My Final Post....For now atleast

So its been a long 15 weeks and this semester has not been easy in any way...Taking 5 business classes might have been a bad decision but in the end i think it was worth i learned so much...This class six degrees of social networking has taught me so much...

The one thing that I really got out of this class was that the Internet was more then just a place for fun and joking around...There are so many sights out there that can help make a business more successful...Lets look back at some of the things that have taught me in this class..

The guest speakers also helped this class...Tom Kyte and his famous ASK TOM blog was amazing...it was such a honor to hear him and all the speakers speak...

The snow day..a day where no one wanted to walk to class cause it was cold and snowing so professor melander sent us an email saying we will have an online class..She should us technology where we can view her slides and hear her lectures while we were able to ask questions in real time...This helps for when we need to have meetings with people all over the world...

LinkedIN....A facebook for business people...ENOUGH SAID

The murder mystery...a way to use online tools to complete a task showing me that these online meetings might not be easy..trying to find for all people to meet and keeping attention when we do meet....

Lateral Thinking Puzzles...Every morning professor melander tired to get us starting to think with a puzzle...these puzzles gave us something to think about and get our minds ready while letting us have a little fun...

The in class discussions...thanks to the class and professor melander these discussions went really well...Through other kids in the class i was able to learn about technology and how its used on a personal level...Thank you everyone

The purpose of blogs...This class let us get an inside look on companies are using blogs putting ideas into our heads for when we go into the business world...

This class was amazing and i enjoyed every minute of it...So whats next?...This summer I plan to get an internship with NASCAR which should be fun...And next semester Ill be back learning about business at American..What's next for you?

Finally got web 1.0..Trying to get web 2.0...Dont Worry heres Web 3.0

So for those people who are not tech savoy and have trouble adapting to new things life is about to get a little more difficult...When web 1.0 came out it was new yet primitive a way for for a website to allow people to read what they thought left little or no room for user interaction with each other...Basically it allowed people to have a new place to read news...

Then after a while the web we see it now web 2...this took web 1.0 and increased interaction...with such sites used in this class like blackboard, facebook, myspace, basecamp, camp fire...These sites have given users a way to communicate with each allowing users to post, comment, and become friends over the Internet...It took a while to get used to and people still have problems using such sites...We thought we would stay with this web 2.0 for a while but guess what?

We were wrong just recently web 3.0 was introduced...While this Web 3.0 is still in development many can already see where its gonna be headed...With mobile devices becoming just as popular as the Internet ways to integrate the two better will be a huge part of the new web...Search will becoming easier then ever people seem to think linking many more sights searching will produce new and better search results...

When will the evolution of new web eras end?...There is really no answer in my opinion as technology improves and new things are introduced linking them will help the web and all things with it...WHAT DO YOU THINK?

A Special Post~~Remembering those at Virgina Tech~~

This weeks blog post wont be giving an insight on new social networking sights but something more important...The way social networking sights let people come together in the time of need....

Monday morning April 16th started out as an ordinary day just as every day did I got up for my 830 class went there came back and took a nap before my 1245 class..When I woke up and turned my computer on i sat there in shock reading "Massacre at Virgina Tech" in the matter of minutes it went from one confirmed dead to 20 confirmed dead to over 3o confirmed dead....30+ students who lost there life on Monday April 16th..Tying this post somewhat into a social networking blog post just look at facebook...Within minutes these people who lost there life walls filled up with messages remembering them...Within hours groups mourning the loss of all people that lost there life..The rest of time the memories these people have given them...While personally I did not know any of these people something like this hit home for me just a few months ago when two of my personal friends were shot and killed at school in Arizona...Within hours on facebook there profiles filled with memories that will last forever...Facebook allowed all people that knew these people in both schools to come and join and mourn together....Social Networking sites have given a new way for peoples life who was unfortunately cut short and let there memories live on for ever....Please look at these and keep these people in your minds its a terrible tragedy..And its even harder when it hits home....When looking at your friends list on facebook just go down and look and the amount of people who have changed their picture to mourn this great loss...Facebook has given one more way for people to mourn a loss at a time of great loss

Now on a personal note as i refereed to earlier in my post...As i sat in my room about to turn on the Daytona 500 i got the worst news ever...My 2 friends shot and killed in school in Arizona was a message i recivied from one of my friends....You watch it on the news you read the posts on facebook it just never hits you as hard until you know people involved...Thanks to facebook i was able to communicate quickly with all of my friends to organize rides to make it home service arrangements etc...These are just other ways new social networking sights have given people today a way to communicate...

Remembering my personal friends and those who lost there lives at Virgina Tech forever

So How Much Email is Really Saved?

So a few weeks ago i wrote a blog post about your emails and how private they really are and in the end emails relaly get svaed to a huge document and are really never deleted...But how true is this? The article (http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/13/white.house.email/index.html) on www.cnn.com shows that many emails that include emails on very important topics show as the cia leak may be gone forever...These emails sent in the past few years already gone forever? Come on the goveremnt doesnt even save there own emails cause we know that they are saving ours...Some other emails that are missing including the karl rove issues...For all of you who didnt hear Karl was the center of a huge protest at American Univeristy (http://www.nbc4.com/news/11516096/detail.html) and these emails may be the answer but where are they?

Emails now Blogs will get you fired

So 2 weeks ago i wrote a post on how companies can fire an employee for a email they sent(http://leibner-class.blogspot.com/2007/03/are-emails-really-private.html) now it appears that companies are firing employees for posting to much on there blogs...

Mark Jen the most famous for this after being employed by Google for only ten days he was promptly fired...Why you ask? He was fired for putting up company secrets on his blog...

Or the Microsoft contractor that was fired for putting up pictures of apple computers that were in Microsoft's offices on his blog...

This blog is short as its trying to prove a serious point...if this blog and the one on emails don't get the point that you need to watch what you say then nothing will...Companies are so big and if you do something to try to hurt them you will be the one that's hurt on the unemployment line so think before you write...More people thne you think actually read what you write.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Jen

Customer Relationship Managment and New Ways Business Are Watching This

Customers are the one thing a business must have in order to succeed. Without them no matter how innovative there product is, how much this product can help them there product will not sell and a business will go under. Managing the relationships between a customer and the business will help the business grow...It now with the Internet that new technology has been created that makes these relationships easier as ever to follow....

One of the leading innovators in this kind of software is Lexis Nexis that creates the relationship intelligence that helps a business uncover new opportunities....Now what is relationship intelligence one may ask Lexis Nexis defines it as is a firm wide asset that reveals the complex connections between people, companies, relationships, experience and expertise, empowering professionals to uncover, extend and leverage their relationship networks, transforming who and what they know into new revenue opportunities.

To go further into CRM and what the web has done look no further then SalesForce.com...It is being described as a myspace for business...Salesforces.com is a model for sites how companies can directly engage customers with on-demand technology." It allows companies to "elevate the customer experience and improve internal productivity. This is how the site is described on the web.

The Internet and WEB 2.0 has given business new ways to communicate with there customers who are the most important people....The data they get is up to interpretation but done right is very beneficial to the business success.

http://www.interaction.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management
http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=013000RQU3J4

where is my co-worker?...in the next office or acroos the globe?

Being co-workers use to mean being in a cubicles next to each other, or close enough if needed you can walk to them...Then it evolved into more distance with the telephone and now today that co-worker can be anywhere in the world with the help of the Internet and collaboration tools available...

The article TeamWork supercharged uses the program basecamp as an example...This company wanted to change their design off a promotion they were running so they posted there plan on the site and within minutes proposals were popping up...This site now allows company's to post all aspects of there proposal online for the new company to see...With the ability to post Crystal clear documents it now eliminates the need for face to face meetings...

Even the military has used some form of collaboration site to help there operations run smoother...Military vehicles are now starting to be outfitted with antennas that can send signals back to there base and even to the pentagon across the world...This data now lets generals and the president see whats going on in real time allowing them to make better decisions that will make the world easier...These collaboration sites allows meetings with all parties involved at one time to make decisions together...

Our class used a very simple form of a collaboration tool on our last project....We used Google docs...This allowed each member of a group to post there parts on a website that allowed the others to view it before publishing the final copy...This site made group work easy when college students don't have time to actually meet...

Where does collaboration tools help you?