Social Networking this semester has been awesome!!!
Instead of picking up a pen or pencil we picked up our hands and fingers and placed them on the keyboards to write about technology. I mean I think soon enough people are going to give up paper and pen for good and communicate everything through the computer.
Before this class I didn't know too much about blogging, although I did blog once on myspace about bitter relationships. This social networking class has helped me develop my blogging skills; from being able to articulate a bit better through blogs and actually understanding how blogs work. The class also allowed me to explore what my fellow classmates had to say about particular topics we discussed or were going to discuss in class. I see blogging as a technology communication with debate characteristics. Because when you write a blog you are stating what you think and people can either agree or disagree and when they disagree then it can turn into a back and forth thing if people want.
Alongside all of that the professor(shout-out to Prof. Melander, one of the two professors that provoked me to specialize in ITEC) is also great. Not once did I feel like I was wasting my time in that class keeping in mind that it was a BLOCK class on WEDNESDAYS!!! She always had my attention, especially with the lateral puzzles in the beginning of class.
With what I have learned in this class it has allowed me to develop blogging skills which I will need later on when I develop my own business and/or when I work in the ITEC field.
P.S. The discussions are really stimulating.....
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
I don't know Jack $**t and I still got a better job than you!!! (Post for 3/28/07)
You know when it all comes down to it at the end of the day. It is what they say. "It's not what you know, but who you know."
Thanks to my aunt who works at the Department of Justice I basically....As people call it. I GOT THA HOOK UP! And its because she knows people that know people. ***SMILE*** I mean honestly if it weren't for her help I would've never been able to get my foot in the door. With government jobs its easier when you know someone that knows someone because it's pretty much a shoe in. You know what I mean. I mean unless your a convicted felon, which might hold you back.
AND THIS CAN ALSO BE APPLIED TO BUSINESS.... In family businesses, when they are looking for employees outside of the family they check with close family friends first before they put ads in the local news paper. My friend that goes to Frostburg State University used to work for a small cafe in Wheaton and the owner had a hard time hiring outsiders. So most likely even if you didn't know the owner personally, but knew my friend you would have a much better chance over someone else who could've worked at Starbucks prior to that and has an advantage to you since you have never worked a day in your life. Do you see where I am getting at with this?
With places of employment this is very common because they want to try their best to keep their business in tact so they hire people who they have heard about through their existing employees.
So hey keep in mind that your potential employer is not always necessarily looking and observing your GPA. BUT IT IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING TO SHOW OFF ANYWAY. LOL
Note: this post was for 3/28/2007
Thanks to my aunt who works at the Department of Justice I basically....As people call it. I GOT THA HOOK UP! And its because she knows people that know people. ***SMILE*** I mean honestly if it weren't for her help I would've never been able to get my foot in the door. With government jobs its easier when you know someone that knows someone because it's pretty much a shoe in. You know what I mean. I mean unless your a convicted felon, which might hold you back.
AND THIS CAN ALSO BE APPLIED TO BUSINESS.... In family businesses, when they are looking for employees outside of the family they check with close family friends first before they put ads in the local news paper. My friend that goes to Frostburg State University used to work for a small cafe in Wheaton and the owner had a hard time hiring outsiders. So most likely even if you didn't know the owner personally, but knew my friend you would have a much better chance over someone else who could've worked at Starbucks prior to that and has an advantage to you since you have never worked a day in your life. Do you see where I am getting at with this?
With places of employment this is very common because they want to try their best to keep their business in tact so they hire people who they have heard about through their existing employees.
So hey keep in mind that your potential employer is not always necessarily looking and observing your GPA. BUT IT IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING TO SHOW OFF ANYWAY. LOL
Note: this post was for 3/28/2007
Hmm I didn't think Uncle Sam was that Tech Savy! (Post for 3/21/07)
WOw!!! Uncle Sam is now giving tax advice in his own new GOVERNMENT CERTIFIED BLOGS!!! LOL!
Knowing that the government is getting to that point is a little SCARY. Don't you think? Even the idea of Uncle Sam sitting in front of a computer about to blog to me is super scary.
Blogging to me has just always seemed as a technology type thing that would be used in businesses mainly. Not really government. But that's just my opinion.
Blogging for the new political candidates would be good so they could have contact with their admiring public(sarcastically speaking). Hahahhaha.
But no seriously. Howard Dean, Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani could all use blogs for their campaign. So they can see and hear what their public wants from them as a political candidate.
Blogging is becoming a universal thing. I mean you either blog or your in the dark pretty much. So which one would you choose?
Note: this blog was a post for 3/21/2007
Knowing that the government is getting to that point is a little SCARY. Don't you think? Even the idea of Uncle Sam sitting in front of a computer about to blog to me is super scary.
Blogging to me has just always seemed as a technology type thing that would be used in businesses mainly. Not really government. But that's just my opinion.
Blogging for the new political candidates would be good so they could have contact with their admiring public(sarcastically speaking). Hahahhaha.
But no seriously. Howard Dean, Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani could all use blogs for their campaign. So they can see and hear what their public wants from them as a political candidate.
Blogging is becoming a universal thing. I mean you either blog or your in the dark pretty much. So which one would you choose?
Note: this blog was a post for 3/21/2007
1 WEB! 2 WEB!! 3 WEB!!!.....4?
Web 1.0......
Web 2.0........
WEB 3.0...........
COMING SOON TO A COMPUTER NEAR YOU!!!
Now there is all this talk about sooner or later the computer/the internet will know the difference between what is important and what isn't.
WELL! If you ask me I don't think that is completely true. The computer is only as smart as you, the operator, are.
Even now that we have 'intelligent' search engines such as google and yahoo and others, some of the results you get back from an "IMPORTANT" search, aren't the ones your necessarily looking for, or just aren't classified as important to you. So that wouldn't be so important now would it be?
We never know, however; what types of new technologies are capable of being discovered. Before you know it in the year 2067 there will be a fingerprint scanner on the computer telling the computer what website to go to according to your mood and your daily patterns or something. Weird, but you never know.
WHAT DO YOU THINK???
Web 2.0........
WEB 3.0...........
COMING SOON TO A COMPUTER NEAR YOU!!!
Now there is all this talk about sooner or later the computer/the internet will know the difference between what is important and what isn't.
WELL! If you ask me I don't think that is completely true. The computer is only as smart as you, the operator, are.
Even now that we have 'intelligent' search engines such as google and yahoo and others, some of the results you get back from an "IMPORTANT" search, aren't the ones your necessarily looking for, or just aren't classified as important to you. So that wouldn't be so important now would it be?
We never know, however; what types of new technologies are capable of being discovered. Before you know it in the year 2067 there will be a fingerprint scanner on the computer telling the computer what website to go to according to your mood and your daily patterns or something. Weird, but you never know.
WHAT DO YOU THINK???
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
R.I.P. to the lost ones...This one's for you Sintia!!!(NOTE to Part 1)
It was my intention to make my last post look like a poem. Hint HINT!!! ;-)
R.I.P. to the lost ones...This one's for you Sintia!!!
I am going to piggy back on Jordan's approach on today's blog.
A little over two months ago I lost a loved one. It all started thinking that she was just going to a salon and then a meeting at work. Come to find out she never made it to the meeting. So everyone started to worry. Sunday morning it was confirmed that Sintia Mesa was missing.
The bulletins on myspace.com helped me and the family get the information out to everyone
and anyone about Sintia. Within the hour I was reaching out to people I didn't even know with
the help of those that I knew. Everyone was helping us find her within three hours. Friends of
friends of friends were posting information about her and getting the information out to all those
they knew. Information about her has shown up on the nightly news that same night.
With the news out on watch as well as everyone on facebook and myspace keeping a look out
we had a community of people helping us.
Monday night we received the bad news that she had been found in the trunk of her car in an
apartment complex in Baltimore city. Her cause of death had been found as asphyxiation A
couple days later at her funeral more than five hundred people showed up, from friends and
family to coworkers and sorors. News spread so quick so fast thanks to those internet
networking tools.
******************************Virginia Tech******************************
Without networking and such things as myspace, television news and radio, people would have
a much harder time finding information and knowing what's going on around them.
Today and yesterday there was a moment of silence dedicated to the lost ones at Virginia
Tech. It is horrible and terrible to even begin to think why someone would do such a malicious
thing to others, having to leave the families of those individuals in sorrow. The pain inflicted on
the loved ones of those who were massacred is a pain no one should ever have to endure. Losing
someone is bad enough, but losing them as a result of someone else's selfishness is even worse
because they are taken from us before their time.
********************LETS HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE******************
THANX FOR STOPPING BY!!!!!
A little over two months ago I lost a loved one. It all started thinking that she was just going to a salon and then a meeting at work. Come to find out she never made it to the meeting. So everyone started to worry. Sunday morning it was confirmed that Sintia Mesa was missing.
The bulletins on myspace.com helped me and the family get the information out to everyone
and anyone about Sintia. Within the hour I was reaching out to people I didn't even know with
the help of those that I knew. Everyone was helping us find her within three hours. Friends of
friends of friends were posting information about her and getting the information out to all those
they knew. Information about her has shown up on the nightly news that same night.
With the news out on watch as well as everyone on facebook and myspace keeping a look out
we had a community of people helping us.
Monday night we received the bad news that she had been found in the trunk of her car in an
apartment complex in Baltimore city. Her cause of death had been found as asphyxiation A
couple days later at her funeral more than five hundred people showed up, from friends and
family to coworkers and sorors. News spread so quick so fast thanks to those internet
networking tools.
******************************Virginia Tech******************************
Without networking and such things as myspace, television news and radio, people would have
a much harder time finding information and knowing what's going on around them.
Today and yesterday there was a moment of silence dedicated to the lost ones at Virginia
Tech. It is horrible and terrible to even begin to think why someone would do such a malicious
thing to others, having to leave the families of those individuals in sorrow. The pain inflicted on
the loved ones of those who were massacred is a pain no one should ever have to endure. Losing
someone is bad enough, but losing them as a result of someone else's selfishness is even worse
because they are taken from us before their time.
********************LETS HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE******************
THANX FOR STOPPING BY!!!!!
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
My Brand, Brand Me
How would you brand yourself?
I was very attached to a particular clothing line in middle school, which was Tommy Hilfiger. Now I don't really stay loyal to a particular clothing line and I just wear what looks good on me.
Sometimes clothing brands are just overrated and not really worth all of the HOOPLA that people give them. When it comes to other things such as toothpaste or hygiene products that is a different story. I stick to Colgate toothpaste instead of Crest because I like the flavors Colgate has to offer compared to Crest, besides Colgate is the overall better toothpaste. LOL! *;-)* Also the shoes that I tend to be drawn more to are the Kwiss brand shoes because they are priced pretty reasonably and they are comfortable. Have you tried Kwiss?
When it comes to branding myself. I wouldn't want to say that I only use a particular brand of something because I often like to change and experiment with different brands and products. No I am not a Tommy Girl anymore, in fact I don't even like Tommy anymore. So I would just brand myself as ME not anything else!!!
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Everyone's building their own bridge
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Everyone's building their own bridge
In order to succeed in the business world one must have connections. And yes it is true what the saying says: "It's not what you know. It's who you know."
Building individual bridges for everyone is a business in itself because it allows you to be connected to other people who may at one point need something from you, which then you would be able to negotiate something to exchange.
Building bridges is very important because slowly and easily everyone becomes connected and through interests or commonalities. These being those bridges.
Being able to find a common ground with someone you don't know is a bridge in itself because it is giving you the opportunity to identify with that other person or persons on a similar level/platform.
This is very important for not only business, but for such fields as journalism and public relations.
Everyone's building their own bridge
In order to succeed in the business world one must have connections. And yes it is true what the saying says: "It's not what you know. It's who you know."
Building individual bridges for everyone is a business in itself because it allows you to be connected to other people who may at one point need something from you, which then you would be able to negotiate something to exchange.
Building bridges is very important because slowly and easily everyone becomes connected and through interests or commonalities. These being those bridges.
Being able to find a common ground with someone you don't know is a bridge in itself because it is giving you the opportunity to identify with that other person or persons on a similar level/platform.
This is very important for not only business, but for such fields as journalism and public relations.
Building individual bridges for everyone is a business in itself because it allows you to be connected to other people who may at one point need something from you, which then you would be able to negotiate something to exchange.
Building bridges is very important because slowly and easily everyone becomes connected and through interests or commonalities. These being those bridges.
Being able to find a common ground with someone you don't know is a bridge in itself because it is giving you the opportunity to identify with that other person or persons on a similar level/platform.
This is very important for not only business, but for such fields as journalism and public relations.
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