Last Post Before Spring Break

Helllo again. Today, I came across a cool post on John Batelle's Searchblog in my newsfeed. He is testing a service with Simply Hired that is going to allow employers to post job openings on Searchblog. I think that is a perfect example of how technology is changing jobs and organizations. It is beneficial to both employers and employees. Employees can do a detailed search and uncover various job offerings in different geographic regions they may be interested in. Employers can view resumes and really improve efficiency in the pre-interview process of finding potential matches for job openings. Check it out here and see what you think.

What was that test?!

Hello, I was just wondering if anyone else was really surprised by the test that we just took?! I felt as though I prepared well for the test and knew a majority of the important information. I feel like it is more important to retain information like how technology affects certain industries rather then statistics pertaining to the annual retail sales. Also, the format was very confusing and I feel that it set us up for failure. It was simple to eliminate most answers, but the all of the above threw me for a loop everytime. I guess that I know now how to prepare for the final. Hopefully, the professor will provide us with a review sheet or something next time to help us concentrate our studying. I think that would be very helpful. It was a ton of material and to expect people to remember small details and statistics is just not feasible. But, who knows? Maybe I'm the only one who did horrible! I guess we'll find out after spring break!

This Week's Class

Our first exam is this Wednesday. I am preparing for the test by studying all of the class notes in great depth and supplementing them with the material from Naked Conversations and The Search. I have found some topics of particular interest. It is very interesting to learn how different organizations have been affected by the internet and the web. The new technologies can both enable industries or disrupt them. A good example of how the internet is disruptive lies with the travel industry. Traditional travel agents are being replaced with sites that are informative and allow customers to book online such as expedia. This is an example of disintermediation. Also, I found Google's China issue rather interesting. If Google were to stay in the Chinese market, it would compromise their reputation. Trust is such a huge issue with companies nowadays, especially with the prevalence of blogging. Google needs to find a way to tap into the Chinese market, though. Time will tell.

Slashdot

Helllllo everyone. Tonight I was looking at some of the required blogs for our class when I found something pretty interesting on Slashdot. It seems that high schools are looking into the use of video games for educational purposes. The rationale behind the idea is that current teaching plans don't hold students' interest. Therefore, video games with real life educational dilemmas will do a better job in capturing and retaining their attention. Some obstacles to this proposed learning style include the issue of video game addiction and the negative public image of video games in general. What do you think?

Wiki Edit: Nordstrom

Hey guys, I just completed an edit on the Nordstrom wikipedia article. This was my first edit on for the article, so I just tried to clean up some of the grammatical errors. In particular, there were some run on sentences that I re-wrote. There weren't too many problems with the article, except that it wasn't as detailed as I would have expected. I did a paper on Nordstrom for a class last semester, so I will be adding a great deal of information about the company in the following two edits. Check out edit #1 for now! Bye!

Roger's Sweet Post

I was just reading Roger's, one of my sweet teammates, post about online gambling. I found this topic interesting in class because I play poker online too. Roger mentioned an act passed by the U.S. Congress in September of 2006 which made it even more difficult for American's to gamble online. I always knew that it was a foggy subject of law, but I didn't actually realize it was considered flat out illegal until this law was passed either. Like my awesome teammate points out in his extremely interesting blog post, many people are still gambling online in the United States and will continue to find ways around the law. If you want to check out what Roger has to say, here's the link to his class blog.