LinkedIn

Last year for my CSR 417 Class, I was required to make a LinkedIn Profile. At first, I had no idea what it was or was about but, after creating one last Spring I realized how popular it was & how much people actually use this Professional Company Social Network. A lot of people find jobs off of this website, talk to people in their company through this or just even find people that they might know from their past and use it like a Facebook. I didn't pay much attention to it after I made it last year & received a grade for making a profile, but after applying to a few jobs this past Fall I have heard of it more & more & decided to clean up & update my profile after hearing of the popularity of it. I think I will use it more in the future for jobs & to communicate with the professional world. I didn't believe the popularity until now when I'm about to face the real world in 6 months and what it entails. I like LinkedIn, it is not as fun as Facebook obviously, but it is a nice social network to use in the professional world.

Storyplay: Nokia & Sesame Street

For our Technology Pitch, we talked about creating a video conference book by Nokia and Sesame Street. It's called Storyplay & Nokia teamed up with Sesame Street to create a video chat with children being able to be read to by the person on the other end of the video chat. Say your Grandparents live far, you are able to see your Grandparents through the video & be read to with a book by Sesame Street. That is the basis of what you can do with this instrument, which is not yet on the market but, they are still working out the minor problems it has right now before it is okay for consumers to buy. The presentation went well, in my mind, but their were a lot of bases to cover that I'm not sure that we did. I hope we got a good grade because we did work hard on it but it seems that their was a lot of competition. We will just have to wait and see how we did.

My New BlackBerry!

The BlackBerry Flip is officially my new phone! I just got it on November 1st, 2009, which was 3 days ago & I really like it! I used to have the BlackBerry World Edition, which was a rather large phone & was my 1st BlackBerry ever to have used & I can say that I'm a pretty addicted to the BlackBerry. I did not want to get the touchscreen because I don't like touchscreen anything but, I love that I can get e-mail on my phone, now have a camera on my phone since my last BlackBerry didn't come with one, can receive picture messages & the technology of the BlackBerry Phone. The BlackBerry Flip is more like a real phone to me because it is a flip phone & it still has the ball like my old one but, is more suitable for me. I think they came out with this phone over the Summer about 2 to 3 months ago, but did not want to wait until Christmas to see what new BlackBerry they came out with so I got this one & I can say that I'm pretty pleased!

--My new phone after waiting for my 2 year upgrade from my BlackBerry World Edition! I love BlackBerrys because of BlackBerry Messenger which is like text messaging & AIM combined & is for free all over the world! That is part of the main reason why I love this line of phone so much because of the technology of BBM!

8th Week of Classes, Almost November!

I cannot believe how fast 1st Semester of my Senior Year is going! I have had so much going on it's hard to believe that this much time as past! I have had an exam in my Health Science class Radiological Health & received a C which I was happy about because it's a very hard class. I had an exam in my CSR 404 Class, which is a Class for my major Selling & Sales Management & received a 77% which isn't bad considering everyone thought it was a tough exam & not many people did well. In my Wine Class I received a 70% on my exam last Monday night, which again is good because everyone thinks the exams are pretty tough making it a tougher class. Overall I haven't failed any exams which is the bright side but, I would like to be getting A's. I'm still waiting on my exam in this Class & I am TAing a Class, CSR 100 for a credit, English 420 their aren't any exams in just projects which I have received A's on everything in the Class thus far & I'm taking Health & Fitness for a grade worth a credit yet, in which, their aren't any exams. It has been pretty rainy here in West Lafayette & we only have 4 weeks until Thanksgving! I need to get on applying to more Companies for a job & figure out what & want to do with my life! It's a very intense year, but I'm having fun & enjoying myself & just glad I got through the 1st round of exams thus far this semester.

The Week After Fall Break

It is now the 8th week of Classes here @ Purdue, which is pretty much the middle of the Semester of the 1st Semester of my Senior Year here. I cannot believe how fast it is going. I just got back from my Fall Break last night that I spent visiting my best friends from home that go to Arizona State University. They are 3 hours behind there, which I was thrown off with the time while I was there & now I am thrown off for the time again returning to Eastern time. I am jetlagged & tired from my trip for we went out 2 out of the 4 nights I was there and kept myself pretty busy 2 out of the 3 days I was there as well. My best friend from home as well that goes to the University of South Carolina came on her Fall Break as well but came a day earlier and left a day earlier so it was great seeing my 4 best friends from home all in one location at the same time. I have never gone to visit my best friends from home before at College so it was a really fun experience and really exciting visiting them. The plane ride was around 3 hours, going there it was longer since you were going against the wind and coming back it was shorter only we sat on the runway for a good half an hour after it was already delayed a half an hour coming back so it was a long weekend of travels for me. I have somewhat of color from laying out just 2 days ago at their pool in their backyard and now I have to prepare for my 2 exams I have this week. I have one in this class on Friday morning and one in my CSR 404 class tomorrow morning @ 7:30 a.m. which will keep me very busy for the next 48 hours. I can't believe how fast time is going!

My Space

MySpace is a social network & website that I have not used thus far in my life. I do not plan on using it though because I don't have a very good opinion of MySpace. I don't think it's safe and I think that it is more juvenile than a Facebook or LinkedIn social network. Everyone I know that has a MySpace is younger, middle school or high school age and grows our of it eventually after making one. I think that MySpace hit a peak and is not as popular as it once was a long time ago. It was more well-known in my opinion about 3 years ago when Facebook wasn't as popular, Twitter wasn't created nor LinkedIn. They keep coming out with better and better things Online to communicate with and so on and so forth that I don't think MySpace will keep up. This is my opinion on MySpace that probably will not change unless they renovate it or it makes a comeback sometime in the near future.

Twitter

Twitter is a cool new site I have been checking out. My friends have accounts that I like to check out on Twitter. They like to tweet often about certain things or post pictures about certain happenings that they have been apart of or want people to know about. You can post about your mood, about what your up to that night, your weekly plans, vacation plans and what your up to on your daily talking about your every move. You can have a funny name for yourself as your account or just have a plain old name that is generic as can be. I would like to get a Twitter but, I feel as though I consume my time with Facebook enough and to be even more preoccupied with something else might be too time consuming. I am pretty addicted to Facebook as well thats why I doubt getting a Twitter because their are already statuses on Facebook that are like a Twitter that I already use. Maybe I will get a Twitter someday, we will see, I think we actually have to get one for class so probably more than likely.