZVxEk4XpxLCR9J_oL2tCjsPtwU0g8DY5TuUqr8-4O7k-kkHy-1TfcmVZ7usNQMIr5silJ_P_HCho1XsGq7GmhJD/s1600/Picture+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB0VZOghhOVHyNsYhasMiPE9GXPEyOVBLhjsNRsvINDzytPDZas7yzeZVxEk4XpxLCR9J_oL2tCjsPtwU0g8DY5TuUqr8-4O7k-kkHy-1TfcmVZ7usNQMIr5silJ_P_HCho1XsGq7GmhJD/s400/Picture+1.png" width="322" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">It provides a real time list of what's most popular via chiq votes.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-bOq1fV6q7ExQZdPZAqIM00ZHW8SLYp3aN51owYlcJnnSfWu58B-A6SmbkqZ-y__RschXkz-51ZGhPtFRAuPYMLx_Ns7JdsPXqUkyRSctI_GVbfBmSUDb7T8e9lLmXGOKYOYQMdkftr_c/s1600/Picture+3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-bOq1fV6q7ExQZdPZAqIM00ZHW8SLYp3aN51owYlcJnnSfWu58B-A6SmbkqZ-y__RschXkz-51ZGhPtFRAuPYMLx_Ns7JdsPXqUkyRSctI_GVbfBmSUDb7T8e9lLmXGOKYOYQMdkftr_c/s400/Picture+3.png" width="286" /></a></div>A list of the hottest topics being talked about in the chiq community.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><b>So what makes Chiq different?</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Chiq isn't just for fashionistas! It also for the user of bloggers, lables, and linkage partners. how so you ask?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Fashion bloggers</b> can both utilize and contribute to Chiq tremendously. Bloggers can pull trends and new ideas from users and contribute to the forum by communicating their own thoughts to the community. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Lables</b> can take consumer feedback on their products and use the information to benefit the growth and innovation of their company. The more products produced by a label posted, the more feedback is provided.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Linkage partners</b> can utilize Chiq as a promotional vehicle for fashion items as well as a traffic accelerator and sales mechanism. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Chiq is so unique and important because users now have a voice in <b>shaping the marketplace</b>. </div></div>ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-84636040802973694612010-04-19T19:21:00.000-07:002010-04-19T19:24:15.186-07:00The iPhone: What your Blackberry can't doCan your phone navigate the night sky? Can you tune your guitar with it? How about record how many miles you just biked If you have an <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/">iPhone,</a> it can!<br />
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There is an <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-iphone/">iPhone app</a> for just about anything and everything today. Here are just a few apps to temp you to flip from your old phone to a smart phone:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_e295qJgmkrcVfy8OYDLeopXx7yVEJUJngjDonnj1jXt9CGuQbxiFRMC-SKxfrCz5OECy448_EJO8qAiOXgIQk8NvkNjHaydYOWSbJAosy1x3hablRMeE33iU4RthnJC8p0miU8eHH9I/s1600/Picture+2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_e295qJgmkrcVfy8OYDLeopXx7yVEJUJngjDonnj1jXt9CGuQbxiFRMC-SKxfrCz5OECy448_EJO8qAiOXgIQk8NvkNjHaydYOWSbJAosy1x3hablRMeE33iU4RthnJC8p0miU8eHH9I/s200/Picture+2.png" width="200" /></a><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/app/cleartune-chromatic-tuner/id286799607?mt=8#">Cleartune</a>- Cleartune is an instrument tuner and pitch pipe. The built in mic within your iPhone picks up noise and creates a convenient and accurate way to tune your guitar or other instrument like a pro.<br />
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"As a regularly performing professional musician with a college degree in music and teacher I would reccomend this product to anyone."<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmx7qGSeuVrynqmj5StnRlTVclko1TrnOVHpOO2lpw_3z-Zn1fNjWrJFlac018-OVBgwfnm6LL0YBzZ9yAJCDIOnqEeKVT9bZbXALhDmklGH57SKUPCAaeRqSaNl5tcOpw3CWNWRxUxl6D/s1600/Picture+4.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmx7qGSeuVrynqmj5StnRlTVclko1TrnOVHpOO2lpw_3z-Zn1fNjWrJFlac018-OVBgwfnm6LL0YBzZ9yAJCDIOnqEeKVT9bZbXALhDmklGH57SKUPCAaeRqSaNl5tcOpw3CWNWRxUxl6D/s200/Picture+4.png" width="199" /></a><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/app/imapmyride/id292223170?mt=8#">iMapMyRide</a>- iMapMyRide uses your iPhone's <a href="http://www.gps.gov/">GPS</a> technology to track your path and find out how far you bike. Now it's easy to track your progress and reach your goals. There is no more second guessing. You can feel confident and comfortable knowing time, distance, pace, speed and elevation. Once you're done with your ride, you can save your data and it will automatically upload to <a href="http://www.mapmyride.com/">MapMyRide.com</a>.<br />
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There are thousands of apps out there to help you doing anything from manage money to finding you a good dinner spot. There are over <a href="http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2009/06/10/apple-fact-check-50000-iphone-apps/">50,000 apps</a> out there for you to discover. Don't be shy, take a look at more apps at the <a href="http://store.apple.com/us?afid=p219%7CGOUS&cid=OAS-US-KWG-AppleBrandName-US">Apple</a> web site.ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-48403307490512782422010-04-18T19:35:00.000-07:002010-04-18T19:37:57.120-07:00Archiving Tweets<span style="font-size: large;">Twitter has made it all the way to the Library of Congress! </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiezrp_VHF15Go3LfXVBvRZaep8sxVe6IgB1kaOJ8SXAR-IqRCByQv9Mvv5HgQw52E1dcvke3oBQS2aMHqJ_Nypr28DdgkBDLbHq5sO_lKcSEqoQNkv4d5KesFz54ioTVY2jEmf3tw4cgf_/s1600/library-of-congress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiezrp_VHF15Go3LfXVBvRZaep8sxVe6IgB1kaOJ8SXAR-IqRCByQv9Mvv5HgQw52E1dcvke3oBQS2aMHqJ_Nypr28DdgkBDLbHq5sO_lKcSEqoQNkv4d5KesFz54ioTVY2jEmf3tw4cgf_/s320/library-of-congress.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: small;">According to the library of congress <a href="http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acquires-entire-twitter-archive/">blog</a>, your tweets will now be archived in the <a href="http://www.loc.gov/index.html">Library of Congress</a>. </span>Every tweet since the beginning of <a href="http://twitter.com/">twitter</a> history (March 2006) will be archived digitally and housed in the infamous Library of Congress. These tweets will be made public.<br />
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The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. It receives copies of every book, pamphlet, map, print, and piece of music registered in the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States and serves as a research tool to congress and the public.<br />
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According to the <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/">Twitter Blog</a>: "Today, fifty-five million tweets a day are sent to Twitter and that number is climbing sharply." <br />
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Why are our tweets going to Congress?<br />
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“Tweets and other short-form updates create a history of commentary that can provide valuable insights into what’s happened and how people have reacted,” wrote Dylan Casey, Google’s product manager for <a href="http://real-time%20search/">real-time search</a>.<br />
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Our tweets are seen as a time-line of history that have recorded important world event such as the presidential election of <a href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/joinofasplash/?source=OM_LB_google_ob2-search_o-exact&gclid=CPGb47_ckaECFRCfnAodJTstMw">Obama</a>, and the earthquake in Haiti. The Library of Congress believes that are tweets can have a large contribution to history.<br />
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Also in twitter news: Google has created a wonderful new way to revisit tweets related to historic events.<br />
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You didn't think that the Library of Congress was going to take the whole cake did you?<br />
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It's called <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/replay-it-google-search-across-twitter.html">Google Replay</a>.<br />
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"Since we first introduced <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/relevance-meets-real-time-web.html">real-time search</a> last December, we’ve added content from <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-week-in-search-22110.html">MySpace</a>, <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-week-in-search-22810.html">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-week-in-search-21410.html">Buzz</a>, expanded to <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/this-week-in-search-32610.html">40 languages</a> and added a top links feature to help you find the most relevant content shared on updates services like Twitter. Today, we’re introducing a new feature to help you search and explore the public archive of tweets", says <span class="byline-author">Dylan Casey, Product Manager for Real-Time Search.</span><br />
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<span class="byline-author">with this "search engine" you can recount any subject that has been tweeted about in the past. Currently, you can only search back a couple of months, but soon you will be able to go back all the way to the beginning of tweeting time. </span><br />
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<span class="byline-author">How do you feel about your tweets going public?</span>ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-3911842157635705252010-04-18T19:00:00.000-07:002010-04-18T19:01:14.184-07:00iPad Ban<span style="font-size: large;">If you're thinking about taking that iPad to Israel, think again!</span><br />
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"This device's wireless strengths violate Israeli law and will overpower other wireless devices in Israel," ministry spokesman Yechiel Shavi said.<br />
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Apple argues that the iPad has been created in compliance to international Wi-Fi specifications.<br />
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People have been flying into Israel for years now with other devices with the exact same configuration. Why is it not that Israel is putting a foot down? is there something fishy going on here?<br />
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"Mr. Shavi, the ministry spokesman, said anyone who brought wireless devices configured to U.S. standards into Israel in the past should have declared them to customs officials and could have had their devices confiscated."<br />
Those flying into the country are being denied the ability to keep their devices and are being asked to leave them with authorities in the airport at the cost of a storage fee. At the time of their departure from the country, they may pick their devices back up.<br />
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This may be seen as an extreme inconvenience for those who use their iPad as their main source of organization, communication, and information. Those on business trips may want to arrange a different form of technology and return back to their laptops. <br />
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There is a theory that Israel feels that the technology of the iPad undermines their status in the technology industry as a high tech country and influence. Another speculation is that it could possibly interfere with Israel's military "communication technology".<br />
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Once Apple has released a version of the iPad that is in accordance with the standards of Europe and Israel, the ban will be lifted.ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-46508121567379048282010-04-12T13:15:00.000-07:002010-04-19T20:56:02.355-07:00Re-Cap St. Edward's University 2010 Homecoming Weekend!<span class="Apple-style-span">2010 Homecoming Celebration <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8__QWMSj11E">Video</a> </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwqC7m1Y9P69FG5H1iIn4IEDkp-j4EWrxc6hYWaQAdHs5K5WywlsXsxV3TnzqrfBeg-5vI3LgfI6gKm2hc0P0ldUeoRH_6Ofo03mfiCRHsXEpylXryttrfUIeeTYp7AkDlq7oAUmrH5slQ/s1600/sports_topper_back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwqC7m1Y9P69FG5H1iIn4IEDkp-j4EWrxc6hYWaQAdHs5K5WywlsXsxV3TnzqrfBeg-5vI3LgfI6gKm2hc0P0ldUeoRH_6Ofo03mfiCRHsXEpylXryttrfUIeeTYp7AkDlq7oAUmrH5slQ/s200/sports_topper_back.jpg" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>his year marks the 125th Anniversary of St. Edward's. As so, the university wanted to make this year's homecoming celebration extra special for student, faculty, and alumni as it launches a year full of celebration. This video chronicles the events that occurred over Homecoming weekend Feb. 19-20 2010. One of the most exciting contributions to celebration was the welcoming of the class of 1970 for their 40th year reunion! I know they were proud to see the university buzzing with excitement and celebration.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>his film starts out with a view of our main building from East Hall, our all girls dorm. It then hit all the highlights of the weekend. The Homecoming Tailgate was a huge success this year. Last year it was canceled due to high winds. The tailgate included, music, vendors, and tons of food. Everyone was there including our unofficial school mascot, Pax. His unavailing was a huge success; students, faculty, and alumni alike were all enthusiastic about his attendance. The tailgate was the opener for a great game! The St. Edward's hilltoppers men's basketball game against UT Permain Basin was a nail bitter. With the support of the huge crowd, the toppers beat out UT by a single shot. It seemed the school had a glow about it for the rest of the evening. After the game, our Mr. & Mrs. SEU were crowned. Fireworks capped off this fairytale weekend. Everyone joined together as fireworks lit the Austin Skyline. It definitely a weekend to remember and hold close.ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-78057844135215460402010-04-05T11:24:00.000-07:002010-04-12T17:15:27.550-07:00Ask LyndaThis week I spent a lot of time working on my personal learning project for my social media class. The personal learning project was designed to provide students with the opportunity to tailor an assignment to their own learning needs and course related interests. During the brainstorming process, I was given the opportunity to work with <a href="http://www.chiq.com/">CHIQ</a> and create a digital media kit for the website.<br />
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As I began researching how to make a digital media kit, I discovered that it required me to know how to navigate Adobe <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/">InDesign</a> (CS4). Prior to this project I had never used a <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/">CS4</a> (Creative Suite) before. The situation became immediately overwhelming. I had never taken on the responsibility of working with an actual company to make a real product. I was terrified that I would fail. Luckily for me Chiq spokesperson, Christina Hall, was very willing to help me learn. She gave me the web address to a site where I could learn all the CS4 programs and much, much, more. This site is <a href="http://www.lynda.com/">www.lynda.com</a>.<br />
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Lynda.com provides training videos on a variety of software from <a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/default.aspx">Access</a> to <a href="http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/">Garageban</a>d to InDesign. You can search for what your looking for by subject, vendor, software or author. Users have access to over 42,000 video tutorials with anytime access. Lynda is not a free service, but it is completely worth it if you want to learn a program from top to bottom fast. Lynda provides updates on the latest software and videos.<br />
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Not only does Lynda provide thousands of useful tutorials, but the tutorials are easy to navigate and follow. Take InDesign for example. The InDesign "essential training" videos are broken down into sections:<br />
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These section are broken down into several videos. Lynda provides how long each video is and how big each file is. It also lets you know which videos you have already viewed just in case you leave the site and come back later to continue your lessons.<br />
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Along with each video you can access a description (overview), exercise files, so that you can follow along with each video, and a transcription.<br />
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I will not only use Lynda's help for this project and product but for future projects and products. Learning this material could help me in my future career. Learning all the CS4 software could give me an advantage in the work place.ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-14091562480332163932010-03-16T11:59:00.000-07:002010-04-12T17:14:29.357-07:00Myspace: Reaching an End or a New Beginning?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp-bpz7IoMdSDvRj0qiy3o6ndrsIurmY4hcwo5uVuaS5u3yN3TD8RU9SvDtL1z0-jEnAvF-JOcr9JVsEwo40w4X6LOyfX71RvZcIM1wL4ZvvybUgwzDB-z6HRVWpuDbPDHHT9jDyIO75Ea/s1600-h/myspace_logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp-bpz7IoMdSDvRj0qiy3o6ndrsIurmY4hcwo5uVuaS5u3yN3TD8RU9SvDtL1z0-jEnAvF-JOcr9JVsEwo40w4X6LOyfX71RvZcIM1wL4ZvvybUgwzDB-z6HRVWpuDbPDHHT9jDyIO75Ea/s200/myspace_logo.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">I don't talk a lot about <a href="http://www.myspace.com/">Myspace</a>. I haven't held an account with Myspace since spring 2008. When I graduated high school in May 2007, I was reaching an end and starting a new beginning. Myspace seemed like a high school trend. I wanted new friends, a new network and a fresh start. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a> soon after become the new social media must have. I deleted my Myspace account, along with my photos and my friends and created a Facebook account. I started a new life at a university, made new friends and took new photos. Facebook seemed like a more mature, organized, and user friendly way to network on the internet. Unfortunately for Myspace, this was the case for many users. Either users made a clean break like I did or slowly became less and less obsessed.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Today, I have very few friends who utilize Myspace. It seems to be a dying trend. so how is Myspace dealing with the retention of users? Are they going to turn things around?</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">As Myspace's president steps out, Co-Presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones step up:</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">As Hirschhorn (pictured, right) describes it, MySpace’s trajectory moving forward is about the “pillars of broadcasting, discovery, self-expression, and making content a part of all those experiences.” He spoke to quality, usability and engineering as major focal points: “We want as many people here to be people who build, and who create, and who have top-notch engineering talent.”</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">-<a href="http://mashable.com/">Mashable.com</a><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Myspace is looking to go back to it's roots and figure out at what point strayed from it's goal. They believe it's not only about the content or only about the social networking, it's about both. It's about pop culture. it's about what's new, what's hot and what's not. it wants to be the center of pop culture news, music, etc. </div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">So what about Facebook? </div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">At Myspace, they don't see it as a "winner take all" scenario. They believe there is amply room for more than one dominating social networking site online. Think of Myspace as a phone service, like <a href="http://www.att.com/">AT&T</a>. There are many phone service networks in existence, more than a few dominate and thrive. AT&T, <a href="http://www.t-mobile.com/shop.aspx?WT.srch=1&WT.mc_id=151m1">T-Mobile</a> and <a href="http://www22.verizon.com/">Verizon</a> are just a few. People choose different services for different reasons. Myspace and Facebook are just two of those services. People will choose them for different reasons. They all co-exist and are successful. </div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Myspace plans on making user profile's more structured (like facebook) but still give them the freedom to customize their ow look. They will also add some new tools. Users will be able to follow stats on how many people view their profile, listen to their streams, watches their videos, etc. Users will also be able to earn badges. Further, Myspace will keep track of hot trends overall, the most popular music, videos, and topics. Like Facebook, Myspace will be able to recommend friends, music, etc. to users. Apps and games will also undergo future changes. According to Mashable.com:</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">Currently in testing now is a change to the former status update tool into an explicit publishing tool, allowing users to simply add videos, photos, links, and other types of content. Within the next month we should expect to see a new feature that allows cross-posting to sites like <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a>, Facebook and <span class="blippr-nobr"><a href="http://digg.com/">Digg</a><span class="blippr-nobr"> </span></span>via a simple dropdown. “Why not? Publish once, go everywhere. If you increase publishing, you increase engagement,” said Hirschhorn of the upcoming feature.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Users should have to wait too much longer before see all these new changes. Myspace is taking swift action in improving the user experience. </div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">I commend Myspace for staying strong. Although I dont plan on becoming a user of Myspace in the future, I recognize the changes they are making and the effort they are putting behind the site. I can see a possible comeback in the distant future. First you make changes, and then you have to pull your users back in. </div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">so demise or survival for Myspace?</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Survival</div>ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-15773240773273008222010-03-16T10:01:00.000-07:002010-04-12T17:13:41.143-07:00Google Coming to Austin!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_TV_qfFUF5DaYEOrlJXZ_yEcQkv64Fam2dLeIslXGEzWUPeJaDybkAr2D4t5_EbnaDPpff0Om1vAEjlWoyg28z93AzztfubG4FlKAZrKGxFy3kasxW-7TPtM4MxADza6-oNo2OiiqsdB/s1600-h/google_lego.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_TV_qfFUF5DaYEOrlJXZ_yEcQkv64Fam2dLeIslXGEzWUPeJaDybkAr2D4t5_EbnaDPpff0Om1vAEjlWoyg28z93AzztfubG4FlKAZrKGxFy3kasxW-7TPtM4MxADza6-oNo2OiiqsdB/s200/google_lego.gif" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">I just heard the news in class today! <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a> is coming to Austin! According to the <a href="http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/">Austin Business Journal</a>, Google is looking for "30,000 square feet [of] downtown [space] for a [new] software engineering satellite office". This is great news!</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Everyone has been up in arms lately regarding the economy. When will we recover? Graduation is only a short 13 months away for me and as a soon to be graduate here in Austin, I have been told it's going to be tough to find a job. I believe it. I have been told to keep my connections open and continue networking because it's going to be all about "who you know". </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Everyone has been suffering lately. You can see the evidence all over. Even the <a href="http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/">City of Austin</a> itself had to go through some serious budget cuts this year. One of the city's most iconic events, <a href="http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/tol/">The Trail Of Lights</a>, was cut short due to funding. Yes, Austin has felt the sting of the recession. </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Luckily, for Austin natives, Google has decided to open a new office in Austin. This Austin based satellite office will employ more than 100 people. This is a great economic stimulus for the city. Google will generate jobs and therefore income. The more income generated in Austin, the more spending locally. This is also a great opportunity for those looking for employment after graduating one of the many universities in and around Austin. </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Austin seems like the perfect place for a new office too. "Google is known for its youthful work-as-play culture, with employees navigating hallways on scooters and offices equipped with candy dispensers, pool tables and video games." Sounds like it would fit in perfectly. Austin is known for its creative, playful, and colorful atmosphere. We welcome innovative thinking. Further Google has quite the talent pool to choose from with the <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/">University of Texas</a> & <a href="http://www.stedwards.edu/">St. Edward's University</a> just down the street.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">What an honor to have Google choose Austin as it's next big step! It really says something about our great city when such a tremendous company chooses to move in. It helps keep Austin fresh, new, innovative, and creative. I'm sure Google will feel right at home in the liberating Austin atmosphere. </div>ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-75673683081628126892010-03-09T17:12:00.000-08:002010-04-12T17:12:36.664-07:00Podcasting: Tips & Tricks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzmRzXjsFqit3IZgnh0lBCJP8c3W5KB454xnCWc-zMUtPGqAKG11LsQl-esKTlIUMRaS8yiicq8zP_CGNtUGvi5-Jdwd5Uv4o6YYgfDBVXzeD1M9EXC5cSDnNX9AlKF019E4yLflVimYiu/s1600-h/site_image_podcast_large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzmRzXjsFqit3IZgnh0lBCJP8c3W5KB454xnCWc-zMUtPGqAKG11LsQl-esKTlIUMRaS8yiicq8zP_CGNtUGvi5-Jdwd5Uv4o6YYgfDBVXzeD1M9EXC5cSDnNX9AlKF019E4yLflVimYiu/s200/site_image_podcast_large.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now that I have posted my first podcast I ever worked on, I want to share some personal tips on podcasting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">My first personal Tip #1: I f you have the option to use either <a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</a> or <a href="http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/">Garage Band</a>, use Garage Band. Garage Band was much more well behaved than Audacity. It was more user friendly and it was more fun to use. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Personal Tip #2: When you are recording your podcast material, make sure there is no background noise. Background noise is annoying and an extra burden on you later. Take the time to find a quite place to work. It is well worth the payoff to do it right the first time. Editing can be very time consuming for us rookies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Personal Tip #3: Get close enough to the microphone that the recording is of good quality. At the same time, don't get too close! Getting too close to the microphone can create a muffled sound. You also don't want to make your listeners ears bleed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Personal Tip #4: Save, Save, Save. Save your files everywhere. Back up your files. Re-doing editing that has already been done can be extremely frustrating...I know. Be aware of when you need to save. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Personal Tip #5: Add music and sound effects. It makes your podcast much more interesting and engaging to listeners. It's hard to hold someone's attention for an extended amount of time, which brings me to my next tip. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Personal Tip #6: Be precise. Don't beat around the bush and run off on tangents. Stick to the subject. It's hard to hold someone's attention without a visual aid, don't bore and confuse them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Personal Tip #7: Make sure people can hear you. Make sure you post your podcast somewhere people can get to it. Post it to your website or blog. Post a link on your <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">facebook</a>, and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/">Myspace</a>.</span> was a pain! If you get to choose between the two, pick </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Podcasting is an exciting activity. It is a great feeling to have the freedom to podcast about whatever you want to. It is a liberating feeling that gives you the gift of creativity and a voice. My experience was both interesting and frustrating. I had fun playing with the equipment and learning to do new things. The down side to podcasting is, for sure, the editing. It can be tedious and time consuming. On the other hand, It is sun adding in your own sound effects and music to your podcast. I encourage anyone interested in social media to at least learn how to podcast and try it once. You never know how much you may learn and how much you may enjoy it. I would do it again.</span></div>ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-19095854193347500012010-03-08T14:45:00.000-08:002010-04-12T17:11:38.773-07:00St.Edward's University's 125th Anniversary Service Challenge<div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">St. Edward's University is Celebrating it's </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://celebrating125years.stedwards.edu/"><span class="Apple-style-span">125th Anniversary</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> this year! Among many of the events on the agenda to celebrate this exciting year is the </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.stedwards.edu/market/newsmedia_center/index.html"><span class="Apple-style-span">Service Challenge</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. The 125th Anniversary Service Challenge is asking the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of St. Edward's to dedicate some of their time to service the year 2010. Service is a huge part of the St. Edward's </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.stedwards.edu/aboutus/mission.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span">mission</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. The goal of this challenge is to get as many people to participate in service and log a total of 75,000 hours. The university reached a total of 63,000 hours last year, and it would be amazing to see the university community come together to go above and beyond last year's numbers. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Currently, the university has 177 registered volunteers and about 1,500 hours logged</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The university provides an abundance of service opportunities for the community to participate in together, but service outside the university community is encouraged as well. There are hundreds of service opportunities in the Austin community. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I, myself, am a participant of the 125th Anniversary Challenge. Not only do I participate with the university community in service but I also serve with <a href="http://www.bbbs.org/site/c.deIELMOrGpF/b.4947955/k.5C1/Big_Brothers_Big_Sisters_of_Central_Texas.htm">Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Central Texas</a> and <a href="http://www.austinfoodbank.org/">Capital Area Food Bank</a>. I hope to help the University achieve their goal of 75,000 hours. I am participating in this event not only to benefit the university but to also challenge myself and learn more about the university and the Austin community. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I, Erin Bach, and a classmate, Meghan Anthos, came together to create a podcast on the 125th Anniversary Challenge. We interviewed Pete Erickson, the Senior Assistant Director of Student Life. Pete is on the 125th Anniversary Committee. He is also in charge of the service segment of Student Life. He talked to us a little bit about what the service challenge is and what it's all about. We also interviewed Ashley Ortega, a participant of the Anniversary Challenge. Ashley shares her thought on the challenge and why she has chosen to take part in it. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Show Notes:</span></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">:18 -- Welcome to St. Edward's University 125th Anniversary Podcast Series</span></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">:26 -- Introduction</span></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">:45 -- Interview with Pete Erickson, Senior Assistant Director of Student Life</span></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">3:48 -- Introduction of Interview #2</span></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">3:57 -- Interview with Ashley Ortega, Challenge participant</span></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">5:09 -- Closing remarks</span></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">If you are interested in learning more about the St. Edward's University community please visit </span><a href="http://www.stedwards.edu/"><span class="Apple-style-span">www.stedwards.edu</span></a></span></div>ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-83857806246541142642010-02-25T18:48:00.000-08:002010-04-12T17:10:44.472-07:00Citizen Marketers: Fanatics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg29Rdu4JMvQf-PmHrmGxU46Ab_W7gHhbOXxcS45o1JaTDbRDcPM6na-KE2zCEQMzXMuAO6XtuBGsDey2-GvNKnsc1qoIyVAmNdPZFTAV4fqqrXqPf-7HKtIilWYDRbDpfURdHu1OVPPvkd/s1600-h/050414_mcdonalds_hmed_7a.hmedium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg29Rdu4JMvQf-PmHrmGxU46Ab_W7gHhbOXxcS45o1JaTDbRDcPM6na-KE2zCEQMzXMuAO6XtuBGsDey2-GvNKnsc1qoIyVAmNdPZFTAV4fqqrXqPf-7HKtIilWYDRbDpfURdHu1OVPPvkd/s320/050414_mcdonalds_hmed_7a.hmedium.jpg" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">While reading <a href="http://www.creatingcustomerevangelists.com/cm/">Citizen Marketers</a>, I came across a section titled "Fanatics". Fanatics are citizen marketers who filter work, analyze the daily or weekly progress of a brand, product, organization, or person and prescribe courses of action. They basically critic brands etc. but also praise them when praise is deserved. These citizen marketers are just "fanatics" who blog etc. as a hobby. In the book, <a href="http://mcchronicles.blogspot.com/">McChronicals</a>.com is used as an example. McChronicals is essentially just a blog about <a href="http://www.mcdonalds.com/">McDonalds</a>. I went to the website to explore further. I wanted a hands on, visual example of what a "fanatic" actually is. Upon my venturing the McChronical's site, I learned a lot of new things about McDonalds that I would otherwise not know. For example: Did you know that McDonalds charges you 5 cents extra every time you purchase a water bottle from their establishment? It is a deposit free. Interesting. Why not just buy a cup of water instead? It costs less (nothing) and keeps you from throwing away a plastic bottle. Yes, at McDonalds there is no other option then just throwing away your bottle. They do not provide customers with recycle bins! I also learned that the McDonalds in Iceland recently shut down due to soaring costs. They also have their own Monopoly game board. Yes, that's right! McDonalds Monopoly. You can also follow McDonalds on twitter! You know you want to. It goes on and on. It includes restaurant reviews, customer comments, and how-tos. It was really impressive. This blogger really goes above and beyond. I can only imagine he is a real McDonalds Fanatic (that can't be healthy). I find his cause very noble. I can see how blogs like this can really sway consumers opinions and open their eyes to the inner workings of a company. I think I will continue to read this blog, even though I don't eat at McDonalds ( I don't eat fried food). I find it very interesting. Citizen Marketers really do make a difference. </span></div>ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-86863600556938534422010-02-25T11:50:00.000-08:002010-04-12T17:09:44.452-07:00A Virtual Map<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsQrcp1u2OZgtW8JxCSSrHhRKcUEw-WSsGn_t4wXMxMw9i6mhdKfZfy0lzdIIO6uhlA0e8qYkD4wRN1U9H_uTP6SEHvNYmrwmb_AzD7qYNXd-svFOke3f8JdAyyVXnJps-h7_vudWcsG8w/s1600-h/austin-map.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsQrcp1u2OZgtW8JxCSSrHhRKcUEw-WSsGn_t4wXMxMw9i6mhdKfZfy0lzdIIO6uhlA0e8qYkD4wRN1U9H_uTP6SEHvNYmrwmb_AzD7qYNXd-svFOke3f8JdAyyVXnJps-h7_vudWcsG8w/s200/austin-map.gif" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">This morning I decided to track my virtual journey and map my tracks. In other words, I decided to keep track of where one page took me to another and another and so forth. I wanted to explore how and why one page took my to another and beyond. So here it is: This morning I checked my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a>, just like I do every morning. I browsed around at other users updates and came upon an update by "365 things to do in Austin", a page which updates each day to provide users with an activity they could do that day. When I came upon the update, I decided to go to their page to see what else they had suggested. The page got me thinking, "I really need to come up with some activities to do with my little (<a href="http://www.bbbs.org/site/c.deIELMOrGpF/b.4947955/k.5C1/Big_Brothers_Big_Sisters_of_Central_Texas.htm">Big Brothers, Big Sisters</a> of Austin)". So I went ahead and checked out the previous notes that had been posted on the page. One of the posts had to do with <a href="http://www.austinfoodbank.org/">Capital Area Food Bank</a>. I didn't really know much about Capital Area, but I heard of it before, so I clicked it to find out more. I ended up interested in the work done by Capital Area and therefore ended up at their organization's official web site. The web site inspired me and I signed up to volunteer next month! I went from checking my Facebook one minute to volunteering the next. The internet has endless paths for people to venture onto. You never know where you might end up! Other paths I took off of this Facebook page were to the <a href="http://www.austinkids.org/">Austin Children's Museum</a>'s official web page. I found out that the Museum is free on Sundays from 4pm-5pm! That's something great I can do with my little. I thought it was interesting that I ended up planning day trips left and right with my little for the next couple months. An innocent visit to Facebook to check if I had any friend requests or event invitations (which I did as well) landed me a volunteer opportunity and a trip to Austin Children's Museum. The internet gives us this great freedom of knowledge to explore and endless resources. </span></div>ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-15346529534019248662010-02-23T06:51:00.000-08:002010-04-12T17:09:14.414-07:00Twitter Helping Hati<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5MUcixokpDDTs-LLfDwyedX5keloeTRZoOXECt2iWQXzfvE1NPtVjonaNJBHFx5Qpg7J64BO0ssMAlQC-F-AjAIpBV2O-hqOAO1y0dHPbfNfLe8dklsXqwImtwyBstaHxWBfmVkmQEgY2/s1600-h/crushed-shanty-town-haiti-300x206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5MUcixokpDDTs-LLfDwyedX5keloeTRZoOXECt2iWQXzfvE1NPtVjonaNJBHFx5Qpg7J64BO0ssMAlQC-F-AjAIpBV2O-hqOAO1y0dHPbfNfLe8dklsXqwImtwyBstaHxWBfmVkmQEgY2/s200/crushed-shanty-town-haiti-300x206.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">We are all aware of the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2010/haiti.quake/">earthquake</a> in Haiti that occurred on January 12, 2010. These days news spreads like wild fire and indeed it did! Almost instantly <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a> updates by the thousands related to Haiti and/or Earthquake were posted after the earthquake with links and photos. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a> pages filled with blogs about the earthquake and status updated sending Haiti victims prayers. Immediately after the disaster, people were already thinking of great, innovative ways to help in the Haiti relief. Just here on campus, there were bake sales, benefit concerts, and new organizations arising everywhere with hopes of aiding others in the reconstruction and relief of Haiti. This was just a smaller scale of what the world was doing to help. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some of you may not know, but Twitter has gone above and beyond to try and help the cause. Not only does twitter allow people to share information, photos, news, and donation links, but they have now made a deal with <a href="http://www.digicelgroup.com/">Digicel</a> to bring free SMS tweets to Haitian citizens. Previous to this deal, the people of Haiti used to be charged a message fee every time they tweeted. This is a new way for people who do not have broadband internet service or smart phone access to still be able to connect to others on the internet. This is a great way to encourage the citizens of Haiti to share their stories and provide the world with updates. I am impressed by twitters move. It is a gift that the people of Haiti can share their stories and receive support in return. It is also a current, up to date report in which users can keep track of the progress in Haiti. Twitter has found yet another way to link the world together via social networking.</span></div></div>ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-257424228059726652010-02-09T13:24:00.000-08:002010-04-12T17:08:25.818-07:00Google Buzz<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf4lFVbgPAQEXgMUhMr2q5FltnLgx3xQ-8xtDcuN-5VqO1pieoeJ3WzKNVIizjCJiL_afi6P2gvJzTzRwMEINySanvTA8Q9YrlsVr6eIDsX2Tfa1R2IahBDdqruBw4kY4e5eXd-9OMlz6q/s1600-h/google_logo1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf4lFVbgPAQEXgMUhMr2q5FltnLgx3xQ-8xtDcuN-5VqO1pieoeJ3WzKNVIizjCJiL_afi6P2gvJzTzRwMEINySanvTA8Q9YrlsVr6eIDsX2Tfa1R2IahBDdqruBw4kY4e5eXd-9OMlz6q/s320/google_logo1.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a> just announced <a href="http://www.google.com/buzz">Google Buzz</a> on Tuesday; its newest push toward the social media movement!</b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Google Buzz is a feature of <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F%3Fui%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl&bsv=zpwhtygjntrz&scc=1&ltmpl=default&ltmplcache=2">Gmail</a>, so users must be a member of Gmail to be able to have access to Google Buzz. Google Buzz enables users to share statuses, updates, images and videos via Gmail. The Google Buzz features will not only be accessible via your home computer or laptop, but it will also be available on <a href="http://www.android.com/">Android</a><a href="http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone?afid=p219%7CGOUS&cid=OAS-US-KWG-iPhone"> iPhone </a>to provide users with "live" updates. Google hopes that Google Buzz will soon become the new <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a>, which is the new-ish <a href="http://www.myspace.com/">Myspace</a>. Some features include: The 40 people users chat with the most via Gmail & <a href="http://www.google.com/talk/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-bk&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=gtalk">Gchat</a> (instant messaging for Gmail users) will be automatically added as friends on Google Buzz. These individual's updates will show up automatically (like <a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a>)as a live feed on one's Google buzz. When creating your own status updates, you can choose to make them private or public each individual time.One can also tag people in their status updates (like Twitter). Google Buzz gives people the option to like or dislike (unlike Facebook) statuses and filter out status updates that become frivolousand obnoxious. Google Buzz also recommends new friends to follow (like Facebook). Photos from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/">Flickr</a> and <a href="http://picasa.google.com/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-bk&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=picasa">Picasa</a> and videos from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a> appear as thumbnails in one's Google Buzz. When you click them, they pull up (full size) on your browser. Users can also pull in tweets, from Twitter, (but not Facebook updates) into Google Buzz. Unfortunately, you can't export your Google Buzz updates out to Twitter.</span> based phones as well as the</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I personally wouldn't call this" innovative". It just seems like a new Facebook or Myspace, only exclusively for Gmail users. Some news Google, we already have a Facebook and it's available to everyone! We'll see where this goes. It could be a flop in the younger demographic, but a possible winner for business professionals. There are not enough users involved in Google Buzz yet to really foresee what will happen.</span></div></div>ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-69825260888834338352010-02-04T08:02:00.000-08:002010-04-12T17:07:40.458-07:00Facebook: social or professional?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmAu6BnmJ6kfismf4QoAM1fmCxqwaILpzZeYRReKbccU4M4D9g1YYmviO370qhC30i_-0jL86kxs5pdJG6tzs_iG-Swx1dTfOxihowSbPtso0x-qZO3vnGPJ3Rz9D9jtSworKBwRRgQd3/s1600-h/face.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSmAu6BnmJ6kfismf4QoAM1fmCxqwaILpzZeYRReKbccU4M4D9g1YYmviO370qhC30i_-0jL86kxs5pdJG6tzs_iG-Swx1dTfOxihowSbPtso0x-qZO3vnGPJ3Rz9D9jtSworKBwRRgQd3/s320/face.png" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Should <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a> effect your professional life?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have been told many times that I should monitor my photos, my information, and even my friends because potential employers might come across my page. I have also been told that employers often judge potential employees by the photos, information, and friends that person may have on their Facebook page.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Is this justified?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b>Most people use this social tool for their social life. I keep in touch with friends and family, share photos, and stories. I can see how my page may give employers the wrong idea. It is full of my personal photos, and friends. I do have friends on Facebook that have<b> </b>questionable photos and content. Their content is not my own and I will not base who my friends are and are not on their Facebook content</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why should I be judged based on who my friends are? Why should I be judged on the "events" that I partake in? And finally, why should I be judged on what I like and dislike? (by a potential employers) </b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">What I do on my personal time has nothing to do with what I do on the clock. Have you heard,"keep your personal life at home?" That's what Facebook is, It's my personal life, so no one should involve it with the office. I personally don't have anything too inappropriate on my Facebook. But if for example, someone claims their political or religious party on their Facebook and this effects the decision of a potential employer, they may never know that was the very reason for their unemployment. Sure there are laws that say you can't discriminate for this or that reason. An employer can simply say there were others more qualified than you.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>True or False? </b> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have not experienced this discrimination, or as far as I am concerned I have not. This is a concern of mine though. I hate the feeling that I have to monitor every move I make on Facebook. I believe that Facebook should be used as a social tool only and not a professional one.</span></div>ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634923486393309143.post-15200959266355386282010-02-02T11:39:00.000-08:002010-04-12T17:06:59.413-07:00Pew Internet & American Life Project<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3x3Ht1t4fOPfzJXoRskYyDRpF60ThGIkUJlBodirubYVz3jqkOGsAXLzFWyHBcZnwMN5iQRFEMoWX6vtGY-mpupTdz6o5sElp_dgH_4X3LJiik-6-gFNFpBzAnwru70txU2TNE1ZDHkzF/s1600-h/footprint.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3x3Ht1t4fOPfzJXoRskYyDRpF60ThGIkUJlBodirubYVz3jqkOGsAXLzFWyHBcZnwMN5iQRFEMoWX6vtGY-mpupTdz6o5sElp_dgH_4X3LJiik-6-gFNFpBzAnwru70txU2TNE1ZDHkzF/s200/footprint.jpg" width="134" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We all leave a trail behind us every time we log onto the internet. This trail is called our "digital footprint". "The more content we contribute to the public or semi-public corners of the Web" the larger our footprint becomes. You probably are not even aware of how large your digital footprint really is. I found it interesting that more than half of the people involved in this study do not worry about the amount of content on them that is available publicly or how personal this content may be. Most people do not think that they are interacting in any risky business when logging on to the Web. I personally am one of those "worried by the wayside" users of the internet. I'm most likely not careful enough when it comes to protecting my personal information. Now that I think about it, I post more intimate details than I think. On my Facebook, I post the city I live in, my birthday, my relationship status, my favorite movies and activities. Someone who logs onto my page could even figure out who my friends and family members are. I, in fact, share a lot of information on the Web. I Googled myself the other day after reading this write-up. My </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://twitter.com/">twitter</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> name showed up (erinraelovesyou) second on the search engine list. I wouldn't consider this to be personal information, but I also searched </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> images. On the first page, first line, there was a picture of me and my best friend. If it was as easy as a click to receive that much information on me, how easy is it to get other information on me? I'm sure I could type my name into the white pages and find my home address or something of that nature. So with one simple search someone could get a photo of me, my home address, and my twitter account. That is a little scary. Even though I have made all my online social networking pages private to those who are not my "friends", I don't feel like I'm being safe enough. Some of the people I friend are not always good friends. Some people I only know from class, or work. I don't really "know" them. These are things people, and I as well, don't think about when we are enjoying our time networking on the Internet. My conclusion to this is, be careful what you share. You never know who might be searching your name.</span></div>ebachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04774136355449870048noreply@blogger.com0