Its not what you know its who you know!!!!!

Many people in this world including me go with the saying its not what you know its who you know...Its the people that you know who help you get those business contacts and how through people making new contacts...Its keeping these contacts what makes it the difficult part of business....

When you say social networking sites people think of the two most famous mysapce and face book....But the truth is that new sites aimed at business employees are popping up every day...New website http://www.linkedin.com/ is one that is new to the social networking scenes...This site lets people search previous companies to find ex-coworkers and rekindle there friendship...It also allows people to search for jobs that companies have posted...But most important the ability to find ex-coworkers and see where they are no providing new insights and possible no possibilities....

Business networking sites are now being used to see how your contacts can be used to find others...When you want to do business with a new company you can now see which of your associates have contact or relationship with that company to give you a heads up...

Social networking sites have really helped business grow...Don't you think?

http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3373520/1/c_3375606?f=111504MagazineMonthly
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Careers/story?id=1071049&page=1&Business=true

are emails really private?

so having www.cnn.com as my homepage when i open my browser really pays off sometimes....So when i got on the Internet tonight i saw a video that was titled Emails could be career enders. (http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/business/2007/03/25/intv.office.email.etiquette.cnn&wm=11) I decided to watch this movie and what I found out really relates to this class...Basically real quick what i found out was that emails can be read by more people then you think...This email was more focused on business email accounts but really apply for all email..Emails are stored on giant tapes that can be read by many people down the line years away....This goes along with IMs and any other messages that you send over the Internet..So before you write your next email make sure what you put in it wont get you in trouble at all.

what is to far?

More and more we see different companies and organizations taking blogging to new levels to help there business grow...But how far can they take it is the question?

Many people say the government should step you and start using social networking sites to help them...That problem with government using blogs to promote there views is that people have political views that are never likely to change..In Naked Conversations a example is brought up Howard Dean created a blog to start his campaign based on the numbers everyone thought he was gonna win...Except no one realized that the only people reading his blog is his own political party..Why would some one against his views head his blog..His comments trying to get people to switch political parties in essence were having convos with people in his political party...

Daniel Rosen a candidate for Nevada's Second Congressional district promised to create a blog and create laws based on the blog...Now both Debra D'Agostino, the author of How the Web Polarized Politics, and I both believe this is taking it a little to far...How can he let people who sometimes know little how the government actually runs tell him what laws to make...I mean use the blog to see what the people want and let that help you but not make the decisions for you..

In the end how far is to far for Internet social sites?

http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2052119,00.asp
Naked Conversations Robert Scoble

To take six degrees or not? I say YES!

Six Degrees for social networking is a great class that I feel all business students should take. Personally I am an information system and technology major and this class really helped me fully understand the different programs that help a business socially. I like learning about the social networking sites past the more famous ones such as face book and MySpace. We learned about second life and other social networks that provide interaction with people on a personal level. I like learning how to use blogs to communicate and reading what people have to say about similar topics. Going on with blogs this class taught me how different business use social sites to promote their business and do different things that these sites have helped them do. Now to the negative side of the class I do not fell this class would be useful for students have no interest in business or computers. At some points the discussion got very technical and even got me lost sometimes. This class has a decent amount of reading that helps understand and make you able to participate in class discussions. This is a great class and professor melander is a great professor.

The Tom Kyte Experience

Last week i was lucky enough to have a presentation from Tom Kyte from Orcale. This presentation was a way to show what we are learning in class and show it in the real life from a man who has took blogging to new levels....

I was really amused when tom shared a comment he got on his most famous blog AskTom...This blog is on the oracle site...The email he shared with us questioned who was really writing the blog...While tom assured us that all the posts on his blog were created and written by him but then he said some other companies blog may not be written by who they say they are written by...This leads to a few good points...What can you really believe on the Internet because you really do not know who is writing these blogs...What will stop me from going online and posting something i know not one thing about...If i present it in a way that is clear and in good format people will believe anything...So how much do you believe that is on the Internet?

Tom also shared a story how he was sued a few times because of information posted on his blog...This raises a major concern of what can you post on your blog...A website that anyone can create and say they are any one they want how can you sue someone? Will you sue someone if they hurt you on the Internet?

Check out toms blog at http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-i-want-to-be-when-i-grow-up.html for his summary on our class and what he is thinking about..and find out if indeed he does quit oracle and become a teacher!

What does your reputation do to you in the LONG RUN?

Did you ever think something that you did during college would come back to haunt you years after? Did you ever think missing one payment on a credit card would hurt you that bad? How about failing to pay for that ebay item you just bidded on would really hurt you in the long yes? The answer to all these questions really should be thought about because they all do affect you in some way or other?

Take your face book or my space account...Those pics of you at a frat party playing beer pong, doing a keg stand, drinking underage, and many other pics that seem to pop up of you doing inappropriate things...Why facebook and myspace have become so popular among college students as a form of social networking as a way to keep friends and look at those pics people put up of you it has also come a huge tool for companies investigating new employees...Those pictures notes and other things your names are tagged in come up in search engines across the Internet and now for the first time we see employers using these search engines to find out about you...Its no wonder when a survey was done 1 in 4 hiring managers said they look for people in search engines before making a decision on hiring...

Ever wonder what happens when you click submit after putting all your information in an online ordering site?...Ever wonder what happens after you swipe your credit card at a store?...By swiping your card or hitting that submit button it now gives the store permission to search all of your "reputations" which include credit histories and stuff like that...After looking at numerous information in a matter of seconds the company databases then decide based on your reputation if they want to give you the product on credit...So companies see all of your past problems in those seconds before they tell you if your credit card has been accepted...

And now ebay all of those feedback...many people argue this is not a reliable source of your reputation as people sometimes fear of putting bad feedback...But if you have a bad feedback even from years back sellers will be scared to sell you there product...

Reputations are huge and with the help of the Internet it is becoming such a huge debate...The Internet has helped get your reputation across the entire world with the click of a button...So please think twice about what you post on your wall, what pics have your name connected to it, think how many people know you missed your credit payment...These all do affect you in the long run

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2005/11/are_online_repu.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6462504
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Presentation_of_Self_in_Everyday_Life
Smart Mobs Howard Rheingold 113-128

Where is News HEADING?

Before the world of the world wide web and blogs we were used to the old school way of news....Those newspapers where editors choose the frontpage stories, pictures, and layout were what everyone was used to....Those were the old days...Today along with the internet news has changed thanks in part to a site called DIGG...This site used internet users as the editors putting the news the viewers say is most important on the front page...What makes this site even more amazing is the fact digg doesnt even publish the news the website relies on the same internet users to put the news on there site from other news sites....How rich is this new form of news people may ask?..People value DIGG is worth over 300 million dollars...

Blogs and internet posting have come along way in forms of being found easier....In the book Naked Conversations a good example is raised...Kids going to camp all wearing the same type of clothing need a way to be found easier...So there parents put a name tag inside it...Thats the same kind of thing used on a blog...So many blogs will talk about the same thing dirrectly or indirectly so making a way to find your blog easier is a must...This is wear tags come along by taging your blog by jkeywords its now easier for your blog to be found...